“The Band Wagon” quotes

(1953)
Movie The Band Wagon
Vincente Minnelli directed this movie in 1953
Title The Band Wagon
Year 1953
Director Vincente Minnelli
Genre Comedy, Musical, Romance
Plot – Hunter has financial problems so he travels to New York to visit his friends Lester and Lily Marton, who offer him to perform in their comedy. Director Jeffrey Cordova changes it completely and the first performance is a failure. Hunter preys Cordova to perform the Martons' original script.
All actors – Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Jack Buchanan, James Mitchell, Robert Gist, , India Adams, Fred Aldrich, Richard Alexander, Ernest Anderson, Barbara Bailey, Patsy Bangs, Lysa Baugher, Brandon Beach, Ralph Beaumont, Don Beddoe, Madge Blake, Herman Boden, Paul Bradley, Joe Brockman, Robert Burton, Sue Casey, Dick Cherney, Lyle Clark, Dorinda Clifton, Joan Collenette, Jack Colton, James Conaty, Henry Corden, Pinkie Corrigan, Oliver Cross, Lillian Culver, Dick D'Arcy, Leroy Daniels, Fred Datig Jr., Dulcie Day, Helen Dickson, Jack Dodds, George Economides, Michael Economides, Roy Engel, Estelle Etterre, Luigi Faccuito, Betty Farrington, Al Ferguson, Gwenn Fields, Bess Flowers, George Ford, Steve Forrest, Bill Foster, Douglas Fowley, Wymer Gard, Ava Gardner, Jack Gargan, Rudy Germane, James Gonzalez, Herschel Graham, Marion Gray, Shelah Hackett, Thurston Hall, Mary Hammond, Dee Hartford, Eden Hartford, Sam Hearn, Julie Hedin, Al Hill, Harlan Hoagland, Stuart Holmes, Jimmie Horan, Curtis Loys Jackson Jr., Ted Jordan, Colin Kenny, Donald Kerr, Mario Lamm, Judy Landon, Carl M. Leviness, Shirley Lopez, William Lundy, John Lupton, Alan Marston, Judy Matson, Matt Mattox, Bert May, Helen McAllister, Ann McCrea, Owen McGiveney, Frank McLure, Mary Menzies, Harold Miller, Nolie Miller, Hans Moebus, Lawrence Montaigne, Ben Moselle, Peggy Murray, Julie Newmar, Loulie Jean Norman, Monty O'Grady, Emory Parnell, Manuel París, Paul Power, Marilyn Radcliff, Frank Radcliffe, Elynne Ray, Charles Regan, Jack Regas, Phil Rhodes, Joette Robinson, Cecile Rogers, Barbara Ruick, Dick Sands, Frank J. Scannell, George Sherwood, Eddie Lou Simms, Mabel Smaney, Earl Spainard, Robert Spencer, Harry Stanton, Bob Stebbins, Lotte Stein, Norman Stevans, Bert Stevens, Roberta Stevenson, Jack Stoney, Brick Sullivan, Hal Taggart, Jack Tesler, Jimmy Thompson, Dee Turnell, Herb Vigran, Glen Walters, Bobby Watson, Crystal White, Smoki Whitfield, Marc Wilder, Stuart Wilson, Gloria Wood, Wilson Wood
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“The Band Wagon” Quotes 8 quotes
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    “Let's get this straight, I am not Nijinsky. I am not Marlon Brando. I am Mrs. Hunter's little boy, Tony, song and dance man.”
    Fred Astaire - Tony Hunter
    [Tag:actors, dancing]
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    “- Gabrielle Gerard: Tony, can you and I really dance together?
    - Tony Hunter: I don't know. Let's find out.”
    Cyd Charisse - Gabrielle Gerard
    Fred Astaire - Tony Hunter
    [Tag:dancing, sharing]
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    “I tell you, if it moves you, if it stimulates you, if it entertains you, it's theater. When the right combination gets together and it spells theater, well I got to be right in there up to my armpits.”
    Jack Buchanan - Jeffrey Cordova
    [Tag:theater]
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    “These four walls will be our universe. Our private world. We enter with nothing but a dream. But, when we leave, we'll have a show!”
    Jack Buchanan - Jeffrey Cordova
    [Tag:theater]
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    “- Lester Marton: Shhh! Someone's liable to think we are quarreling!
    - Lily Marton: We're not quarreling! We're in complete agreement! We hate each other!”
    Oscar Levant - Lester Marton
    Nanette Fabray - Lily Marton
    [Tag:agreement, argument, hatred]
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    “I'm sick of these artificial barriers between the musical and the drama. In my mind, there is no difference between the magic rhythms of Bill Shakespeare's immortal verse and the magic rhythms of Bill Robinson's immortal feet.”
    Jack Buchanan - Jeffrey Cordova
    [Tag:music, theater]
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    “The city was asleep. The joints were closed. The rats and hoods and killers were in their holes.”
    Fred Astaire - Tony Hunter
    [Tag:night]
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    “I should have listened to my mother. She told me only to be in hit shows.”
    Barbara Bailey - Dancer
    [Tag:advice, fame]
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