Claudine Quotes in The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)

Sir Charles Lytton: [meaning the diamond] All right, Darling, where is it?

Claudine: [pretending to misunderstand] After all these years, you still need to ask?

Col. Sharky: I will be forced to shoot you.

Claudine: Who's forcing you?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: [at Lytton Manor in Nice, while working undercover as a telephone repairman, Clouseau has already annihilated the Lyttons' doorbell!] ... I am from the Nice Telephone Company; there is some trouble with your phone.

Mac: ...I don't think there's any trouble with the telephones here.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: I know when there is a trouble, and when there is not a trouble, and you may rest assured that there is a trouble.

Mac: Since when?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Since it was reported.

Mac: By whom? And what sort of trouble is it?

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: If I knew that, I could simply call you up and tell you what the trouble with your telephone is!

Claudine: Well... Whatever the trouble is, I hope you locate it.

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: Madame, it is my business to locate trouble...

[He misses the door to the study, crashing headlong into the wall; being Clouseau, he isn't even fazed]

Inspector Jacques Clouseau: ...Er, no trouble back there!

MSG Announcer: At forward, 6'9", Anthony "Pig" Miller!

Edwina "Eddie" Franklin: Boo!

Claudine: Why do they call him "Pig"?

Edwina "Eddie" Franklin: 'Cause he's not kosher.

Charles: [Charles comes down the stoop stairs and sees Claudine sitting there] I knew it all the time. I knew that nigga was gonna walk out on you. I knew that! It's your own damn fault. That's right- don't blame nobody but yourself! You had the six kids!

Claudine: That's right! Six kids- that's right! That's all I got in this world- my children.

Charles: I hate them.

Claudine: Get away from me, Charles!

Charles: I knew I had nothing but I have to share what I ain't got.

Claudine: My son, the black revolutionary. You ain't nothing but a snot-nosed coward. That's what you are.

Charles: Yeah, that's right. That's what you want me to be, Mama? Why do you think Francis the way we is? He's being exactly what you want him to be- invisible.

Claudine: You're a damn crybaby.

Charles: I don't know why you didn't kill me when I was born.

Claudine: Oh, you talk crazier every day!

Charles: If you loved me, you would have killed me like those women back on the plantations. They killed their kids so they wouldn't have to be slaves.

Claudine: I guess I didn't love my children because I wanted them to live.

Charles: Yeah, so you told us to be afraid, right?

Claudine: You better be afraid! You better be afraid- this world out there will kill you.

Charles: How can frightened people change anything?

Claudine: There ain't no other kind of people, Charles. I'm scared all the time, but I do my job. If you ain't scared, you don't have need for guts.

Charles: What you gonna do now?

Claudine: I'm gonna get some sleep and I'm going to work tomorrow.

Charles: Well, as you crawl into bed, you take a look at Charlene's tits. Good night, Grandma.

Claudine: Remember, virtue leads only to disaster. Just as poverty, which should be prohibited.

Juliette: How do if you are young and impatient?

Claudine: But the crime, see. The worse the better, duly rewarded.