Impromptu (1991)

Mandy Patinkin: Alfred De Musset

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Quotes 

• Alfred : Art does *not* apologize!

• Alfred De Musset : [taking a section of manuscript]  Her memoirs? Am I in it?

  Editor : No! It's, it's about her childhood. I expect you come in later, after she chews up her husband, and about a hundred other fellows.

  Alfred De Musset : It's true, she's a cannibal. She would drink the blood of her children from the skull of her lover, and not feel so much as a stomach-ache.

  Editor : Alfred, go home - put it into verse - I'll publish it - and then and only then will you get paid.

• George Sand : [George is looking over the script of Alfred's new play]  The style's a bit precious. Mind if I rewrite it?

  Alfred : Not at all. We'll have a horse sent in.

• Alfred De Musset : Did you read her latest novel? It's not even literature - it's drainage. The only good books she ever wrote were when she was with me: every morning, while she was sleeping, I'd cross out half her adjectives.