Being Human (TV Series)

Pilot (2008)

Andrea Riseborough: Annie

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Quotes 

• John Mitchell : So, you've just arrived at Hogwarts, which house do they put you in?

  George Sands : I'd like to say Gryffindor, but they're supposed to be brave. What's the other one? Ravenclaw, does that have a characteristic?

  John Mitchell : I think they're brainy. You could be in Ravenclaw.

  Annie : I quite fancy Hufflepuff actually. I've always thought in Hufflepuff they just spend the day making stuff with safety scissors and glitter.

  George Sands : What about you?

  John Mitchell : I think that they'd say. It's probably best if you just stay in the canteen for the next five years.

  Annie : Does anyone ever 'choose' Slytherin?

  George Sands : No, because that would be like saying 'I'm a sociopath.'

• George Sands : Okay, you win ten million pounds; what do you do?

  Annie : Buy Colin Firth.

• Annie : Uh, you don't have to keep going on about it, me being a ghost, it's a bit rude. If someones fat and you're like 'you're fat'.

  George Sands : Oh, I'm sorry maybe I'm just a bit tetchy, because you just tried to scare me out of my house.

• John Mitchell : How did you die Annie?

  Annie : Quickly.

• Annie : Hiya.

  John Mitchell : Have you been sitting there long?

  Annie : Define long.

  John Mitchell : An hour?

  Annie : Then yeah.

• Julia : Are you one of him too?

  Annie : No, I'm something else.

  Julia : What?

  Annie : A ghost.

  Julia : A ghost?

  Annie : I'm not a fan of the word.

• Annie : You've seen them too, haven't you? The corridor with the men at the end with sticks and rope.

• Annie : But normal people can't see me.

  George Sands : We are perfectly normal, thank you.

  Annie : Er, sorry but by normal I meant: doesn't turn into the Littlest Hobo once a month.

• John Mitchell : She's a ghost.

  Annie : And your point being?

• Annie : I quite fancy Hufflepuff, actually. I've always thought, in Hufflepuff they always spend the day making stuff with safety scissors and glitter.

• Annie : Ah well, you shouldn't be eating bacon anyway, should you - you're Jewish.

  George Sands : Yeah, I gave up on the whole orthodoxy thing when I started turning into a wolf.

  Annie : Do they have rules about being a werewolf as well?

  George Sands : I think you'd be hard pressed to find a religion that doesn't frown on it.

  John Mitchell : What about the Moonies?

• Annie : Seems like with George and Mitchell I have been feeling like... Before them I was all alone, like drowning. But now just being recognised by someone, being liked and known. Looks like that's what makes you real.