Andy Warhol: [to Edie] You're the boss, applesauce!
Andy Warhol: I think I'll quit my painting, and... just make Edie a big star.
Edie Sedgwick: Don't be jealous, Andy. He's nothing like you.
Edie Sedgwick: I can't hate him!
Billy Quinn: Lady, you don't know shit about shit.
Syd Pepperman: [regarding Edie] What do you want me to do?

Billy Quinn: I dunno. See if she needs anything...

[walks away]

Billy Quinn: I'd help her if I could.
Billy Quinn: I sing about what I see.
Andy Warhol: I wonder if people are going to remember us?

Edie Sedgwick: What, when we're dead?

Andy Warhol: Yeah.

Edie Sedgwick: Well, I think people will talk about how you changed the world.

Andy Warhol: I wonder what they'll say about you... in your obituary. I like that word.

Edie Sedgwick: Nothing nice, I don't think.

Andy Warhol: No no, come on. They'd say, "Edith Minturn Sedgwick: beautiful artist and actress...

Edie Sedgwick: ...and all-around loon.

Andy Warhol: ...Remembered for setting the world on fire...

Edie Sedgwick: ...and escaping the clutches of her terrifying family...

Andy Warhol: ...Made friends with eeeeverybody and anybody...

Edie Sedgwick: ...creating chaos and uproar wherever she went. Divorced as many times as she married, she leaves only good wishes behind.

[laughs]

Edie Sedgwick: That's nice, isn't it?
Edie Sedgwick: I went to a party once, and there was a palm reader there and when she looked at my hand, she just froze. And I said to her, "I know. My lifeline is broken. I know I won't live past thirty."
Edie Sedgwick: And what would I have to do in one of your movies?

Andy Warhol: Just be yourself.

Edie Sedgwick: Well, which one?
Edie Sedgwick: You are so much fun. How come you don't spend more time with us?

Richie Berlin: Because of my lips.

Edie Sedgwick: Your lips?

Richie Berlin: They have a hard time kissing Andy Warhol's ass.
Edie Sedgwick: Chuck's my best girlfriend
Edie Sedgwick: I can't take it anymore. I want to die

Wanda: And why do you want to die?

Edie Sedgwick: Because my credit's no good at Bonwit Teller and I just stole $30 worth of underwear at Bergdorf's and I think I might do it again.

[laughs]
Edie Sedgwick: To me, New York was Jackson Pollock sipping vodka and dripping paint onto a raw canvas.
Billy Quinn: How did a nice chick like you get mixed up in the whole acting racket?

Edie Sedgwick: Breakfast at Tiffany's. You know, Audrey with her hair pulled back, and she's smoking through the black cigarette holder.

Billy Quinn: You wanna live in a movie?

Edie Sedgwick: I never saw the movie, just the poster.

Billy Quinn: So you haven't read the book then?

Edie Sedgwick: Well, Audrey isn't in the book.

Billy Quinn: The book is a bit different. It's about a working girl and a writer, an artist. You see, the artist steals the girl's stories and makes a fortune, and the girl doesn't get anything.

Edie Sedgwick: Why do you have such a problem with Andy?

Billy Quinn: Because of what he worships.
Billy Quinn: [Edie meets Billy Quinn for the first time, backstage before one of his shows; they talk, photos are taken, he kisses her] Excuse me, babe, I've gotta go to work.

[He begins strumming his guitar, then blows into his harmonica as he walks out onstage, and the crowd cheers]
James Townsend: [Edie's accountant, concerned] You're going to be bankrupt soon.

Edie Sedgwick: James, you take life too seriously. How could I possibly be bankrupt? My grandfather invented the elevator.

James Townsend: Then you should be familiar with the concept of up and down.

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Factory Girl short comments

Bobby 2022-04-24 07:01:19

Not as good-looking as myself.
Olen 2022-03-19 09:01:07

fate. It's amazing. It turns out that Bobdylan in "Automatic Storage Cabinet for Ducks and Wild Ducks" is this~~~~ Oh, my god~