Mickey One (1965)

Warren Beatty: Mickey

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• Helen : Who are you?

  Mickey One : I'm the king of the silent pictures. I'm hiding out till the talkies blow over. Will you leave me alone?

• Jenny Drayton : What are you guilty of?

  Mickey One : I'm guilty of not being innocent.

• Mickey One : Murder anybody? What are you, laughing or aiming? Who says I don't have to do this for a living? I mean I heard of tough audiences, but I think this is illegal. I don't even know if I'm in season. Or couldn't you just give me a gun and show me the way to the men's room? Boy, if I'm unlucky, I've got the greatest finish in show business. I only wish I could be there. There's got to be somebody there; there's a light on. Well, this gives you an appetite... to live. Only 149 more overcoats, I'd have been a star. My name up in pyjamas. Could have been a king of show business. God save the king. The Queen. Ah, the most beautiful..."

• Mickey One : I told you no; I told you my life in your hands, no! What right you got to turn me for some Virgin idea you're a God with my life? You're a slut with a snake in your mouth. DIE!