The Big Pond (1930)

Maurice Chevalier: Pierre

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• Ronnie : Speaking of making love...

  Pierre Mirande : Was I speaking of it?

  Ronnie : I mean, you Frenchmen are supposed to know a lot about love-making. Perhaps you could tip me off to something. I'm not getting the breaks that I should get.

  Pierre Mirande : Oh, you are not?

  Ronnie : No. I'm a good-looking fellow, don't you think?

  Pierre Mirande : Yes, true.

  Ronnie : I pull my line on 'em. Get everything all set. It's all perfectly setup. And then I get the fruit.

  Pierre Mirande : You get the fruit?

  Ronnie : The raspberry! The horse laugh!

  Pierre Mirande : What horse laughs?

  Ronnie : I mean... oh, nevermind! What I wanna know is what you do when you go out with a girl.

  Pierre Mirande : Tell me what you do now.

  Ronnie : Well, I sort of put my arm around her, say 'how 'bout a little kiss, baby?' Maybe I don't even ask for it. And I usually say, 'you're hot stuff, me for you. How 'bout goin' places and doin' things?'

  Pierre Mirande : Yeah? And, uh, and then?

  Ronnie : Then they usually give you the air!

  Pierre Mirande : Huh. And you call that making love? Huh! Poor American girls...

• Barbara Billings : Pierre, are we going to Venice on our honeymoon?

  Pierre Mirande : Practically the same. We are going to Cleveland on business!

• Pierre Mirande : He can try to bluff me as much as he likes! But me? I'm like a good French cheese!

  Pat O'Day : Cheese? How's that?

  Pierre Mirande : Every day, I get stronger and stronger!