Hollywoodland Quotes

Chuck: You're not invited, Simo.
Louis Simo: Were you?
Chuck: We're working.
Louis Simo: Why don't you lay off? Mister Harris!
Rick Harris: Hello, Louis.
Louis Simo: You come up from Palos Verdes just to see me?
Rick Harris: I came here to celebrate my friends' anniversary. You've met Mister Mannix.
Louis Simo: No. But we've got people in common. Ain't that right, Eddie?
Eddie Mannix: I've got nothin' in common with you.
Louis Simo: Bernice, the first missus. You like that car crash gimmick, huh?
Eddie Mannix: Rick...
Louis Simo: Riva Watson. She get all clingy? How'd it feel, pounding her face in? Happy times, huh, Ed?
Eddie Mannix: Richard, please.
Louis Simo: George Reeves...
Rick Harris: That's enough, Louis.
Louis Simo: Am I being indiscreet? Bad for business, huh?
Rick Harris: Louis, your problems are your own.
Louis Simo: Ricky, you cover for this prick?
Rick Harris: Whatever you're pursuing here, whatever fantasy... you've constructed will not alter your past.
Louis Simo: You had a bullet put in Reeves' head! He used the studio and the cops - [Chuck punches him in the stomach]
Louis Simo: You're gonna burn in hell, you sonofa*****!
Eddie Mannix: Come here. You don't know me. You don't know what I think. What I do. I don't let you.
Louis Simo: You're an old man, Eddie. Who's gonna wi

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Louis Simo: Lady, I can nail you with this.
Leonore Lemmon: D'Artagnan, you couldn't nail me with roses and a trip to Vegas.

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George Reeves: [after falling from a snapped wire holding him up] I'd like to thank the Academy and all the good people of Galesburg, Illinois, for making me who I am today. [turns and walks away]

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George Reeves: [about Leonore Lemmon] She makes me feel young.
Toni Mannix: [obviously offended] Have you seen yourself, George? Your face is going.
George Reeves: Don't do this...
Toni Mannix: Here, your eyes, your hair, your stomach.
George Reeves: Stop it.
Toni Mannix: You think no one notices?
George Reeves: Toni, don't do this.
Toni Mannix: But you've got your projects, haven't you? You're going to be a director. You'll sit in your little canvas chair polishing your balls. Thank God I got rid of that hag I had to screw. What was her name? The one who paid for everything! The one who bought me a ****ing house!.
George Reeves: For God's sake...
Toni Mannix: You want publicity? You'll get it. I'll say you're a Red. And a faggot. A lush. Nobody can call that a lie!
George Reeves: You know what? You've never helped me. You never helped me! You could've talked to Eddie. You could've gotten me something, but you didn't! Because you liked me where I was, in a ****ing red suit! You liked that! Well, that's not who I am, understand? God damn you!
Toni Mannix: ...But, George, that's all you were good for. Ten-year-olds and shut-ins. That was the best you were ever going to be. I knew that, why didn't you?

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Louis Simo: [about the bullet holes in George Reeves' floor] Since when do suicides miss twice and start over?

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Toni Mannix: Nobody ever asks to be happy later.

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