The Goodbye Girl

Elliot Garfield:
I play the guitar whenever I cannot sleep, and I meditate every morning, complete with chanting and burning incense, so if you have to walk around I'd appreciate a little tiptoeing. Also: I sleep in the nude. "Au buffo." Winter and summer, rain or snow, with the windows open. And because I may have to go to the potty or to the fridge in the middle of the night, and because I do not want to put on jammies which I do not own in the first place, unless you're looking for a quick thrill or your daughter an advanced education I'd keep my door closed.

Elliot Garfield:
I will bring home anyone or anything I chose including a one-eyed Episcopalian Kangaroo if that happens to be my kinky inclination.

Elliot Garfield:
If you were a Broadway musical, people would be humming your face.

Elliot Garfield:
"It never occurred to us that William Shakespeare wrote the Wizard of Oz. However, Elliot Garfield makes a splendid Wicked Witch of the North." Tacky. Tacky. Well, if they're gonna kill me. Let 'em kill me with panache.

Elliot Garfield:
Miss McFadden, today I begin rehearsals for my first New York play. It will be the most important day of my life. Am I nervous? No, I am not nervous. For I have meditated. I am relaxed. I am calm. I am confident. You, on the other hand, have not meditated, and therefore you are a pain in the ass.

Elliot Garfield:
My careereth is over. I am making a horseth asseth of myselfeth. Mark, I'm begging you. I'm BEGGING you. You want this kind of performance? Let me play Lady Anne.

Elliot Garfield:
What is it about you that makes a man with a hundred forty-seven I.Q. feel like a dribbling idiot?

Elliot Garfield:
You know I liked you from the first time I met you when you answered the door. I said to myself, "This is the best half-a-face I ever saw!"

Elliot Garfield:
You know I love listening to you talk. I hate living with you but your conversation is first rate.

Elliot Garfield:
You're not the only one who can yell rape, you know.

Elliot Garfield:
I happen to have a lease in my pocket. Are you gonna honor it or what?

Paula McFadden:
I have a daughter in my bedroom. That tops the lease in your pocket.

Paula McFadden:
I thought you said you were decent.

Elliot Garfield:
I am decent. I also happen to be naked.

Lucy McFadden:
[upon awaking at dawn to Elliot's chanting] What's that?

Paula McFadden:
Sounds like God.

Lucy McFadden:
I smell strawberries burning.

Paula McFadden:
That's incense.

Lucy McFadden:
What's incense?

Paula McFadden:
It is what I am feeling right now.

Lucy McFadden:
[after Elliot's play flops] Congratulations!

Elliot Garfield:
For what?

Lucy McFadden:
I didn't know what else to say.

Elliot Garfield:
[after hearing that his play has closed] That's okay. Now I'm free to take that other job.

Lucy McFadden:
What other job?

Elliot Garfield:
I'm looking, I'm looking!

Thank you Neil Simon for making us laugh at falling in love...again.