A Star Is Born (1937)

Adolphe Menjou: Oliver Niles

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• Norman Maine : Do you think I'm slipping?

  Oliver Niles : Can you take it?

  Norman Maine : Yeah, go ahead.

  Oliver Niles : The tense is wrong. You're not slipping - you've slipped.

• Oliver Niles : [Referring to Norman's accommodations at a sanatorium for treatment of alcoholism]  Are you comfortable here, Norman?

  Norman Maine : Comfortable? It's positively luxurious! They even have iron bars in the windows to keep out the draft.

• Oliver Niles : [to Esther]  All the experts seems to think that your type is a little mild for present day's taste. But I'd rather believe that tastes change, like eyebrows. And I think that also like eyebrows, tastes are going back to the natural.

• Oliver Niles : Now, I'm going to turn you over to our demon press agent, Libby. Don't let him frighten you. He has a heart of gold... only harder.

• Matt Libby : That elopement thing is out; we're gonna have a wedding. Where are we going to have it?

  Oliver Niles : The customary place, I believe, is a church.

  Matt Libby : Nah! It's been done. This has gotta be something big... The beach! I can visualize it. The bridesmaids in bathing suits; twenty thousand Santa Monica school children spelling out the word "love"... but is it big enough?