Patrick Melrose (TV Mini Series)

At Last (2018)

Benedict Cumberbatch: Patrick Melrose

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• Patrick Melrose : I was thinking how life is just the history of things we pay attention to. The rest is just packaging.

• Patrick Melrose : I've decided I'm bored of ghosts. I want to see people instead.

  Mary Melrose : Oh, I see. OK.

  Patrick Melrose : Or is it too late to change my mind?

  Mary Melrose : Not at all. After all, that's what it's for. The boys will be delighted to see you.

• Patrick Melrose : This isn't grief or mourning. This is rage and my heart is racing with it!

• Patrick Melrose : [sobbing]  I thought I was getting better but I'm such a fucking mess.

• Johnny : Lovely venue.

  Patrick Melrose : Yes, I'm thinking of getting cremated here myself.

  Johnny : Well, no need to rush.

  Patrick Melrose : I was going to wait until I die.

• Patrick Melrose : I was thinking how life is just the history of things we pay attention to. The rest is just packaging.

  Annette : Maya Angelou says the meaning of life is the impact we have on other people, whether we make them feel good or not.

• Julia : Still not given up irony, then?

  Patrick Melrose : Hardest addiction of all. Forget heroine, that need to mean two things at once...

  Julia : I'm having enough trouble wearing nicotine patches and smoking at the same time. Don't take my irony, leave me with a little sarcasm!

  Patrick Melrose : Sarcasm doesn't count. That only means one thing.

  Julia : [Smiling]  Quality freak.

• Annette : Amazing man, completely unique.

  Patrick Melrose : Let's hope so. The idea of a whole village full of Nicolas Pratts is rather terrifying.

• Johnny : How are you bearing up?

  Patrick Melrose : Weirdly elated. I think my mother's death is the best thing to have happened to me since,well, my father's death.

  Johnny : I'm sure it's a little more complicated than that.

  Patrick Melrose : You're the psychiatrist.

  Johnny : Psychotherapist.

  Patrick Melrose : Oh, whatever.