"I've lived in this city all my life. I grew up on the Upper East Side.
And when I was ten years old, I was rich, I was an aristocrat. Riding
around in taxis, surrounded by comfort, and all I thought about was art
and music. Now, I'm 36, and all I think about is money."
-Wally, My Dinner with Andre
"The life of a part-time wrestler is no laughing matter. It's not just
fun and games like most people think. You work out, train constantly,
push your body to the limit of endurance and nobody seems to care. I
have wrestled and defeated over 400 women and what do I get? The men
call me a wimp, the women say I'm a sexist pig."
-Andy, My Breakfast with Blassie
_________________________
"I sometimes think that my secret profession is that I'm a private
investigator, a detective. I always enjoy finding out about people.
Even if they are in absolute agony, I always find it very interesting."
-Wally, My Dinner with Andre
"In that four-week tour, about 20 people dropped dead of heart attacks
from me biting. I was the one who introduced the first biting in
wrestling. They had never seen anybody as vicious as I was in the
ring."
-Freddie, My Breakfast with Blassie
_________________________
"I was beginning to realize that the only way to make this evening
bearable, would be to ask Andre a few questions. Asking questions
always relaxes me."
-Wally, My Dinner with Andre
"Have you read the latest article on herpes?"
-Andy, My Breakfast with Blassie
_________________________
"Whereas I believe that things in the universe are just there. They
don't mean anything."
-Wally, My Dinner with Andre
"The reason I don't like to shake hands with nobody is because I don't
know if they've been to the men's room, been to the toilet, maybe their
finger went right through the tissue."
-Freddie, My Breakfast with Blassie
_________________________
". . . We're living in a fantasy world of our own making."
-Andre, My Dinner with Andre
"Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? I am Andy Kaufman from
'Taxi.' TV star . . . I am trying to have a conversation with my
friend, Fred Blassie, five-time World Wrestling champion."
-Andy, My Breakfast with Blassie
"Wally, don't you see that comfort can be dangerous? I mean, you like
to be comfortable and I like to be comfortable too, but comfort can
lull you into a dangerous tranquility."
-Andre, My Dinner with Andre
_________________________
"As you well know, I've suffered numerous injuries in my profession .
.. . six knee operations . . . neck has also been broken . . . nose
broken seven times . . . the list is endless."
-Freddie, My Breakfast with Blassie
_________________________
"I'm not looking for ways to get rid of a few things that provide
relief and comfort. I mean, on the contrary, I'm looking for more
comfort because the world is very abrasive."
-Wally, My Dinner with Andre
"I'm ready to puke in that asshole's face."
-Freddie, My Breakfast with Blassie
_________________________
"Remember that moment when Marlon Brando sent the Indian woman to
accept the Oscar, and everything went haywire? Things just very rarely
go haywire now. If you're just operating by habit, then you're not
really living."
-Andre, My Dinner with Andre
"What the hell ever happened to the human race?"
-Freddie, My Breakfast with Blassie
________________________
"I treated myself to a taxi. I rode home through the city streets.
There wasn't a street, there wasn't a building, that wasn't connected
to some memory in my mind. There, I was buying a suit with my father.
There, I was having an ice cream soda after school. And when I finally
came in, Debbie was home from work, and I told her everything about my
dinner with Andre."
-Wally, My Dinner with Andre
"I paid for the check, left the once crowded restaurant and got on the
bus. As I rode home the streets of the city were alive with memories.
Like the first time I saw a bum puking his guts out on the sidewalk."
-Andy, My Breakfast with Blassie
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