Performance Movie Quotes
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Chas
I need a bohemian atmosphere! I'm an artist, Mr. Turner. Like yourself.
Turner
You - juggle.
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Turner
I'll tell you this: the only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness. Right? Am I right? You with me?
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Turner
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
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Chas
There's nothing wrong with me! I'm normal!
Pherber
[laughs]
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Pherber
I don't recognize your voice.
Chas
Well, I've been away, haven't I?
Pherber
And I don't recognize your face.
Chas
You should see my motor.
Pherber
[looks at Chas quizzically]
Chas
My motor. Had an argument with a cement wall on the way over. Goodbye the Ferrari.
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Tony Farrell
Well, where are you then?
Chas
Oh, you know, on the left.
Tony Farrell
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Chas
It's a right piss-hole. Long hair. Beatniks. Druggers. Free love. Foreigners, You name it.
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Turner
[reading from a book]
"The old man was called, in the language of Persia, Hassani Saba, and his people were called the Hashishi. He had caused a valley between two mountains to be enclosed, and turned into a garden, so large and beautiful his people believed it was Paradise. And there was a fortress at the entrance, strong enough to resist all the world. Now the old man caused those of his young men whom he had chosen to be his Hashishi, his assassins, to be given a potion which cast them into a deep sleep, and to be carried into the garden, so that when they awoke, they believed they were in Paradise. And there were damsels and young girls there, who dallied with them to their hearts' content, so that they had what young men desire. Thus it was that when the old man decided to send one of his assassins upon a mission, such as to have a prince slain, he would send for one of these youths and say, 'Go thou and kill, and when thou returnest, my angels will bear thee into Paradise; and should'st thou die, nevertheless, I will send my angels to carry thee back into Paradise.'"
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Turner
They enjoyed their work...
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Pherber
How do you think Turner feels like, huh?
Chas
I don't know. He's weird. And you're weird. You're kinky!
Pherber
He's a man! Male and female man! And he feels like me.
Chas
No! No he doesn't!
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Pherber
Do you like my physique?
Chas
Yeah. It's in - good condition.
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Harry Flowers
Took over? No, Joey. The word is merged. You was merged, my son.
[raises a glass]
Harry Flowers
To old England.
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Lorraine
He had three number ones, two number twos and a number four.
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Chas
Can I use the blower up here.
Turner
We haven't got a blower up here.
Pherber
Huh! What in God's name has he done to his hair?
Turner
He's blown it.
Chas
Yeah, well, that's it dear. I got to ring my agent again.
Turner
I fancy the red.
Chas
No. No. The red was dye.
Turner
Dead.
Chas
Dyed. Red.
Pherber
Dyed it? Dead!
Chas
Red! Red!
Turner
Van Gogh, eh?
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[Chas flicks his cigarette ash onto a rug]
Turner
That rug's over two hundred years old.
Chas
Yeah, it looks it.
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[on the intercom outside as Chas rings the front door]
Pherber
"Leave a message after the beep. Beep, beep, BEEP!
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Chas
I am a bullet.
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The Lawyer
Business is business and progress is progress.
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Chas
Tomorrow. Tomorrow he learns what's true and what's not.
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Pherber
He's stuck! Stuck!
Chas
Why?
Pherber
Why? Because he's lost his demons, that's why. Yeah, he thought he had it under control. Juggling all those balls - millions of them. Until one day he was looking at his favorite mirror, admiring his image, see. And when suddenly he saw, a little clearly, it was just a beautiful, little, freaky, stripy, beast, darling. So, he thought, maybe, maybe its time for a change, he thought. Then, immediately, as he watched, the image faded. His demon had abandoned him! Pluff! He was gone! He's still tryin' to figure out whether he wants it back.
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Pherber
Did you never have a female feel?
Chas
No! Never! I feel like a man! A man - all the time.
Pherber
That's awful. That's what's wrong with you, isn't it?
Chas
What do you mean?
Pherber
A man's man's world.
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Joey Maddocks
Listen, do you remember Mick? Remember?
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Chas
Why don't you - play us a tune, pal?
Turner
I don't like music.
Chas
Comical little geezer. You'll look funny when your fifty.
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Lorraine
He was very famous. When I was little he was a chartbuster.
Chas
They come and they go. Pop stars. He had a following. I never fancied his stuff myself.
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Turner
Talk about a performer. Of course, I'm not telling you anything you don't know. Am I, old man? You can't stay here old man. I'm not in the mood.
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Harry Flowers
The world's a dodgy place, my friends, I can't help that. But, we've got progress. Look at the Yanks!
Dennis
The new world.
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Turner
You shoot too much of that shit, Pherber.
Pherber
Too much vitamin B12, has never hurt anybody.
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Dennis
It's the business of business to push the buttons.
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Chas
Personally, I just - you know - perform.
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The Lawyer
Now, look here, I'm Mr. Fraser's Counsel and I warn you...
Chas
I know that. Now, shut your hole, Mr. Counsel!
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Chas
I said shut your bloody hole!
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Pherber
Never trust old men, old show men, old wankers!
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Chas
America's a blinding place for nightlife.
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Turner
We've gone too far. He means we haven't really got anywhere.
Pherber
He means we've got to go much further out.
Turner
We have to go much further, much further back! And faster.
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The Lawyer
It is alleged, by the prosecution, that the dividend of 15%, which was declared on the non-voting B shares, was, in deed, fraudulently designed solely to expedite this admittedly bold, but in no way unethical, merger. I say merger, gentlemen, not take-over!
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Harry Flowers
He's a nut case, like all artists. But, I can rely on him.
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Joey Maddocks
But, Harry, I'm still a bit worried - about my future.
Harry Flowers
Worried? That I will not allow, my son. Anyone worries you, you tell me about it. You're on the firm now, Joey! One of me own! United we stand. Divided we're lumbered!
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Chas
No. No. This is the normal.
Turner
Normal?
Chas
Yeah. I was just havin' a laugh. Havin' a laugh, you see, with my act. With my image. You know what I mean?
Turner
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
Chas
I thought you would. Eh, he reckons, my agent, that, time for a change.
Turner
It was time for a change.
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Turner
[singing]
Woke up this morning, somebody knockin' on my door, Woke up this morning, I said, "Hello, Satan. I believe it's time to go".
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Turner
We push the buttons. He's the horror show. He's an old pro. He can take it. He takes it! He dishes it out too! Bet your sweet fucking life he does. He's a mean bastard.
Chas
I'm the Lone Ranger.
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Turner
[to Chas]
I know how you do it! I know a thing or two about performing, my boy. I can tell you.
Pherber
He had the gift too, once upon a time. You should have seen him ten years ago.
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Turner
[singing]
Weren't you at the Coke convention back on nineteen sixty-five, You're the misbred, grey executive I've seen heavily advertised. You're the great, gray man whose daughter licks policemen's buttons clean...
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Chas
He likes foreign birds, that Turner.
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Turner
Time for your new image. It's totally different.
Pherber
Now we're getting somewhere!
Chas
America's a blindin' place.
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Pherber
His mother is a 1,000 years old. Imagine yourself being a 1,000 years younger.
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Pherber
I'm gonna take you down on the riverside. I might powder you. I might polish you. I might make you shiny like a mirror! You just don't know.
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Lucy
Did you screw him?
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Pherber
He wants to know why your show is a bigger turn-on than his ever was!
Chas
How should I know?
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The Chauffeur
You bastard foreign female!
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The Lawyer
Words still have meanings, even in our days of the computer.
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Chas
You stinking foreign parasite!
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Dennis
You know what they're going to call us? They'll call us - gangsters! It'll be goodbye to business, gentlemen.
Moody
We'll be as popular as Hitler.
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Harry Flowers
I never sent him! It was me told him, not to go! Don't get your personal relations mixed up in my business. I told him!
Dennis
Told him? That's a joke. Like telling a mad dog who to bite, that is!
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Lucy
You've got to get out of the British kingdom. And to go back to France.
Turner
That's really insanity.
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Turner
Listen, I don't want any more bums in my basement.
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Joey Maddocks
I'd give a grand! If I could get that Mister Harry Pervert Flowers right here, right now, I'd give a grand in readies!
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Chas
Lovely, Harry, I'll learn him.
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Chas
He's a lyin' slag! He's a grass and you know it and I know it!
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Harry Flowers
Three grand a week that boy's grossin' - or I'm a Communist.
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Turner
I don't want anybody, anybody washed up cabaret artiste in my beautiful basement.
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Turner
There's been a mistake. You can't have the room.
Chas
What?
Turner
It's not for rent.
Chas
What a minute. The lady's just said...
Turner
The Lady said? I don't tell her everything. She's just my secretary. I've got a lot of work to do. I'm under a lot of pressure.
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Turner
If you were me, what would you do?
Chas
I don't know. It depends. It depends who you are. So, I don't know.
Turner
Who I am? Do you know who you are?
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Chas
Is that why he's got a secretary?
Lorraine
Huh?
Chas
That foreign bird, you know, not the skinny one, the other one.
Lorraine
Pherber?
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Lorraine
Pherber's his lover, mate. She cohabits him. She is, in deed. Their love story's famous!
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Turner
Are these photographs for narcissistic or publicity purposes?
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