“- Freddy: Shakespeare?
- Kit Ramsey: Shake a spear! Spearchucker! I'm a spearchucker now!”

Claude Brooks - Freddy
Eddie Murphy - Kit Ramsey

“I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.”
Tim Robbins - Griffin Mill

- Drama Teacher: What are you going to do?
- Sheila: I'm doing "The Towering Inferno".
- Drama Teacher: What?
- Sheila: You know, the movie.

“- Lui: What's the film you're in?
- Elle: A film about peace. What else would we be making in Hiroshima?”
Eiji Okada - Lui
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“To me you were! Whoever you were in those movies, those silly goddamn heroes meant a lot to me! What does it matter if it was an illusion? It worked! So don't tell me this is you life-size. I can't use you life-size. I need Alan Swanns as big as I can get them!”

Mark Linn-Baker - Benjy Stone