Gypsy Quotes

"Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: [singing] Let me entertain you, Let me make you smile, Let me do a few tricks, Some old and then some new tricks, I'm very versatile, And if you're real good, I'll make you feel good, I want your spirits to climb, So let me entertain you, And we'll have a real good time; Yes, sir!, We'll have a real good time.

Movie: Gypsy
Clive: Sex just seems so... messy.
Gypsy: Oh, no, no. Sex can be awesome. Not that I would remember, but...
Clive: Maybe you and I should try.
Gypsy: Yeah, well, I think I'm past my wayward-sex fag-hag test-**** phase... but thanks for the offer. It's just been there, done that.
Clive: At least I'd know for sure.
Gypsy: Honey, you're a queer, with a capital Q.
Clive: Ok, you know what? Some of us don't care to be defined by our sexuality.
Gypsy: Ok, sorry. Can I ask you a question?
Clive: What?
Gypsy: Are you gay?
Clive: Yes! But I don't have anything in common with those people. I mean, like I give a rat's ass about Judy Garland or... Stonewall! [Gypsy laughs]
Clive: Being queer is a very small part of me.
Gypsy: Yeah, whatever.

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Gypsy: [to audience] My mother, who got me into this business, always told me, Make them beg for more and then don't give it to them! But I'm not my mother!

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Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: You really would have been something, Mother.
Rose Hovick: Think so?
Louise "Gypsy Rose Lee" Hovick: If you had had someone to push you like I had.
Rose Hovick: If I could've been, I would've been. And that's show business.

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Mickey: He lied to me! Jeff promised that he'd always be with me!

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Rose Hovick: [singing] You'll be swell, you'll be great. Gonna have the whole world on a plate! Starting here, starting now. Honey, everything's coming up roses.

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Ted: If you wanna sail big ships, you gotta go where the water's deep.

Movie: Gypsy