“- Rusty: I'm an artist, you know?
- Walt Koontz: Bullshit. You're a fucking drag queen.
- Rusty: Let me savour those lovely words for a moment. What are you, channeling Jesse Helms?
- Walt Koontz: Don't be so sensitive. You can take a dick, you can take an insult.”
Philip Seymour Hoffman - Rusty
Robert De Niro - Walt Koontz

“She knows nothing about international politics, she has the mind of an artist, she sees people as general humanity, not as separate races.”
Robert Taylor - Mark Preysing

“I'm not one of you anemic creatures who can get nourishment from a lettuce leaf - I'm a musician, I'm an artist! I have zest and appetite - and I like food!”
Mary Astor - Sandra Kovak

“I don't approve of, but I like people who think in terms of ideal conditions. They're the dreamers, poets, tragic figures in this world, but interesting.”
Cary Grant - Leopold Dilg

“The artist has a special temperament, and he must live his life exclusively with those who understand it.”
Frank Puglia - Villeneuve