The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Edward Herrmann: Henry

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Quotes 

• 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.

• Henry : You don't understand what it's like to disappear! To be nothing! To be annihilated! *Don't* - turn the projector off.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.