Lenny (1974)

Bob Fosse: The Interviewer

Quotes 

• Lenny Bruce : Deny it. Flat out - deny it! If you really love your wife, deny it. If they got pictures, deny it.

  Honey Bruce : lt bugged me at first. You know, it, it hurt.

  Lenny Bruce : If they walk in on you, deny it. Just say this strange chick came into the apartment shivering with a sign around her neck that said, ''l have malaria. Lie on top of me and keep me physically active or l'll die.''

  Honey Bruce : Later, l found out a lot about why he did things like that.

  Lenny Bruce : And chances are, man... they'll believe it. Do you know why?

  The Interviewer : To prove himself.

  Honey Bruce : Needed to prove himself.

  Lenny Bruce : Because they wanna believe it.

• Sally Marr : Lenny used to do a shtick between strippers.

  The Interviewer : What kind of stick?

  Sally Marr : No, it's ''shtick'', darling, ''shtick''.

• Honey Bruce : Well, we're off to California. The new life, you know? And we're working our way across the country playing these really dinky clubs. We usually bombed, but it was kinda fun, you know? And that's where it all started.

  The Interviewer : What?

  Honey Bruce : Well, we were working this club in Detroit, and we were all clowning around in the dressing room, and this drummer comes up and says ''Hey, you cats wanna try something groovy?'' And we said ''Sure.'' So he hands us these little straws, and we started sniffing this stuff. Up our noses, you know?

  The Interviewer : What was it, cocaine?

  Honey Bruce : No, it was, um, heroin - and stuff.