altreel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> "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 ***ist 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
>
> http://altreel.blogspot.com
I love the quotation comparisons! Thanks for the effort. My Breakfast
with Blassie is the height of, something.
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