Robert Parks Quotes in Gosford Park (2001)

Robert Parks: Can't a man hate his own father?

Robert Parks: [has just kissed Mary, long pause] Ooh. I've been wanting to do that ever since I first set eyes on you.

Maid: Do you think he's the murderer?

Robert Parks: It's worse than that - he's an actor!

Mary Maceachran: Nobody can stab a corpse and not know it.

Robert Parks: Really? When was the last time you stabbed a corpse?

Mary Maceachran: Mr. Parks...

Robert Parks: Robert.

Mary Maceachran: Robert. When you said you'd surprise me, you didn't mean anything by it, did you?

Robert Parks: Why? Don't you like surprises?

Robert Parks: Here we go again.

Mary Maceachran: That's just it. I've never done a real houseparty before. Not properly anyway.

Elsie (Head Housemaid): How come you got taken on as a countess lady's maid if you've got no experience?

Mary Maceachran: She wants to train me. She said she didn't care about experience.

Elsie (Head Housemaid): She didn't want to pay for it, you mean.

Robert Parks: My name is Parks... Robert Parks.

Mary Maceachran: What's Lord Stockbridge like?

Robert Parks: He thinks he's God Almighty. They all do.

Robert Parks: What's your name?

Mary Maceachran: I think here I'm called Trentham.

Robert Parks: [laughs] No, I meant your real name.

Mary Maceachran: Oh. Mary. Mary Maceachran.

Robert Parks: Blimey. What does Her Ladyship call you?

Mary Maceachran: Well, she should call me Maceachran now I'm a lady's maid. At least that's what my mother says. But Her Ladyship can't pronounce it, so she just calls me Mary.

Robert Parks: I don't blame her.