Addicted to Love (1997)

Tchéky Karyo: Anton

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Quotes 

• Sam : Anton, can I ask you something?

  Anton : Sure you can.

  Sam : Do you ever get homesick? I mean, do you ever want to go back to France?

  Anton : You know, I was never so much French until I came here. You know Superman?

  Sam : Uh-huh.

  Anton : Well, that's me. I'm Superman.

  [all the cooks laugh loudly and syncophantically] 

  Anton : And France was like Krypton. You know, on Krypton everybody was Superman. You make a nice sauce, everybody makes a nice sauce. You say hello to a woman with your French accent, everybody say hello!

  [all the cooks yodel "hello" with gusto] 

  Anton : But here, here on Earth, this is the place where I knew I had special powers. I tell the bankers about my little village in France, and they all say, how brave and amazing you are, Anton. I could read the phone book to a woman and they become hypnotized, wet as morning daisies.

• Sam : Just admit it!

  Anton : [shouts]  What are you talking about?

  Sam : [re: Linda]  That you were using her to stay in this country! Just the way you used Maggie!

  Anton : ...Maggie? I never told you anything about Maggie. Who the hell are you?

  Sam : I'm the Milky Way Man, and I know everything!

• Anton : I like a man who fights for what he wants. But if you ever mess with me again, I'll rip out your eyes and rape your skull. Excuse my French.

• [Maggie appears in Anton's apartment and eases down next to him] 

  Anton : Maggie, I...

  Maggie : Shh... say we're even.

  Anton : What?

  Maggie : Just say it.

  Anton : ...Yes. Yes, we are even.

  Maggie : Good.

  [ruffles his hair affectionately] 

  Maggie : So how ya been?

• Anton : [about Linda]  I can't imagine another man touching her hair, her hips, her panties. OH, GOD, her panties!

• [finding out that Sam has been working with Maggie, Anton goes berserk and starts beating him up, then realizes what he's doing and sinks into a corner of the room] 

  Anton : Maggie... was my angel. She brought me here. I was nothing before I met her, just a waiter in a little cafe in Paris. And yeah... I used her. I used her terribly. But I told myself it didn't matter, because I was sure that I would grow to love her. I thought, if I could just love her, it would be all right. The shame would go away. You can't choose who you love, Mike... or whoever the hell you are. And I love Linda. I love Linda.

  [sobs] 

  Anton : More than anything! Who the hell do you think you are to judge? Who the hell do you think you are?

  Sam : I'm nobody, Anton. I'm nobody. Nobody to nobody.

• Anton : The midgets coming out of the blue!