#withnail quotes

[know-it-all-freak]

Today it's the 37th anniversary of Withnail and I. Let's celebrate it with the finest wines available to humanity!! 🍷🍷🎉🎆

Happy 37th anniversary, Withnail and I!

Paul told to BBC recently that while he was driving to Bedford (for the charity con), he passed by Milton Keynes, the place where the iconic tearoom scene was filmed, and was tempted to go there.

#Withnail and I #is 37 years old today #my favourite movie #lots of memorable quotes and scenes #Paul McGann #Richard E. Grant #Richard Griffiths #Ralph Brown #Happy anniversary to the most iconic film ever!

[frmulcahy]

Love the “cottagecore but it’s absolutely unhinged” genre

#why are these movies. the way they are. #my family quotes cold comfort farm an unhealthy amount #cold comfort farm #withnail and i #cottagecore #dark cottagecore #????????

[videodrme]

two guys in a toxic codependent friendship. one is slightly more well adjusted but is a neurotic paranoid mess while the other is a free spirit that is a slave to his vices can’t take care of himself and mooches off the first guy.

wait, am I talking about withnail & i or peep show?

#film #tv #withnail and i #peep show #what if i put peep show quotes on withnail and i #surely it's not just me who has seen both....... #there are connections!!

[themaninthegreenshirt]

"Oh, my boys, my boys, we’re at the end of an age. We live in a land of weather forecasts and breakfasts that set in. Shat on by Tories, shovelled up by Labour. And here we are, we three, perhaps the last island of beauty in the world."

Withnail and I [1987] by Bruce Robinson

#withnail and i #films #quotes #richard griffiths #richard e. grant

[guiltypleasurefandomface]

Freddie: Are you the farmer? We've gone on holiday by mistake. We're in this cottage over there. Are you the farmer?

Roger: Stop saying that Freddie, of course he's the fucking farmer. [To the farmer] We're friends of Brian May, we desperately need fuel and wood.

Farmer shakes his head.

Roger: Brian May, you must know him. Tall man with big hair, owns the cottage. Farmer: Ay, seen the tall man with big hair. London type. Queer sort. Think his name's Teddy Conway or something.

Withnail: Conway?

Farmer: Ay, Conway. He hasn't been up year for couple of years. Last time I saw him, he were here with a great big telescope Roger: Yeah, that's him.

Freddie: Listen, we're bona fide, darling. We're not from London at all. Could we have some fuel and wood?

Farmer: Ay, I could bring you up some logs later but I've got the cows and that to feed first.

Freddie: When?

Roger: Shut up Freddie. That would be very kind of you.

#Incorrect Queen Quotes #Source: Withnail and I #Brian May goes Bunburying #Don't ask me about uni work

[rabbitofnegativeeuphoria]

I frequently quote the line from Withnail and I “those are the sort of windows that faces look in at” but I invariably get it the wrong way round so what I actually say is “those are the sort of faces that windows look in at”. What is wrong with me?

#there a lot of quotes from that film I use on a regular basis #laineys life #withnail and i

[harrison-abbott]

We are not drunks. We are multi-millionaires

Withnail and I (Richard E Grant.)

#withnail and i #classic movie quotes #richard e grant

[neighbourhoodtwo]

feeling sick in the head might watch withnail and i again

#wheres that quote thats like. the relief in having a few days respite before it all goes to shit #<- nowhere close to the actual quote but i cannot for the life of me remember how it goes #withnail and i is like. how to make a bad time worse (complimentary)

[lajoiedefrancoise]

Withnail & I (1987)

#1987 #quotes #Withnail and I #Withnail & I #Richard Griffiths

[eightdoctor]

please elaborate on the Paul films you think are good (I’m assuming Withnail is one of them lol)

hello thank you for the ask!! i always love getting them :3 but yeah upon looking at pauls filmography ive realized ive seen wayyy more of his tv stuff than his films (most of which are kinda just really bad but made good by the fact i get to look at him) and i think his tv stuff is usually way better than his movies so im just gonna go through all the movies ive seen. with him

i should note im literally mostly ranking these on how paul llooks in them. because i watched these during quarantine and its all a blur

withnail and i <- literally my favorite film of all time i can quote the whole thing. i watch it in my head when im bored. it changed me irrevocably. i love it and also paul is justsuch a wet sopping pathetic sexy beast in it

paper mask <- ok i did like this one. it's kind of insane and an entertaining watch and it's one of his movies that ive actually seen multiple times. paul plays the banjo and sings in it a bit and he's also really cute in his little outfits while committing medical malpractice and identity theft

the doctor who movie <- you already fucking know what i think of this one baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the biographer <- oohhhh he's wearing glasses...... and a cute sweater.........i found this one interesting enough. i think

hotel! <- blantant fucking airplane! ripoff but still kind of really funny in my opinion if you like that sort of humor. peter capaldi is also in here

the rainbow <- isn't good but you get to see his bare ass and watch him run naked in a field so that has to count for something i suppose. i also think it has his first ever sex scene in it so it's funny to watch

dealers: this one is about the stock market and i dont remember shit from it but i sure did watch it !!!!!!! but hes a little business boy in a little business suit and even wears a turtleneck

catherine the great: this one is only for the most skilled paul mcgann watchers as his brothers are in it and literally i can't tell them the fuck apart. and i dont remember anything in it except paul has a scar (hot)

lesbian vampire killers <- this fucking sucks. james corden is in it. it's supposed to be a comedy but none of it is funny except for the parts with paul :)

the monk: not good in the slightest but he has a tonsure which is hilarious. to me

downtime: it's fine i think. im putting it last because i cant even remember what he looked like in it

#IDK IF THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED BUT #too bad ive already written it all out and im posting it #alexlifesonofficial #paul mcgann

[silverfoxstole]

Paul McGann: The latest twist in his tale

He's spent his career thinking on his feet, so it made sense to improvise his latest role, he tells James Mottram

Published: 20 October 2006 in The Independent

Every autumn, Paul McGann is given an annual reminder of his greatest role. Living in a university town like Bristol, "you can set your calendar by it," he says. "The new student intake has just come in, and they've drunk their first grant cheque and seen Withnail and I... and I know when they've seen it. They usually holler across the street." While Richard E Grant's flamboyant drunk Withnail was the character blessed with the lion's share of memorable quotes, McGann's more introspective "I" still had his moments. He grins at a recent reminder. "The other day, some kid had chalked on the pavement outside my house, 'Perfumed Ponce', with an arrow pointing to my front door!"

Now 46, it's refreshing to see McGann is not precious about the fact that his finest hour has just been commemorated this month with a 20th anniversary DVD. "It's actually very satisfying," he admits. "I can safely say, 'If I'd never done another movie, it would've been all right.'" Still handsome, with his Byronic brown curls, there's a sense of genuine gratitude in his soft Scouse accent. The son of a factory worker and a nursery school teacher, perhaps it's in the knowledge that a working-class childhood in Liverpool does not always lead to such a grand career as acting. The Catholic-raised McGann knows he's been fortunate: accepted into Rada, he got his big break in 1982 alongside his three brothers - Joe, Mark and Stephen - in the West End rock'n'roll musical Yakkety Yak.

"We all wanted to be movie stars," he recalls of his youthful days. "When I was a kid, about 11 or 12, we used to try and bunk into local cinemas to see X movies. Who doesn't do that at that age? This would've been 1972. Maybe an older kid would buy a ticket, then go and open the fire door and we'd watch this film until we were all thrown out. You'd see some hammy old thing, but now and again you'd see a great film - like Klute or Five Easy Pieces. I remember watching Jack Nicholson, maybe not understanding what he's up to but thinking I'd love to do that. He was engaging, charismatic - I was rapt!"

McGann was never going to be the next Nicholson, even if winning the lead in Alan Bleasdale's 1986 BBC drama The Monocled Mutineer boosted his profile. Unlike Grant, he never really made it in Hollywood. "What do they say? It's better to regret the things you have done than the things you haven't," he notes. When he did get cast in major productions, he spent most of his time on the cutting room floor. Almost entirely excised from Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun, he saw his part for David Fincher's Alien3 truncated to an almost unintelligible degree and then he was unfortunate enough to appear in Queen of the Damned, the ill-fated follow-up to Interview with a Vampire. "Careers are what they are," he shrugs. "They don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them."

Fate certainly seems to have had a hand in McGann's CV. A knee injury in 1994 forced him to cede the lead in ITV's Sharpe to Sean Bean. Two years later came his one-off turn as Doctor Who, following on from Sylvester McCoy in a US pilot that was set to resurrect the series but ultimately never picked up because the ratings weren't high enough. "We made a pilot that didn't work," he says. "And it didn't work because it wasn't good enough." But given the success of the current revamped show, does he have regrets that he's likely to be remembered - in his own words - as the "George Lazenby of Doctor Who"? "It's impossible to regret. It could've been very different. I would've been there for five or six years... and I'd have earned a shit-load of dough. Life wouldn't have been the same but it didn't happen."

If there's a suspicion that McGann is not ruthless enough to play the Hollywood game, not least because Withnail and I anointed him with a cuddly image, he has set about changing that with his latest film, Gypo. An entirely improvised piece about immigration, he plays Paul, a racist father-of-three living in Margate. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Paul is the vilest character of McGann's career, beginning the film by violently objecting to his daughter bringing home a classmate who, it emerges, is a Romany Czech refugee. "I had to be prepared for him to be irredeemable," says McGann. "He is unremittingly miserable."

Fed on a diet of tabloids and Talk Sport, McGann says his character belongs with the "huge majority of these little Englanders with their easy assumptions. At one point, he talks about Africa being a big county - that's about the level of him." He adds that he didn't want to make him like some "Alf Garnett cartoon" and he doesn't - though he confesses to the fact that director Jan Dunn only came to the set with "broad notions" for the scenes. The rest was up to him. "There wasn't a script to discuss," he says. "That brought me out in a rash, to be honest. That was one of the reasons I thought I had to do this. I couldn't think of any proper, intelligent excuse to turn this kind of challenge down."

Telling the same basic story from three separate perspectives, Gypo is officially the first British film to be registered as a Dogme movie. Given that this manifesto, devised by the Danish director Lars von Trier to purify the film-making process by using only original locations, natural light and so on, is over a decade old, it might seem rather after the fact. McGann nods. "I entered it with a mixture of open-mindedness and healthy cynicism. I mean, they're having us on aren't they? Some of that stuff... c'mon! The more dubious claims for the process about truth and nebulous ideas about authenticity. I mean, what's that about? Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch."

Both frank and funny, McGann is the perfect pub-mate - not least because he is so self-deprecating. Noting that his short-lived time playing Doctor Who has nevertheless given him a place in the show's pantheon, he recalls meeting legendary Time Lord Tom Baker. "We were in opposite voice over studios," he says. "This guy in the sound studio told me he was in, so I went and met him. He didn't have a clue who I was! I found it rather refreshing. He was very charming. He just thought I was some kid off the street. So I thought, 'Let's just leave it at that.'"

Yet as chummy as McGann is, it's doubtful if he'd ever fully open up - at least in interview. Dubbing himself "a miserable bastard at the best of times", laying bare his soul is unlikely to make him happy. Of his brothers, he says, "We get on OK. We get on fine." The last time he worked with them was in 1995's Irish famine saga The Hanging Gale, which the quartet conceived themselves. "The biggest obstacle is getting us all together," he grunts, when asked if he'd consider working with them again. He's better on his sons: 17-year-old Joseph is musically gifted, "one of those swines that can play any instrument", while 15-year-old Jake "has been making funny noises" about following his father into acting.

Such reticence can be easily traced back to the mid-1990s, when McGann had his one uncomfortable brush with the limelight. Caught in the street kissing Catherine Zeta-Jones, his co-star from period piece Catherine the Great, by a photographer, it caused a minor scandal and the press descended upon him and his family. While Joseph and Jake "were really spooked by it" - to the point that they now hate having their photograph taken - McGann admits the gossip "rattled" his relationship with his wife Annie, a former assistant stage manager turned interior designer. "I felt like a kid who was being bullied," reflects McGann.

Since Gypo, McGann has done what he's always done, and worked steadily. He recently completed the lead in Poppies, a film about a playwright who becomes obsessed with the fact his grandfather and two great uncles were killed in the Battle of the Somme that will receive its premiere in November at the Imperial War Museum. And he is currently filming a short produced by Zoë Ball entitled Always Crashing In The Same Car, reuniting with Grant for the first time since Withnail and I. "It's good when we're together," says McGann. "We're still mates. Our kids know each other. Very occasionally we're together in the same place - and then it's difficult to pay for a drink. I like that."

'Gypo' opens today

#i was looking for the tale of paul meeting tom for the first time #and found it by accident going through some old files #paul mcgann #interviews #doctor who #eighth doctor #8th doctor #tom baker #withnail and i #he told the story about the chalk on the pavement in a zoom interview a couple of years ago #it sounded as though it had happened recently but obviously not!

[greenegrace]

carl following the withnail and i quotes bot ranks highly amongst the reasons why i am obsessed with him

#carl barat #withnail and i #very on brand #the libertines

[depressedraisin]

i think quoting withnail and i under a video of richard e grant wearing lashes and announcing he's a judge on rupaul's drag race uk v. the world is the peak of british gay culture

[clvedurham]

deeply embarrassing that i immediately recognized the baudelaire quote in withnail & i. literally paris spleen jumpscare

#i am once again embarking on a rewatch

[eoinmcgonigal]

3 and 11

3. Favourite quote

Hmm... it might be Gandalf's "so do all who live to see such times" one from LOTR. I generally quote anything and everything from Withnail & I, and Blackadder Goes Forth, but that's because it's fun.

11. What's the last song you listened to?

I fell asleep listening to TOTP from 1995, the last song I remember was Black Betty by Ram Jam.

#thank you!

[alter-koker]

another underrated withnail and i quote