"Yeah. I don’t think you understand. Those boys were packing heat. I mean, as soon as I came, those assholes opened up. Yeah, opened up and started spraying everywhere."

"I imagine Brody frantically trying to reassure his agent, “Now, I know my stock has fallen a little since the Oscar, but I’ve got really good working relationships with both Wes Anderson and the Sham-Wow guy who beat up the hooker.”"

"It's good for what Bugs you!!! (and what's so bad about that?)"

"George Peppard - Pete"

"Mary Tyler Moore - Liz"

"Since the problems of life are insoluble, one should withdraw into complete isolation and live a life of total non-involvement with other people."

"Aida and I teamed up. We were "The Bubble Sisters" and every bubble Aida blew was filled with greetings from Amigo. [Singing]"

"The city was under attack by land, sea and air. Two days later you wouldn't have known the place. Over one million New Yorkers had joined the club."

"Don Stroud - Barney"

"What's a woe with somebody caring, Dreaming, loving and sharing What's so bad about feeling good?"

"In the evening the cares of the day were exchanged for the pleasures and relaxations of Broadway, then, when the day people went to bed, Greenwich Village came to life … Yes it was a typical night in the village too, but in the East Village, just a few blocks away, there was an entirely different class of people — real artists — writers, composers, who were making a true contribution to the new culture. We were the intellectuals, the elite. We weren't eccentrics like the others. We dressed comfortably and casually, and spoke the language as educated people do. Not the jargon of the immature rebels. We weren't searching for the truth, we'd found it. A couple of years ago, I was just like the rest of you conformists."

"Of course there were some who didn't change back. They clung to the illusion that life was good. It got to be a habit … but they were in the minority."

"I was once a sad optimistic Now only grim, realistic, Turning off to the games people play I find peace of mind in the theory That true existence is dreary Because life was meant to be blue, black and gray. All the time."

"Whats so wrong with that happy sensation That sense of utter elation What's so bad about feeling good? People sharing joy and goodwill…."

"The virus produces a sense of euphoria, a feeling of well-being. No symptoms but a sudden change in behavior patterns. Highly contagious. Avoid contact."

"Susan Saint James - Aida"

"Dom DeLuise - J. Gardner Monroe"

"Nathaniel Frey - Conrad"

"John McMartin - The Mayor"

"Gillian Spencer - The Sack"

"Thelma Ritter - Mrs. Schwartz"

"Joe Ponazecki - Officer Ponazecki"

"Frank Campanella - Capt. Wallace"

"Charles Lane - Dr. Shapiro"

"Jeanne Arnold - Gertrude"

"George Furth - Murgatroyd"

"Morty Gunty - Sgt. Gunty"

"Kay Medford - First Mrs. Rhodes"

"Cara Williams - Nurse"

"Paul McGrath - Macey"

"Rod Brasfield - Beanie"

"Marshall Neilan - Senator Worthington "Curly" Fuller"

"Percy Waram - Gen. Haynesworth"

"Anthony Franciosa - Joey DePalma"

"Walter Matthau - Mel "Boing Boing Boing" Miller"

"Alexander Kirkland - Jim Collier"

"Lee Remick - Betty Lou Fleckum"

"Didn't you know? All mild men are vicious. They hate themselves for being mild, and they hate the windy extroverts whose violence seems to have a strange attraction for nice girls. You should know better."

"[about Lonesome Rhodes] I'll say one thing for him, he's got the courage of his ignorance."

"Howard Smith - J.B. Jeffries"

"Andy Griffith - Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes"

"[about TV] You gotta be a saint to stand off the power that little box can give you."

"[about the writers] Here you see the lepers of the great television industry. Men without faces. Why, they even slide our paychecks under the door so they can pretend we're not here."

"Patricia Neal - Marcia Jeffries"

"You know, ma'am, whenever a bunch of fellas like us - outcasts, hoboes, nobodies, gentlemen loafers, one-time or all-time losers, call us what you want to. Whenever we get together, we tell our funny stories. Me and Beanie and the rest of these hand-to-mouth tumbleweed boys like you see in here. [singing] If whiskey don't get us, then women must. And it looks like I'm never gonna cease my wandering."

"You know, back in my little old town of Riddle, we had a cousin named Harry. We all called him Cousin 'Hurry' because he was always runnin' someplace. Till one day he fell down a flight of steps and broke his fool neck. We put a sign on his grave says: 'He was in such a hurry, he just couldn't wait to get here.'"

"[to Marcia, as they leave Pickett for Memphis] Boy, am I glad to shake that dump. [pause] I was only kiddin', honey. You ought to know me better than to believe everything I say. Ha! [to the crowd] Bye! Bye! Good-bye and God bless you, good people!"

"Ain't Mama a beauty? Oh, a guitar beats a woman every time! You know, I never have seen a woman I could trust like this old guitar. I love my Mama guitar. She's always there waitin' for me to pick her up and hold her. Never asks me for money or goes cheatin' around when I ain't lookin'. And if she gets a little sour, why, I just give her a little twist like so, and we're right back in tune together."

"Ain't nothin' in this world you can't do when you let the best side of you take over."

"They love his voice, they love his guitar, they love his ideas... they should know some of his ideas."