Philip Ayckbourn: Hayden Lorry

Quotes 

• Ginny Novak : How would you like your steak cooked?

  Hayden Lorry : Chicken-fried's the only way.

• Hayden Lorry : No other thug in this neck of the woods would carry a point 22 unless it was a question of, what shall I call it, lifestyle?

• Ginny Novak : You have a nice Aberdeen steak. How do you want it cooked?

  Hayden Lorry : Chicken-fried's the only way.

• Hayden Lorry : So you're just going to plug me, huh? That's not your style, you lily-livered, two-bit soda jerk.

  Manny Varjak : "Lily-livered"? "Two-bit"? "Soda jerk"? I'm the number-one man in this world, see. I just took care of Dante Berasconi. There's not one yegg from Somaliland to Kingdom Come who could usurp me. Top of the world, I'm on top of the world!

  Hayden Lorry : You're still nothing. Nothing comes from nothing, pal. You're just some cheap, dime-store imitation of Glenn Ford and Jimmy Cagney. The lamentation's wearing off, and your true color's showing, yella!