“Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)” quotes
(2014)
Alejandro González Iñárritu
directed this movie
in 2014
Title Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Original title Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Year 2014
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
Genre Drama, Comedy
Original title Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Year 2014
Director Alejandro González Iñárritu
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – “Birdman” tells the story of Riggan Thomson, an actor in decline after a brilliant career as a famous superhero, who is hoping to revive his career by directing an ambitious new show on Broadway to show everyone that he is not only a former Hollywood star. In the days preceding the opening night, Riggan has to deal with an irreducible ego and efforts to save his family, career and himself.
All actors – Michael Keaton, Emma Stone, Kenny Chin, Jamahl Garrison-Lowe, Zach Galifianakis, Naomi Watts, Jeremy Shamos, Andrea Riseborough, Katherine O'Sullivan, Damian Young, Keenan Shimizu, Akira Ito, Natalie Gold, Merritt Wever, Edward Norton, Michael Siberry, Clark Middleton, Amy Ryan, William Youmans, Lindsay Duncan, Paula Pell, David Fierro, Hudson Flynn, Warren Kelley, Joel Marsh Garland, Brent Bateman, Donna Lynne Champlin, Valentino Musumeci, Taylor Schwencke, Craig muMs Grant, Kyle Knauf, Dave Neal, Kelly Southerland, Roberta Colindrez, Catherine Peppers, Frank Ridley, Janis Corsair, Rakesh Shah, Bill Camp, Malachi Weir, Jackie Hoffman, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Glenn Wein, Ebrahim Jaffer, Rain Noe, Susan Blackwell, Anna Hardwick, Dusan Dukic, Helena-Alexis Seymour, Ian Finlay, , Alexandra Aristy, Marshall Axt, Robbin Banx, Thomas J. Bellezza, Paula Blum, Dave Bobb, Bryan Burton, Teena Byrd, John Chambers, Brian Cheeks, Richard R. Corapi, Alan Davis, Johanna Day, Madeline Farbstein, James Farley, Zach Fouche, Z. Frankie, Les Gardonyi, David H. Holmes, Bomber Hurley-Smith, David Itchkawitz, Joseph Anthony Jerez, Benjamin Kanes, Kenneth Kopolovicz, Anna Kuchma, Kamron Leal, Tracy Michael Lynch, Rachael Ma, Keith Mackler, Vanessa Malanga, Alex Malaos, Raymond Mamrak, Michelle E. Mancini, Lynn Marocola, Nicholas Marocola, Chris McFarland, Chuck McMahon, Laura Merrill, Teresa Meza, Leslie C. Nemet, Amy Novondo, Thelma O'Leary, Philip Odango, Carolyn Ormond, And Palladino, Stephen Payne, Katrina E. Perkins, Rich Petrillo, Joe Michael Phillips, Josephine Pizzino, Jon Douglas Rainey, Dawn Ressy, Dwayne Rivera, Charles J. Rosa, Shade Rupe, Stuart Schnitzer, Nancy Ellen Shore, Janet Stanwood, John Stepanian, Janelle Tedesco, Paul Thornton, Stella Toppan, Millie Torchetti, Wyatt Unger, Stefano Villabona, Bill Walters, Dorothy Weems, Kelli Wilcoxen
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“That's what you always do. You confuse love for admiration.”
“- Lesley: I'm pathetic. You know, I've dreamt of being a Broadway actress since I was a little kid. And now I'm here. And I'm not a Broadway actress. I'm still just a little kid. And I keep waiting for someone to tell me I made it.
- Laura: [Sincerely] Hey. You made it.
- Lesley: I did?
- Laura: Sadly it was with Mike Shiner, on a fake motel bed.”“- Riggan: This is my career, this is my chance to do some work that actually means something.
- Sam: Means something to who? You had a career before the third comic book movie, before people began to forget who was inside the bird costume. You're doing a play based on a book that was written 60 years ago, for a thousand rich old white people...” (continue)(continue reading)“Give the people what they want... old-fashioned apocalyptic porn.”
“There's nothing here about technique! There's nothing in here about structure! There's nothing in here about intentions! It's just a bunch of crappy opinions, backed up by even crappier comparisons... You write a couple of paragraphs and you know what? None of this cost you fuckin' anything! The Fuck! You risk nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing!...” (continue)(continue reading)
“A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.”
“- Sam: Do you really think you'll be ready for opening tomorrow?
- Riggan: Yeah, yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, previews were pretty much a train-wreck. We can't seem to get through without a raging fire or a raging hard-on. I'm broke. I'm not sleeping like, you know, at all. And um, this play is kinda starting to feel like a major deformed version...” (continue)(continue reading)“Shave off that pathetic goatee. Get some surgery. Sixty's the new thirty, motherfucker!”
“I hate you and everyone you represent. Entitled, selfish, spoiled children. Blissfully untrained, unversed and unprepared to even attempt real art. Handing each other awards for cartoons and pornography. Measuring your worth in weekends? Well this is the theater and you don't get to come in here and pretend you can write, direct and act in your...” (continue)(continue reading)
“- Sam: You really don't give a shit if people like you or not?
- Mike Shiner: Not really.
- Sam: That's cool.
- Mike Shiner: Is it? I don't know.”“Wow. You know... What has to happen in a person's life to become a critic anyway?”
“- Jake: Oh my gosh! How do you know Mike Shiner?
- Lesley: We share a vagina.”“Thank the Lord and pass the biscuits, I finally have an actor to dress.”
“The plane started to rattle and shake, and everyone on board was crying, and praying. And I just sat there. Sat there thinking that when Sam opened that paper it was going to be Clooney's face on the front page. Not mine.”
“- Young Birdman: You could jump right back into that suit if you wanted to. We're not dead.
- Riggan: Look at me. Look at this. Look, look, look! I look like a turkey with leukemia!”“Bye-bye. And fuck you.”
“- Sam: Truth or dare?
- Mike Shiner: Truth.
- Sam: That's boring.
- Mike Shiner: Truth is always more interesting.”
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