Alice Miller Quotes in My Favorite Year (1982)

Alice Miller: Sy Benson: a tower of Jell-O.

Leo Silver: [reading from a newspaper] "To the question, 'What were you doing naked in Central Park, in Bethesda Fountain, at 3 in the morning?' Swann replied, 'The back stroke.'" Now, is this your idea of watching him, Benji?

Benjy Stone: The police are treating it like a parking ticket. It's no big deal.

Sy: No big deal? We've got kids watching this show. We're talkin' generations to come, here! We're discussin' morals, here!

Alice Miller: [for Herb] You're not qualified to discuss morals, Sy.

Sy: Up your hole with a Mello Roll, Alice! And yours too, Herb!

Sy: Benjy, you want to see movies, get a job as an usher. The rest of us are here to write professional show-business comedy!

Herb Lee: [whispers to Alice]

Alice Miller: [to Sy, for Herb] In your case, semi-professional.

King Kaiser: You look real nice today, Alice. Did you get those shoes I sent you?

Alice Miller: Oh yeah.

King Kaiser: Why did you send them back?

Alice Miller: They were the wrong size. And they were used.

Sy: Swann's never going to show up anyhow.

Alice Miller: We'll find him, Sy.

Benjy Stone: What happened?

Alice Miller: He landed fine last night. That much we know.

Benjy Stone: So where is he?

Sy: Where else? Drinking and humping!