best lines from Falsettos (2016)
“We are manipulating people and we need to know our worst sides aren’t ignored”
“He told me how he loved me, how he needed and/or valued me”
“I think she’s very insecure, but so am I”
“Men in cufflinks make me forget my name”
“I have questions – that should probably go unanswered – but they’re questions”
“Since the session’s nearly through, tell me what is going on with you?”
“We stand together” “We stand there looking miles apart”
“My father’s a homo, my mother’s not thrilled at all”
“It’s me who is the matter talking madder than the maddest hatter”
“The almost virgin who sings this dirge is on the verge of breaking down”
“This is Mendel Weisenbachfeld”
“So good of you to travel on account of my unravelling”
“Don’t touch your hair you’re perfect”
“I’m not a giant man” “Good”
[but also all the lyrics of “A Marriage Proposal”]
“Their toys are people’s lives, they fight too hard and play too rough, they sometimes love, but not enough”
“Happy, frightened men who rule the world”
“Four men swaying in phosphorescence”
“It’s a goddamn surety we’re lacking in maturity”
“Take a turn” “Thank you kindly”
“It’s a song I was waiting to hear so long, so long ago”
“You should know I’m not ashamed to have loved you”
“Father to son: I, for one, would take love slower”
“A man, kid, you’ll be, kid, whatever your song”
“Oh my god, when am I gonna get over this? When am I gonna get over this? WHEN AM I GONNA GET OVER THIS?”
“Selecting girls for one’s bar mitzvah…god, that’s the miracle of Judaism”
“We’re watching Jewish boys who almost read Latin, up, battin’”
“Saving lives I feel invincible – yes, I do” [& the way Tracie Thoms sings it]
“You save lives and I save chicken fat. I can’t fucking deal with that”
“Do you know how great my life is”/“Do you know all I want is you”
“Life is never what you planned, life is moments you can’t understand”
“Everyone hates his parents – that’s in the Torah!”
“When he sparkles the earth begins to sway”
“We laugh, we fumble, we take it day by day”
“Why don’t we tell him that we don’t have the answers? And that life can be grim, life’s not all about him. And things rarely go according to plan. Tell him things happen for no damned good reason, and his lack of control kills what’s best in your soul. And this is the start to his becoming a man”
“Slap my face or hold me till winter”
“Let’s be scared together”
“I don’t know if you exist, I can’t hear your fingers snappin’”
“At least death means I’ll never be scared about dying again”
“Then the scene turns to black”/“Then the scene turns to white”
“I think perhaps I’m overdressed…I think perhaps it doesn’t matter”
“I feel more helpless than I have in years”
“Kid, I burst at the seams ‘cause of you”
“Who would I be if I had not loved you?”
“How am I to face tomorrow after being screwed out of today”
“What would I do if you had not been my friend?”
“Lovers live and die fortissimo”
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