The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Zoe Caldwell: The Countess

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• Movie Patron : You can't talk to my wife that way - who do you think you are?

  The Countess : I'm a genuine countess with a lot of dough, and if that's your wife she's a tub of guts.

• Cecilia : Last week I was unloved. Now, two people love me - and it's the same two people.

  The Countess : Go with the real guy, honey, we're limited.

  Rita : Go with Tom! He's got no flaws!

  Delilah : Go with somebody, child, 'cause I's gettin' bored.

• The Countess : You know what they get for rape in a small town? Especially by a man in a pith helmet?

• Cecilia's Sister : Well, wait a minute. Let's - let's just readjust our definitions. Let's redefine ourselves as the real world and *them* as the world of illusion and shadow. You see? We're reality, they're a dream.

  The Countess : You'd better calm down. You've been up on the screen flickering too long.

• 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.