Gloria Travalian Quotes in Author! Author! (1982)

Gloria Travalian: Ivan, I'm not leaving you for another man.

Travalian: Larry Kotzwinkle's not a man, he's a duck.

Gloria Travalian: Larry is a wonderful man.

Ivan: I'm thrilled to hear this.

Gloria Travalian: Larry is a wonderful man, but he's not you.

Ivan: That's what I figured when he scratched his leg and I felt nothing. 'This man is not me.'

Gloria Travalian: [Snobs] How can you joke at a time like this?

Ivan: I joke, You snob. What difference does it make? We're both miserable.

Gloria Travalian: Larry and I are moving to the Good Harbor Beach Inn in Massachusetts. We've agreed to live there for a three month trial period and if it works, we'll be married on Larry's birthday in March.

Ivan: Okay... okay-I guess I'll be heading back to rehearsal. Enough taking time off from work for fun, huh? You can keep the night table, Gloria.

Gloria Travalian: No...

Ivan: I just wanna say that you are the craziest person I've met since the guy blocking the bank door. He was wearing a Superman cape and pantyhose... crazier than you... maybe not.

Gloria Travalian: Oh, Ivan. I'm hurting you.

Ivan: That's the kindest thing you've said to me in six months, "Oh, Ivan, I'm hurting you."

Ivan: Okay, Gloria!

[picking up a table]

Ivan: Sit down or I'm gonna hit you with this chair!

Gloria Travalian: That's a table.

Gloria Travalian: You're at the goddamn typewriter 14 hours a day...

Ivan: I'M AT THE GODDAMN TYPEWRITER, GLORIA... BECAUSE I'M A GODDAMN WRITER, GLORIA!