- Viva: Even if he is corrupt, at least he does it with style.
- Jim: Viva, you're too much.
- Viva: Of course, all politics is the same thing. They're just better actors. Much better actors. If you were as good an actor as Bobby Kennedy you'd be where Bobby Kennedy is up on the podium.
- Jim: Who wants to be up there? You could get killed.
- Viva: Influencing the masses.
- Shirley Clarke: Are we in Hollywood now?
- Carlos: Yeah, I guess this is Hollywood already. It doesn't look like a city, it looks like - exactly like that. You're coming to a city, but the city is never there.
- Jim: Oh, if we had kids, oh, my God, they could entertain us. They could support us in our old age, they could just - oh.
- Viva: Do you think I could go through nine months of it?
- Jim: I think it'd be a bit much.
- Viva: To only come out with one?
- Jerry: Make us feel like adults.
- Jim: Maybe you'd have triplets.
- Viva: Oh, God. Triplets. Wouldn't you think they'd have it - speeded up by now, the process?
- Jim: Someday, and in test tubes. You won't even have to carry it around.
- Carlos: He's an artist from out here. He's very interesting. He does blowups of what you could call pornographic scenes. Scenes of lovemaking, but you really don't realize what it is until you really have looked at them for quite some time.
- Shirley Clarke: What's his point?
- Carlos: I guess to make the viewer feel like a voyeur.
- Shirley Clarke: That's funny. That's what I've been trying to do in my movies for years. I think that's what movies are.
- Viva: I think I'm in a dream, but I'm not sure. I'm either in a dream or I'm in love with my eyes open. I think being in love is dreaming with your eyes open. I don't know where the dream begins - or where if ends. I see the two that I'm in love with; but, I can't seem to reach them.
- Viva: I am making this film; because: A. I thought I would be given a script to read with lines to memorize. And I thought it would be so easy. I always wanted to do a really romantic, tragic, soap-opera type love story movie, with memorized lines such as, "Oh, darling, I didn't know you had cancer. What are we going to do now? Who will pay the hotel bill?" But, instead, I had to make up my own lines once again. B. I'm so tired of being either-and-or: naked-dash-raped in movies, that I thought it would be great to wear some clothes for a change. Not that I have anything against nudity. I think Raquel Welch - if I had a body like Raquel Welch, I would never put my clothes on. But, in fact, I'm even - C. - so sick of doing monologues, that I would like to just breathe for one minute.
- [long exhale]
- Jim: [singing] I have a guru. But he's not too good, though, He reads the Tarot, And The New York Times
- Viva: I just found out about this new religion called The Cosmic Climax.
- Jerry: What about it?
- Viva: Well, it's the last step - The Cosmic Climax.
- Jim: How do you know?
- Jerry: How do you know?
- Viva: Because, love is a bore. Sex is a fucking bore. Fucking is a fucking bore. The word "fucking" is a fucking bore. So let's quit fucking and just have The Cosmic Climax. There's a difference between eroticism and The Cosmic Climax. In fact, it all has to do with intake and outtake of air. Like the Japanese pearl divers.
- Jerry: Oh, I've had enough freedom-liberation.
- Jerry: MGM is up 25 percent. Paramount pictures, 22 percent. 20th Century Fox, 30 percent. Andy Warhol, 2 percent.
- Billy the Kid in The Beard: Take off your stocking.
- Jean Harlow in The Beard: Maybe you'd like to see my tits too.
- Billy the Kid in The Beard: Sure.
- Jean Harlow in The Beard: You make me laugh.
- Billy the Kid in The Beard: Take it off, then. Be divine.
- [first lines]
- Jean Harlow in The Beard: You just threatened me with rape.
- Billy the Kid in The Beard: Yeah. But, I wouldn't touch you with a long stick.
- Jean Harlow in The Beard: Get out of the light.
- Billy the Kid in The Beard: What do you see?
- Jean Harlow in The Beard: If you'd get out of the light, I'd see something besides your fucking shadow.
- Jim: What kind of movies are you making?
- Shirley Clarke: You know how movie people are - superstitious. But, I'm supposed to be making a film using movie stars as if they were real people.
- Jerry: You should see me when I'm real.
- Viva: You know, she's supposed to be the best. People are fantastic with her!
- Shirley Clarke: it's very simple. I just use real people.
- Jerry: You making lots of money?
- Shirley Clarke: Honey, it'll be something new if I do. None of my films ever made a nickel before. It may change my life. I'm not sure I like that. Anyhow, I'm going to be meeting a lot of movie stars.
- Jim: [in drag] Do you want a Harlow?
- Viva: Instant Harlow.
- Shirley Clarke: I can't use people that are supposed to be dead.
- Viva: The only real thing in here is this coat. How much did it cost? Is it leopard?
- Shirley Clarke: No, Jaguar.
- Viva: [referring to the wallpaper] Oh, like all the jaguars creeping out from behind the bushes here.
- Carlos: It's a real Hollywood jungle.
- Shirley Clarke: I match!
- Viva: Yeah, and Otto Preminger behind every bush. Too bad he doesn't have a bush of his own.
- Shirley Clarke: Right.
- Carlos: I can't top that.
- Viva: it's a bird of paradise - and the one next to it is a fake bird of paradise, but it's much prettier.
- Carlos: Viva's life is nothing but a movie.
- Shirley Clarke: Oh, I think that's happening with us all. you know, I'm getting so I don't know the difference whether I'm in a movie or making a movie. Or, you know, which comes first - the movie or reality?
- Viva: Oh, sweet mystery of love.
- Jerry: Number three - the perfect number.
- Viva: The Holy Trinity.
- Jim: I am the Father. He is the Son. And he is the Holy Ghost.
- Viva: Couldn't that be the daughter?
- Jim: No. You want to be the Holy Ghost?
- Viva: All right. Oh, I can be the Holy Ghost. I can fly. It's easy to fly.
- Viva: What do you mean, I have no tits? That's such a vulgar expression, "tits." The word is "breasts,"... "Breasts." B-R-E-A-S-T-S. Cleopatra didn't have any either. She looked just like a boy. In fact, that's why she was so successful - at love and war. What else?
- Viva: What do you mean, "the time"? You make the time. You arrive on your own time. That's the first lesson to teach them out here. Always be late.
