Dr. Frank Bryant Quotes in Educating Rita (1983)

[Frank has just been officially reprimanded for being drunk while giving a lecture]

Dr. Frank Bryant: Sod them, eh, Rita! Sod them!

Rita: Will they sack you?

Dr. Frank Bryant: Good God no. That would involve making a decision. Pissed is all right. To get the sack, it would have to be rape on a grand scale. And not just with students, either. That would only amount to a slight misdemeanour. No, for dismissal it would have to be nothing less than buggering the Bursar.

[Rita discovers Frank packing all his books into crates]

Rita: Have they sacked you?

Dr. Frank Bryant: I made rather a night of it last night so they're giving me a holiday. Two years in Australia.

Rita: Did you bugger the Bursar?

Dr. Frank Bryant: Metaphorically.

[Rita is being nosy about Frank's marriage]

Dr. Frank Bryant: We split up, Rita, because of poetry.

Rita: You what?

Dr. Frank Bryant: One day, my wife explained to me that, for the past fifteen years, my output as a poet had dealt entirely with the part of our lives in which we discovered each other.

Rita: Are you a poet?

Dr. Frank Bryant: Was. And so, to give me something new to write about, she left me. A very noble woman, my wife - she left me for the good of literature. And remarkably it worked.

Rita: What, you wrote a lot of good stuff, did ya?

Dr. Frank Bryant: No. I stopped writing altogether.

Brian: Yes, well, apparently you were a little... drunk at your tutorial today.

Dr. Frank Bryant: No.

Brian: No?

Dr. Frank Bryant: No. I was a lot drunk.

Brian: Oh, Frank, why do you do it? When you've got... well, what haven't you got?

Dr. Frank Bryant: A drink at the moment.

Dr. Frank Bryant: Found a culture, have you Rita? Found a better song to sing? No, you found a different song to sing, and on your lips it's shrill and hollow and tuneless.

Dr. Frank Bryant: What does it say?

Rita: Right. I've passed. Now will you get on that bloody plane?

Dr. Frank Bryant: Let me see. You've passed with distinction. I'm proud of you, Rita.

Rita: I'm proud of both of us.

Dr. Frank Bryant: Did you know that Macbeth was a maggoty apple? Not many people know that!

Collins: Doctor Bryant, I don't think you're listening to me.

Dr. Frank Bryant: Mr Collins, I don't think you're saying anything to me.

Collins: Doctor, are you drunk?

Dr. Frank Bryant: Drunk? Of course I'm drunk. You don't really expect me to teach this when I'm sober.

Collins: [angrily bundling his books together] Then you won't mind if I leave your tutorial.

Dr. Frank Bryant: Why should I mind?

Dr. Frank Bryant: Morgan? Fuck off!

[last lines]

[Rita is saying goodbye to Frank at the airport departure gate]

Rita: Frank.

Dr. Frank Bryant: What?

Rita: Thanks.

[first lines]

[Frank walks on campus and addresses some students]

Dr. Frank Bryant: Good afternoon.

Rita: I don't often get the chance to talk to someone like you.

Dr. Frank Bryant: I'm honored you chose me.

Dr. Frank Bryant: Suggest how you would resolve the staging difficulties in a production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt?