Sydney Andrews quotes from Melrose Place

Sydney

Why did you tell David? He never needed to know.

Ella

David is my friend. You were sleeping with his father. What was I supposed to do?

Sydney

I thought I was your friend. You were like a sister to me, Ella. Who got you this apartment, your first job? If it wasn't for me, you would still be wearing Juicy sweatsuits with French tips and a bad dye job.

Ella

So what? That makes me your indentured servant for the rest of my life?

Sydney

No. I just never expected you to do that to me. You have until the end of the month. I want you out.

Ella

You're evicting me? You can't do that.

Sydney

Actually, I can do a lot worse. Just ask the people who used to live here.

Ella

Oh, what? Am I supposed to be scared of you?

Sydney

Probably. Because when I'm through with you, you are gonna leave LA the same way that you arrived... a pathetic wannabe.

Sydney

You embarrassed me.

Ella

Oh, well, hello to you, too, Syd. I have a conference call with New York, so...

Sydney

I had another gallery showing last night, and only made one sale. No one showed up. Your publicity blitz was a complete and utter failure.

Ella

Come on. I wrangled more buyers through those doors than anybody at this company.

Sydney

Well, they weren't there last night.

Ella

Syd, you are being unreasonable. I got you write-ups in the LA Times, The Weekly, even Vanity Fair. It is not my fault if nobody likes the art.

Sydney

We had a deal. I turn you into a real publicist, and you promote my gallery. What am I supposed to tell my artists when they start pulling their work off the walls?

Ella

I don't know. Paint prettier pictures.

Amanda

Atoning for your laundry list of sins? You're gonna be here a long time.

Sydney

Look what the Santa Anas blew in. Did you follow me here?

Amanda

You're a thief, Sydney. I want it back. Now.

Sydney

Why would I ever steal from the big bad Amanda Woodward?

Amanda

Where is it?

Sydney

I told you. I never received the painting.

Amanda

I didn't have it stolen from an Upper East Side co-op so it could be sent third class mail. That painting was worth nineteen million dollars.

Sydney

Which my client in Hong Kong would gladly pay if I actually had it.

Amanda

You betrayed me.

Sydney

Who betrayed whom? Aren't you the one who slept with my boyfriend?

Amanda

Boyfriend? Uh, Michael is happily married, Sydney. You and I were just strolls down memory lane for him. Don't use him as an excuse to steal from me.

Sydney

I thought we were friends, Amanda.

Amanda

Friends. We were business partners. I found the paintings, you turned them into cash. It was all working so well until you got greedy, stabbed me in the back.

Sydney

Don't you ever get tired of falsely accusing people? Even the Lord rested on the seventh day.

Amanda

You'll never get away with this. I want that painting, and I'll do whatever it takes to get it back. [gets up and leaves the church]

You bitch.

Sydney

Ah, sweetheart. I did you a favor. Don't you wanna know your husband is a lying, cheating pig?

He lied and cheated because of you.

Sydney

Maybe if you had kept him satisfied, he wouldn't have turned to old flames to fill the void.

[noticing David passed out in Sydney's bed] Oh, my God. David? You really are a whore.

Sydney

Takes one to know one. Mancini men are irresistible, aren't they? Secret's out, Vanessa. Boy gets pretty chatty when he's drunk.

That was a long time ago, Michael and I weren't even married.

Sydney

Hm, it was five years ago according to David. By the way, isn't Noah five?

Sydney

[appears as a ghostly hallucination to Amanda] Tell me something. When you tracked Auggie down, how did you get him to tell you where he left the painting? Did you pay him or did you sleep with him?

Amanda

Sydney?

Sydney

Who else is gonna tell you all those things you don't wanna hear?

Amanda

You're not real. Go away.

Sydney

You can't get rid of me that easily.

Amanda

Just watch me.

Sydney

Careful. You're gonna wanna be razor-sharp when you break into Dr. Six-Pack's apartment and search his closet.

Amanda

Don't you worry, Sydney. I'm not a perpetual screw-up like you. I get what I want.

Sydney

I wouldn't be so cocky. [Amanda turns around and the hallucination is gone]