Just because you lose interest in something, it doesn’t just go away.[to Hedy]
If you are gonna fail, you’re gonna fail with an audience and you are gonna fail spectacularly.[to Alfie]
I’m only gonna say this once, so pay attention… thank you.[to Joel]
I’m fine by myself. My mantra since I was three.
I got up at 9:30. In the morning. You know the last time I was up at 9:30 in the morning? It was the last time I stayed out all night and got home at 9:30 in the morning.[to Midge]
I don’t know what grown women talk like. I deal with comics.[Hedy: We’re grown-ups. Can’t we be grown-ups? Can’t we talk like grown women?]
Hey, should I get a secretary? Harry has three secretaries. That’s when you know you made it, when there’re three dumpy broads sitting outside your office that know all your s***.[to Midge]
Hey, she stole my childhood. I think we’re even.[Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel: You stole your mother’s car?]
Everyone in this idiotic business is an idiot. You ever meet someone in show business who’s not an idiot, then they’re an a**hole. It’s a business of idiots and a**holes.
Can you stop your brain for one second and take in all the information before you speak?[Susie Myerson]No.[Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel]
Big room is just more people to fall in love with you.[to Midge]