"Quotes"

Betty 2022-03-20 09:01:08

"A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier."


"I'm trying to do something important.

This is not important.

It's important to me! Ok? Maybe not to you, or your cynical friends whose only ambition is to go viral. But to me... this is... my God. This is my career, this is my chance to finally do some work that actually means something.

Means something to who? You had a career dad, before the third comic book movie, before people started to forget who was inside the bird costume. You're doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich old white people whose only real concern is gonna be where they go to have their cake and coffee when it's over. Nobody gives a shit but you! And let's face it, Dad, you are not doing this for the sake of art. You 're doing this because you wanna feel relevant again. Well, guess what? There's an entire world out there where people fight to be relevant every single day! And you act like it doesn't exist. Things that are happening in a place that you ignore, a place that, by the way, has already forgotten about you! I mean, who the fuck are you?! You hate bloggers, you mock Twitter. You don't even have a Facebook page! You're the one who doesn't exist. You're doing this because you're scared to death, like the rest of us, that you don't matter. And you know what? You 're right! You don't! It's not important, okay? You're not important, get used to it!
Dad."


"Truth or dare?

Truth.

That's boring.

Truth is always more interesting."


"How do you go out there every single night and pretend to be somebody else in front of all those people?

I don' t pretend out there. I told you. I pretend just about every place else, but not out there."


"I don't exist. I'm not even here. I'm not even here. Bang! Bang!"


" Popularity is the slutty little cousin of prestige.」

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  • Clara: Now, is it true that you've been injecting yourself with semen from baby pigs?

    Riggan: I'm sorry, what?

    Clara: As a method of facial rejuvenation.

    Riggan: Where did you read that?

    Clara: It was tweeted by @prostatewhispers.

    Riggan: No, that's not true.

    Clara: I know, but did you do it?

    Riggan: No, I didn't do it.

    Clara: Okay, then I'll just write that you're denying it.

    Riggan: No, don't write anything! Why would you write anything? I didn't... don't write what she said.