“The misery! The exquisite tragedy! The Susan Hayward of it all!”
Rupert Everett - George Downes

“- Sonny: How can John Wayne die?
- Lefty: Fuckin' Indians got him.”
Michael Madsen - Sonny
Al Pacino - Lefty

“- Stu: So you're an actor?
- The Caller: Yes, one of your pathetic failed ones. You don't have to come find me and ruin me, I can't get work as it is. I've done some off-Broadway, some off-Manhattan, but that dried up. Now I wait tables, clean toilets, anything I can to make the rent. I'm a walking cliché.”
Colin Farrell - Stu Shepard
Kiefer Sutherland - The Caller

There's no excuses, Paul. No one has ever, ever paid admission to see an excuse. No one has ever faced a black screen that says: "Well, if we had these set of circumstances, we would've shot this scene... so please forgive us and use your imagination." I've been to the movies hundreds of times. That's never occurred.
Mark Borchardt - Filmmaker

“- Alexander Dane: I played Richard III.
- Fred Kwan: Five curtain calls...
- Alexander Dane: There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time.”
Alan Rickman - Alexander Dane
Tony Shalhoub - Fred Kwan