Act Like It Quotes

“My personality has not once altered under outside influence." "Then I'm genuinely appalled, and your childhood nannies have my intense sympathy. You've got a bit of a nerve, don't you think, accusing other people of vanity? You make Mr. Darcy look like the poster child for low self-esteem.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Christ, we've only been here for five minutes. It's like being stuck in the Tardis. Time has lost all meaning." He turned away to ditch his cocktail glass, thus missing Lainie's gobsmacked expression. A Doctor Who reference from her second-least-favorite person? Wonders never ceased.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“God, I love you.”
Lainie lifted her hands and laid them over his, linking their fingers. “Do you?”
“More today than yesterday.” He tilted her chin up with his thumbs. “More now than an hour ago. By the time I die at ninety of a sex-induced heart attack, I expect I’ll love you in a way I can’t even comprehend.”
Oh...”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“There’s actually a contest for the largest pumpkin?”

“Oh, yes. Vegetable size is a cutthroat category, I gather. You know men. Always obsessed with the girth of their courgettes.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Are you firing him?" Her voice squeaked as if she had uttered the most outrageous profanity. Voiced the great unspoken. The mere suggestion of firing Richard Troy was the theatrical equivalent of hollering "Voldemort!" in the halls of Hogwarts.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Besides, he was suitably impressed that we chose Scotland. Puts it down to research for the role." Lainie halted in her sneaky exploration of the small of his back. "I hope not. I don't really see us as the Macbeths." "No. They got on fairly well until the regicide." "Beatrice and Benedick, maybe. With more bickering. And fewer rhyming couplets.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“In the immortal words of Radiohead, ‘go and tell the king that the sky is falling in.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Don’t be naïve. Nobody succeeds on their own. And in this business, they grab hold of every connection they have and squeeze it dry.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Christ, we’ve only been here for five minutes. It’s like being stuck in the TARDIS. Time has lost all meaning.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Men in particular,” he went on, stating the loathsome truth, “are given a fair amount of leeway in the public eye.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“She was no longer necessarily averse to finding Richard attractive, she realised. It was just very surprising. And should remain at the sensible look-but-don’t-touch stage. If she ever evolved into an outdoorsy person and went on safari, she might admire the dangerous beauty of the lions from a distance, but she for damn sure wouldn’t get out of the car. Or some equally profound metaphor.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Lynette Stern was Richard Troy’s agent, and she had Lainie’s sincere sympathies.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Lainie picked up the cat for a cuddle, tucking its head under her chin, and he saw it properly for the first time. “What the fuck is wrong with its face?” She looked offended on the cat’s behalf, but seriously. A cross between Walter Matthau and a sundried tomato.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“His house was far too big for one person. It took so long to get to his bedroom that he was lucky he was sexy or the mood might have waned.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“Her voice was calm and cool as she proved herself once and for all the mother of a teenager, used to hysterics”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“I still feel like I got shafted. By my lover, my best friend and my family, all at once.” His mouth twisted. “All you.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“And she was fairly sure there was no e in the word ho unless it was being used in a gardening context.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It

“What does my future look like, if he can’t get past this? An elderly woman took a seat opposite her. She was carrying a mesh bag filled with cans of cat food, her hair was sticking straight out and her black trousers were covered with pet hair. Lainie chose not to interpret that as a bad omen.”
― Lucy Parker, Act Like It