Toni Collette credited as playing...
Mandy Slade
- Mandy: What's true about music is true about life: that beauty reveals everything because it expresses nothing.
- Mandy: Now, just because someone sees, you know, two naked people asleep in bed together, it doesn't necessarily prove sex was involved. It does, however, make for a very strong case.
- [after Curt Wild has exposed himself to an audience]
- Brian Slade: They despised him.
- Mandy Slade: Yeah. But when you're abused like that, you know you've touched the stars.
- Brian Slade: I know. I just... just wish it'd been me. Wish I'd thought of it.
- Mandy Slade: You will, love.
- Mandy Slade: For the first time in Brian's life, he was simply telling it like it was. Did he realize what he'd actually done? How could he have? I mean, today there'd be fighting in the streets, but in 1972, it was more like dancing.
- Brian Slade: [lying in bed in a coke haze] Woman defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
- Mandy Slade: I lost my girlhood, true, but it was for you.
- Mandy Slade: [voiceover on New Year's Eve '69] And in crowded clubs or hotel bars, this shipwreck of the streets rehearsed his future glory. A cigarette tracing a ladder to the stars.
- Mandy Slade: Once, of course, it was a gorgeous gorgeous time. We were all living our dreams. But you see all that went away. All of it. With Curt. And not even the real Curt. I mean, it was this idea of Curt more than anything. This image, which, of course, nobody could ever possibly live up to. I mean Maxwell Demon, Curt Wild. They were fictions!Once, of course, it was a gorgeous gorgeous time. We were all living our dreams. But you see all that went away. All of it. With Curt. And not even the real Curt. I mean, it was this idea of Curt more than anything. This image, which, of course, nobody could ever possibly live up to. I mean Maxwell Demon, Curt Wild. They were fictions!