Edwina Lionheart Quotes in Theater of Blood (1973)

Edwina Lionheart: You drunken bum! You should treasure this opportunity to listen to a master, the world's greatest living actor!

Peregrine Devlin: Hello, Edwina. I thought it was you.

Edwina Lionheart: Well, the brilliant Peregrine Devlin. Wielder of the brutal aphorism, master of the killing phrase, my father's murderer.

Peregrine Devlin: That's a bit melodramatic, isn't it?

Edwina Lionheart: Forgive me. I forgot. It was your reverence and admiration that drove him to take his own life.

Peregrine Devlin: You don't understand.

Edwina Lionheart: I understand that the greatest actor of all time never earned your approval for one single performance. Never. Not one good review.

Peregrine Devlin: Look, Edwina, your father's body was never found.

Edwina Lionheart: My father is as good as under that granite!

Edwina Lionheart: I'm busy, Devlin.

Peregrine Devlin: Edwina, four of my collegues have been murdered. And their deaths relate directly to your father's last season.

Edwina Lionheart: If you were as imaginative in your reviews, Devlin, you'd be a better critic.

Edwina Lionheart: It's all right, sir. You're among friends, sir.

Hector Snipe: Thank you. I was beginning to get a bit nervous.

Edward Lionheart: We were just rehearsing Troilus and Cressida. Specifically the scene where Hector, thinking he's among friends, is unexpectedly killed by them.

Hector Snipe: Lionheart, I came here for an interview, not a lecture on Shakespeare. Now tell me the amazing story of your resurrection.

Edward Lionheart: It's a grave tale, Snipe. But I think you can rise to the occasion.

[Snipe is catapulted onto the stage, where the tramps begin to attack him]

Peregrine Devlin: Think about your daughter! Imagine what your madness is doing to her?

Edward Lionheart: My daughter? Edwina?

[the hippie removes his beard and glasses to reveal he is Edwina]

Edwina Lionheart: You have begot me, bred me, loved me: I Return those duties back as are right fit. Obey you, love you, and most honour you