Topaz (1969)
Frederick Stafford: Andre Devereaux
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Quotes
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Nicole Devereaux : Okay, I'm going. And you two secret agents can settle down and be secret agents.
Andre Devereaux : I wish you wouldn't use such words, my love.
Nicole Devereaux : Why? Who do you think you are fooling, my master spy? Everybody in Washington knows that you are not a Commercial Attaché. Everybody in Washington knows that the Chief of Russian Intelligence is the chauffeur who drives a car for...
Andre Devereaux : Everybody in Washington does *not* know these things. And I would thank you not to repeat them. Go to bed.
Michael Nordstrom : Nicole, where did you hear that about the Chief of Russian Intelligence?
Nicole Devereaux : From my butcher.
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Andre Devereaux : Diplomats' wives should not talk.
Nicole Devereaux : All wives talk.
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Andre Devereaux : You are putting two and two together and getting eight.
Rico Parra : The things you learned from those papers about Russia and Cuba - is the reason why are you suddenly here.
Andre Devereaux : And that makes nine.
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Philippe Dubois : I think I'll be a reporter. I'm loaded with press cards. Who do you think I ought to work for tonight? Ebony? Playboy? The Jersey City Post-Ledger?
Andre Devereaux : Ebony.
Philippe Dubois : Oh, I think I identify better with Playboy.
Andre Devereaux : [shakes head] Ebony.
Philippe Dubois : Oh, man, you're square!
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Nicole Devereaux : Andre, you are French, and not supposed to be mixed up in this Cold War between the Americans and the Russians. You are neutral.
Andre Devereaux : No one is neutral.
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Andre Devereaux : Watch yourself, Philippe.
Philippe Dubois : It's the best thing I do.
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Francois Picard : Could I ask you what this is about? I am your son-in-law.
Andre Devereaux : You are also a newspaper man. Take care of the women.
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Andre Devereaux : Those papers we photographed the other day in New York, scared the hell out of them. Not just the Americans - me! I've got to see what the Russians are up to in Cuba!
Nicole Devereaux : There is a woman in Cuba, isn't there?
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Andre Devereaux : I don't want that name used, mentioned, ever.
Nicole Devereaux : Why? What is she to you?
Andre Devereaux : She is in the Cuban underground. She sometimes works for me.
Nicole Devereaux : Ah. What else does she do for you?
Andre Devereaux : Nicole! She is the head of the network in Cuba. I shouldn't tell you these things! It is dangerous to talk of her! Even to hear that know that...
Nicole Devereaux : But I do know, that's the trouble. I wish I didn't. I know that you go to Cuba four or five times a year. And that - she is beautiful.
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Andre Devereaux : I am happy to see you, Juanita.
[presents a wrapped presents]
Juanita de Cordoba : Thank you.
Andre Devereaux : Nylon things from the United States. I hope your government won't mind. I didn't inform the Customs.
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Nicole Devereaux : Andre, I don't want you to go. I am afraid for you, for your career, for your life!
Andre Devereaux : I've got to. I promised. I started all this and I am going to finish it.
Nicole Devereaux : Let the Americans do their own dirty work.
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Andre Devereaux : So, Rico Parra is still your faithful companion and protector?
Juanita de Cordoba : And my landlord.
Andre Devereaux : Did he come to - collect the rent?
Juanita de Cordoba : How is your wife?
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Andre Devereaux : I am supposed to keep my mouth shut and uncover Topaz? At the risk of my own skin? That's quite a job, my friends.