Mark Cohen There are times, when we're dirt broke and hungry, and I ask myself "What the hell am I still doing here?" and then they call, and I remember...
Played by Anthony Rapp 
Rent (2005) · 139 quotes
Rent (2005) · 139 quotes
Most-quoted character in Rent (2005): in 27 of its 139 quotes
Most scenes with: Joanne Jefferson (4), Tom Collins (3), Benny (2)
December 24, 1989, 9 PM, Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes from it, instead of my old shit.
More lines from Mark Cohen
14 quotes Mark Cohen Mark Cohen First I got a protest to save.
Mark Cohen And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song... that doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz."
Mark Cohen That sleezy news show Buzzline wants to take a meeting.
Mark Cohen Look, this is not my Bar Mitzvah, give it back to me!
Mark Cohen [About Maureen committing to Joanne]
This can't be happening.
Mark Cohen Hey, guys, all our shit's back!
Mark Cohen That drip of hurt, that pint of shame, goes away -- just play the game!
Mark Cohen I see it my film!
Mark Cohen Alexi? Mark. Call me a hypocrite. I need to finish my own film. I quit!
Mark Cohen December 24, 1990, 10 PM, Eastern Standard Time. I can't believe a year went by so fast.
Mark Cohen Hey, Collins, don't get your ass kicked this time!
Mark Cohen Mutual Masturbation!
Mark Cohen How do you document real life, when real life is getting more like fiction each day?
Scenes with Mark Cohen
12 scenes Mark Where is he?
Getting dizzy.
Hey, bum, get your ass off the Range Rover.
Mark Hey Benny, that attitude towards the homeless is exactly what Maureen is protesting.
Maureen is protesting losing her performance space. Not my attitude.
She left you? Another guy?
Mark Not exactly...
What's his name?
Mark and Roger: Joanne.
[Benny cracks up]
Merry Christmas, bitches!
Mark Yeah, fourteen hours later! What the hell happened to you?!
Mark Say something, anything.
Test one two three...
Mark Anything but that.
She cheated.
Mark She cheated.
Maureen cheated.
Mark ****in' cheated.
Mark Pookie.
Shut up.
Life Cafe Manager
Oh, no. Please, no. No. Not tonight. Please leave.
Mark What are you talking about? Why?
Life Cafe Manager
Because you sit here all night and you never order anything.
Mark That's a lie. Just last week I had a tea.
Life Cafe Manager
You couldn't pay.
Mark Oh, yeah.
Angel
Tonight we can.
Angel
[Holds up money]
Ka-pow! [To others] Come on.
Life Cafe Manager
All right. Fine. Just please don't move the tables!
Angel
[Off-screen]
Hey, Rosie, let's put these tables together!
Mark I sold my soul.
Yeah, for three grand a segment!
Mark Why our entire year's strewn on the cutting room floor of memory...
Mark Why am I the witness? And when I capture it on film, will it mean that is the end, and I'm alone?
Mark Must be nice to have money.
Mimi and Collins: No shit.
You owe me a beer.
I'll give you a cigarette.
Mimi's got her baggage too.
Mark So do you.
You're always preaching not to be numb, when that's how you thrive. You pretend to create and observe, when you really detach from feeling alive.
Mark Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive.
Poor baby.
