Man on the Moon
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Andy Kaufman: I'm going to the Philippines.
George Shapiro: The Philippines? What's in the Philippines?
Andy Kaufman: A miracle.

George Shapiro: Your material doesn't exactly transfer to film.

Andy Kaufman: Since you've all been such good boys and girls, I would like to take everybody in this entire audience out for milk and cookies. There are buses outside. Everybody follow me.

Tony Clifton: So... ya wanna see Andy? Anybody gotta flashlight and a couple of shovels?

Lynne Margulies: So, you just pretend to be an asshole.
Andy Kaufman: It's what I'm good at.

Jerry "The King" Lawler: Kaufman, did you come here to wrestle or act like an ass?

George Shapiro: Andy, you have to look inside and ask this question: who are you trying to entertain - the audience or yourself?

Tony Clifton: I think you sat in some cottage cheese. Oh, pardon me, that's your ass.

Factual error: In one scene supposedly set in the late '70s (Andy was about to get/just got "Taxi"), Andy is playing Ms. Pac Man. I may be wrong here, but didn't Ms. Pac-Man come out in 1982 or 1983? (00:29:30)

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Trivia: During filming, nobody was allowed to call Jim Carrey by his real name. Whether the camera was rolling or not, Carrey stayed in character, and everyone was instructed to address him as "Andy."

Matty Blast

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Question: What is the meaning of bit at the end of the movie, the big guy with the sunglasses? It shows Andy's 'sidekick' and the guy on stage, who was in the suit entertaining the crowd?

Answer: We're supposed to wonder if Andy didn't really fake his own death.

Xofer

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