The Cobweb (1955)

Oscar Levant: Mr. Capp

Quotes 

• Mr. Capp : Ah! The Cezanne of the psychos! This is your moment! Make the most of it. You're on the assembly line of success. From now on, you'll hover between exhilaration and despair. I pity you. For a few moments of elation, a mass of inflamed nerve ends!

• Mr. Capp : Ah, incompleteness. That's the only triumph worthwhile. With a finished work, you subject yourself to public scrutiny, praise, ridicule, and all the other vulgarities that go with accomplishment.

• Mr. Capp : Miss Gavney, please! One doctor at a time. Let's not interfere with good old Devanal's work. Ha! He's making me fit to face the world. The futility and the emptiness. The hydrogen bomb. Say, I may even be fit to cope with my mother! There's a formidable woman, Miss Gavney, quick of eye, steady of hand. Never been known to miss with a knife in the back.

• Miss Gavney : Well, Mr. Capp, you must be as drowsy as a kitten. How about bed now - and some sleep?

  Mr. Capp : That's the wittiest remark since the passing of Oscar Wilde.

• Mr. Capp : Cobby, did you know that Thomas Edison never slept more than 42 minutes a night in his whole life? No wonder he tinkered around.

• Mr. Capp : Man shall not minister to my disease, Plucked from the memory of rooted sorrow, Raise up the hidden troubles of the brain, And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, cleanse...