Daniel Roy Quotes in Plucking the Daisy (1956)

Daniel Roy: Are there many generals in Vichy?

Agnès Dumont: Generals are people too!

Magali: Darling! Are you really a dirty bastard?

Daniel Roy: Been talking to Roger?

Magali: How'd you guess?

Daniel Roy: [to Roger] You don't get it. She loves me *because* I'm a jerk.

[to his Magali]

Daniel Roy: Right, Dumbbell?

Magali: Mmm-hmm.

Daniel Roy: Now, get out, I'm very busy.

Roger Vital: Not so fast, I'll handle it.

Daniel Roy: You wouldn't know how.

Roger Vital: Trust me.

Daniel Roy: You'll need an hour to kiss her.

Roger Vital: Me? Five minutes.

Daniel Roy: You're sure?

Roger Vital: Easy as pie.

Daniel Roy: Ten minutes. If you're not kissing, it's my turn. Deal?

La secrétaire: Where's the article?

Daniel Roy: It's all here, just out of order.

[Hands here a paper ripped into several pieces]

La secrétaire: What can I do with that?

Daniel Roy: You can handle anything.

La secrétaire: Go to hell!

[Daniel kisses la secrétaire]

La secrétaire: Fine. I'll do it.

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.

Magali: Hello, Uncle Daniel.

Daniel Roy: Hello, Grandma.

Roger Vital: My dates never stand me up.

Daniel Roy: Where are you going?

Magali: The striptease contest. He'll be too busy ogling to paw me.

Daniel Roy: Can I go?

Edouard, Friend of Daniel: Me too? Are you guys coming?

Roger Vital: I reserved a table for two.

Edouard, Friend of Daniel: Don't worry. Magali can sit on my lap.

Magali: Why the mask? I bet she's ugly.

Daniel Roy: Not necessarily. I think it is very original.

Roger Vital: With a body like that, she doesn't need brains.

Daniel Roy: I've never seen a girl with such curves.

[Magali pinches Daniel]

Daniel Roy: Besides you!

Magali: You're too kind.

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: Give me the details. I don't know what came over me. The curves on that girl!

Roger Vital: What about Agnès?

Daniel Roy: That's totally different.

Roger Vital: You're unbelievable! You want all them - Agnès, Sophia, Magali...

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: 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?

Daniel Roy: A strip-teasing duchess?

Roger Vital: Those bluebloods will do anything for kicks.

Daniel Roy: I can't go to Vichy.

La secrétaire: Why not?

Daniel Roy: Because I'm going to Vichy.

La secrétaire: You can't go because you're going? Call an ambulance.

Daniel Roy: I'm going to Vichy to ask the general for Agnes's hand.

La secrétaire: So?

Daniel Roy: I can't be chasing after naked ladies!

Roger Vital: You'll make tomorrow's front page, worldwide!

Sophia: I'm not *that* Sophia. I'm the other one.

Daniel Roy: Two Sophias?

Roger Vital: It hurts when you treat me like an idiot.

Daniel Roy: You are an idiot.

Hubert Dumont: It's all Sophia's fault.

Daniel Roy: Is she a friend of yours? Hello. I'm Daniel Roy.

Hubert Dumont: I'm incognito. Bing-bang!

Daniel Roy: I compared you to that little dope. With your arms, your hips, your legs, who could refuse a girl like you? So here I am!