Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

Bruce Simmons:
[opening lines quoting intertitle] 'To live, is to battle with fiends in the vaults of the heart and mind. To write: that is to sit in judgment over one's self'. Ibsen said that. He was right.

Bruce Simmons:
[narrating his story to a film executive] There's only one good thing that if you're in trouble or hurting, go to the poor people. They're the only ones who understand... the only ones.

Bruce Simmons:
[during narration] As someone once said: In L.A., you can find sympathy in the dictionary and everything else in the drugstore.

Serena Black:
[to Bruce] To win we all have to lose a bit... tough sh*t!

Eddie Hale:
[to Bruce] Without me you're nothing, and without you I'm alone.

Evan Best:
[to Bruce about his manuscript] As I told you before, people go to the movies to see winners. How am I going to be able to sell that? I'm trying to be helpful, Bruce, but you have to understand - it's okay to have a loser in plays. I love plays, but the public doesn't want to see a loser on the screen.