The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Edward Herrmann: Henry
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Quotes
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Tom Baxter : ...Here I am now. I'm on the verge of a madcap - Manhattan - weekend. My God, you must really love this picture.
Cecilia : Me?
Tom Baxter : You've been here all day. And I've seen you here twice before.
Cecilia : You mean me?
Tom Baxter : Yes, you! You! This is the fifth time you're seeing this.
Rita : Henry, come here, quickly.
Tom Baxter : I gotta speak to you.
[walks from the film, through the screen, into the movie theater]
Henry : Listen, old sport, you're on the wrong side.
Rita : Tom, get back here! We're in the middle of a story.
Tom Baxter : You go on. I want to have a look around. You go on without me.
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Henry : You don't understand what it's like to disappear! To be nothing! To be annihilated! *Don't* - turn the projector off.
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Theater Manager : Can't you go on? There's an audience.
Rita : How? Tom was the lynchpin of the story.
Jason : Right. Whoever you are, you see, sir, although this has been basically my story, Tom moves the expedition along. He lays out the facts...
Henry : What do you mean your story? It's not your story. Its the story of a man's quest for self fulfillment.
Jason : It's the story of a complex tortured soul who has...
Rita : It's the story of the affect of money on true romance.
Jason : I don't see money coming into it?
Rita : My upbringing. My wealth! My private schools.
Henry : I'm the one who marries royalty. I'm the one...
Rita : Nobody cares.
Henry : What do you mean they don't care?
Rita : They wouldn't sell a ticket if it was your story.
Theater Manager : Stop arguing!
Rita : And do what?
Usherette : Maybe you should just turn the projector off.
Henry : No! No, don't turn the projector off! No, no! It gets black. We disappear.
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The Countess : Where is everybody? Weren't we meeting at the Copacabana?
Henry : Tom's gone.
The Countess : What?
Henry : He left the film.
Larry : What?
Rita : The bum walked out on us.
The Countess : But, the Copa's where the two of us meet. I try to get him to marry me.
Larry : Forget it. I'm tired of marrying you every night, anyway. We never even get to the bedroom.
The Countess : Where did Tom go?
Rita : Into the real world.
Henry : That two-bit minor character leaves and we're stuck!
Larry : I wonder what it's like out there?
The Countess : They don't look like they're having too much fun to me.
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Kitty Haynes : What the Hell is this? We're supposed to meet and marry. Who's the skirt?
Tom Baxter : My fiancee.
Henry : He met her in New Jersey.
Kitty Haynes : What is this?
Jason : Kitty, she's real.