Starting In Hollywood Gifts

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

Herman Mankiewicz

'How many studio apartment construction projects did you say you'd worked on before?'

"An actor, you say? Guess you caught the acting-like-a-waiter bug."

"The script isn't funny, but maybe if we put some unfunny actors in it and get an unfunny director it will be funny."

"So, do you see yourself as a car valet who writes screenplays or a screen writer who parks cars?"

Danae's Celebrity Career: 'I don't know where to begin in deciding what I want to be when I grow up...I want people to shut and leave me alone, and I need lots of attention, so...'

'Most of all, I'd like to thank god. . .'

"I'm thinking action roles might not really be your thing."

"Face it - in this town, either you're a star or you're just another brown dwarf."

Hollywood or bust!

Welcome to Hollywood

"He's left a suicide screenplay."

"California has always been too big for its britches."

Live the Dream!

'It's 'big office' meets 'poorly-received flop'!'

"I'm sorry. We don't want a ring-tailed lemur. We want a ring-tailed-lemur type."

"Sure, if this was New York, I'd be your editor and you'd be the author - but this is L.A., so I'm your agent and you're the whatever."

"Well, Clive, what I REALLY want to do it wait on tables."

"That's enough therapy. From here on out, I think I could do a hell of a lot more for both of us as your agent."

"Wait a minute... You're not Warren Gurkenman the famous actor, but his stuntman?!"

"Hallelujah, I'm a believer!"

'We have the ideas for product placement and now all we need is the script.'

"No, I just stand there and men applaud."