A character in Barry
Cosineau
Barry · 107 quotes
6th most-quoted character in Barry: in 11 of its 107 quotes
Most scenes with: Barry Berkman (6), Moss (2)
Now I know it's only three days. But I'm 47 years old. I'm old enough to know a great thing when it comes knocking on my door in the middle of the night. We are breathing rarefied air and you know it. If we ran away from this because we were scared, wouldn't that be oh so very sad?
[Cosineau walks in on an obviously stressed Barry, applauding]
Barry! Bravo! I just saw you go to a place tonight I have never seen before! I don't know if you can do it again, but it was ama-
[Barry punches a picture frame, screaming]
...Okay! I see you're still in that place, I'm gonna leave you to your process. You know, I have a few notes...
[Barry tosses a chair across the room]
They can wait 'till Monday.
Whose cock did you have to suck in a former life?
Barry, I gave you this monologue for a reason. To see if you were capable of playing a character with the mildest set of balls. You know, I'm starting to see a trend in your work, and it's disturbing, and it's this: You are deferential to every character in a scene except for yours! It's the way you read every scene. And if you're gonna be an actor, it's a big problem.
Okay, listen. I guess what I just thought is that my guy was trying to help these other dudes achieve a goal, right? And if it was me, I would want them-
You know what? That is so lovely. If it was you. Is that the way you see your life? As a human doormat?
No.
"No"? 'Cause that's all we've ever seen in here. And I'll bet you tits to donuts it's no different out there in the real world. You were in the service, right? Right? [Barry nods] Yeah, well, that makes sense, doesn't it? "Stand like this. Clean your gun. Swab the deck. Peel a potato." Barry, do you ever ask for what you need? Or do you just quietly feel shame at your own desires while sadly doing the bidding of others? "Dear Diary, today, I did what everybody else wanted me to do. Is that alright with you, Diary? Love, Barry." Is that the life you wanna lead? Look at me. Answer me.
No.
"No". You're just saying that because I told you to say it!
Well, I don't know what you want me to say.
I want you to fight for yourself, Barry. I want you to say it out loud. I want you to say out loud, "Hey, I want this!" Can you tell me one thing?
All I want is to take this class.
Well, you have ten seconds to make me believe that, fucko, or you're never gonna see the inside of this class again! And... Action!
Look at your little hands. You are so little. I could rock you like a baby.
I would like you to rock me like a baby.
I could drop kick you in the middle of the restaurant, everybody would applaud and then I'd beat the fuck out of you.
And I would let you do it.
Janice. For three nights, you've come home and told me that everybody is 'up in your grill' at work because you can't let go of this crazy acting class connection.
I never said 'up in my grill.' So you can just stop there.
The point is... The point is, nobody believes that my class could be involved in Ryan's death except for you. I myself thought that you were questioning them because you wanted to be close to me. I was very flattered. But now I've gotta wonder: are you keeping them in play because you're trying to prevent us from becoming what we might become?
Are you on drugs, Barry? Because getting clean is an important part of an actor's journey. A little story to illustrate: I was doing Long Day's Journey into Night at the Pasadena Playhouse with a bunch of cokeheads. It's usually about a three-hour play. We could bring it in at just under thirty-seven minutes. We thought we were great! Apparently, we were unintelligible. It was the beginning of the bad years, Barry.
I'm-- I'm not on drugs.
You're not?
No.
...Well then, that's very bad news for you.
In my bedroom, under the bed, there's a mahogany box, and in that box is a pearl-handle .38 Special, screen-used from the movie Flashpoint, given to me by my former roommate, Rip Torn. Do you know how many times today I actually thought about going in there and loading it and giving it one last kiss?
You wanted to kiss a gun?
Suicide, Barry.
Oh.
Are you not familiar with the Japanese ritual of harakiri?
The baseball announcer?
I need you out of my house.
Okay.
Look, today, a guy said something to me, and it, uh... made me mad.
What'd you do? You thump him up, huh? Did ya throw him a little high heat? A little chi music? Hey, Barry, we're both Alphas. I understand.
An audition?
Mm-hmm.
You? Have an audition? What, are they reading extras now?
That is so weird! Sally said the same thing.
What's the part?
It's a guy named, um, J.T. in a movie called Swim Instructors.
How many of these did you print?
It's just one. It's four scenes.
Holy moly! J.T. is on every page! That's a lot of lines, Barry.
Yeah, I think he's one of the leads.
[Gasps] No! You say, "Oh, we're just a bunch of swim instructors." That's the title! They can't cut that!
I'm trying to give you the view from ten thousand feet before we dive in and break it down scene-by-scene. So, Scene One: Loss.
Mm-hm.
Scene Two: You shit in a pie.
So, uh... relief?
No, I think It's a little more nuanced than that; I think it's about vengeance.
Okay.
And then, Scene Three: Whoopsie! You eat the shit pie. Comeuppance. "He who seeks revenge digs two graves", Barry. It's a tale as old as time.
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