Sidney Quotes in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Oh, Sidney, I'm so terribly broke.

Sidney: But sir, isn't Mr. Billings going to help you?

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Sidney, he hasn't a nickel. He was lying to me just to make me feel better. We're both broke.

Sidney: I wouldn't worry about that, sir. You've been broke before, sir.

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.: Yes, I know. I've always laughed about it. But I can't laugh anymore, Sidney, because I've been wrong. I've got nothing. Nothing to leave anyone.

Sidney: Nothing, sir? You leave them the memories of the finest things ever done on the stage, sir. You'll leave them a name that they can be proud of all their lives. You'll soon feel better, and then you can do more beautiful things than ever before, sir.

Sidney: Do you think my clothes match?

Sharane: Of coarse you match.

Sidney: That's the problem. I think I match too much.

Sharane: I told you not to buy those Garanimal clothes girl. Shopping at K-Mart...

[laughs]

Sidney: [smiling] You're dissin' me. Why are you dissin' me?

Sharane: Girl, you know I'm gonna be asking you to borrow that outfit tomorrow.

Sidney: If I wasn't happily married and you weren't my wife's stepsister I'd have an affair with you in a second.

Sidney: I swear, I'm hotter than a goat in China.

Sidney: Betty, we should go.

Constance: Betty was your other wife. I'm Constance.

Sidney: My mother's always telling me I gotta control my anger, channel my energy into something more positive. Makes me want to slap her silly.

Sidney: No no no. Shut-up you toothless old whore!

[fight breaks out]

Sidney: Ah shit, Mom I gotta go.

Buddy Young, Jr.: Who do you have to screw to get a vodka?

Sidney: Me.

Buddy Young, Jr.: Make it a ginger ale.

Sidney: Don't you understand what I'm trying to tell you, Henry? You're in trouble. If I keep telling them you're at the dentist's, they're going to want to count your teeth.

Clarkie: The king is dead.

[pause]

Clarkie: Long live the king.

[glasses are raised]

XXXX: Well I'm honored. But for me this is all over. I'm getting out. What was true then is true now. Have a plan. Stick to it. So I'm sure you must have lots to discuss... but I have no business being here. I've got someone to meet. Adios, amigos.

XXXX: [voiceover] Paul the Boatman. Kinky, The Duke. Slasher. Kilburn Jerry. Crazy Larry. Mr. Lucky. Troop. Jimmy. I don't want to add my name to that list. My name? If you knew that you'd be as clever as me.

Tammy: NO!

[shot fired]

Sidney: I'm sorry.

[last lines]

Sidney: I'm sorry.

Sidney: [Staring at Thorsen's Daughter] No! No, wait!

[Gets up in front of Thorsen, faces the Nurse, and starts shouting]

Sidney: No! Hey! Wait! Enough bullshit! You need to help her right now!

Nurse: Excuse me...?

Sidney: Man, why you giving me all this shit? Ain't you got some oxygen or something you can give her?

Nurse: All right. Let me get a supervisor.

[Attempts to leave]

Sidney: [Blocks her way] No, no, no, no! You don't need to get no supervisor! You the supervisor today! Huh? You are the supervisor today! You feel me on that? Now I want you to get your skinny ass down the hall, put the little girl on a tray and supervise her, and I want you to get her some goddamn air!

[Patting Thorsen's Daughter's shoulder]

Sidney: I got your back, sis!

[Notices the Nurse hasn't left yet]

Sidney: Aw, bitch you still here?

[Gets out a gun and shoots the floor. The nurse hurries out]

Sidney: Shit! Shit ain't funny now!

[Thorsen's Daughter is put on a stretcher]

Sidney: Aw! Aw come on, man! Come on! Come on, man! Damn! Aw!

[Sidney is arrested and put in handcuffs]

Sidney: The world is a shithole, pardon my French an' shit.

Paul: Sidney, I love you and you're a very talented man but you don't know anything about loading dishes.

Sidney: With all due respect sir, the mantle has passed.

Bobby: Sidney, look at me. You made a decision. How did that make you feel?

Sidney: Free. He was abusive. I tried to stop it before, but it wasn't until that moment that I really did something. It was him or me and I chose to live. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Simone: That's a bunch of bullshit. He had to die for you to leave him? You know the best thing that happened to me after having to cut off my own arm is handicapped parking at the damn mall!

Randy: Told ya I'd make a movie someday, huh?

Sidney: Oh my god.

Randy: Well, if you're watching this tape, it means as I feared. I did not survive these killings here at Windsor College. And that giving up my virginity to Karen Kolchec at the video store was probably not a good idea.

Dewey: Karen Kolchec?

Randy: Yes, Karen Kolchec.

Dewey: Creepy Karen?

Randy: Shut up. She's a sweet person, okay? We were working late. We were putting away some videos in the porno section and ya know, shit happens.

paul: [Knocking in background] Open the door Randy.

Randy: 15 minutes.

paul: It's my room too.

Randy: Paul, 15 minutes. I'm leaving my legacy.

[knocking continues]

Randy: 15 minutes Paul. Damn! Anyway, the reason I am here is to help you so that my death will not be in vain; That my life's work will save some other poor soul from getting mutilated. If this killer does come back and he's for real, there are a few things that you gotta remember. Is this simply another sequel? Well if it is, same rules apply. But-here's the critical thing-if you find yourself dealing with an unexpected back story and a preponderance of exposition, then the sequel rules DO NOT apply. Because you are not dealing with a sequel, you are dealing with the concluding chapter of a trilogy.

Dewey: Trilogy?

Randy: That's right, it's a rarity in the horror field but it does exist, and it is a force to be reckoned with. Because true trilogies are all about going back to the beginning and discovering something that wasn't true from the get go. Godfather, Jedi, all revealed something that we thought was true that wasn't true. So if it is a trilogy you are dealing with, here are some super trilogy rules: 1. You got a killer who's going to be super human. Stabbing him won't work. Shooting him won't work. Basically in the third one you gotta cryogenically freeze his head, decapitate him, or blow him up. 2. Anyone including the main character can die. This means you Syd. I'm sorry. It's the final chapter. It could be fucking 'Reservoir Dogs' by the time this thing is through. Number 3. The past will come back to bite you in the ass. Whatever you think you know about the past, forget it. The past is not at rest. Any sins you think were committed in the past are about to break out and destroy you. So in closing, let me say good luck, god speed, and for some of you, I'll see you soon. 'Cause the rules say some of you ain't gonna make it. I didn't, not if you're watching this tape.

Sidney: Hey Detective, what's your favorite scary movie?

Mark: My life.

Sidney: Mine too.

Dewey: The killer called her.

Mark: When?

Gale: What'd he say?

Sidney: Oh you know the usual small talk. "What's new?" "How you been?" "How do you wanna die?"

Sidney: God why don't stop your whining and get on with it. I've heard all this shit before.

Roman: Stop.

Sidney: Do you know why you kill people Roman? Do you?

Roman: I don't want to hear it.

Sidney: Because you choose to. There is no one else to blame.

Roman: Damnit fucking damnit!

Sidney: Why don't you take some fucking responsibility?

Roman: Fuck you.

Sidney: Fuck you.

Phone Voice: You're not going anywhere Sidney. It's time you came to terms with me, and with mother. Maybe you never knew her at all Sidney... maybe you just can't get past the surface of things.

Sidney: Who the hell are you?

Phone Voice: The other half of you. I searched for a mother too, an actress named "Reena Reynolds" tried to find her my whole LIFE, and four years ago I actually tracked her down. Knocked at her door thinking she'd welcome me with open arms, but she had a new life and a new name, Maureen Prescott! You were the only child she claimed Sidney. She shut me out into the cold forever! Her own son.

[takes off mask to reveal he is Roman Bridger]

Roman: Roman Bridger, director, and brother. She slammed the door in my face, Sid. She said I was "Reena's" child and Reena was dead... and then it struck me. What a good idea, so I watched her. I made a little movie, a little family film. Seems Maureen..."Mom"... she really got around. I mean Cotton was one thing; everybody knew about that. But Billy's father - that was the key. Your boyfriend didn't like seeing his daddy in my film too much. He didn't like it at all. And once I supplied the motivation... all the kid needed was a few pointers. Have a partner to sell out incase you got caught, find someone to frame, it was like he was making a movie.

Sidney: You... this is all because of you.

Roman: I'm a director Sid, I direct.

Sidney: Ah.

Roman: I had no idea, that they were gonna make a film of their own. I mean intoducing Sidney the victim, Sidney the survivor, SIDNEY THE STAR!

Sidney: Psychos can't kill what they can't find.

Sidney: What do you know about trilogies?

Mark: You mean like movie trilogies?

Sidney: You seem to like movies, Detective.

Mark: Call me "Mark", will you? 'Cause I'm gonna keep calling you Sidney.

Sidney: I'll call you "Mark" when you catch the killer, Detective.

Mark: Well, all I know about trilogies is that in the third one, all bets are off.

Sidney: Did you request this case?

Mark: No. They tend to put me on the ones that deal with the business. I grew up here and I know my way around the studios.

Sidney: Must be exciting. Beautiful place, beautiful people.

Mark: To me, Hollywood is about death.

Sidney: Excuse me?

Mark: I'm a homicide cop. When you see what I see day in and day out, the violence that people do to each other, you get haunted. I think you know about that.

Sidney: What do you mean?

Mark: I know what it's like to see ghosts that don't go away, to be watching a scary movie in your head, whether you want to or not, watching it alone.

Sidney: Ghosts are tough. You can't shoot ghosts.

Mark: Can't arrest ghosts. But the trick to keep from getting haunted is to be with people. You're here, you're not in hiding. You've done the right thing... Miss Prescott. What did you know about your Mother?

Sidney: I always thought I had the perfect Mom, the perfect family until I found out I was wrong. She had a secret life and I tried to understand that. And... soon as I thought... then I had more secrets. I don't know who my Mom was.

Mark: You knew who she was to you. Here's the deal: I'm off to search the set. I think that what you saw is real. That's the good news.

Sidney: How's that good news?

Mark: Because it means that we are dealing with a flesh and blood killer, and I know how to handle guys like that.

Sidney: Oh, yeah. How?

Mark: Catch him or kill him.

Sidney: Hey, Detective? What's your favorite scary movie?

Mark: My life.

Sidney: Mine, too.

Sidney: What do you know about trilogies?

Mark: All I know is that in the third one, all bets are off.

Sidney: I don't know who my mother was.

Mark: But you know who she was to you.

Sidney: Hello?

Phone Voice: Hello?

Sidney: Um, Who's calling?

Phone Voice: Um, Who's calling?

Sidney: Look Dewey, Gail, whoever, I'll have to call you back because I only hear myself.

Phone Voice: I only hear you too, Sid.

Cissy: [Showing Tracy how to oral pleasure someone] See how you do it Tracy?

Sidney: You know you don't have to swallow Cissy