Labisse Quotes in Victor Victoria (1982)

Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: You called. I am Charles Bovin, Private Investigator.

Labisse: Good. There is something I want you to find out.

Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: At your service.

[sits on one of the bar stools]

Labisse: Be very careful.

Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: Monsieur, I am always careful.

Labisse: That stool is broken.

Charles Bovin, Private Investigator: [beat] It is?

[stool breaks down]

Labisse: If you ever come back, I will have you thrown out.

Toddy: Don't make it sound like such a threat. Being thrown out of a place like this is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

[Victoria's audition has been rejected]

Victoria: In spite of what you think, Monsieur Labisse, there are professions where practice *does* make perfect.

[she hits a high note, causing Labisse's wine glass to shatter, and leaves angrily]

Labisse: What in hell was that?

Toddy: B flat.

Police Inspector: You IDIOT... that's a man!

Labisse: That's not possible.

Police Inspector: Oh yeah? Well when I walked in, the person in that room was naked from the waist down, and if that was a woman, then she was wearing the greatest disguise that I have ever seen.