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“Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: [Reading from his grandfather's notebook] 'As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved therefore to make a being of a gigantic stature.' [pause] Of course. That would simplify everything.

Inga: In other vords: his veins, his feet, his hands, his organs vould all have to be increased in size.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Exactly.

Inga: He vould have an enormous schwanzstucker.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: That goes without saying.

Inga: Voof.

Igor: He's going to be very popular.”
— Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein
Tagged: schwanzstucker, penis
“Igor: You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him...the things he'd say to me.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What did he say?

Igor: 'What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?'”
— Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein
Tagged: Dad, bathroom, unexpected
“Mia: [Mia hums a few notes]

Tracy: [Tracy barges in] Whoa! Holy shit! You wanna open a window?

Mia: I was trying to give you an entrance.

Tracy: Thank you.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: entrance, holy shit, open a window
“Sebastian: You could just write your own rules. You know, write something that's as interesting as you are.

Mia: What are you gonna do?

Sebastian: Have my own club.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: Rules, club
“Tracy: What is that? Is that a script?

Mia: It's a play.

Alexis: A play? You better give us all roles!

Mia: Actually, it's a one-woman show, so I can't...”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: play, Script, acting roles, one-woman show
“Mia: I'm always gonna love you.

Sebastian: I'm always gonna love you, too.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: Love, eternal love
“Mia: Maybe I'm not good enough!

Sebastian: Yes, you are.

Mia: Maybe I'm not! It's like a pipe dream.

Sebastian: This is the dream!”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: Dream, pipe dream, Good Enough
“Sebastian: I thought you wanted me to do this, it just sounds like now you don't want me to do it.

Mia: What do you mean, I wanted you to do this?

Sebastian: This is what you wanted for me.

Mia: To be in this band?

Sebastian: To be in a band, to have a steady job, you know to be... you know.

Mia: Of course, I wanted you to have a steady job so that you could take care of yourself and your life and you could start your club.

Sebastian: Yeah, so I'm doing that, so I don't understand like why aren't we celebrating?

Mia: Why aren't you starting your club?

Sebastian: You said yourself no one wants to go that club. No one wants to go to a club called 'Chicken on a Stick.'

Mia: So change the name!

Sebastian: Well, no one likes jazz, not even you!

Mia: I do like jazz now, because of you!

Sebastian: What am I supposed to do? Go back to playing ‘Jingle Bells’ so I can save money for some Shangri-La club no one wants to go to?

Mia: People will want to go to it because you're passionate about it and people love what other people are passionate about. You remind people of what they've forgotten.

Sebastian: Not in my experience. [pause] Anyway, it's time to grow up. You know? This is what I'm doing. If you had a problem, I wish you would've said something earlier, before I signed on the dotted line.

Mia: You had a dream that you were sticking to, that...

Sebastian: This is the dream!

Mia: This is not your dream.

Sebastian: Guys like me go their whole lives and never do anything that's liked. I'm finally doing something that people enjoy. What is wrong with that?

Mia: Why do you care so much about being liked?

Sebastian: You're an actress, what are we talking about? [pause] Maybe you liked me more when I was a failure because it made you feel better about yourself.
[long pause]

Mia: Are you kidding?

Sebastian: No.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: actress, Musician, Band
“Sebastian: You should come.

Mia: To Boise?

Sebastian: You can knock it off your bucket list.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: bucket list, boise
“Tracy: [after Sebastian honks car horn outside Mia's apartment] Is that gonna happen every time?

Mia: [smiling] I think so.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: honking, honky
“Sebastian: Fuck them!

Mia: [mildly amused] That's what you always say.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: Fuck, amused
“Mia: I hate jazz.

Sebastian: What do you mean you hate jazz?

Mia: It just means that when I listen to it, I don't like it.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: Jazz, Hate, jazzophobia
“Mia: Honestly, I wish I loved something else. I've tried so hard to want other things. I left school after two years to come here, my fourth manager just dropped me, and my last audition was for a teen soap pitched as Dangerous Minds meets The O.C. Should've been a lawyer.

Sebastian: Cause the world needs more lawyers.

Mia: Well it doesn't need more actresses.

Sebastian: You're not just an actress.

Mia: What do you mean, ‘just an actress’?

Sebastian: You said it yourself, you're a child-prodigy playwright.

Mia: That is not what I said.

Sebastian: You're too modest to say it but it's true. So you could write your own roles. Write something that's as interesting as you are.

Mia: Last thing I wrote was a stand-up routine for an open-mic night. It was horrible.

Sebastian: All I'm saying is Louis Armstrong could have played the marching-band charts he was given. What did he do instead? He made history.

Mia: OK, I'll stop auditioning and make history instead.

Sebastian: [laughs] My work here is done.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: Lawyers, actresses, dangerous minds, The O.C., child prodigy, open mic night
“Mia: It's pretty strange that we keep running into each other.

Sebastian: Maybe it means something.

Mia: I doubt it.

Sebastian: Yeah, I didn't think so.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: Fate, kismet, coincidence
“Sebastian: So you're a barista? And I can see how you could then look down on me from all the way up there.

Singer: Sebastian. Second set.

Sebastian: He doesn't tell me what to do.

Mia: He just told you what to do.

Sebastian: I let him. [pause] What's your name?

Mia: Mia.

Sebastian: Mia. Guess I'll see you in the movies.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: Movies, barista
“Sebastian: All right, I remember you. And I'll admit I was a little curt that night.

Mia: ‘Curt?’

Sebastian: Okay, I was an asshole. I can admit that. But requesting ‘I Ran’ from a serious musician, it's just, it's too far.

Mia: My Lord, did you just say ‘a serious musician?’

Sebastian: I don't think so.

Mia: Can I borrow what you're wearing?

Sebastian: Why?

Mia: Because I have an audition next week. I'm playing a serious firefighter.

Sebastian: So you're an actress? I thought you looked familiar. Have I seen you in anything?

Mia: Uhh, the coffee shop on the Warner Brothers lot, that's a classic.

Sebastian: Oh I see.

Mia: Yeah.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: warner brothers, firefighter, asshole, Curt, Musicians
“Bill: You're fired.

Sebastian: It's Christmas.

Bill: Yeah, I see the decorations. Good luck in the New Year.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: Christmas, You're Fired, New Year
“Sebastian: I want to let you know you're looking at a new man.

Bill: Good.

Sebastian: A man who's happy to be here.

Bill: Excellent.

Sebastian: Very easy to work with. Yeah.

Bill: Right, and you'll play the set list.

Sebastian: Happy to. Even though I don’t think anyone cares what I play, but yeah.

Bill: Well, if by ‘anyone’ you mean anyone other than me, that would be correct. I care and I don’t want to hear the free jazz.

Sebastian: Right. Okay. Although I, I thought in this town it worked on a sort of ‘one for you, one for me’ basis type system. How about two for you, one for me? [Bill doesn’t answer]

Sebastian: How about all for you and none for me?

Bill: That’s perfect, yes.

Sebastian: Great.

Bill: Okay.

Sebastian: Okay, a mutual decision then.

Bill: Right, made by me.

Sebastian: Right, and I sign off on it, so.

Bill: Whatever. Tell yourself what you want to know.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: work agreements, Happiness, new man
“How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.”
— Keith, La La Land
Tagged: Revolutionary, traditionalist, Jazz, Past, Future
“[singing] Here's to the ones that dream,
Foolish as they may seem.
Here's to the hearts that ache,
Here's to the mess we make.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: Dreams, foolish, Heartache
“[singing] She told me a bit of madness is key
To give us new colors to see.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: Madness, Colors
“I think you should call it Seb's because no one will come to a place called Chicken on a Stick.”
— Mia Dolan, La La Land
Tagged: Restaurants, Naming, chicken on a stick
“[singing] City of stars,
Are you shining just for me?
City of stars,
There's so much that I can't see.
Who knows,
Is this the start of something wonderful and new?
Or one more dream
That I cannot make true?”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: LA, Dreams, wonderful, New
“That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: LA, worship, Value, Emptiness
“It's conflict and it's compromise, and it's just...it's new every time. It's brand-new every night. It's very, very exciting!”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: Jazz, Compromise, Conflict
“I'm letting life hit me until it gets tired. Then I'll hit back. It's a classic rope-a-dope.”
— Sebastian Wilder, La La Land
Tagged: rope-a-dope, Revenge, Life Is Hard
“Mental illness is just one part of who we are, one part of our identity, but it's not the whole story.”
— Dr. Ali Mattu, Real Psychologist Reviews Mental Illness In Movies
Tagged: Mental Illness, Psychology
“People on the internet are saying I am the queen of Sweden, because in the legend of King Arthur, he was given a sword by a lady in a lake, and that meant he would become king.”
— Saga Vanecek, I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake
Tagged: History
“Is it true that the Olympic Village is basically just a three-week-long Slammerama?”
— Dina Fox, Superstore, Season 2: Olympics
“A psychopath doesn't have a conscience. A sociopath knows what he's doing is wrong but does it anyway.”
— Dina Fox, Superstore, Season 1: Demotion
Tagged: Sociopath, Psychopath

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