Adrien Quotes in La collectionneuse (1967)

Haydée: I found a definition for Haydée. She's a collector! Haydée, if you sleep around without premeditation you are the lowest of the low. The atrocious ingenue. But, if you collect in a consistent way, with obstinacy, it's a plot, things are entirely different.

Daniel: Yes, but she collects badly.

Haydée: I'm not a collector.

Adrien: Don't say that. It's your only quality.

Haydée: You're completely wrong. I'm searching. I'm searching to find something.

Adrien: We are always someone else's slave. I find less dishonor in living at a friend's house, than in being paid by the State. Today, most people do useless work. Three quarters of all activities are parasitic. I'm not a parasite, the bureaucrats, the technicians are.

Adrien: You're a little immoral slut!

Haydée: I definitely don't agree with your morals.

Adrien: I don't either.

Adrien: In all sincerity, I think I serve mankind better by taking it easy than by working. It's true. It takes courage to not work.

Adrien: You're up?

Justine: For breakfast.

Adrien: Putting on a barbecue?

[smiles]

Adrien: What do you eat?

Justine: Cereal.

Adrien: Cereal's up there.

Justine: I'm just getting milk, OK?

Adrien: [to Bobby] Do you agree with everything my brother says?