Pippin: His Life and Times (1982 TV Movie)

Ben Vereen: The Leading Player

Quotes 

• The leading player : And then it happened. Suddenly, shamelessly, and without warning, as it must in all musical comedies, they were struck by... a love song.

• The leading player : Look at her, Pippin! She has a mole! You're willing to spend the rest of your life with a woman who has a MOLE!

• The leading player : Think about the sun, Pippin... think about her golden glance. How she lights the world up - well, now it's your chance! With the guardians of splendor inviting you to dance... Pippin. Think about the sun.

• The leading player : Lewis is strong. Lewis loves fighting. Lewis loves wrestling. But most of all, Lewis loves Lewis.

• The leading player : Sweet summer evenings, sapphire skies, feasting your belly, feasting your eyes. Simple joys have a simple voice that says time is living's prize. And wouldn't you rather be a left-handed flea, a crab on a slab at the bottom of the sea, a newt on the root of a banyan tree, a fig on twig in Galilee, than a man who never learns how to be free?

• The leading player : You're supposed to read the line "naggingly!"

  Catherine : He put his hand on my thigh, they've never done that before ...

  The leading player : I don't care where he puts his hand!

• [after a seemingly incinerated man steps forward unharmed] 

  Pippin : That's the finale? It was just a trick.

  The leading player : Well, when he did it, it was a trick. When you do it, it'll be real.