Great Performances (TV Series)
Follies in Concert (1986)
Mandy Patinkin: Buddy Plummer
Quotes
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Buddy : I've got those... God-why-don't-you-love-me-oh-you-do-I'll-see-you-later Blues!
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Buddy : Margie! Oh, Margie! She says she really loves me!; She says she really cares; She says that I'm her hero; she says, I'm perfect she swears! She says that if we parted, she says that she'd be sick; she say's she's mine forever; she says, and I gotta get away from her quick!
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Buddy : Sally! Oh, Sally! She says she loves another; she says a fella she prefers; she says that he's her idol; she says, ideal, she avers; she says that anybody would suit her more than I; she says that I'm a washout, she says, and I love her so much, I could die!
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Buddy : Waiting around for the girls upstairs, after the curtain came down; money in my pocket to spend; "Honey, could you maybe get a friend for my friend?"
Ben : Hearing the sounds of the girls above, dressing to go on the town...
Buddy : Clicking heels on steel and cement...
Ben : Picking up the giggles floating down through the vent...
Buddy , Ben : God damnedest hours that I ever spent were waiting for the girls upstairs!
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Buddy : The right girl-yeah! The right girl-yeah! She sees you're nothing and thinks you're king! She knows you've got other songs to sing. You still could be, hell, well anything when you've got-yeah! The right girl-yeah! And I got...
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[Buddy imagines his affair with a woman named Margie]
Buddy : Hey, Margie. It's day, babe. My flight goes - no, stay, babe. You know how you cry, babe - stay home. Be good now, we'll speak, babe. It might be next week, babe - Hey, Margie - goodbye, babe - I gotta go home.