Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)

Kirk Douglas: Jack Andrus

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Quotes 

• Jack Andrus : What's your name?

  Veronica : Veronica.

  Jack Andrus : Veronica what?

  Veronica : Veronica What's-the-difference.

• Jack Andrus : Hello, Lew.

  [he is ignored] 

  Jack Andrus : I said hello, Lew.

  Lew Jordan : I heard what you said, Jack. I hated you when you were a star. You were arrogant, irresponsible. The most difficult client I ever had. Now that you're nothing, I still hate you. Only now I can tell you.

  [he puts his pipe in his mouth. Jack slaps at the pipe, breaking it and sending most of it flying across the room. Lew angrily tosses the remnants of the pipe to the floor and stalks away] 

• Lew Jordan : Jack, got a minute?

  Jack Andrus : I'm in a hurry.

  Lew Jordan : Too much of a hurry to make a lot of money?

  Jack Andrus : Lew, some other time. I'm rushing to the hospital.

  Lew Jordan : Well, I'll walk you to the door. How long before you finish this job?

  Jack Andrus : It's already finished, except for two days of retakes.

  Lew Jordan : Good, you're available. I can close the deal now. You know how much finishing this picture means to Davie. Yesterday he was poison. Today we can pick and choose.

  Jack Andrus : We?

  Lew Jordan : Yeah. Didn't you know? Davie made it clear. On his next picture, you direct. I've got just the package. Davie, the number one bestseller, you.

  Jack Andrus : What about Kruger?

  Lew Jordan : What about him?

• Jack Andrus : [looks approvingly at a bottle of wine]  "Vin Nobile."

  Veronica : From Siena. You like it?

  Jack Andrus : Very much. And I like you very much.

• Jack Andrus : Hey, why don't you stop going around with guys who give you black eyes?

• Veronica : When you were a star... there in Hollywood... before Carlotta... did you have a lot of girls? Girls like me?

  Jack Andrus : Not as many as I should have. Certainly not as many as they said I had.

  Veronica : What were you like then?

  Jack Andrus : Lonely

  Veronica : So famous... and alone.

  Jack Andrus : Everybody's alone - actors more so.

  Veronica : Then why would anyone want to be an actor?

  Jack Andrus : That's a good question.

  [laughs] 

  Veronica : Why?

  Jack Andrus : To hide from the world.

• Veronica : Everybody likes to hide once in a while.

  Jack Andrus : Sure they do. Look at any movie theater. What's the audience doing there? Hiding in the dark, trading *their* problems for mine on the screen. Actors... what a job.

• Jack Andrus : You know, I used to get up at six o'clock in the morning, rush through my breakfast, jump in my car, race down to the studio, get into wardrobe, makeup, get up on that stage, and then at 9 o'clock in the morning, invent the telephone, win the West, sway juries, make love to the most beautiful women in the world, hour after hour after hour.

  [Veronica laughs] 

  Jack Andrus : I thought I had it made. Then, zoom... I was a star. Big business! Hide from the world. They were ramming it right up my gut. Lawyers, agents, managers, partners... all grabbing, carving up my whole life. One day I looked at them all and I asked myself, "Who are these guys? What are they doing here? What do they want from me?" Then the second question you ask is... who *you* really are. Well, are you the face on the billboard, smeared with lipstick kisses from shrieking high school kids? The face that barflies all want to take a poke at to see if you're as tough as the roles you play in the movies. Is that you? Or are you the face you see in the mirror? The face of the guy you've been hiding all your life. So, I started running, living in a crowd, balling it, lots of laughs, lots of kicks. Through it all, Carlotta. I kept running faster and faster. And suddenly... dead ahead of me... there was a wall...

  Veronica : Is there an answer? Does any actor find it?

  Jack Andrus : Some do. Eh, that I don't have to worry about any more. That's for the Davie Drews.

  Veronica : What will you do from now on?

  Jack Andrus : Finish this job for Kruger.

  Veronica : And then?

  Jack Andrus : Live the future one day at a time. See what happens.

• Brad Byrd : Jack, how do you do it? You shoot all day, you cut and dub all night. When do you sleep?

  Jack Andrus : While I eat.

• Jack Andrus : [on a drunken, reckless drive in his Maserati with Carlotta]  Did I aim at that wall and try to kill myself, or was I just too drunk to miss it? Three years I've seen that wall! I still don't know.

• Jack Andrus : [listening to her dub dialogue for an Italian actress]  No, Liz, no, that's not quite it.

  Liz : Oh, it sure isn't. I'm lousy today.

  Jack Andrus : No, no, no. Say, Liz...

  Liz : Yeah?

  Jack Andrus : [coaching her to improve her performance]  What do you love most in the world?

  Liz : Um, food.

  Jack Andrus : Hey, you remember, uh, that ice cream parlor, Wil Wright's, on Sunset Strip? Those huge, luscious banana splits, a dollar a throw.

  Liz : Worth every penny.

  Jack Andrus : Well, next time you dub, you think to yourself...

  [begins speaking very expressively and emphatically] 

  Jack Andrus : "We will have ten thousand banana splits. Huge... luscious... banana splits."

  Liz : Got it.

  Jack Andrus : Go ahead. Try again.

  [she goes on to make a much better dubbing] 

• Dr. Cold Eyes : How many pictures did you two make together?

  Jack Andrus : Seven.

  Dr. Cold Eyes : And when was the last.

  Jack Andrus : About six years ago.

  Dr. Cold Eyes : What ended it.

  Jack Andrus : Hate!

  Dr. Cold Eyes : Well, now, that's a long association to be based on hate.

  Jack Andrus : And love. Mixed together with lots of ice and an onion. The Kruger way.

• Maurice Kruger : What did you think of it?

  Jack Andrus : The scene? Terribly original.

  Maurice Kruger : Terribly? Or, terribly terribly?

  Jack Andrus : Terribly terribly.

• Jack Andrus : Is she here by coincidence?

  Maurice Kruger : Who Carlotta? There is no coincidence. There never was.

• Jack Andrus : Carlotta, you're the one person I don't want to see.

  Carlotta : At least that proves you've been thinking of me. And I of you. Every night for the last four years. I know we can't make up for four years in one night; but, we might try.

• Jack Andrus : I like you very much. I like girls with black eyes and a soft mouth.

• Carlotta : Have you ever seen a billion dollars - breathe? He operates Japanese tankers, with Greek crews, under the flag of Liberia. Why don't you give up all this movie nonsense, once and for all?

  Jack Andrus : Do what?

  Carlotta : Enjoy yourself - traveling with me.

  Jack Andrus : Under the flag of Liberia?

  Carlotta : He's so busy with his business, darling. He takes up so little of my time. He enjoys watching other men want me. Leave it to me. You need never have another worry in this world.

• Jack Andrus : How the hell did Lew Jordan get on this set?

  Brad Byrd : The voice of the vulture is heard in the land. True blue Lew. So it begins. They sniff the scent of gold: the new Davie Drew.

• Jack Andrus : I came here looking for the past. I found it. And the hell with it!