Memorable quotes for
The Last Tycoon (1976)

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Kathleen: How old are you?
Monroe: I've lost track, about thirty-five I think.

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Monroe: I don't think I have more brains than a writer, I just think that his brains belong to me

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Monroe Stahr: Your name's well-known here.
Brimmer: And yours is well-known in New York, Mr. Stahr.
Cecilia Brady: [serving Monroe and Brimmer] You have done well by water and you by land.
Monroe Stahr: What?
Cecilia Brady: Anthony and Cleopatra, didn't you recognize it?
Monroe Stahr: Shakespeare? No, l didn't get any Shakespeare at school. How about you, Mr. Brimmer?
Brimmer: Oh, a bit.
Monroe Stahr: Where do you come from?
Brimmer: Tennessee. Baptist.
Monroe Stahr: l'm New York. Jewish.
Brimmer: l know.
Monroe Stahr: Oh, at least we're all Americans.
Brimmer: We sure are, Mr. Stahr.
[Monroe smiles and nods; Brimmer takes a sip from his coffee; Cecilia smiles and looks on the both men]
Brimmer: Well?
Monroe Stahr: Well, l'm glad you came out here. l wanted to talk to you. You've got my writers all upset.
Brimmer: Keeps them from going to sleep, doesn't it?
Monroe Stahr: l want them awake, but l don't want them crazy.
[Brimmer stretches himself comfortably on his chair]
Brimmer: Well, we're simply fucking concerned that they have the proper protection, that's all.
Monroe Stahr: [eyeing Brimmer irritably] Who from, me?
Brimmer: You're a very good employer, Mr. Stahr, but, uh... we still think that the position can be... rationalized.
[smiles]
Monroe Stahr: l'll tell you three things: All writers are children. Fifty percent are drunks. And up till very recently, writers in Hollywood were gag-men; most of them are still gag-men, but we call them writers.
Brimmer: [nods and smiles] Uh-huh. But they're still the farmers in this business. They grow the grain, but they're not in at the feast.
Monroe Stahr: This looks to me like a try for power, Mr. Brimmer, and I will not give them power. I'll give them money, I won't give them power. Anyway, they're not equipped for authority.
[Cecilia continues to look on the two; Brimmer laughes]
Cecilia Brady: More coffee, Mr. Brimmer?
Brimmer: No, thank you.

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Brimmer: I always wanted to hit ten million dollars.

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Cecilia Brady: [about returning to school] Oh, I don't know. I'm pretty well educated.
[flirtatiously]
Cecilia Brady: Maybe I should get married.
Monroe Stahr: [lightly] Well, I'd marry you, I'm lonely, but I'm too old and tired to undertake anything.
Cecilia Brady: [seriously] Undertake me.

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