Tootsie
- PG
- Year:
- 1982
- 116 min
- 2,029 Views
That's right.
Come on. No, don't stop.
Keep looking!
You don't feel so good now, do you?
See, you let it out. Out!
I feel like an idiot.
Not so fast, not so fast. Slower.
Slower.
Good, good.
Keep it specific.
Still a little tension in the mouth.
Good, good.
Okay, make her work peripherally.
Michael...
...Dorsey, is it?
Yes, that's right.
Mr. Dorsey, would you turn
to page 23, please?
Yes, I believe you mean
the first scene...
Sorry, the second scene
of the first act.
Second scene of the first act. Right.
Begin when you're ready.
Yes, of course.
Oh, sweetheart, do you know what
it was like waking up in Paris...
...seeing the empty pillow where...
Wait! Cover your breasts. Kevin is
downstairs! My God, what are you?
I'm a woman. Not Felicia's mother.
Not Kevin's wife.
Thanks very much.
We need someone a little older.
Mom! Dad! Uncle Pete, come quick!
Something's wrong with Biscuit!
I think he's dead!
We're looking for someone younger.
"They have dinner..." Can I start again?
I didn't get kicked off right.
The reading was fine.
You're the wrong height.
I can be taller.
No. We're looking
for somebody shorter.
Look. I don't have to be this tall.
See, I'm wearing lifts.
I can be shorter.
I know, but we're looking
for somebody different.
I can be different.
We're looking for somebody else.
What do you care more
about than working?
The part's the most important thing.
But love sometimes is too.
With improvisation, you're the writer.
When somebody writes a play...
...they decide where the highs are,
where the lows are. Now you do it.
And you may not be high where
they're high in the writing.
You may not be low where they're low.
You may be high on "but."
You may be high on "and."
Of course, they were doing it
for dough...
...the same as everybody
does it for dough.
But the question is in
the last analysis.
What were they doing for dough?
You and me were advancing our
little non-Prussian careers.
So when all hell broke loose,
and the Germans ran out of soap...
...and figured, "What the hell?
Let's cook up Mrs. Greenwald!"...
...who the hell do you
think stopped them?
Pardon me, is my acting
interfering with your talking?
Don't play a part that's not in you.
Don't say "he" or "she" like you did
last week when you were doing Kitty.
When you were doing
Time Of Your Life.
If you can't make the part yourself,
you can't play it.
Sergeant.
Quick! Get a priest!
No, sergeant, no priest.
- But you're dying, Count Tolstoy.
- I know.
In the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Ghost...
...I commit your soul to God.
- My friends...
- That's super, Michael.
But I wonder if you could move center
stage on that speech, and then die.
Why?
The left side of the house
can't see you.
You want me to stand up and walk
to the center of the stage...
...while I'm dying?
I know it's awkward,
but we'll just have to do it.
- Why?
- I just told you. Now do it!
Because you say so?
Yes, love.
Not with me as Tolstoy.
You gotta work.
There's no excuse for not working.
There's no excuse.
There's unemployment.
There was unemployment when
my friends and I started acting.
And it's not changed.
You got 90-95% unemployment.
You're an actor.
You're in New York.
There is no work.
But you gotta find ways to work.
Two tortellinis,
a gazpacho with two salads.
Ordering:
Veal chop, medium,two scrods, an order of chicken!
One scrod underdone.
- What's the rest?
- Baked potato.
- How'd it go?
- Terrible.
- Did you rewrite the last scene?
- I did the necktie scene.
How is it?
It'll change theatre as we know it.
We'll work on it
when we get home tonight.
That's my flounder.
- That is my flounder.
- Robber!
- Ordering:
One flounder...- That's for the customer!
customers ask if I eat his food...
...I can say, "Yeah, I eat his food."
You rewrote the necktie scene? Good.
- Without the necktie?
- With the necktie.
- With the necktie?
- Yeah, with the necktie.
The necktie's wrong. You take the
necktie out, you got something.
- What's wrong with you?
- What's wrong with me?
What's wrong is it's depressing
to be disagreed with.
It's depression.
Today's your birthday,
and you haven't mentioned it.
Don't start. I'm a character actor.
Age has no effect on me.
- That's very good.
- How does one not be depressed?
Instead of trying to be Michael Dorsey,
the great actor or the great waiter...
...why not just try to be
Michael Dorsey?
I am Michael Dorsey.
What's the payoff?
- Say it like you mean it.
- I am Michael Dorsey. Fine. Okay?
Surprise!
Speech! Speech! Speech!
Wait, wait, wait, wait! Wait a minute.
First a toast.
To Michael Dorsey, who makes you
remember what acting's all about!
Being unemployed!
To Michael...
...who's been my friend for six years.
Was it that long?
And who is my coach.
And he's just great.
He's a great coach, a great actor.
He's a great guy and...
This is a really dumb speech.
Let's get drunk.
Happy birthday!
- How you doing? Michael.
- Patty.
You an actress? Terrific face.
Nice blouse. Who'd you come with?
I don't want a full house
I want 90 people who just came out
of the worst rainstorm in history.
These are people who are alive
on the planet...
...until they dry off.
I wish I had a theatre that
was only open when it rained.
Strasberg said you create
your opportunities.
- Uta said that.
- I don't care.
The point is, Sandy and I are raising
$8,000 to do Jeff's play in Syracuse.
We're going to do it.
You could do the same.
Look at Emily!
Look who's here.
You can do it in the Poconos.
"I can't work." Create your own...
Isn't she cute?
He loves children.
He really does.
You make it!
You find a way to raise it.
I was looking at you.
Terrific face. Are you an actress?
- Sometimes.
- You were in Dames At Sea!
- You saw that?
- Good work. Really!
You have a great singing voice.
I felt there was an aura
between us when I saw it.
I'm not kidding.
I don't know you, but I know you.
I'll tell you about yourself.
You like to run barefoot on the beach.
- Why are you so wired?
- It's my birthday. I'm out of work.
That's it? Nothing more?
Yeah, it hurts me. Be the last one
to take your coat tonight. We'll talk.
Fine. All right.
Will you? Serious?
Give me a hug.
Thank you for liking me.
I don't like it when people say...
..."I really dug your message, man."
Or, "I really dug your play, man.
I cried."
You know?
I like it when people come up to me...
...the next day...
...or a week later and they say...
..."I saw your play.
What happened?"
I've got it under control. I'll feed
my cats and be back in an hour.
I can't make it. My roommate
wants to work on the third act.
- You can't make it?
- He wants to work.
- Give me your phone number.
- I already did.
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