Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Charles Aznavour: Charlie Koller, Edouard Saroyan
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Quotes
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Charlie Kohler : Remember: "When I'll hate you, I'll wear a cap.
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Charlie Kohler : Just call me Charlie.
Charlie Kohler : Okay, if you call me Léna.
Charlie Kohler : Why Léna?
Léna : Well, Helén became Heléna, then Léna.
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Charlie Kohler : Don't let women scare you. They are not poison.
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Charlie Kohler : [Talking to himself] Come on, come on, get your mind on something else. Think of Art Tatum. Has he got talent? And Erroll Garner? Yes, Erroll Garner *has* talent.
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Clarisse : You still sleep in the raw?
Charlie Kohler : Yes. It's healthier.
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Clarisse : The girls always ask me where I buy my things. Aren't they cute? I pay four hundred francs apiece. Dirt cheap!
Charlie Kohler : I'm not an authority on girls' panties.
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Clarisse : I did go to the movies this afternoon. I saw "Torpedoes in Alaska".
Charlie Kohler : How was it?
Clarisse : It's a picture with John Wayne, to show that the Americans want peace.
Charlie Kohler : No kidding? Then they're just like me, the Yankees.
Clarisse : You're always making fun of me.
Charlie Kohler : No, I'm not making fun of you, my little chickadee.
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Charlie Kohler : If I may quote him, my father used to say about women: When you've had one, you've had them all!
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Thérèse Saroyan : What's the matter? You're moody.
Charlie Kohler : Nothing, nothing.
Thérèse Saroyan : Yes, there is. In the car, you were very gay. Then you suddenly stopped talking, as if I had said something you didn't like.
Charlie Kohler : No, it's not anything you said. I just stopped talking when I realized you were not listening.
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Charlie Kohler : I'm fed up, do you hear, fed up! This is not life for an artist! Of course, I'm not a real great artist, but people must believe in me in order that I may become one. Good God, is it asking too much?
Thérèse Saroyan : If you think it doesn't try one's patience to live with you, you're mistaken! Ah, your conversation has really improved in a year! If people ask you what you think of Hemingway: "I hear he is a great collector of my recordings."