Agnès Dumont Quotes in Plucking the Daisy (1956)

Agnès Dumont: I'll be a writer.

General Dumont: No, you won't!

Agnès Dumont: I won't give up!

General Dumont: Either I kill her or she goes to boarding school.

Madame Dumont: She prefers boarding school.

Daniel Roy: Are there many generals in Vichy?

Agnès Dumont: Generals are people too!

Agnès Dumont: I don't like your friend.

Roger Vital: He's not a bad guy. Just a womanizer, pretentious, not so smart and spineless as they come. His only real flaw is that he is a hypocrite.

Agnès Dumont: How awful!

Roger Vital: No. No. He's not the worst there is. He hasn't murdered anyone. At least, not yet.

Agnès Dumont: He's a lecher!

Daniel Roy: I should've warned you. Poor Roger is a victim of his disgusting vices.

Agnès Dumont: I noticed.

Agnès Dumont: You never believed me?

Daniel Roy: No. But, I love liars, especially ones with noses as cute as yours.

Daniel Roy: Describe the man of your dreams.

Agnès Dumont: Dark-haired, nonchalant, a bit rude, not too handsome, and charming.

Daniel Roy: That's me.

Agnès Dumont: Finding the man of your dreams isn't hard. What's hard is...

Daniel Roy: For him to love you.

Agnès Dumont: To be sure he loves me.

Agnès Dumont: Bye, lecher.

Roger Vital: Bye, Joan of Arc.

Agnès Dumont: I can't undress in front of all those people.

Martine: Nobody's forcing you.

Agnès Dumont: What was it like the first time?

Martine: Until you show your breasts, it's not hard. Then you just try to think about something else.

Agnès Dumont: I'll try.

Martine: At least a striptease is honest. You're paid to show your backside, they pay to see it. Everyone's happy. No hypocrisy.

Agnès Dumont: [Masked and pretending to be an Italian, Sophia] Get out!

Daniel Roy: After what I've seen, I couldn't.

Agnès Dumont: I call-a the manager!

Daniel Roy: It's the only way to get rid of me.

Agnès Dumont: I slap-a you!

Daniel Roy: Slap me, bite me, tear me to bits. My broken body will shout, "You're beautiful!"

["Sophia" walks away]

Daniel Roy: Stop right there. Stop right there.

Agnès Dumont: Perché?

Daniel Roy: You're in front of the light, and your robe is transparent.

Agnès Dumont: What you-a want from me? You love-a me?

Daniel Roy: I never said that.

Agnès Dumont: Grazie.

[Daniel tries to take off "Sophia"'s mask]

Agnès Dumont: Momento. What if you-a disappointed without the mask?

Daniel Roy: Something tells me I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Agnès Dumont: Something tells me you-a rotten bastardo!

Daniel Roy: I was afraid you wouldn't find it.

Agnès Dumont: I might not be Parisian, but I'm not stupid.

Agnès Dumont: What's Sophia like?

Daniel Roy: Beautiful.

Agnès Dumont: You're in love with her?

Daniel Roy: No, with you.

Agnès Dumont: Why were you in her dressing room?

Daniel Roy: Don't be silly. I'm not a kid. When I say I love you, I mean it. I saw that girl and desired her. These things happen.

Agnès Dumont: How convenient. I love you, but I desire another. So go to her! Good-bye!

Agnès Dumont: [Repeated line] Choose: Me or the government!

Agnès Dumont: Leave me alone!

Daniel Roy: I'll take you home.

Agnès Dumont: I don't have one! My brother doesn't have room for me.

Daniel Roy: Then sleep in my bed.

Agnès Dumont: Never!

Daniel Roy: I'll lend you some pajamas.

Agnès Dumont: I have a confession to make, but, it's not easy.

Daniel Roy: Your father is not a general?

Agnès Dumont: He is. It's about Sophia. How sweet of you to give her up.

Daniel Roy: Sweet? No way. I've had tons of girls like that. In the morning, I don't know how to get rid of them.

Agnès Dumont: Maybe it'd be different with Sophia.

Daniel Roy: A girl who strips for an audience could never be truthful.

Agnès Dumont: Stay.

Daniel Roy: If I stay, you know what will happen.

Agnès Dumont: Yes, darling. Stay.

Daniel Roy: No.

Agnès Dumont: If Sophia asked, you'd stay.

Daniel Roy: Yes. Yes, with her I would. But you, I respect you. First time that happened. Amazed? Not as much as me.

[Daniel leaves]

Agnès Dumont: Gosh dang it! What's she have that I don't?

Agnès Dumont: Quick! Come in.

Sophia: What are you doing here? You're crying?

Agnès Dumont: What a jerk! Brute! Pig! He'll pay for it!

Sophia: Che cosa succede?

Agnès Dumont: My fiancé.

Agnès Dumont: You're engaged?

Agnès Dumont: He said he loved me.

Sophia: How sweet.

Agnès Dumont: No, it's awful! He said it yesterday too.

Sophia: To another girl? Who?

Agnès Dumont: Me!

Sophia: Ma va tutto bene allora!

Agnès Dumont: No, it's not.

Sophia: I don't understand.

Agnès Dumont: It's quite simple. There are two mes. Me, Agnès and me, Sophia.

Sophia: Wait. I'm Sophia.

Agnès Dumont: No, I am!

Sophia: Since when?

Agnès Dumont: Two days ago.

Sophia: Who are you right now?

Agnès Dumont: I don't know. I'm so miserable.

Sophia: I think I missed something. Start over, piano, piano, and speak clearly.

Sophia: Your fiancé is cheating on you with yourself?

Agnès Dumont: Exactly.

Sophia: Kill him!

Agnès Dumont: He deserves worse.

Agnès Dumont: He loves me!

Sophia: Which one?

Agnès Dumont: Me!

Sophia: Me who?

Agnès Dumont: Me-me!

Sophia: You-you or You-me?

Agnès Dumont: He loves Agnès!