Extras

Extras

Andy Millman is a British fellow who quits his day job to pursue fame and fortune in the film industry. Unfortunately, because of the "good luck" of real actors, Andy can't seem to land the big parts he'd like -- so he resigns himself to working as an extra. Through his travels, however, Andy gets to meet some of the biggest names in the business.

Genre: Comedy
Year:
2005
9,425 Views

David Bowie:
[sings] The little fat man who sold his soul...

Andy Millman:
The little?

David Bowie:
[sings] Little fat man who sold his dream... Chubby little loser...

David Bowie:
[turns round and plays piano] Chubby little loser... National joke...

David Bowie:
[stops singing] No, not chubby little loser...

David Bowie:
[sings] Pathetic little fat man... No one's bloody laughing...

David Bowie:
[sings] The clown that no one laughs at... They all just wish he'd die...

David Bowie:
[sings] He's so depressed at being useless... The fat man takes his own life...

David Bowie:
[stops singing] No, no

David Bowie:
[sings] He's so depressed at being hated... Fatty takes his own life...

David Bowie:
[stops singing] Fatty? Fatso?

Maggie Jacobs:
Fatso, I like fatso

David Bowie:
Yeah, let's go with fatso

David Bowie:
[sings] Fatso take his own life... He blows his bloated face off

David Bowie:
[stops singing] No

David Bowie:
[sings] He blows his stupid brains out

Linda:
But the twat'd probabably miss!

David Bowie:
[stops singing] Yes, Linda, I like that!

Andy Millman:
Yes, so do I. It's brilliant Linda.

David Bowie:
[sings] He sold his soul for a shot at fame... Catchprase and wig and the jokes are lame...

David Bowie:
[sings] He's got no style, he's got no grace... He's banal and facile... He's a fat waste of space...

David Bowie:
[stops singing] Yeah, yeah. Everybody sing that last line. One, two, three...

David Bowie:
[sings] He's banal and facile... He's a fat waste of space... See his pug-nosed face... pug, pug, pug, pug

David Bowie:
[stops singing] Again!

David Bowie:
[sings] See his pug-nose face... pug, pug, pug, pug. The little fat man with the pug-nosed face... Yeah! pug, pug, pug, pug. Little fat man... pug-nosed face... pug, pug, pug, pug...

[Andy and Maggie, in costume as a German refugee and a Nazi soldier, are discussing her new boyfriend between takes]

Maggie Jacobs:
[quietly, embarrassed] He likes to talk dirty on the phone. He'll call me up and he's coming out with all this filth.

Andy Millman:
Why... would you tell me that? [grinning] What does he say?

Maggie Jacobs:
He calls up and says things like "Ooh... what are you doing?"

Andy Millman:
What do you say?

Maggie Jacobs:
Well I didn't know what was going on at first - I didn't realize - and I was just honest with him and I said "Oh, I'm just cleaning out the vegetable drawer to the fridge."

Andy Millman:
[bursts out laughing] What if he thought that was a euphemism? "Ooh, I'm cleaning out my vegetable drawer. Ooh, I'm scrubbing my front step." Have you talked dirty back to him?

Maggie Jacobs:
No, I have not. I don't know what to say to him, it's too embarrassing. What if I say something and he just laughs at me, or something and it's too much and he gets all offended?

Andy Millman:
Well no, it's just stuff like "Ooh, I'm playing with myself." [they laugh]

Kate Winslet:
[getting coffee behind them in her nun's habit] Sounds interesting.

Andy Millman:
Hey. Not me, her.

Kate Winslet:
Go on.

Andy Millman:
[pause, then in a rush] Her boyfriend likes to talk dirty on the phone and she doesn't know what to say to him.

Kate Winslet:
Oh yeah, that can be a bit awkward. Why don't you just start with something light, you know, like um - "I'd love it if you stuck your Willy Wonka between my Oompa-Loompas," you know, something a bit fun, a bit jokey. And then you can get more hardcore, run with the old classics, like "I'm playing with my dirty pillows," "I'm aching for your big purple-headed womb ferret." And then go straight in hard, like "Get 'round here 'cause I'm fudding myself stupid and I'm bloody loving it." Right?

Maggie Jacobs:
[incredibly uncomfortable] Yeah.

Kate Winslet:
Okay? Back on. [stands up, walks away]

Andy Millman:
[to her as she walks away] Love to Sam Mendes. [stunned, to Maggie] Kate Winslet, talking dirty to Anne Frank and Joseph Goebbels, just another normal day.

[Andy has come to see Patrick Stewart in his trailer]

Patrick Stewart:
I'm writing a screenplay and I find the whole process absolutely exhilarating.

Andy Millman:
What's yours about, if you don't mind my asking?

Patrick Stewart:
Well, uh - how best to explain it; you've seen me in "X-Men"...

Andy Millman:
Yeah.

Patrick Stewart:
The character I am, Professor Charles Xavier, if you remember, he can control things with the power of his mind - can make people do things and see things, so I thought, what if you could do that for real? I mean, not in a comic book world, but in the real world.

Andy Millman:
Oh, all right.

Patrick Stewart:
So in my film, I play a man who controls the world with his mind.

Andy Millman:
Right. Oh, that's interesting.

Patrick Stewart:
Yeah. For instance, I'm walking along, and I see this beautiful girl, and I think I'd like to see her naked, and so all her clothes fall off.

Andy Millman:
All her - clothes fall off?

Patrick Stewart:
Yes, and she's scrabbling around to get them back on again, but even before she can get her knickers on, I've seen everything. Yeah. I've seen it all.

Andy Millman:
[pause] Okay. It's a comedy, is it?

Patrick Stewart:
No. It's about what would happen, you know, if these things were possible.

Andy Millman:
What's the story, though, what's the...

Patrick Stewart:
Well, I do other stuff; like I'm riding my bike in the park, and this policewoman says "Oi! You can't ride your bike on the grass!" and I go "Oh no?" And her uniform falls off, and she goes "Ahh!" and she's trying to cover up, but I've seen everything anyway. And I get on my bike and I ride off. On the grass.

Andy Millman:
[increasingly uncomfortable] So it's mainly you sort of go around seeing ladies' tits?

Patrick Stewart:
Mainly.

Andy Millman:
No. What are we doing? Selling ourselves. Selling everything. The happiest day of my life - oh, quick, I'll do the invites and bake a cake and get a press tent. Must have a press tent - it's a wedding. I must see pictures of meself with other people I'm in the programme with. Oh, now I'm pregnant - we must televise the birth. Quick, see if Ryan Seacrest will present it. Maybe it'll make E! channel's "100 Greatest Caesarians". I'm not having a go at you. I'm just sick of these celebrities just living their lives out in the open all the time. Why would you do that? It's like these pop stars who choose the perfect moment to go into rehab. They call their publicist before they call a taxi. Then they come out and they do their second autobiography - this one's called "Love Me or I'll Kill Myself". Well, kill yourself then. And the papers lap it up. They follow us around and that makes people think we're important, and that makes us think we're important. If they stop following us around, taking pictures of us, those people wouldn't take to the streets going "Oh quick, I need a picture of Cameron Diaz with a pimple". They wouldn't care; they'd get on with something else. They'd get on with their lives. You open the paper and you see a picture of Lindsay Lohan getting out of a car, and the headline is "Cover Up Lindsay, We Can See Your Knickers". Of course you can see her knickers - your photographer is lying in the road, pointing his camera up her dress to see her knickers! You're literally the gutter press. And f*** you, the makers of this show, as well. You can't wash your hands in this. You can't keep going "Oh, it's exploitation, but it's what the public want". No, the Victorian freak show never went away. Now it's called "Big Brother" or "American Idol", where, in the preliminary rounds, we wheel out the bewildered to be sn*ggered at by multimillionaires. And f*** you for watching this at home. Shame on you. And shame on me. I'm the worst of all 'cause I'm one of those people that goes "Oh, I'm an entertainer, it's in my blood". Yeah, it's in my blood, 'cause a real job's too hard. I would love to have been a doctor - too hard. Didn't want to put the work in. Would love to be a war hero - I'm too scared. So I go "Oh, it's what I do". And I have someone bollocked if my cappuccino is cold, or if they look at me the wrong way. You know what a friend of mine once said? They said I'll never be happy 'cause I'll never be famous enough. And they were right. And if you're watching this, I'm so sorry. You're my best friend. You're my only friend. And you never did anything wrong. It was everything else. I'll never do that again. I'll never treat you like that again. It's eating me that you asked me a stupid question once, and I just... I could've answered it and I didn't, 'cause I was... I'll answer it now: I'd be the penguin, 'cause I could eat the flying fish. I know what you're thinking - "why doesn't the fish fly away?" Well, it can't really fly; it's all glide and flap. They should be called 'glidey flappy fish'. I'm so sorry.

Darren Lamb:
I've been waiting to hear that, mate.

Shaun Williamson:
I don't think he was...

Darren Lamb:
He's a good guy. He is a good guy.

Shaun Williamson:
Yeah.

Andy Millman:
I'm gonna go now. Cheers everyone.


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