Tom Baxter Quotes in The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Tom Baxter: You make love without fading out?

Tom Baxter: I guess I have to get a job.

Cecilia: That's not gonna be so easy either - right now the whole country's out of work.

Tom Baxter: Well, then, we'll live on love. We'll have to make some concessions, but so what? We'll have each other.

Cecilia: That's movie talk.

Tom Baxter: Cecilia, it's clear how miserable you are with your husband. And if he hits you again, you tell me. I'd be forced to knock his teeth out.

Cecilia: I don't think that'd be such a good idea. He's big.

Tom Baxter: I'm sorry. It's written into my character to do it, so I do it.

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

Gil Shepherd: And I'm real.

Emma: You're gonna get a champion roll in the hay.

Tom Baxter: What, there's hay in the bedroom?

Tom Baxter: [pauses after kissing Cecilia] Where's the fade-out?

Cecilia: What?

Tom Baxter: Always when the kissing gets hot and heavy just before the lovemaking, there's a fadeout.

Cecilia: Then what?

Tom Baxter: Then we're making love in some private, perfect place.

Cecilia: That's not how it happens here.

Tom Baxter: What, there's no fade out?

Cecilia: No, but when you kissed me, I felt like my heart faded out. I closed my eyes, and I was in some private place.

Tom Baxter: How fascinating. You make love without fading out?

Cecilia: Yes.

Tom Baxter: Well, I can't wait to see this!

Tom Baxter: Dad was a card. I never met him. He died before the movie began.

Tom Baxter: I don't get hurt or bleed, hair doesn't muss; it's one of the advantages of being imaginary.

Tom Baxter: I was thinking about some very deep things. About God and his relation with Irving Saks and R.H. Levine. And I was thinking about life in general. The origin of everything we see about us. The finality of death; how almost magical it seems in the real world, as opposed to the world of celluloid and flickering shadows.

Hooker: [to another hooker] Where did you FIND this clown?

Tom Baxter: It's so impulsive, but... I'll come. Why not? What's life without a little risk taking? Who knows?

Tom Baxter: I still can't get over the fact that hours ago I was in an Egyptian tomb. I didn't know any of you wonderful people, and here I am now! I'm on the verge of a madcap Manhattan weekend!

Hooker: Do you wanna tie me up?

Tom Baxter: [laughs] You're funny! She's funny! The absurd non-sequitur.

Tom Baxter: Maybe you didn't hear me, Lombardo. You're finished in Blue Bay. And if I find you around my daughter again, you'll be finished, period. Get the fuck out of here.

Kenneth Bowden: [Passing Sandra Van Ryan's limo and honking the horn] Hey, look who we've got here. Hey, Sandra!

Sandra Van Ryan: I want you to nail that shyster's balls to the wall!

Tom Baxter: Well, that might have been possible if miss not-so-bright here hadn't started throwing things in court.

Kelly Van Ryan: Fuck off!

Sandra Van Ryan: I can't believe you're going to let them, get away with this... shit!

Tom Baxter: I don't think you understand, Sandy. Your little princess here committed perjury. It will be all I can do to keep her fucking little ass out of jail.

Sandra Van Ryan: Well... what are we going to do?