Babylon (film)

"In a hundred years, when you and I are both long gone, any time someone threads a frame of yours through a sprocket, you will be alive again. You see what that means? One day, every person on every film shot this year will be dead. And one day, all those films will be pulled from the vaults, and all their ghosts will dine together, and adventure together, go to the jungle, to war together. A child born in 50 years will stumble across your image flickering on a screen and feel he knows you, like... like a friend, though you breathed your last before he breathed his first. You've been given a gift. Be grateful. Your time today is through, but you'll spend eternity with angels and ghosts."

"Marbled meadows metamorphose into the medieval plains of Iberia. Soldiers swarm the fields like flecks of paint from a madman's brush as your humble servant bears witness to the latest of the moving picture's magic tricks. - - Oh, why do I bother? Look at these idiots! I knew Proust, you know."

"And this boy, who breathed his first decades after you breathed your last, will look at your image and think he's found a friend."

"When in doubt, say something in French."

"There is no why. It wasn't your voice. It wasn't a conspiracy. And it certainly wasn't anything I wrote. There's nothing you could have done differently. There's nothing you can do. Your time has run out. There is no why. Stop questioning it."

"So, upstairs is where Don keeps his underage girls, then?"

"Never have I seen such a maelstrom of bad taste and sheer magic."

"Ordinary and uncool as she may be, there's something about her that speaks to us in a language as vital and as pressing as life itself. Never have I seen such a mess of a bad taste and sheer magic. Your humble servant bares witness... just killed our grandmothers, and we thank her for it."

"There is no why. [Yoda!]"

"Honey, you don't become a star. Either you are one or you ain't. I am."

"It's written in the stars. I am a star."

"I hate when people put fucking toppings on ice cream. Doesn't need it. It messes up a good thing. You know what I mean? I fucking hate that. God, I've never done nothing except disappoint people my whole life. Teachers told me I was no good. Boys told me I was no good. Every fucking casting director in the city told me I was too short or I was too fat. Usually I was too fat. You know, my mama actually had some fat years too. You wouldn't know it now, looking at her, but she did. They fucked up with me, Manny. They really fucked up with me. 'Cause I make 'em squirm. And I like making 'em squirm. Let 'em know that I got here on my terms, not theirs. And when I'm done, I'm gonna dance my ass off into the night. And they'll know - everyone will fucking know that they could never control one goddamn fucking thing. Do you like ice cream?"

"Hello, college!"

"You know, "Roy," actually, in French, means "king." And I added the "La," so it's "Nellie the King." I made that up."

"Don't "Nellie baby" me, you six foot fucking vagina!"

"They said if I don't have the money in a week, they'll pour acid on my pussy!"

"Party time, sparkle cocks!"

"What a nice man. I wonder if he's single."

"Now I do apologize, but I must resign briefly to the powder room. I shan't be long. Ta-ta!"

"Manny... this is the end of the road for me."

"It'll be like nothing they've ever seen!"

"Hot damn! Jack Conrad? You are even more fuckable in person."

"Oh, I'm no good for you!"

"Chaplin is hung for sure, but Gary Cooper. Gary Cooper is a fucking horse! He's also a fucking pussy. All that cock, no balls. A shame. What are the schlongs like on Broadway?"

"Oh, if they could see me now! All the cunts in Lafayette called me the ugliest mutt in the neighborhood. Well, let them see me now!"

"Hey, you two with the camera! Do you know who I am? I'm Nellie LaRoy, bitches."

"Suck a dick, Señor Avocado."

"Well, that was a waste of time!"

"I ain't a fucking pussy!"

"Okay, remember, you're a sad lonely man and no one will ever love you!"

"That's the cocksucker they sent here to screw us!"

"Welcome to the asshole of Los Angeles!"

"What... the fuck?"

"Incredible, isn't he? You either are a star or you aren't. And he is!"

"Ah, you came through. That's the main thing."

"We were going to make movies together!"

"I was thinking, you make a movie about him, and in it, you make him full-fledged retard."

"[Pointing at Nellie dancing] Her! Whoever she is."

"You! I've been looking all over for you. We got a serious fucking situation."

"The Jersey thing doesn't work anymore. Today's audiences find her pornographic. She's been hanging around Jim McKay's casinos like a half-wit. She owes gambling debts all over town. And she sounds like a donkey."

"[On Nellie] Do you think she swings both ways?"

"[Singing] There's one pet I like to pet. Every evening we get set. I stroke it. Every chance I get. It's my girl's. Pussy. Seldom plays and never purrs. And I love. The thoughts it stirs. But I don't mind. Because it's hers. It's my girl's pussy. 'Cause I'll do anything. For my sweet pet. She works me to a sweat. And that's hard to do. I must first. Remove my gloves. When stroking my girl's. Pussy."

"[Singing] There's a pet I like to pet..."

"Do you think she swings both ways?"

"[To an actress on set] Is that gum? Are you fucking kidding me? What's wrong with you? [Actress opens mouth and Ruth takes it with bare hand]"

"I think you've got the cameras pointing in the wrong direction."

"I had a good run, didn't I?"

"And then he says: "Frankly Scarlett, you're a cunt." Type it."

"[News of George's suicide] He was the first guy to say I had talent. He saved my life."

"I'm not asking you to fuck him, just make him feel special."