Hollywoodland (2006)
Bob Hoskins: Eddie Mannix
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Quotes
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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 sonofabitch!
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 wipe the blood off your hands?
Eddie Mannix : My hands? I'm in the picture business.
Louis Simo : No, you're a murderer.
Eddie Mannix : Prove it. You hear me? Go on, I'm ready. Prove one fuckin' thing.
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Eddie Mannix : I'm in the picture business.
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Eddie Mannix : People are waitin'. You comin' down?
Toni Mannix : Help with the dress.
Eddie Mannix : OK. I'm gonna let some light in. I wanna tell you somethin'. You know I'll always take care of you. Whatever's happened. Whatever might've been done, it doesn't matter. Nobody's gonna hurt you. Nobody gets to ask. I won't allow it. You're safe with me. With your husband. Let me see what you look like. You're beautiful. You always will be.
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Eddie Mannix : You're a face. Faces change.
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Eddie Mannix : That - spic or wop, prick detective.
Howard Strickling : I sent Jim Engelmann over. He used to work for us. I'm sure you don't want MGM coming into it.
Eddie Mannix : And?
Howard Strickling : Louis Simo. Two years with Rick Harris. He shot his mouth off about Susan Humphries to Confidential for $5,000. Harris fired him.
Eddie Mannix : Susan Humphries?
Howard Strickling : Jennifer Jones type. Under contract at Fox. Heroin addict.
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Eddie Mannix : Tough game.
George Reeves : Well, I'm always ready to play.
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Howard Strickling : The business is changing.
Eddie Mannix : Fags and television. And what are we, huh? The Last of the Mohicans.
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Eddie Mannix : What's the prick want?
Howard Strickling : Money. Press. Whatever he can grab.
Eddie Mannix : What's he got?
Howard Strickling : Some questions.
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Howard Strickling : You have anything to tell me?
Eddie Mannix : About what?
Howard Strickling : Anything I need to have a story ready for.