Stardust Memories

Dorrie:
Mmm. You smell nice.

Sandy Bates:
Yeah?

Dorrie:
That aftershave. It just made my whole childhood come back with a sudden Proustian rush.

Sandy Bates:
Yeah? That's 'cause I'm wearing Proustian Rush by Chanel. It's-it's reduced. I got a vat of it.

Vivian Orkin:
Oh, oh. Th-this is my friend Libby. She thinks you're a genius. Libby just did a definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx. She did!

Dick Lobel:
Interestingly, he's the one Marx brother that never made any movies.

Sandy Bates:
Uh, no, that's not true. I-I-I did take - I took one course in existential philosophy at, uh, at New York University, and on, uh, on the final... they gave me ten questions, and, uh, I couldn't answer a single one of 'em. You know? I left 'em all blank... I got a hundred.

Jack:
What is it the comedian says when his jokes are going well? "I murdered that audience"..."I killed 'em"..."They screamed"..."I broke 'em up."

Sandy Bates:
Yeah. So-so what are you saying? Are you saying that someone like-like myself or... or Laurel and Hardy, or-or Bob Hope are furious?

Jack:
Furious or latent homosexual.

Sandy Bates:
It's funny, because in my family nobody ever committed suicide, nobody... this was just not a middle-class alternative, you know? I - my mother was too busy running the boiled chicken through the deflavorizing machine to think about shooting herself or anything.

Sandy Bates:
Oh, what is this? The-the traditional brownies with hash? Is this what you're giving me?

Sandy Bates:
How much I took? What is it, hollandaise sauce? What do you mean, how much I took?

Sandy Bates:
You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert.

Sandy Bates:
I gotta give my one classical-music joke which I put in every single picture and I invariably cut it out.

Daisy:
Yeah?

Sandy Bates:
Um - the, eh, uh..."I don't know much about classic music. For years I thought the Golberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg tried on their wedding night."

Sandy Bates:
But shouldn't I stop making movies and do something that counts, like-like helping blind people or becoming a missionary or something?

Vivian Orkin:
In this film, he played the part of God.

Ghost of Sandy Bates:
This was not easy, folks, because, uh, you know, I-I-I didn't know what the hell I was doing, and I don't have a good voice for God.

Vivian Orkin:
And he received an Academy Award for his convincing portrayal of God... although they had to use another actor's voice.

Sandy Bates:
To you, I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the loyal opposition.

Sandy Bates:
It's crazy. The town is jammed. I don't know, is the Pope in town, or some other show business figure?

Sandy Bates:
This is not the place.

Sam:
I had two heart attacks before I got the bicycle.

Sandy Bates:
And since then?

Sam:
I also had two.

Sandy's Sister:
Mom's blind in one eye, deaf in one ear.

Sandy Bates:
Oh. I hope the same side of the head, right? Because that's important. So she's even. She should be even at that age.

Sandy Bates:
I've had six chauffeurs in two years. You get me drunks, guys who can't understand English, one guy ran over an old lady with me in the car and now this guy's wanted for mail fraud.

Sandy Bates:
Intellectuals? Nothing, why?

Sandy Bates:
Threatened? You're kidding me. I've always said they're like the mafia. They only kill their own.