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Kenneth Branagh, Leonardo DiCaprio, Winona Ryder, Charlize Theron, Melanie Griffith, Famke Janssen, Judy Davis, Joe Mantegna, and Bebe Neuwirth in Celebrity (1998)

Quotes

Celebrity

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  • Robin Simon: It's luck, Lee. No matter what the shrinks or the pundits or the self-help books tell you, when it comes to love, it's luck.
  • Lee Simon: You are the most beautiful creature I've ever seen. I mean, every curve in your body fulfills its promise. If the universe has any meaning at all, I'm looking at it.
  • Supermodel: You're so sweet.
  • Robin Simon: How did I manage to swing this? Last year I was teaching English, performing a serious function. And suddenly, through a whirlwind series of events I've become a kind of woman I've always hated, but I'm happier.
  • Exercise Tape Fan: Would you sign this? I use your exercise tape.
  • Supermodel: You do?
  • Exercise Tape Fan: So do I!
  • Exercise Tape Fan: But I exercise to it.
  • Father Gladden's Fan on Porch: Did you agree with the Beatles, years ago, at the height of their fame, that they were bigger stars than Jesus?
  • Father Gladden: The world population was much less then.
  • TV Reporter at Premiere: What's your next project?
  • Dalton Freed: Birth Of A Nation, an all-black version.
  • Nicole Oliver: I mean, I could never have intercourse with anyone other than Phil. My body belongs to my husband.
  • Lee Simon: Listen, I understand and, you know, I - I...
  • Nicole Oliver: What I do from the neck up, that's a different story.
  • Tony Gardella: Tom Dale. *Big* star. He's in New York filming an adaptation of a sequel of a remake.
  • Lee Simon: And you're, you're perfect. Do you have ANY flaws? I'm agog... with...
  • Supermodel: Physically?
  • Donald Trump: Well, I'm working on buying St. Patrick's Cathedral, maybe doing a little rip-down job and putting up a very very tall and beautiful building.
  • [talking about Papadakis]
  • Tony Gardella: He's very arty, pretentious, one of those assholes who shoots all his films in black and white.
  • [sighting celebrities at a screening]
  • Tony Gardella: Oh, and getting out of the elevator I see there's a famous critic.
  • Robin Simon: Him, I recognize.
  • Tony Gardella: Oh, he used to hate every movie. Then, he married a young, big-bosomed woman, and now he loves every movie.
  • Supermodel: You're not afraid of catching germs? And you know, I'm coming down with a cold and everything...
  • Lee Simon: From you I'd be willing to catch terminal cancer.
  • Lee Simon: One minute you're in the lunchroom at Glenwood High and you f***ing blink and you're 40, you blink again and you can see movies at half price on a senior citizen's pass. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, or to put it more accurately, ask not for whom the toilet flushes.
  • Robin's Friend Cheryl: So ironic. You go to get face work, you don't get face work, but you meet a wonderful guy, he changes your life, it's better than face work.
  • Supermodel: I'm polymorphously perverse. It's not a flaw, it's just a weakness.
  • Lee Simon: Polymorphously perverse? Meaning?
  • Supermodel: Meaning every part of my body is - gives me sexual pleasure.
  • Lee Simon: Meaning?
  • Supermodel: Meaning every part of me give me erotic pleasure.
  • Lee Simon: And how - sensitive does that make you?
  • Supermodel: Well, if you touch my thighs, my hands, my neck, my kneecaps, I - I'm orgasmic.
  • Dee Bartholomew: I ran into our Tony Gardello at the Cafe Carlyle. He had a blissed-out look like he had died and gone to heaven. How did you manage to put that smile on his face?
  • Robin Simon: Using my head...
  • Waiting Room Nurse: I'm sorry, the doctor just doesn't do penis enlargements. We don't have the space.
  • Waiting Room Patient: We're talking about 3 inches here!
  • Souvenir Hawker: They're all genuine ceramic, and we got this rubber bulb here, you squeeze this, fill it with some washable red vegetable dye, give it a squeeze, you can make his wounds bleed. Watch in the back, there. Isn't that something?
  • Robin Simon: [affecting a Southern accent] I have always depended on the kindness of strangers...
  • Lee Simon: Just in time. Another minute, I'd have been found dead of comedy poisoning...
  • Lee Simon: I'm awash in self-contempt!
  • Robin Simon: [to Lee] I hope you catch a break.
  • Tony Gardella: What am I, Don Corleone?
  • Robin Simon: [to Lee] So, who else do you wanna explore? Allison?
  • Nicole Oliver: I remember my brothers, my brothers used to spy on me when I was taking a shower or they would like rub themselves up against me.
  • Robin Simon: I wanted to learn it from someone who'd teach it to me - down and dirty. If you know what I mean.
  • Nina - the Hooker: I'm just wondering where'd we begin?
  • Robin Simon: How about oral sex? Because, you know, somehow I feel it - you know, it really doesn't come naturally to me. I feel it's labored. You know, I have trouble breathing, actually, and once a cap for my tooth fell off and I swallowed it.
  • Nina - the Hooker: Do you enjoy it?
  • Robin Simon: I certainly don't mind it.
  • Nina - the Hooker: Do you enjoy it? Well, what goes through your mind when you're doing it?
  • Robin Simon: The crucifixion. I can't help it. It's my upbringing.
  • Nina - the Hooker: Okay. All right. Well, look, why don't you just show me how you do it. Go ahead.
  • Robin Simon: Now?
  • Nina - the Hooker: Yeah, go ahead. Take the banana and give me your best blow job. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. Go ahead. Down the hatch.
  • [Robin demonstrates]
  • Nina - the Hooker: Oh, my God. Have you ever injured him?
  • Nola: Where did you get that confidence? Or, are you scared?
  • Olga - Psychic: You don't need a fortune teller. You need a shrink.
  • Nola: I've told David many times that I need someone who can take control of me and I don't think he can do it.
  • Nola: Is that your girlfriend or are you going to tell me she's a transvestite?
  • Greg - Off-Off Broadway Director: Don't overplay the lust, you know.
  • Nola: She's such a carnivore, you know.
  • Greg - Off-Off Broadway Director: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you want to have a drink?
  • Nola: I feel like I know where she's coming from now. But, she's such a contradictory character.
  • Greg - Off-Off Broadway Director: Look, this contraction is good, just don't contradict yourself when you play it. Just one thing at a time and trust it.
  • Lee Simon: You're just saying the same thing: can you get lost so I can jump into bed with the director.
  • Nola: You know, anyone listening to you would think I was the whore of Tribeca.
  • Lee Simon: Listen, we have not made love in weeks. What is that?
  • Nola: Why do you want me when I just lie there like a dead fish?
  • Robin Simon: There wouldn't be any ticks around here, would there? I mean, I'd hate to get Lyme disease.
  • Priest at Catholic Retreat: We've had no casualties, so far.
  • Bonnie: Apparently his first two books...
  • Lee Simon: They were obliterated. I got the three "s's": self-indulgent, sophomoric, solipsistic...
  • Director: Nicole, thank you, so much. That was amazing. That was so compelling. Your body language. It's just - it's just emotional. Everything you do. Thank you. Now I know why you make the big bucks. It's because you make me look so great. Thank you.
  • Nicole Oliver: Are you ready for our tête-à-tête?
  • Director: And action! Yes. Faster, faster, faster. You're moving like a zombie. Come on. Yes. Okay, hit the mark. Now, look up. Come on. Come on. And, good. Good, good.
  • Lee Simon: I remember the face, for sure. And - and you're an actress!
  • Nola: I'm an extra. A face in the crowd.
  • Director: What I need from you - what I want - what I want is to feel the whole human condition. You know - you know what I'm saying?
  • Father Gladden's Fan on Porch: Who would you say is more popular? The Pope or Elvis Presley?
  • Jan - Robin's Friend: When my husband left me for his secretary, I was lost. And someone said, "You're Catholic. You were raised a Catholic. How could you even contemplate a hit man?" And they told me about this retreat.
  • Robin Simon: But, I'm not religious.
  • Jan - Robin's Friend: Nor am I. You think I lead a religious life? I have two divorces and two abortions. But, just to take a break from the chaos of the city to reflect.
  • Nicole Oliver: I had this whole wall here plastered with movie star photos. Yeah, and I would dream about being in a movie with Warren Beatty.
  • Lee Simon: What a nice dream.
  • Nicole Oliver: Yeah. And I remember I used to lay on my bed, naked, and watch my body develop.
  • Lee Simon: Naked.
  • Nicole Oliver: And I would *pray* that my breasts and my legs would be beautiful so that I could be an actress.
  • Lee Simon: You know, you got a very erotic figure reclining like that. I have to say that.
  • Nicole Oliver: Well, fortunately I did mature quickly.
  • Bill Gaines: I'm Nicole's press agent.
  • Lee Simon: Okay.
  • Bill Gaines: Look, if you could, let's, you know, not draw on the bulimia.
  • Bruce Bishop: It's all about image.
  • Bruce Bishop: So, Oscar gets this commission to do this clock tower in a shopping mall and what does he propose? An eight story penis. I'm not kidding.
  • Robin Simon: All I'm good at is Chaucer.
  • Dr. Lupus: What about your breasts and buttocks?

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