- [first lines]
- Howard: Did you ever think some deep down place that you were really something else? And if you could just strip away that filthy ditch shell you've been walking around, you'd be reborn. In something new. Something more beautiful that anything ever imagined.
- Aldo: [after being rejected over Howard as the young star's agent] For this guy? He's a fucking punchline!
- Marcy: [stops kissing Howard] What? What am I doing?
- [leaving the apartment]
- Howard: No, wait!
- Marcy: No, I'm sorry, you know, no, no, I'm just having a really tough time right now and I don't want to do something that makes me want to kill myself later.
- [short break]
- Marcy: That didn't come out exactly the way I meant.