“- Miriam: Do they know you take an interest in the theater?
- Pierce: Well, an unmarried gentleman must amuse himself.
- Miriam: Must he?”

Lesley-Anne Down - Miriam
Sir Sean Connery - Pierce

“- Zidler: Remember: a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience. And you'll be...
- Satine: A real actress.”
Jim Broadbent - Harold Zidler
Nicole Kidman - Satine

“Entertaining the rustics is not as difficult as I feared. Any simple, childish game seems to amuse them excessively.”

Frieda Inescort - Miss Bingley

“We will now present for your entertainment the most stupendous, magnificent, super-colossal spectacle! On this tiny, little, insignificant ball, we will construct for you a pyramid! Not of wood, not of stone... pyramid, of ponderous, pulsating, pulchritudinous pachyderms!”
Herman Bing - The Ringmaster

“What if God just put us here for His own entertainment? That's all we are - just something for Him to have a bit of a laugh at?”
David Thewlis - Johnny