Halina Quotes in The Pianist (2002)

Wladyslaw Szpilman: It's a funny time to say this, but...

[trailing off]

Halina: What?

Wladyslaw Szpilman: I wish I knew you better.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: I'm not going anywhere.

Halina: Good. I'm not going anywhere either.

Mother: Don't be ridiculous, we've got to keep together.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Look, look... If I'm going to die, I prefer to die in my own home. I'm staying put.

Halina: We could hide the money. Look here. We can hide the money under the flower pots.

Father: No, no, no, no, I'll tell you what we do. We use tried and tested methods. You know what we did in the last war? We made a hole in the table leg

[taps the leg]

Father: and hid the money in there.

Henryk Szpilman: And suppose they take the table away?

Father: What do you mean, take the table away?

Henryk Szpilman: The Germans go into Jewish homes and they just take what they want, furniture, valuable, anything.

Mother: Do they?

Father: Idiot, what would they want with a table, a table like this?

[rips a piece of wood off the table]

Mother: What on earth are you doing!

Halina: No, listen. This is the best place for it. No-one would think of looking under the flower pots.

Henryk Szpilman: No, no, no, listen, listen to me, I've been thinking...

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Oh, really? That's a change.

Henryk Szpilman: You know what we do? We use psychology.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: We use *what*?

Henryk Szpilman: We leave the money and the watch on the table, and we cover it like this, in full view.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: [amazed] Are you stupid?

Henryk Szpilman: The Germans will search high and low, I promise you, they'll never notice!

Wladyslaw Szpilman: That's the stupidest thing I've ever seen, of course they'll notice it. Look.

[takes the violin and a bill, folds it and slips it into the opening of the violin]

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Look here... idiot.

Henryk Szpilman: And you call me stupid?

Mother: No, that is very good, because that is the last place they will ever look.

Henryk Szpilman: This will take hours!

Mother: We're not in a hurry, we'll get it back...

Wladyslaw Szpilman: It won't take hours.

Henryk Szpilman: How will you get them out? Tell me that, tell me how, I'd like to know, how would you get them out. You take each one out individually...

Halina: No-one listens to me, no-one.

Wailing Woman: Why did I do it? Why did I do it? Why did I do it?

Halina: She's getting on my nerves. What did she do, for God's sake?

Father: She smothered her baby.

Regina: Quiet please. Quiet. Order, order! Please!

Halina: She's a lawyer, she likes order.

Regina: Listen, just listen. The watch we put under the flower pots and the money we stuff in the violin.

Father: Will I still be able to play?

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Well... you'll find out.

Halina: Have you seen this?

Wladyslaw Szpilman: [impatient] What? What? I'm working. What? What is this?

Halina: It's where they're going to put us.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: What do you mean "put us"?

Wladyslaw Szpilman: Where are we going?

Mother: Phhhhh, out of Warsaw.

Wladyslaw Szpilman: [confused] Out of Warsaw? Where?

Regina: You haven't heard?

Wladyslaw Szpilman: [exasperated] Heard what?

Regina: Haven't you seen the paper?

Wladyslaw Szpilman: No!

Regina: Ah, where's the paper?

Halina: I used it for packing.

Regina: [incredulous] Ah, she used it for packing.