Enter Laughing (1967)
Reni Santoni: David Kolowitz
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Quotes
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David Kolowitz : You know, Wanda, you're beginning to sound exactly like my mother.
Wanda : David, I didn't come here to be insulted.
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Harrison B. Marlowe : Read the part of Jeff Hemming.
David Kolowitz : Jeff Hemming?
Harrison B. Marlowe : Yes. Take it from Jeff's entrance. Read.
David Kolowitz : "Enter laughing. I trust I haven't kept you waiting too long."
Harrison B. Marlowe : Eh, read that again, will you?
David Kolowitz : "Enter laughing! I trust I haven't kept you waiting too..."
Harrison B. Marlowe : Young man, there is a parenthesis around "Enter laughing". It is a - stage direction.
David Kolowitz : Oh. That means I laugh when I enter?
Harrison B. Marlowe : Exactly. Enter laughing means that you laugh when you enter. Proceed.
David Kolowitz : May I ask a question? What is he laughing about?
Harrison B. Marlowe : What is he laughing about?
Angela Marlowe : It's in the nature of the character. You see, Jeff Hemming is a devil-may-care young man and he's just broken into a solemn, family gathering. They're reading the will.
David Kolowitz : Who died?
Harrison B. Marlowe : His Uncle.
David Kolowitz : And he's laughing? Why?
Harrison B. Marlowe : Just let me hear you laugh and then go into the speech.
Angela Marlowe : Just let him hear you laugh and then go into the speech.
[David proceeds to laugh in a variety of ways]
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David Kolowitz : [voice-over, imagining he's Ronald Coleman in "Lost Horizon"] Somewhere, someplace, there must be a Lost Horizon. A Shangri-La where a man can find peace, happiness, and lots of naked ladies.
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Mr. Foreman : David, you mixed up with an Italian girl?
David Kolowitz : What?
Mr. Foreman : A girl called. She said she's not Italian.
David Kolowitz : Why?
Mr. Foreman : I asked her. Listen to me, David. Don't get mixed up with girls yet.
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Angela Marlowe : So, you want to be an actor. Why?
[proceeds to get dressed]
David Kolowitz : I - I - I think it's very exciting. Eh, eh, everybody's watching you. You're doing something in and, eh, everybody watches you.
Angela Marlowe : That's a very good reason.
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Angela Marlowe : I'm sure that this isn't your first time - you've been in a room when a girl is dressing.
David Kolowitz : No, ma'am.
Angela Marlowe : Oh, I thought not.
David Kolowitz : I have a kid sister.
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David Kolowitz : I was at night school, I told you.
Morris Kolowitz : Night school? What kind of night school stays open so late?
Emma Kolowitz : A night school for tramps!
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Harrison B. Marlowe : We're going to put you on a scholarship. Five dollars a week.
David Kolowitz : Five dollars a week! Gee, that's great. I could sure use it.
Harrison B. Marlowe : Use it? What do you mean?
David Kolowitz : Well, I mean, I could use the extra money.
Harrison B. Marlowe : No, no, dear boy. We don't pay you, you pay us!
David Kolowitz : But I thought you said its a scholarship.
Harrison B. Marlowe : It is. The regular tuition is ten dollars a week.
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Angela Marlowe : There's only one real way to express love.
David Kolowitz : What?
Angela Marlowe : Poetry.
David Kolowitz : What?
Angela Marlowe : I heard this poem only once. But, I was in love. So, I'll never forget it. "If I were Queen of Pleasure, And you were King of Pain, We'd hunt down love together, Pluck out his flying feather, Teach his feet a measure, If I were KIng of Pleasure, And you were Queen of Pain."
David Kolowitz : I - I know what you mean.
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Wanda : Do you have a big part?
David Kolowitz : Well, it's pretty big, yeah. I play kind of a, you know, a playboy. I have to rehearse tonight.
Wanda : Can I watch?
David Kolowitz : Well, if you want to. I guess so.
Wanda : Oh. Oh, I'd love to. A playboy. You don't have to make love or anything, do you?
David Kolowitz : Who doesn't?
Wanda : You do?
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Wanda : She seems to know you very well.
David Kolowitz : I hardly know her.
Wanda : Then why did she call you a naughty boy?
David Kolowitz : I don't know.
Wanda : Does your actress friend think you're a naughty boy too?
David Kolowitz : Gee, Wanda, what do you think I am, a sex maniac?
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David Kolowitz : If I had my choice between - between Carole Lombard or Jean Harlow or you, who do you think I'd ask out for a date, huh?
Angela Marlowe : Me, I suppose.
David Kolowitz : Well, of course, I would. Those other ladies don't know who I am. They think I'm a creep. They don't even answer my calls.
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Harrison B. Marlowe : Damn it! Can't you talk like a human being? Can't you behave like a human being? You are human, aren't you?
David Kolowitz : Mr. Marlowe, if you think I'm not good, then just tell me. And if you want me to go, I'll go. But, I don't think you should yell at me like that.
Harrison B. Marlowe : Well, I've had enough for one day. Study at home.
David Kolowitz : Mr. Marlowe, I know I wasn't very good.
Harrison B. Marlowe : You know it and I know it. Now, our job is to keep that little secret from the audience.
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Wanda : What did she mean by that?
David Kolowitz : By what?
Wanda : Don, darling?
David Kolowitz : Oh, that's just my stage name.
Wanda : Don Darling?
David Kolowitz : No. Don Colman. But, darling's what she calls me.
Wanda : She does?
David Kolowitz : Well, she's an actress.
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David Kolowitz : Boy was I rotten.
Angela Marlowe : Don, it was your first time! You were trying. Look, somethings you did - very well.
David Kolowitz : Yeah, like what?
Angela Marlowe : The kiss. Oh, you did the kiss very well. It was very convincing.
David Kolowitz : You did most of it.
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David Kolowitz : I can't let you go home alone. Especially looking like that.
Wanda : What's the matter with the way I look?
David Kolowitz : Nothing. Actually, you look very appetizing.
Wanda : Thank you.
David Kolowitz : How come you wore that dress?
Wanda : Because it happens to be the sexiest dress one I own. Since you seem to interested in girls for - physical reasons.
David Kolowitz : Oh, honey, honey. Wait, wait, wait. Now, that's - that's not true. Just because - just because I look at another girl, every now and then, does not mean that I'm not attracted to you.
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Mr. Foreman : I'll tell you why I called. Because, if I had a boy and he started to act foolish running around the streets without his pants on, I would appreciate if someone spent a nickel and telephoned me.
David Kolowitz : I was not running around the street without my pants on.
Mr. Foreman : There are other ways to act foolish.
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Harry Hamburger : Laura's a nice kid, right? I could do worse, right?
David Kolowitz : Yes.
Harry Hamburger : And she's built, right? I could do worse.
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Harrison B. Marlowe : Because you have shown such marvelous talent...
David Kolowitz : Well...
Harrison B. Marlowe : No, no, no. I think that you should be allowed to act for nothing.
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David Kolowitz : I know I wasn't very good.
Harrison B. Marlowe : You know it and I know it. Now, our job is to keep that little secret from the audience.