“- Tully: You can really write. Why do you live like a bum?
- Henry: I am a bum. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to write about the sufferings of the upper classes?
- Tully: This may be news to you but they suffer too.
- Henry: Hey baby, nobody suffers like the poor.”
Alice Krige - Tully
Mickey Rourke - Henry

“Don't you know the finest things in the world have been written on an empty stomach.”
Lloyd Gough - Morino

“As I understand from your communication, Mr. Engle, you're on the brink of self-destruction. May I shake your hand? A brilliant idea! I speak as one who has destroyed himself a score of times.”

Thomas Mitchell - Gene Gibbons

“She finds human imperfection unforgiveable. And when I gradually discovered that my relationship to her was supposed to be not that of a loving husband and a good companion, but... but that of a kind of high priest to a virgin goddess, then my drinks grew deeper and more frequent.”

Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven

“I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives. One time I secretly wanted to be a writer.”
Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven