The Oscar (1966)

Eleanor Parker: Sophie Cantaro

Quotes 

• Frankie Fane : You know, I think you go a little soft in the gourd early in the morning.

  Sophie Cantaro : [angrily]  Look at me when you talk to me! I'm not some sort of garbage pail you can slap a lid on and walk away!

• Sophie Cantaro : I don't know why I keep expecting you to act like other men when you're not... you're another kind of machine entirely. You bleed, you cry...

  Frankie Fane : No, Sophie. I don't care about anything that much.

• Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter : So. We take off the clown's happy face and see tears underneath.

  Sophie Cantaro : Don't, Kappy.

  Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter : You leave a man's career like a bag of broken glass, and you say, "Don't, Kappy"?

• Sophie Cantaro : I want him to be *my* discovery, it's very important to me.

  Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter : Is it... is it possible he's *too* important?

• Sophie Cantaro : What do you do?

  Frankie Fane : I push a dress cart in the garment center. Strong back, weak mind.

  Sophie Cantaro : Do you think you could tear yourself away long enough for a little stage experience?

• Sophie Cantaro : That's twice in one night you've impressed me.

• Sophie Cantaro : Ah, Mr. Fane. Mr. Fane.

  Frankie Fane : You can call me Frankie.

• Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter : Is there something more to this boy than just his talent?

  Sophie Cantaro : Alfred Kapstetter, I'm 42 years old. Don't be ludicrous.

  Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter : And me? I'm almost 60 and a certain percent of my money goes to pay ladies of the evening, not to reserve me a place in the senior citizen's column. You, you're 42, there are many good minutes left for you.

• Sophie Cantaro : Don't break a leg getting out of here.

  Frankie Fane : What's that supposed to mean?

  Sophie Cantaro : I didn't know we considered meanings, Frankie. I thought you and I went strictly by instinct.

  Frankie Fane : You got a bug again.

  Sophie Cantaro : No bug, just a middle-aged woman's rosary, a bead for each year, six with your name on them.

• Sophie Cantaro : You go after what you want - and in some men it's admirable. In you, it's unclean!

• Sophie Cantaro : Go on and get out of here. That's what you want to do anyway, you want get out of here without having to look at me. So, go on, go on!

  Frankie Fane : I'm going, old lady. But let's make this the last stand. Let's make this the one that wraps it up. Fade out!

• Sophie Cantaro : I'm someone else now. He changed me.

  Alfred 'Kappy' Kapstetter : No one changes anyone else. They merely open the doors. You have to walk through those doors yourself.

• Frankie Fane : Is there something eating you, lady?

  Sophie Cantaro : What should be eating me? That I haven't seen you in almost two months? That Sam or Hymie tell me you've gone to Tierra del Fuego when I call? That you should appear suddenly out of the night and expect me to play Lady Bountiful to your world-weary carcass? Oh, should I be disturbed? Heaven forbid.