Youth

"Human beings really know how to be pathetic when they try to, huh?"

Screenwriter: "Goes where the wind blows."
Mick Boyle: "Which is what we all do."

"You know, I've come to understand something, Fred. That people are either beautiful or ugly, and the ones in between are merely cute."

"C'mon, life goes on even without that cinema bullshit."

"I want to tell about your desire, my desire. So pure, so impossible, so immoral. But it doesn't matter because that's what makes us alive."

"I don't know what the problem is. But I'm not going to try and cheer you up by lying. Or talk about things I never knew about."

Lena Ballinger: "And what does she do?"
Fred Ballinger: "The most obscene job in the world."
Lena Ballinger: "She is a prostitute?"
Fred Ballinger: "Worse. She is a pop star."

"Levity is an irresistible temptation."