Mrs. Parkin Quotes in Withnail & I (1987)

[Marwood knocks on the door of a farmhouse. An old woman with a clunky hearing aid pinned to her apron opens the door]

Mrs. Parkin: What do you want?

Marwood: I'm a friend of Montague Withnail's. He's lent us his cottage. I wondered if you could sell us some food. Eggs and things.

[the woman just squints at him]

Marwood: What about wood and coal?

[she still doesn't answer. He leans up close to her, speaking into to her hearing aid]

Marwood: I'm not from London, you know.

Mrs. Parkin: I don't care where you come from!

[she slams the door in his face]

Marwood: [voiceover] Not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H.E. Bates novel I'd read. I thought they'd all be out the back, drinking cider and discussing butter. Clearly a myth. Evidently country people are no more receptive to strangers than city-dwellers.