“- 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

“Fuck Picasso.”
Ed Harris - Jackson Pollock

“- Herman Mankiewicz: It won't be easy having made your masterpiece at 26.
- Orson Welles: Is that what you think - that I'm just going to burn out at the ripe old age of 26?
- Herman Mankiewicz: All stars burn out, Orson. It's the flame that counts.”
John Malkovich - Herman Mankiewicz
Liev Schreiber - Orson Welles

“Artists are always appreciated more after they're dead!”
Michael Douglas - Steven Taylor

“- Betty: Sounds screwy to me. I can't imagine a real artist wanting to spend time looking at that kisser.
- Clayton Boone: Oh, yeah? Well, this kisser wasn't so bad that you couldn't lay under it a couple of times.”
Lolita Davidovich - Betty
Brendan Fraser - Clayton Boone