Barton Fink (1991) · 13 quotes
Tied for 2nd most-quoted character in Barton Fink (1991): in 4 of its 13 quotes
Most scenes with: Barton (2)
Look upon me!!! I'll show you the life of the mind!!! I'll show you the life of the mind!!!
Charlie Meadows C'mon, Barton, you think you know about pain? You think I made your life hell? Take a look around this dump. You're just a tourist with a typewriter, Barton, I live here, don't you understand that? And you come into MY home... and you complain that I'M making too... much... noise.
Ben Geisler Ever act?
...Huh? No, I'm—
Geisler We need Indians for a Norman Steele western.
I'm a writer. Ted O—
Geisler Think about it, Fink. Writers come and go; we always need Indians.
Charlie I could tell you some stories...
Sure you could and yet many writers do everything in their power to insulate themselves from the common man, from where they live, from where they trade, from where they fight and love and converse and...So naturally their work suffers and regresses into empty formalism and... well I'm spouting off again, but to put it in your language, the theatre becomes as phony as a three-dollar bill!
Charlie Well I guess that's a tragedy right there!
Walter Sobchak
Fred Flintstone
James P. "Sulley" Sullivan
James P. "Sulley" Sullivan
Hound
Pacha
Baloo
Delbert McClintock
