“All of these stars, the most powerful actors in film, they were all gone in an instant.”

“Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]”

“Look up at the stars and you're gone.”

“With all of the seats empty, you could pretend everyone's just gone to the bathroom.”

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.”

“We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.”

“Ten years ago, he was the hard­work­ing salt of the earth. All he want­ed was to go to Heav­en. Sit­ting here to­day, ev­ery­thing that he worked for in the world is lost. All his ex­ter­nal rules and con­trols are gone.”