Hail, Caesar! Quotes

Eddie Mannix: What's up?
Natalie - Secretary: We can't find Baird Whitlock. He left the set over an hour ago. Said he was going to his dressing room, but, he isn't there.
Eddie Mannix: Out on a bender? Middle of the day? Am I crazy?

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Stagehand: You have gas again, ma'am?
DeeAnna Moran: Ma'am? Miss! Do I look married?
Stagehand: No, Miss.
DeeAnna Moran: No! Do I have gas again...

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Eddie Mannix: Any more thought about who you might marry?
DeeAnna Moran: I ain't doin' that again! I had two marriages. It just cost the Studio a lot of money to bust them up.
Eddie Mannix: Well, we had to have those annulled. One was to a minor mob figure...
DeeAnna Moran: Vince was not minor!
Eddie Mannix: And Buddy Flynn was a bandleader with a long history of narcotics use.
DeeAnna Moran: Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm sayin'! They were both louses! Marryin' a third louse ain't gonna do me no good.
Eddie Mannix: I've offered you some very suitable young men.
DeeAnna Moran: Pretty boys, saps and swishes! What you think if there wasn't a good reliable man, I wouldn't have grabbed him?
Eddie Mannix: What about Arne Seslum? He is the father isn't he?
DeeAnna Moran: Yeah. Yeah.
Eddie Mannix: A marriage doesn't have to last forever; but, DeeAnna having a child without a father would present a public relations problem for the Studio.

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Hobie Doyle: [Repeated lines]Okay, you're the boss man, Mr. Lawrence.
Laurence Laurentz: Laurentz.
Hobie Doyle: Oh, gosh, I am so sorry, Mr. Laurentz.

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Producer of 'Hail, Caesar!': This can't be faked! It's the heart and soul of the picture.
Eddie Mannix: I understand.
Producer of 'Hail, Caesar!': End of the film! We can't just give this speech to some - some - Roman schmoe!

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Eddie Mannix: What does it cost to shut down?
Producer of 'Hail, Caesar!': Plenty! You know how big this picture is? We're on stages 5 and 14. If we're carrying everybody, in the final scene, who's up on crucifixes, that's 3.40 an hour, hardship pay, 8 hour minimum!

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Eddie Mannix: What's on your mind, Laurence?
Laurence Laurentz: Hobie Doyle cannot act!
Eddie Mannix: Hobart Doyle is one of the biggest movie stars in the world.
Laurence Laurentz: On horseback! But, this is a drama, Mannix, a real drama. It's an adaptation of a Broadway smash! it requires the skills of a trained thespian, not a rodeo clown.

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John Howard Hermann, Head Communist Writer: Dutch Zweistrong wrote All The Way To Uruguay.
Dutch Zweistrong, Communist Writer: I wrote *all* the All The Way pictures.
John Howard Hermann, Head Communist Writer: All successful. Did you see any of the profits, Dutch?
Dutch Zweistrong, Communist Writer: Ha!
John Howard Hermann, Head Communist Writer: All of us here are writers. The pictures originated with us. They are our own ideas. But, they're owned by the Studio.

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John Howard Hermann, Head Communist Writer: We aren't even talking about money! We're talking about economics.

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Natalie - Secretary: Check! Thessaly Thacker called, said you promised her an interview with Baird today. Check that, it was Thora Thacker.
Eddie Mannix: No, it was Thessaly. Tell her he was at the doctor longer than expected and she can see him on the set bright and early tomorrow.
Natalie - Secretary: Check! And is that last part true?
Eddie Mannix: Let's hope so.

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Stu Schwartz - Accounting: Joe will be the foster parent until such time as you adopt the child. Which you can do as soon as Joe takes possession of it.
DeeAnna Moran: And he's reliable?
Joe Silverman: I'm bonded, Miss.

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Baird Whitlock: I'm thinkin', What the hell? I've woken up in some strange houses before, but never without a broad next to me.

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Eddie Mannix: Baird, go out there and be a star.

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[repeated line] Natalie - Secretary: Check!

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Eddie Mannix: See Father, there are these two jobs. One is easy, almost too easy, but it's boring. The other job is hard, so damn hard, but it makes people so happy.
Father Confessor: God wants us to be happy...
Eddie Mannix: Yeah. Right, I get it.

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