A Stranger In The Mirror Quotes
"You don’t have to eat the entire jar of caviar to know it’s good, right? I knew what you had in sixty seconds."
"The key to an entertainer’s success is personality. You can’t buy it and you can’t fake it. You have to be born with it."
"Comedy is the most serious business in the world. It’s goddamned hard work being funny, whether you’re a comic or a comedian."
"A comic opens funny doors. A comedian opens doors funny."
"I’m sending you there to die with all the other useless old people."
"He’s a lovable face. If I weren’t already engaged to Clark Gable, I’d be crazy about you."
"You made them a good audience, Toby. I told you—you got talent."
"Josephine had met David’s mother. She was a tiny woman... It gave her a powerful hold on her family, which she wielded unsparingly."
"I want to live my own life," David told Josephine, "but I can’t do anything to hurt Mother."
"He’s in an insane asylum." He turned to face her, his voice dead. "She was raped by one of our Mexican gardeners."
"I’m going to be twenty-four next month," David told Josephine one day. "It’s an old family tradition that the Kenyon men marry by the time they’re twenty-four."
"Your character is Natalie. She’s a rich girl who’s married to a weakling. She decides to divorce him, and he won’t let her."
"I think I’ve got the soap-opera script here." Rose Dunning lumbered to her feet, pushing herself out of her chair, and walked into the next room, beckoning Jill to follow her.
"I want you to meet Ralph. We’re getting married next month."
"First thing you gotta do is get yourself an agent."
"Toby Temple became a superstar because of the unlikely juxtaposition of a paternity suit, a ruptured appendix, and the President of the United States."
"I’m sorry I’m late," he apologized. "My kid was run over by a car this morning."
"That was brilliant, absolutely brilliant. We’re giving a little supper at the White House Monday night, Toby, and I’d be delighted…"
"You were sensational, sweetheart. That screaming really turns me on."
"I’m going to meet Josephine. If she’ll have me, I’m going to marry her. I think it’s time this farce ended, don’t you?"
"He’s sick like a fox. The peasants rehearse while old Toby has himself a ball."
"No broad is too tired to have dinner with me."
"I checked," Eddie said hastily. "She’s got a clean bill of health."
"Listen—my daughter’s only half-Jewish. Would you let her go into the pool up to her waist?"
"We’ve got to learn to be tougher," Toby exclaimed.
"You're Toby Temple. Everybody loves you, everybody wants you back."
"I don’t want to die. I’m afraid of what’s out there."
"This town had done terrible things to her. But it would never do them again."
"I'm doing it for you, darling," Jill replied.
"Granovsko Street, crowded with chauffeur-driven Chaikas and Volgas."
"Why don’t you go alone, baby? I think I’ll sack out for a while."
"Great. I’m just a little tired. You go buy out Moscow."
"Josephine," and even as she turned, she knew who it was, and in a split second the magic happened again.
"I’m so glad to see you," he said, and she felt as though her heart would stop.
"He’s the only man who has ever been able to do this to me."
"Your husband has suffered a stroke—technically called a cerebral venous thrombosis."
"He will never walk or speak again. His mind is clear but he is completely paralyzed."
"I’ll be standing by. Anytime you need me, I’ll be there."
"Toby’s skin had turned yellow, and his hair was falling out in large tufts."
"His paralyzed limbs were shriveled and stringy."
"I can’t help you. You don’t want to live like this. You want to die."
"The wheelchair seemed to float on top of the water for a long time, then slowly began to sink."
"I had a brainstorm. Let’s not wait any longer."
"I grew up believing that life was really like that, that the boys in the white hats always won."