Sybil: Do you love running? Harold Abrahams: I’m more of an addict. It’s a compulsion, a weapon. Sybil: Against what? Harold Abrahams: Being Jewish, I suppose. Sybil: [laughing] You’re not serious. Harold Abrahams: You’re not Jewish, or you wouldn’t ask.
ATTRIBUTION:
Colin Welland (b. 1934), British screenwriter. Sybil (Alice Krige), Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), Chariots of Fire (1981).
