Nickelodeon (1976)

Tatum O'Neal: Alice Forsyte

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• Alice Forsyte : [at a movie premiere]  I hear he's changing the title for New York.

  Leo Harrigan : Yeah? To what?

  Alice Forsyte : "The Birth of a Nation."

• H.H. Cobb : Want to get in pictures, I suppose?

  Alice Forsyte : Me? No sir, I'm a lawyer.

• Duncan : The balloon'll cost you $50 for the day.

  Alice Forsyte : I'll give you 30.

  Duncan : I said 50, little girl.

  Alice Forsyte : Give you 25.

  Duncan : I said 50!

  Alice Forsyte : I'll give you 20.

  Duncan : You just said 25!

  Alice Forsyte : It's a deal.

  Duncan : What?

• Kathleen Cooke : Hey, Alice should live in a palace.

  Alice Forsyte : Huh?

  Kathleen Cooke : Can't do that with *my* name.

  Duncan : Hey, this is only 25 bucks?

  Alice Forsyte : That's what you said. Bye, Kathleen.

  Kathleen Cooke : Bye, Princess.

  Alice Forsyte : Princess? Where'd you get that?

  Kathleen Cooke : Well, who do you think lives in palaces?

• Alice Forsyte : Beware of jealousy, my lord; Tis the green-eyed monster, that mocks the meat it feeds.

  Buck Greenway : Huh?

  Alice Forsyte : That's from "Othello".

  Buck Greenway : What fella?

  Alice Forsyte : "Othello" by William Shakespeare.

  Buck Greenway : Oh, yeah. I've heard of him.

• Alice Forsyte : What's a matter with me?

  Leo Harrigan : I give up. What's the matter with you?

  Alice Forsyte : They like little girls in pictures, you know. Look at Mary Pickford.

  Leo Harrigan : Mary Pickford is 20 years old.

  Alice Forsyte : See! And I'm younger even.

• Alice Forsyte : You were gettin' pretty good, you know.

  Leo Harrigan : Yeah, I'm particularly good without a camera, film, or actors.

• Franklin Frank : Anybody get the address?

  Alice Forsyte : Hollywood!

• H.H. Cobb : The time of the Nickelodeon is over! A new day has dawned. The epoch of the Picture Palace. Big pictures. Big theaters. Six reels. Eight reels. Look at this thing tonight. Fifteen reels!

  Alice Forsyte : Twelve.

  H.H. Cobb : See what I mean? Of course, I don't want to go that far. Griffith's a genius; but, he is a little crazy.

  Leo Harrigan : *He's* a little crazy?

  Marty Reeves : He's a little crazy. You said it!