The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV Series)

Pilot (2017)

Luke Kirby: Lenny Bruce

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Quotes 

• Miriam 'Midge' Maisel : Do you love it?

  Lenny Bruce : Do I love what?

  Miriam 'Midge' Maisel : Comedy. Stand-up. Do you love it?

  Lenny Bruce : Seriously?

  [Midge nods] 

  Lenny Bruce : Well, I've been doing it awhile. Ok, let's put it like this: If there was anything else in the entire world that I could possibly do to earn a living, I would. Anything! I'm talking dry cleaners to the Klan, crippled kid portrait painters, slaughterhouse attendant. If someone said to me, "Leonard, you can either eat a guy's head, or do two weeks at the Copa," I'd say "Pass the fucking salt." It's a terrible, terrible job. It should not exist. Like cancer. And God.

  Miriam 'Midge' Maisel : But do you love it?

  [Lenny shrugs, grins sheepishly, and walks away] 

  Miriam 'Midge' Maisel : Yeah. He loves it.