Helene Quotes in Burnt (2015)

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Helene Quotes:

  • Adam Jones: [on his restaurant] We should be dealing in culinary orgasms. When is the last time you had an orgasm that was interesting?

    Helene: Remind me never ever to discuss food with you in public.

  • Helene: [about Adam] American?

    Conti: Yeah.

    Helene: Yeah. Arrogant prick.

    Conti: Well, he's a chef.

  • Helene: There ain't no use flappin' your wings, 'cause we are stuck in the flypaper of life!

  • Helene: Not so fast, my skirt's too tight!

    Jake: Oh, I told you you didn't know how to dress for a murder.

  • Sappho: You can marry Helene. You can have her if you like.

    Phil: I'm not a Turk. I can't have two wives. It's in the rules.

    Sappho: Don't be so boring, Phil. There are no rules in this game. There's nothing we can imagine that's not allowed. What's love is love.

    Phil: Well, what's loyalty is that too. Don't you care if I sleep with other women now?

    Sappho: You can sleep with other boys too if you like.

    [to Helene]

    Sappho: Will you marry my husband?

    Helene: Yes.

    Sappho: Then it's perfect. It's all that simple. We can all be married to one another.

  • Phil: And? What comes next?

    Helene: It's lost. We'll never know.

    Sappho: Perhaps we should decide for ourselves.

  • Sappho: I love you.

    Helene: Why?

    Sappho: Do I need a reason? I just do.

    Helene: Don't you care about Phil?

    Sappho: Of course I care about Phil. But making love with you feels just right.

    Helene: But that's where you're wrong. This is how girls fool around when there are no men around.

    Sappho: How is a woman making love to another woman any different then a woman making love to a man?

  • Helene: Have you come to say goodbye?

    Sappho: Goodbye?

    Helene: Aren't you going home? To America?

    Sappho: I am home. This is Lesbos... and I am a lesbian. I've always known who I am. This is my home.

    Helene: It's so boring here. You are welcome to it.

    Sappho: It's like always a never. The sea breaking against the rocks. The one always wanting. It's the hardest thing loving someone who doesn't love you.

    Helene: I'm sorry. It's not my fault.

    Sappho: Come and be my girl. To feel your face and hear your footsteps, I'd give the world.

    Helene: I am a woman now. I have made love to you and your husband. I want a husband of my own and children. You can't give me what I want.

  • Helene: The crypt! It must be destroyed, and with it the dead.

    Andre: Don't speak of the dead anymore. You're with me now.

    Helene: I am possessed of the dead.

    Andre: You're a warm living woman. Who has told you these things?

    Helene: The dead.

  • Catherine Valmont: If you die first, I'll follow you.

    Hélène: If you die first, I'll follow you. I swear it with my blood.

    Catherine Valmont: I swear it with my blood. Hélène, I will always love you...

  • Helene: [French gold-digger] Do you want somezing?

    Stanley Smith: You're sitting on it.

  • Hélène: Tu m'aimes parce que je suis là. Mais s'il faut traverser la rue pour me rejoindre tu es perdu.

  • Hélène: It happened gradually with my realizing it. I couldn't laugh. I couldn't sleep. I wondered if it was your fault, but no. You're as wonderful as ever. You stay the same. I am the one who has changed. I asked myself over and over. Why am I no longer impatient? Why does my heart not leap up when he arrives? The sound of the elevator's approach no longer thrills me.

    Jean: Hélène!

    Hélène: It's a horrible discovery, but I wish to be frank. My heart is drifting away from you. I'm ready for your reproaches, bitterness and insults. I've called myself the worst name already. Only one insult could wound me now - hypocrite.

    Jean: Hélène, you are wonderful. You were the first to speak, but I was guilty first. The story of your love is exactly the story of my own. All you thought, I thought as well. I kept silent, suffering. What a lesson you've taught me!

    Hélène: Really?

    Jean: Really. Hélène, you're beautiful, you're stunning. It's as if I'm seeing you for the first time. We should congratulate ourselves. It would have been awful if one went on loving longer than the other.

    Hélène: Yes, awful. What now?

    Jean: Neither of us has betrayed the other. We can avoid a messy breakup. We'll continue to see each other. We'll elude the death throes of a languishing love. No deceit, no suprises, no disgust. We'll be unique among our kind. I give you back your freedom, and you give me mine. We each go our own way. We'll be each other's confidant though I doubt I'll find anyone to confide in you about. You've set such a high standard. Can anyone ever know the future? I may soon find you were the only woman capable of making me happy. Perhaps you'll feel the same. And one day we'll meet again, I'll be at your side until we die.

    Hélène: What if you don't find me when you return? Anything's possible. I might fall for another. He couldn't compare to you, but still...

    Jean: That would be nobody's fault. Goodnight, Hélène.

  • Hélène: You've married a tramp. She was a cabaret dancer. You've played a trick on me and now I've played one on you.

    Jean: You?

    Hélène: Yes, me. You don't seem to realize where a woman's scorn can lead.

    Jean: You?

    Hélène: Don't be absurd. You've married a tramp. Now you must face the consequences. You're suddenly so sentimental.

    Jean: You're horrid!

    Hélène: Since your marriage seems to mean so much to you, you mustn't run off. Return to Agnès' side. You won't be the only one to console her. All her lovers are inside. And there are plenty of them!

  • Hélène: [Walking through a cavern] You must understand that the instincts, the feelings, and even the intelligence of Cro-Magnon man was definitely human. The only differences to the problem were his needs to survive.

    Student: What does "survive" mean?

    Hélène: It means to stay alive. He began to draw. Do you know what we call desires when they lose their savage quality? Aspirations. If Cro-Magnon had not survived, the world in which we live wouldn't exist.

  • Hélène: A crime is awful! Think of the poor girl!

    Popaul: I've seen a corpse or two - their heads in the wind, cut in half, mouth open. I've seen three or four piled together. Kids with their eyes punctured. Indo-Chinese as old as Madame Tirrant completely torn to bits. I've seen pals of mine rotting in the sun, being eaten by maggots.

    Butcher shop customer: Yes, war is a horrible thing. That's a fact, but murder like this - it's barbaric!

    Popaul: We counted corpses by the truckload, so... I'm rambling.

  • Popaul: But, shit, I asked you if I kissed you now, what would you say?

    Hélène: I'd say nothing, but please don't.

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