Peter Bogdanovich credited as playing...
Sammy Michaels
- Kip Larkin, Dejay: OK, groovy, groovy. Now, um, somebody announces me on the PA, uh, laddies and janes, papas and mamas, here's your boss dis daddy, the winner spinner with the sounds around, Kip the Hip Larkin, le-e-t's hearken Larkin...
- Sammy Michaels: All right then, after you finish plugging your show you introduce Mr. Orlok and we can get on with it.
- Kip Larkin, Dejay: No plugs, not Kip the Hip, I am just gonna tell 'em what a big thrill this is for me, and that's no put-on. When I was a kid, Mr. O., I musta dug your flicks four zillion times. You blew my mind.
- Byron Orlok: Obviously.
- Kip Larkin, Dejay: Beautiful. Is that beautiful?
- Byron Orlok: Order some breakfast, would you, Jenny?
- Sammy Michaels: [hungover after a night of drinking with Orlok] Oh, I couldn't eat on an empty stomach.
- Byron Orlok: Sammy, you're a sweet boy, but you can't possibly understand what it feels like to be *me*. I'm an antique, out of date.
- Sammy Michaels: Alright, what are you going to do? Plant roses? Actors don't retire! In about six months and you'll blow your brains out, Byron.
- Byron Orlok: I'm an anachronism.
- Sammy Michaels: What does that mean?
- Byron Orlok: Sammy, look around. The world belongs to the young. Make way for them. Let them have it.
- Jenny: You were late.
- Sammy Michaels: Somebody kept me up till four in the morning.
- Jenny: Anyone I know?
- Sammy Michaels: How did you like it?
- Jenny: I liked it.
- Sammy Michaels: You did? Well, I didn't, but thanks.
- Byron Orlok: Don't be his errand boy. It nauseates me.
- Sammy Michaels: I didn't come out here because of that.
- Byron Orlok: I know you came to save your own little opus.
- Byron Orlok: What's it all about?
- Sammy Michaels: What?
- Byron Orlok: Everybody's dead. I feel like a dinosaur. Oh, I know how people think of me these days. Old-fashioned, outmoded.
- Sammy Michaels: You oughta do my movie. You don't play some - phony Victorian heavy. You play a human being, and you could play the hell out of it. If I were your age, I'd play it myself. I'm gonna go offer it to Vincent Price.