Martin Balsam: Harry Granoff

After the Fox

Harry Granoff

Aldo Vanucci: [as Fabrizi, explaining the concept of his movie] Tony plays 'The Fox'...
Tony Powell: [interrupting] An animal picture!
Aldo Vanucci: No, "The Fox", a master criminal with an ingenious plan to smuggle gold into Italy, and - a surprise ending!
Harry Granoff: What's the ingenious plan?
Aldo Vanucci: *That* is the surprise ending.
Tony Powell: I love it! When do we start shooting?

Aldo Vanucci: [introducing himself after making a grand entrance into the room] Federico Fabrizi!
Harry Granoff: I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian.

Harry Granoff: [to Aldo, who he thinks is movie director Federico Fabrizi, for his client, actor Tony Powell] What about a contact?
Aldo Vanucci: [excitedly] Contract?
Aldo Vanucci: [after grabbing Powell and kissing him on the cheek] There is my contract.
Harry Granoff: Do I get a copy for my lawyer?

Tony Powell: I wonder what's the matter with my stomach. What do they put in lasagna?
Harry Granoff: Lasagna? At your age it's hard to digest corn flakes.

Tony Powell: Look at those teeth, Harry. Just look at 'em. How many people in the world over 40 can still say they have their own teeth, huh?
Harry Granoff: And how many people over 50 can still say they're only 40?

Tony Powell: Why don't you send out for a wheelchair and have me rolled into the old actors' home? I don't care what it says in Who's Who. I still feel 35 years old. And you can tell Sam Duffleman for me, if he wants me to play a 64-year-old sheriff in his next picture, he'll have to wait another 20 years.
Harry Granoff: Who's gonna belleve you're 64?
Tony Powell: 63-year-old ladies. I remember that trench coat there is your bread and butter. Without it you have 10 per cent of nothing.
Harry Granoff: All right, you don't have to be 64. You could be 60.
Tony Powell: I don't wanna be 60! I wanna be 40.
Harry Granoff: How can you be 40 when your son is 35?
Tony Powell: They can make the son 25.
Harry Granoff: How can you make the son 25 when his wife is 30?

Harry Granoff: Tony, sweetheart, I wish we could turn the clock back for you. We all wanna stay young! But you can't lie to the close-up lens, baby. You know that. You try leading the charge of the Light Brigade wearing a corset, they'll laugh you right off the screen.
Tony Powell: l'd rather get laughs than sympathy.

Harry Granoff: Did you ever hear of an Italian film director called Federico Fabrizi?
Tony Powell: No.
Harry Granoff: He's downstairs. He wants to talk about a picture.
Tony Powell: What?
Harry Granoff: A neorealistic film.
Tony Powell: Send him up. What's neorealism?
Harry Granoff: No money!