Moviegoer
I want what happened in the movie last week to happen this week; otherwise, what's life all about anyway?
Tom Baxter
Jeff Daniels · 8 quotes
Cecilia
Mia Farrow · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Cecilia & Tom Baxter (3)
The Purple Rose of Cairo quotes
Gil's Agent Tom Baxter's come down off the screen and he's running around New Jersey!... Nobody knows how it happened, but he's done it.
Gil Shepherd
How can he do that? It's not physically possible!
Gil's Agent In New Jersey anything can happen.
Theater Manager Cecilia, what are you doing here?
Meeting Gil Shepherd.
Theater Manager They all gone.
Th - whaddaya, whaddaya mean?
Theater Manager They went back to Hollywood.
Gil too?
Theater Manager Mr Shepherd, yeah. Soon as Tom Baxter went back up on the movie screen - couldn't wait to get outta here. He said this was a close call for his career. I think he's gonna play Charles Lindbergh. [pause] Don't forget, Cecilia, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers start today.
What?
Always when the kissing gets hot and heavy just before the lovemaking, there's a fadeout.
Then what?
Then we're making love in some private, perfect place.
That's not how it happens here.
What, there's no fade out?
No, but when you kissed me, I felt like my heart faded out. I closed my eyes, and I was in some private place.
How fascinating. You make love without fading out?
Yes.
Well, I can't wait to see this!
[to Cecilia]
I love you. I'm honest, dependable, courageous, romantic, and a great kisser.
Gil Shepherd
And I'm real.
Cecilia, it's clear how miserable you are with your husband. And if he hits you again, you tell me. I'd be forced to knock his teeth out.
I don't think that'd be such a good idea. He's big.
I'm sorry. It's written into my character to do it, so I do it.
I guess I have to get a job.
That's not gonna be so easy either - right now the whole country's out of work.
Well, then, we'll live on love. We'll have to make some concessions, but so what? We'll have each other
That's movie talk.
I was thinking about some very deep things. About God and his relation with Irving Saks and R.H. Levine. And I was thinking about life in general. The origin of everything we see about us. The finality of death; how almost magical it seems in the real world, as opposed to the world of celluloid and flickering shadows.
Hooker [to another hooker]
Where did you FIND this clown?
I don't get hurt or bleed, hair doesn't muss; it's one of the advantages of being imaginary.
I just met a wonderful new man. He's fictional but you can't have everything.
It's so impulsive, but... I'll come. Why not? What's life without a little risk taking? Who knows?
Life's too short to spend time thinking about life. Let's just live it!