Most-quoted character in And the Band Played On (1993): in 4 of its 12 quotes
A line from Dr. Don FrancisThis may be the first epidemic in history of which no one officially died.
Eddie Papasano Let me tell you people something, no matter what happens here today, if you try to close my joint, I 'll sue the ass off you.
Dr. Don Francis Doesn't it bother you knowing that the people who have sex in your bath-house are playing Russian roulette?
Eddie Papasano Please just cut out this bullshit. We're all in this for one thing: money. I make'em when the guys come in. You doctors, you make'em when they go out.
Is the CDC seriously suggesting that the blood industry spends $100M a year to use the test for the wrong disease because we have a handful of transfusion fatalities and eight dead hemophiliacs?
Dr. Don Francis How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die to make it cost effecient for you people to do something about it? A hundred? A thousand? Give us a number so we won't annoy you again until the amount of money you begin spending on lawsuits make it more profitable for you to save people than to kill them.
Dr. Robert Gallo All right, explain one thing to me. Ten times ten times ten, my name is in every book ever written on the human retrovirus. Why would you get in bed with the French instead of me?
Dr. Don Francis Is it you against the French? I thought we were all against the virus. If you go to court now, everybody loses. You, the people who die while you quibble...
Dr. Robert Gallo What do you want?
Dr. Don Francis I want to stop you from turning a holocaust into an international pissing contest!
