Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.Emperor Joseph II: You are passionate, Mozart, but you do not persuade...
Emanuel Schikaneder: Look, I asked you if we could start rehearsals next week and you said yes.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Well, we can.Emanuel Schikaneder: So let me see it. Where is it?Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Here. It's all right here in my noodle. The rest is just scribbling. Scribbling and bibbling, bibbling and scribbling.
Come on now, be honest! Which one of you wouldn't rather listen to his hairdresser than Hercules? Or Horatius, or Orpheus... people so lofty they sound as if they shit marble!
Constanze Mozart: Wolfie, I think you really are going mad. You work like a slave for that idiot actor who won't give you a penny. And here, this is not a ghost! This is a real man who puts down real money. Why on earth won't you finish it? Can you give me one reason I can understand?Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: It's killing me.