Almost Famous (2000)

Jimmy Fallon: Dennis Hope

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• Dennis Hope : If you think Mick Jagger will still be out there trying to be a rock star at age fifty, then you are sadly, sadly mistaken.

• Dennis Hope : I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella.

• Russell Hammond : If something should happen. maybe I never said this enough, I love all of you.

  Dennis Hope : I once hit a man in Dearborn, Michigan. A hit and run. I hit him and just kept on going. I don't know if he's alive or dead; but, I'm sorry. Not a day goes by I don't see his face.

  Leslie : Oh my God!

  Dick Roswell : Look, I love you all too. You're like a family to me. Especially since Marna left me. And listen, fellas, I just want you to know, if I took an extra dollar or two here and there, it's because I knew I'd earned it.

  Russell Hammond : Yeah. I slept with Marna, Dick.

  Jeff Bebe : I did too.

  Larry Fellows : I waited until you broke up with her, Dick. But me too.

  Jeff Bebe : [to Russell]  I also slept with Leslie, when you were fighting.

  Russell Hammond : [to Leslie]  You slept with Jeff?

  Leslie : Yeah, but it didn't count. It was the summer we decided to be free of all rules!

  Russell Hammond : [to Jeff]  And you say you love me!

  Jeff Bebe : I don't love you, man. I never did. None of us love you. You act above us. You always have.

  Larry Fellows : Finally, the truth.

  Jeff Bebe : You just held it over us, like you might leave. Like we're lucky to be with you. And we had to live with it, man. I had to live with you, and now I might die with you, and it's not fucking fair!

  Russell Hammond : Please, enough!

  Jeff Bebe : And I'm still in love with you, Leslie.

  Leslie : Oh, I don't wanna hear any more. Shut up, Jeffrey!

  Dick Roswell : Jeffrey, It's all happening.

  Russell Hammond : What the fuck! Whatever happens, Bebe, you're dead.

  Jeff Bebe : Don't be self-righteous, Russell. Not now, man. You were sleeping with Penny, that fucking groupie, last summer up until yesterday. Why don't you tell Leslie that?

  Russell Hammond : Shut up!

  Dennis Hope : I quit!

  Russell Hammond : I'm gonna kill you!

  Dennis Hope : I quit!

  William Miller : "That groupie"? She was a Band-Aid! All she did was love your band. And you used her, all of you! You used her and threw her away! She almost died last night while you were with Bob Dylan. You guys, you're always talking about the fans, the fans, the fans; she was your biggest fan, and you threw her away! And if you can't see that, that's your biggest problem. And I love her! I love her!

• Dennis Hope : [on the airplane which is caught in an electrical storm]  I once hit a man in Dearborn, Michigan. A hit and run. I hit him and just kept on going. I don't know if he's alive or dead... but I'm sorry. Not a day goes by I don't see his face.

• Dennis Hope : Do you know how to do a headlining tour? Do you know how to get a record not pressed, but played? You gotta take what you can, when you can, while you can - and you gotta do it now. That's what the big boys do.

• Dennis Hope : Hey, man, I'd travel on a pogo stick if I thought we could make more money.

• Dennis Hope : We all have our roots. I believe in bands holding on to their roots. Those roots need to be augmented. Your manager here needs a manager.

• Dennis Hope : Welcome to New York! It's okay to be nervous. You should be nervous. All you can do is be yourself and leave a pint of blood on that stage.