Madox In case you're still wondering, This is called a supersternal notch. points to notch at base of throat [to Almasy]
Played by Julian Wadham 
The English Patient (1996) · 82 quotes
The English Patient (1996) · 82 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in The English Patient (1996): in 8 of its 82 quotes
Most scenes with: Count Laszlo de Almásy (2)
I apologize if I appear abrupt. I am rusty at social graces.
More lines from Madox
5 quotes Madox Madox I have to teach myself not to read too much into everything. It comes from too long having to read so much into hardly anything at all.
Madox I thought this is what Almasy said?
(?) There's a war. Where you come from becomes important.
Madox Why? I hate that idea.
(?) It's ghastly. It's a witchhunt. Anyone remotely foreign is suddenly a spy.
Madox (?)
We didn't care about countries did we? Brits, Arabs, Hungarians, Germans. None of that mattered, did it? It was something finer than that.
Scenes with Madox
2 scenes
This... this, the hollow at the base of a woman's throat, does it have an official name?
Madox Good God, man, pull yourself together.
There is no God... but I hope someone looks after you.
Madox Just in case you're interested, it's called the suprasternal notch. Come and visit us in Dorset when all this nonsense is over. [Heads away but turns back]
Madox You'll never come to Dorset.
