Rock Star (2001)
Mark Wahlberg: Chris 'Izzy' Cole
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Quotes
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Chris : You know, I'm just a regular guy who grew up with the posters of these guys on my wall... and now I'm one of them! That's right, I'm standing here, living proof that if you work hard enough, and you want it bad enough... dreams do come true. So follow your dreams...
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Chris : We are NOT a cover band, we're a TRIBUTE band!
Rob : No Dude, WE are a cover band! Problem is, we've been covering the tunes, you think you're in goddamn Steel Dragon... I love you man but you're mental, you really are. You need to get a grip on reality, man, you don't know where Bobby Beers ends and you begin.
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[from interviews after Chris/Izzy has quit Steel Dragon]
Kirk : Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's much ado about nothing isn't it? There's still four of us left. We're the original four. We're not going anywhere.
A.C. - Drummer, Steel Dragon : Look for the last time I don't give a fuck where he is and I don't really care if I ever see that little bastard again.
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : He said to me, um, I need to take a piss. That's it. Uh, "Mats", he said, "I really need a piss."
Chris : I just think one day I realized it wasn't for me anymore. You know? Just wearing the clothes and singing the songs. It just didn't feel right. I just wanted to find myself. Find my own music.
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Chris : I don't want to be in some cut-rate cover band that butchers the music the people come to hear, just so you can play your crappy originals!
Rob : Crappy originals? I think "Whole and a half" kicks ass, and I'm proud as shit to have written it.
Chris : Yeah? I guess that's why we get so many requests for it.
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Chris : What it is when you do something to somebody and they hate it? Then somebody does the same to you and you hate it?
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : I suppose some might call it called "poetic justice". I don't know.
Chris : All I know is I owe a guy named Rob a big fat apology, that's for sure.
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : We all owe someone an apology along the way. I mean, that's life, man.
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Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : A long, long time ago, when I was at university, I was married.
Chris : No. You were married?
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : It was before you boys and that rock 'n' roll music corrupted me, man. Yeah, I still think about it sometimes. She was really a very sweet girl.
Chris : What happened? If you don't mind me asking.
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : No, no. One day we were sitting in the park having lunch, me and the wife. I needed to take a piss, so I walked to the toilet, you know, in the bathroom. I'm standing there staring at the wall, as you do, and all of sudden something came over me. Like a fear that my whole had already been laid out for me. I'd finish my studies, get a job. I'd be working for somebody else, worrying about things that didn't matter. So I walked out of the there. Kept going. Didn't come back.
Chris : You just left her there?
Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : Yep. Sitting in front of a half-eaten steak and kidney pie. Very harsh, man. She came to see the show a few years ago. She hadn't changed at all. She married my best friend. A doctor. They have three gorgeous little kids. Yeah, she's very happy. Very happy.
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Chris : Well yeah Rob, maybe you can write me a song about why the hell I would ever want to do that!
