Billy Quinn Quotes in Factory Girl (2006)

Billy Quinn: Lady, you don't know shit about shit.

Syd Pepperman: [regarding Edie] What do you want me to do?

Billy Quinn: I dunno. See if she needs anything...

[walks away]

Billy Quinn: I'd help her if I could.

Billy Quinn: I sing about what I see.

Billy Quinn: [Edie meets Billy Quinn for the first time, backstage before one of his shows; they talk, photos are taken, he kisses her] Excuse me, babe, I've gotta go to work.

[He begins strumming his guitar, then blows into his harmonica as he walks out onstage, and the crowd cheers]

Billy Quinn: How did a nice chick like you get mixed up in the whole acting racket?

Edie Sedgwick: Breakfast at Tiffany's. You know, Audrey with her hair pulled back, and she's smoking through the black cigarette holder.

Billy Quinn: You wanna live in a movie?

Edie Sedgwick: I never saw the movie, just the poster.

Billy Quinn: So you haven't read the book then?

Edie Sedgwick: Well, Audrey isn't in the book.

Billy Quinn: The book is a bit different. It's about a working girl and a writer, an artist. You see, the artist steals the girl's stories and makes a fortune, and the girl doesn't get anything.

Edie Sedgwick: Why do you have such a problem with Andy?

Billy Quinn: Because of what he worships.