“I’ve gotten people who are hungry, and...

“I’ve gotten people who are hungry, and desperate. I’ve gotten people who are crazy. But after the show yesterday a man came up to me, I do remember him vaguely, and he said you used my line. I said no… he said you used my line and you never paid me for it I said I can assure you, no, he said … I gave you that line, you said you didn’t want it, and now you’re using it, pay up. I said that can’t have been the line you offered me. I said look – we found the day, we found the line I wrote down – I said look, that’s the line, that’s your signature, that’s not the line in the show He said what is this book, what is it, it’s pen on paper that doesn’t mean anything, you rewrote the page, you forged my signature, you stole my line and I want my payment. And he knew, he knew it wasn’t his line, he was lying to my face and he knew I knew he was lying. This guy was bold. Lately people are bold, and that’s new.”

(Washburn, Anne. Mr Burns. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2014. Kindle Locations 1126-1135. Kindle Edition.)