Miranda (2002)

Julian Rhind-Tutt: Rod

Quotes 

• Frank : That's the point. I love both of them - the good and the bad.

  Rod : And the ugly.

• Frank : She's a con man

  Rod : So?

  Frank : That's bad

  Rod : Mate, your hair is bad. This, this is exciting.

• Frank : Maybe she was kidnapped.

  Rod : Maybe she just... left. Life's a bitch.

  Frank : I know.

  Rod : And life has a lot of sisters.

• Frank : She's a con man.

  Rod : And?

  Frank : It's bad!

  Rod : No, Frank, your hair... is bad. She is exciting. No, no... she's beyond exciting. She's... she's international. Get out there, conquer it.

  Frank : I can't.

  Rod : Why not?

  Frank : I'm a librarian.

  Rod : Frank, you're clinging to the past. You haven't even got one. You just... stayed in.

  [Frank begins narrating during a montage] 

  Frank : He was right. That's all I did. I stayed in. Read books. Until I met her. And what had I done? I panicked. I'd thrown it away. In one month with her... I'd been kidnapped... we'd made 5 million quid from a psychopath. I was alive, electrified by raw, painful, horrible, glorious life. I was in love with 2 women. And that was fine... because both of them were her.

  [Frank is now talking to Rod while driving] 

  Frank : That's the thing, I don't just love the girl with the brown eyes who laid beside me by the sea. I love the girl with the blue eyes as well. The one in London.

  Rod : What was her name?

  Frank : Miranda! That's the point! I love both of them. The good and the bad.

  Rod : And the ugly.

• Rod : Sorry it took so long. I had to see a man about a mantra.

• Rod : [Assuming a martial arts stance]  Put down the pickle. We come in peace.

  Gerry : You have GOT to be joking!