1:06:00
Playing that childish game of cat and mouse.
1:06:02
Not mouse. Never mouse. If anything, rat.
1:06:05
Your genius for making a bar-room brawl
out of a perfectly innocent misunderstanding.
1:06:10
Perfectly innocent?
Men have been hanged for less.
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I'm lied to, attacked behind my back,
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accused of reading your play
as if it were the holy gospel.
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I never said it was.
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You listen as if someone else had written
your play. Whom do you have in mind?
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Arthur Miller? Sherwood?
Beaumont and Fletcher?
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- May I say a word?
- No!
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You think Miller or Sherwood would stand
for the nonsense I take from you?
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Stick to Beaumont and Fletcher.
They've been dead for 300 years!
1:06:40
All playwrights should be dead for 300 years!
1:06:44
That would solve none of their problems
because actresses never die!
1:06:52
The stars never die and never change.
1:06:56
You may change this star any time you want
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for a new and fresh and exciting one,
fully equipped with fire and music.
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Any time you want,
starting with tonight's performance.
1:07:06
This is for lawyers to talk about.
1:07:08
This concerns a contract
that you cannot rewrite or ad-lib.
1:07:12
Are you threatening me
with legal action, Mr Fabian?
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- Are you breaking the contract?
- Answer my question.
1:07:21
- Who am I to threaten? I'm a dying man.
- I don't hear you.
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- I said I'm a dying man!
- Not until the last drugstore
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has sold its last pill.
1:07:31
I shall never understand the process
by which a body with a voice
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suddenly fancies itself as a mind.
1:07:37
Just when does an actress decide
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they're her words she's saying
and her thoughts she's expressing?
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Usually at the point
when she has to rewrite and rethinkthem
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to keep the audience from leaving the theatre.
1:07:50
It's about time the piano realised
it has not written the concerto!
1:07:59
And you, I take it, are the Paderewski
who plays his concerto on me, the piano?