Gil Shepherd Quotes in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Gil Shepherd: You can't learn to be real. It's like learning to be a midget.

Tom Baxter: [to Cecilia] I love you. I'm honest, dependable, courageous, romantic, and a great kisser.

Gil Shepherd: And I'm real.

Gil Shepherd: I worked so hard to make him real.

Gil's Agent: Maybe you overdid it.

Gil's Agent: Tom Baxter's come down off the screen and he's running around New Jersey!... Nobody knows how it happened, but he's done it.

Gil Shepherd: How can he do that? It's not physically possible!

Gil's Agent: In New Jersey anything can happen.

Gil Shepherd: Where's Tom?

Cecilia: Why?

Gil Shepherd: Well, he's my character. I created him.

Cecilia: Didn't the man who wrote the movie do that?