Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Harvey Fierstein: Sid Loomis

Quotes 

• Sid Loomis : You're a star because you're great and you are a great star, but let me tell you something, Helen. In the last couple of years you're better known as an adulteress and a drunk. And I say this in all due respect.

  Helen Sinclair : Look, I haven't had a drink since New Year's Eve.

  Sid Loomis : You're talking Chinese New Year's.

  Helen Sinclair : Naturally. Still, that's two days, Sid! You know how long that is for me?

• [Helen complains about her role] 

  Helen Sinclair : She's dowdy. Sid, the ingenue has all the hot lines. Even the female psychiatrist is a better role.

  Sid Loomis : But the role of Sylvia Poston is the lead.

  Helen Sinclair : "Sylvia Poston." Even the *name* reeks of Orbach's. I do Electra. I do Lady Macbeth. I do plays by Noel and Phil Barry, or at least Max Anderson.

• Sid Loomis : It's a little idea she's wanted to do for years. She plays Jesus' mother.

  Partygoer : Oh.

  Sid Loomis : It's a whole Oedipal thing - he loves her, wants to do in the father. Well, you can see the complications. Of course, we're talking to Ira Gershwin about a modern musical version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. "Quasimodo Jones."

  Partygoer : Helen has such a-a-a... a new vitality. Even her face looks so smooth.

  Sid Loomis : I know. The monkey glands are working.

• Helen Sinclair : Oh, Julian. Julian Marx. I do plays put on by Balasco, or Sam Harris, not some Yiddish pant salesman turned producer. My ex-husband used to say, "If you're gonna go down, go down with the best of them."

  Sid Loomis : Which ex-husband?

  Helen Sinclair : Oh, I don't know which ex-husband. The one with the moustache.

• Sid Loomis : He's working on a vehicle for Helen for next season. She plays Jesus' mother. It's a whole Oedipul thing. He loves her... wants to do in the father... well you can see the complications.