“Shirley Valentine” quotes

(1989)
Movie Shirley Valentine
Title Shirley Valentine
Year 1989
Director Lewis Gilbert
Genre Drama, Comedy, Romance
Interpreted by
All actors – Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia McKenzie, Alison Steadman, Joanna Lumley, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Hill, George Costigan, Anna Keaveney, Tracie Bennett, Ken Sharrock, Karen Craig
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  • “I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be. Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them?”
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    [Tag:dreams, life, living]
  • “I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket. She's that type, Gillian, you know. If you've got a headache, she's got a brain tumor.”

    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    [Tag:excess]
  • - Shirley Valentine: I mean, most fellas ya know, they've got no idea how to talk to a woman.
    - Costas: No?
    - Shirley Valentine: No. They feel they have to take over the conversation. I mean, I mean with most fellas if you say something like, like "My favorite season's autumn", they go "Oh, oh, my favorite season's spring" and then you've got 10... (continue)
    (continue reading)
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    Tom Conti - Costas
  • “I think sex is like supermarkets, you know, overrated. Just a lot of pushing and shoving and you still come out with very little at the end.”
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    [Tag:sex]
  • “I think that marriage is like the Middle East - there's no solution.”
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    [Tag:marriage]
  • - Shirley Valentine: I'm going to Greece for the sex! Sex for breakfast! Sex for dinner! Sex for tea! And sex for supper!
    - Van Driver: Sounds like a fantastic diet, love!
    - Shirley Valentine: It is, have you never heard of it? It's called the "F" plan!

    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    Ged McKenna - Van Driver
    [Tag:sex, traveling]
  • “- Shirley Valentine: You kissed my stretch marks!
    - Costas Caldes: Don't, don't be too stupid to try to hide these lines. They, they are lovely, because they are part of you, and you are lovely, so don't, don't hide, be proud. Sure. These marks show that, that you are alive, that you survive. Don't try to hide these lines. They are the marks of...” (continue)
    (continue reading)
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    Tom Conti - Costas
    [Tag:beauty, wrinkles]
  • “Those travel sickness pills mustn't be working. I still feel sick and I've taken four already. And I've only travelled up and down the stairs.”
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
  • “It's a good job we're not having soup, or else I'd put me head in it and drown meself.”

    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    [Tag:boredom]
  • So, just think how exciting it'll be if for once you had it at a quarter past six. It'd make headlines. "World exclusive: Joe eats late".
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
  • “Oh my God! Where did that orchestra come from?”

    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
    [Tag:orgasm]
  • “Jane divorced her husband. I never knew him, it was before I met her. Apparently she came home from work unexpectedly one morning and found him in bed with the milkman. Honest to God, the milkman! But from that day forward I've noticed she never takes milk in her tea.”
    Pauline Collins - Shirley Valentine
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