Babylon Quotes

Nellie LaRoy Hello, college!

Elinor St. John When in doubt, ].

Nellie LaRoy Oh, I'm no good for you!

Elinor St. John In a hundred years, when you and I are both long gone, any time someone threads a frame of yours through a sprocket, you will be alive again. You see what that means? One day, every person on every film shot this year will be dead. And one day, all those films will be pulled from the vaults, and all their ghosts will dine together, and adventure together, go to the jungle, to war together. A child born in 50 years will stumble across your image flickering on a screen and feel he knows you, like... like a friend, though you breathed your last before he breathed his first. You've been given a gift. Be grateful. Your time today is through, but you'll spend eternity with angels and ghosts.

Nellie LaRoy I ain't a fucking pussy!

Nellie LaRoy It's written in the stars. I am a star.

Nellie LaRoy Suck a dick, Señor Avocado.

Nellie LaRoy ] is hung for sure, but ]. Gary Cooper is a fucking horse! He's also a fucking pussy. All that cock, no balls. A shame. What are the schlongs like on Broadway?

Nellie LaRoy Don't "Nellie baby" me, you six foot fucking vagina!

Elinor St. John There is no why.

Elinor St. John Never have I seen such a maelstrom of bad taste and sheer magic.

Nellie LaRoy Well, that was a waste of time!

Nellie LaRoy Oh, if they could see me now! All the cunts in Lafayette called me the ugliest mutt in the neighborhood. Well, let them see me now!

Nellie LaRoy It'll be like nothing they've ever seen!

Nellie LaRoy Now I do apologize, but I must resign briefly to the powder room. I shan't be long. Ta-ta!

Nellie LaRoy I hate when people put fucking toppings on ice cream. Doesn't need it. It messes up a good thing. You know what I mean? I fucking hate that. God, I've never done nothing except disappoint people my whole life. Teachers told me I was no good. Boys told me I was no good. Every fucking casting director in the city told me I was too short or I was too fat. Usually I was too fat. You know, my mama actually had some fat years too. You wouldn't know it now, looking at her, but she did. They fucked up with me, Manny. They really fucked up with me. Cause I make em squirm. And I like making em squirm. Let em know that I got here on my terms, not theirs. And when I'm done, I'm gonna dance my ass off into the night. And they'll know - everyone will fucking know that they could never control one goddamn fucking thing. Do you like ice cream?

Elinor St. John Ordinary and uncool as she may be, there's something about her that speaks to us in a language as vital and as pressing as life itself. Never have I seen such a mess of a bad taste and sheer magic. Your humble servant bares witness... just killed our grandmothers, and we thank her for it.

Nellie LaRoy Hot damn! Jack Conrad? You are even more fuckable in person.

Elinor St. John So, upstairs is where Don keeps his underage girls, then?

Elinor St. John There is no why. It wasn't your voice. It wasn't a conspiracy. And it certainly wasn't anything I wrote. There's nothing you could have done differently. There's nothing you can do. Your time has run out. There is no why. Stop questioning it.

Nellie LaRoy Manny... this is the end of the road for me.

Nellie LaRoy Honey, you don't become a star. Either you are one or you ain't. I am.

Nellie LaRoy They said if I don't have the money in a week, they'll pour acid on my pussy!

Otto Okay, remember, you're a sad lonely man and no one will ever love you!

Nellie LaRoy Party time, sparkle cocks!

Nellie LaRoy Hey, you two with the camera! Do you know who I am? I'm Nellie LaRoy, bitches.

Nellie LaRoy You know, "Roy," actually, in French, means "king." And I added the "La," so it's "Nellie the King." I made that up.

Elinor St. John Marbled meadows metamorphose into the medieval plains of Iberia. Soldiers swarm the fields like flecks of paint from a madman's brush as your humble servant bears witness to the latest of the moving picture's magic tricks. - - Oh, why do I bother? Look at these idiots! I knew Proust, you know.

Elinor St. John And this boy, who breathed his first decades after you breathed your last, will look at your image and think he's found a friend.

Nellie LaRoy What a nice man. I wonder if he's single.