She's Funny That Way (2014)

Illeana Douglas: Judy

Quotes 

• Judy : You like fairy tales?

  Isabella Patterson : I think we all need a little magic from time to time, don't you think? I mean, what would Lana Turner have done if Mervyn Leroy had never gone into Schwab's on Hollywood and Vine and he saw her there, drinking that coke. She was discovered right there, and that coke changed her life.

  Judy : Well, so they tell the tourists, because it wasn't Schwab's It was actually a place called Top Hat on Sunset and McCadden. And it wasn't Mervyn Leroy, it was actually a guy from the Hollywood Reporter. And her name wasn't even Lana Turner then. It was Judy. Actually her real name was Julia. But you knew all that, right?

  Isabella Patterson : You know, it doesn't really have the same magic, though.

• Isabella Patterson : Do you know the movie, "Breakfast at Tiffany's"?

  Judy : Yes.

  Isabella Patterson : Well, they were playing it somewhere downtown and I see this poster of Audrey looking so gorgeous. So I bought a ticket and I went in. And, for weeks I couldn't get this movie out of my head, you know? She had everything under control. Everything figured out, she didn't need anything.

  Judy : She's a call girl.

  Isabella Patterson : Well, maybe she was just somebody who liked to have a drink and a dance and spread happiness, and if a guy was going to give her 50 on the way to the powder room then she deserved it because she touched their lives.

• Isabella Patterson : She'd been through a rough break up the year before with a hot yoga teacher. Well, I mean, the yoga was hot, not the teacher. Actually, well, it probably was, yeah, the teacher was, too, but I mean that's not the point. They meet in class, and he starts to give her these *private* lessons. And then they move in together. It turns out he had been giving every other woman in the class private lessons, too. Can you imagine? I mean, no wonder her latest book is called, "Bitchy Is Beautiful".

  Judy : That one I read.

• Quentin Tarantino : You're quoting Cluny Brown now?

  Judy : What?

  Quentin Tarantino : That "squirrels to nuts" line, it's from Lubitsch's "Cluny Brown".