Then you’ll fit right into our family.[Benjamin Ettenberg: I’ve heard absolutely nothing from your father and I’m going insane.]
The great thing about owning a club is that all the things that made you look like a loser before are now part of your job.
That’s the nice thing about the Jews. We only hijack a conversation.
That’s the best you can hope for in life, that you die with all your teeth.
Rose? Rose! Wonderful, you’re back. I mean, I knew you were coming back, I looked in your closet, but sometimes you don’t come back. So it’s nice that you came back. It is you, isn’t it? You don’t look like yourself.
Okay, news flash. This is show business, lady.[Susie Myerson]You lied to me.[Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel]That’s show business, too.[Susie Myerson]
Of course they do. I start every paper reading the corrections. That’s how you know who the idiots are.[Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel: Does anyone really read corrections?]
Of course I’ve worn a dress. I was a baby once. You know, helpless.[to Midge]
No one knows what Being and Nothingness is, Sartre doesn’t even know. Even I’m just pretending to read it.[Rose Weissman: She’s not going to know what Being and Nothingness is, even if she’s curious about the text.]
My daughter is a remarkable person, and I don’t think I’ve ever said that to her.
Just because you lose interest in something, it doesn’t just go away.[to Hedy]
Just because you can’t grasp a complex thematic piece like this is not some reflection on your intelligence. I don’t understand anything that you do. Does that make me an idiot?[to Rose]