Make Me a Star (1932)

Stuart Erwin: Merton Gill

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Quotes 

• 'Flips' Montague : Look, if I get you a ticket back to Simsbury, will you go?

  Merton Gill : Oh, no.

  'Flips' Montague : For the love of Pete, why not?

  Merton Gill : I couldn't. Not the way I feel about pictures. I mean, just think, making millions of people happy everyday, the way Buck Benson does. Even trying to do it, that's worth sacrificin' and sufferin' for it, isn't it?

  'Flips' Montague : Oh, I don't know whether its blind courage or supreme dumbness. Oh, how I hate pictures.

• Merton Gill : Do taxi cabs charge for just standing still?

  'Flips' Montague : Yes, why?

  Merton Gill : Well, it's worth it.

  [Buries his head in her chest] 

• Merton Gill : I got a career ahead of me and I'm not gonna let anybody stop me. I've been studyin'. And I been savin' too! For when I go to Hollywood. That's were I'm goin' someday! Hollywood!

• Merton Gill : Oh Lord, please make me a good movie actor. Make me one of the best.

• The Countess : Tell me, of all the different types of parts you play, what is the best thing you do?

  Merton Gill : Well, miss, I reckon Western parts are my forty.

• Merton Gill : You shouldn't eat moldy beans. That's bad, isn't it?

• Merton Gill : I don't know where you like to eat, but, well, I kinda like to celebrate. You know and go to one of those places where, where they charge sixty cents for a plate of soup. Can you imagine, sixty cents for a plate of soup?