Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Jennifer Tilly: Olive Neal

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Quotes 

• Olive : [reading her lines]  Why do you have to be so masso... masso...

  David Shayne : Masochistic.

  Olive : Masochistic? What the does that mean?

  David Shayne : It means someone who enjoys pain.

  Olive : Enjoys pain? What is she, *retarded*?

• Olive : [as Nick makes an advance on her]  Stop it. Stop it. I'm not in the mood!

  Nick : What do you mean you're not in the mood?

  Venus : You better get in the mood, honey, 'cause he's payin' the rent.

• Olive : Hey, didn't I tell you to make "horse durves"?

  Venus : I don't make nothin' out of horses, especially "horse durves", 'cause I don't know what they are, and neither do you.

  Olive : Oh, aren't you the big mouth since you hit your number!

  [raising her voice] 

  Olive : And I said the imported stuff!

  Venus : The imported stuff ate through the bottle! It's gone!

  Olive : A likely story!

  [composing herself - to David] 

  Olive : It's very hard to get good help these days.

• Olive : [struggling wih her lines at rehearsal]  Don't tell me you still think the world revolves around...

  Stage Manager : You.

  Olive : ...you.

• [Cheech is helping Olive rehearse a scene] 

  Olive : Can't you see? You're living out the exact same pattern your mother lived out with your father.

  Cheech : I am? Pray tell.

  Olive : In some way you're trying to relive it and in the process of reliving it, correct it. As if that were possible. HA.

  Cheech : It don't say "ha."

  Olive : I know it don't say "ha," I added that.

  Cheech : Are you allowed to do that? I don't think you're allowed to do that.

  Olive : We're allowed to add things. It's called ad-libbing.

  Cheech : Well, I think the whole thing stinks.

  Olive : Well, I think you're a degenerate zombie so shut up and read.

  Cheech : You shut up.

  Olive : You shut up and read.

  Cheech : You're lucky you're Nick's girl.

  Olive : You're lucky you're an idiot.

• Nick : Open your gift.

  Olive : You open it, can't you see I'm dressing?

  Nick : Here.

  Olive : What is it?

  Nick : Pearls. What the hell do you think they are?

  Olive : Pearls are white.

  Nick : These are black pearls.

  Olive : Oh, don't give me that. I never heard of black pearls.

  Nick : Just becaus you never heard of them don't mean it don't exist.

  Olive : What do think I am, some kind of chump? They're black for God's sake. They probably came from defective oysters.

• Olive : [to Venus]  Ain't you the big mouth since you hit your number.

• Venus : Do you want the blue stuff or the green?

  Olive : The imported, dummy.

  Venus : Oh, you mean from the *clean* bathtub.

• Cheech : You're lucky you're Nick's girl!

  Olive : You're lucky you're an idiot!

• Olive : [to Warner]  I notice you have a really big appetite.