Mimi Quotes in Monsieur Beaucaire (1946)

Mimi: Oh, you're so right. One look is enough.

Monsieur Beaucaire: That regal forehead runs in the family.

Mimi: The Hapsburg chin!

Monsieur Beaucaire: Got that from my mother.

Mimi: The Bourbon nose!

Monsieur Beaucaire: Got that from my father, drank like a fish!

Mimi: Those dark, flashing eyes - that soft lustrous hair!

Monsieur Beaucaire: You should see it after a rinse!

[first lines]

Clarinda: [TV soap opera scene] It doesn't make sense, I don't understand how something like this happened. I don't know what I'm going to do. This has been my whole life, and now it's gone I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Pendleton Industries is all I've ever known, and now it's all been taken away.

Danica: When someone sees a weakness in me, I turn that weakness into a strength.

[holds up a gun]

Clarinda: Danica, you're so strong. I don't think I can do anything like this.

Danica: You can imagine changing your life by fighting for the deed to the land, Clarinda. Which is possible only if Bartholomew is no longer living.

Bartholomew: [entering] You will never get the deed to the land again, I will never allow it. Put down that gun, you silly girl.

Danica: Watch your step, Bartholomew, Ridge is on the way, and he's still in love with Clarinda. And Jared loves

Roderick: [entering] Clarinda, it's true. I'm here for you.

[dramatic beat]

Mimi: [narrating over snowy landscape] This is the story of Joy, as told by me, her grandmother. Everybody starts with a some kind of dream of what life will be. Joy dreams started at this metal garage her father ran. My granddaughter had a best friend, Jackie... a half-sister, Peggy... a dog... a father... a mother... who is my daughter... a grandmother, that's me. She made many beautiful things in her world, magic. Some people love to make things. They have the patience and the focus to figure it out with their hands. Joy was one of those people who rejoiced in making things.

Young Joy: [in her room with her friend] And *I* open the door to the big green meadow. And *I* go into the forest. And there I conquered many dangers: A wolf and other scary things. And I started to build my very own house, where I would live and make wonderful creations for all the world, to see and have. And maybe for the Prince and Princess who lived across the forest in a castle. See? And they were in love. And maybe they'd invite me over because of the things that I made.

Young Jackie: You need a handsome prince, that's what you need: a prince.

Young Joy: No, I don't need a prince, this is a special power, I don't need a prince.

Mimi: [about Tony & Joy] They were the best divorced couple in America. Much better friends than they were husband and wife.

Mimi: [narrating] She'd put up with just about anything... until when she had to bring the hammer down - she brought the hammer down.

[last lines]

Young Joy: [older Joy remembering her younger self] This right here, this is a special power. This is a special power. And then I started to build my very own house where I would live and make a wonderful creation, for all of the world to see and love.

Mimi: [narrating] She didn't know any of this would happen, as she walked that day.

John: Could you sign this please?

Mimi: Where do I sign?

John: Where it says 'Parent or Guardian.'

Mimi: But which am I?

John: Both.

Mimi: Anyone wanna help me pick some strawberries?

Kurt: Nope, but I'll give you a hand with those melons! Talkin' about her boobs. You guys get me, right?

[in the hotel bathroom]

Lucy Wagner: We are at a hotel with a murderer!

Mimi: He's not a murderer okay? It's just a rumor!

[they all peek out the door where Ben is playing his guitar on the bed]

Ben: Hey, Whats up?

[the girls wave and go back inside the door]

Mimi: If I win this competition, I get a record deal!

Kit: Mimi, you're pregnant. What, are you just gonna be some big fat pregnant superstar?

Mimi: They said I lost the baby. Lost it. Like it was my keys or something.

Mimi: Well, Kit and I voted and you lost.

Bud: 'Scuse me miss. Are you tired?

Mimi: What?

Bud: Are you tired?

Mimi: No. Why?

Bud: 'Cause you've been running through my mind all day.

Mimi: Where'd you come from?

Doyle: My mom and the authorities are still trying to figure that out.

Mimi: By the way Doyle, I've been thinking about that yoghurt thing. Fruit at the bottom, waiting to be stirred.

Bud: Excuse me, miss? Did it hurt?

Mimi: Did WHAT hurt?

Bud: When you fell from heaven. Did it hurt?

Igby: Well, I guess DH told you.

Mimi: What?

Igby: Well, we've decided to bump all those incredibly prominent and terribly chic persons that you were expecting to speak at your memorial and, well, have me speak for two hours or so.

Mimi: What a clever idea. You do understand though, don't you, that it is customary in a eulogy to at least make reference to the deceased?

Igby: I intend to, Mother... time permitting.

Mimi: I take it you know that D.H. is your father?

Igby: No.

Mimi: Then I'm really glad I told you.

[Igby returns from military school]

Igby: Turtle. He was my best buddy. Then his rifle backfired and blew his face off. We all learned a valuable lesson about weapon maintenance that day.

Mimi: Why didn't the school inform me?

Igby: It wasn't the school's fault. They were great about it, paid for the dry cleaning and everything. Not because they had to, but because it was the right thing to do.

Mimi: [to Oliver, about Igby] His conception was an act of animosity, why shouldn't his life be one as well?

Mimi: Jason, tell me dearest, are you planning on bathing this week?

Jason Slocumb: I beg your pardon?

Mimi: It seems to have slipped your mind last week.

Jason Slocumb: But, I'm not dirty.

Igby: Why do you want me to be here, mother?

Mimi: Comic relief.

[Mimi has just seen Bulworth badmouth a black congregation]

Mimi: Fred, when you say "by the book" - WHAT book would that be?

[after watching Bulworth lose it on TV]

Mimi: Now - would we be eligible for an Emmy, or a Peabody?

Mimi: Can you play back that crispy crab cakes remark again?

Mimi: I don't care what you did as a boy.

Guy: Well, I did nothing as a girl, so there goes my childhood.

Mimi: You?

Guy: [looking around] Yes. It's me.

Mimi: [distracting guard] Hey, big boy. Ever get your freak on with a triple-jointed Sagittarian gymnast?

Steve Sherman: Anyway, that's where I was when the brains were being passed out.

Mimi: You know where I was? Taking a bath in champagne.

Mimi: My dear, men are like that. So honorable and wise in some things and just like naughty children in others. You wouldn't blame a little boy for stealing a piece of candy if left alone with a whole boxful, will you?

Mimi: Mr M. That's what I call you, Mr M. Because everything I like starts with the letter M. Modigliani, Mozart, the Moon. And your name that forces me to feel so small. Min Woo.

Mimi: Don't let him brainwash you!

Mimi: It's right that today's Halloween. It was Angel's favorite holiday. I knew we'd hit it off the moment we met. There was this skinhead that was harassing her... and she walked right up to him and said, "I'm more of a man than you'll ever be - and more of a woman than you'll ever get."

Mimi: I should tell I blew the candle out, just to get back in.

Roger Davis: I'd forgotten how to smile, until your candle burned my skin.

[first lines]

Mark, Angel, Maureen, Roger, Collins, Benjamin Coffin III, Mimi: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear. Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes - how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love... seasons of love.

Mimi, Joanne: I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had! Someone to live for, unafraid to say I love you.

Mimi: There's only us, There's only this, Forget regret, Or life is your to miss, No other road, No other way, No day but today.

Mimi: Give in to love or live in fear.

Mimi: I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine.

Roger: [Sung] I know, this something is... here goes.

Mimi: [Sung] Here goes.

Roger: [Sung] Guess so, it's starting to... who knows?

Mimi: [Sung] Who knows?

Mimi, Roger: [Sung] Who knows where, who goes there? / Who knows... here goes / Trusting desire, starting to learn... / Walking through fire, without a burn / Clinging a shoulder, a leap begins / Stinging and older, asleep on pins / So here... we... go... / Now we...

Roger: [Sung] Oh no.

Mimi: [Sung] I know.

Roger: [Sung] Oh no.

Mimi, Roger: [Sung] Who knows where, who goes there? / Here goes... / Here goes... / Here goes... / Here goes... / Here goes... / Here goes...

[They kiss]

Mimi: Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Mark, Angel, Mimi: Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens, carcinogens, hallucinocens, men, Pee Wee Herman! German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein, Antoniotti, Bertolucci, Kurosawa, Carmina Burana!

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] I can't control

Roger Davis: [Sung] Control your temper

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] My destiny

Roger Davis: [Sung] She doesn't see

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] I trust my soul

Roger Davis: [Sung] Who says that there's a soul

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] My only goal, is just to be

Roger Davis: Just let me be!

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung in time with Roger] There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other path, no other way. No day but today.

Roger Davis: [Sung] Who do you think you are? Barging in on me and my guitar. Little girl hey, the door is that way.

Mimi: [Sung] No day but today.

Roger Davis: [Sung] The fire's dead anyway.

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] No day but today.

Roger Davis: [Sung] Take your powder, take your candle.

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] No day but today.

Roger Davis: [Sung] Take your brown eyes, your pretty smile, your silouette.

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] No day but today.

Roger Davis: [Sung] Another time, another place, another round, a warm embrace.

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] No day but today.

Roger Davis: [Sung] Another dance another way, another chance, another day

Collins, Mark, Mimi, Angel: [Sung] No day but today.

Mark: [sings] There is no future. There is no past.

Roger: [sings] Thank God this moment's not the last.

Roger, Mimi: [sings] There's only us... there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Roger: [sung] You look familiar.

Mimi: [sung] Like your dead girlfriend?

Roger: [sung] Only when you smile, but I'm sure I've seen you somwhere else.

Mimi: [sung] Do you go to the Cat Scratch Club? That's where I work. I dance.

Roger: [sung] Yes! They used to tie you up.

Mimi: [sung] It's a living.

Roger: [sung] I didn't recognize you without the handcuffs.

Mimi, Angel: [sung] To hand crafted beers made in local breweries, to yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese. To leather, to dildoes, to curry vindaloo. To huevos rancheros and Maya Angelou.

Collins, Maureen: [sung] Emotion, devotion to causing a commotion. Creation, vacation...

Mark: [sung] Mucho masturbation.

Mimi: [sung] The heart may freeze or it can burn. The pain will ease if I can learn... there is no future. There is no past. I live this moment as my last! There's only us... there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road... mo other way. No day but today...

Roger: [sung] Excuse me, if I'm off track. But if you're so wise, then tell me, why do you need smack? Take your needle... take your fancy prayer. And don't forget, get the moonlight out of your hair. Long ago you might've lit up my heart. But the fire's dead, and ain't ever ever gonna start! Another time, another place. The words would only rhyme... we'd be in outer space. It'd be another song, we'd sing another way. You wanna prove me wrong? Come back another day... another day!

All: [sung] No other road / No other way / No day but today

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] I can't control / My destiny

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] Will I lose my dignity / Will someone care

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] I trust my soul / My only goal / Is just to be

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] Will I wake tomorrow / From this nightmare

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] Without you / The hand gropes

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] There's only now / There's only here

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] The ear hears / The pulse beats

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] Give in to love / Or live in fear

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] Life goes on / But I'm gone

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] No other path / No other way

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] 'Cause I die / Without you / I die without you

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] No day but today / No day but today

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] I die without you / I die without you

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] No day but today / No day but today

Mimi, Joanne, Maureen: [sung] I die without you / I die without you

Mark, Roger, Collins, Angel, Benjamin Coffin III: [sung] No day but today / No day but today

All: [sung] NO DAY BUT TODAY!

All: To Dance!

Mimi: [sung] No way to make a living, masochisms, pain, perfection, muscle spasm, chiropractors, short-careers, eating disorders!

Mimi: I was moving towards... this warm, white light. And I swear... Angel was there. And she looked good!

[everyone laughs]

Mimi: She said, "Turn around, girlfriend, and listen to that boy's song."

Mimi: [sung] What's the time? Well it's gotta be close to midnight... my body's talkin' to me, it says "Time for danger!"

Roger: Cold hands

Mimi: Yours too. Big. Like my father's. Do you wanna dance?

Roger: With you?

Mimi: No - with my father

Roger: I'm Roger

Mimi: They call me... They call me... Mimi

Mimi: [sings] Let's go out tonight. I have to go out tonight. You wanna prowl? Be my night owl? Well, take my hand were gonna howl out tonight.

Angel, Mimi: [sung] To hand crafted beers made in local breweries, To yoga, to yogurt, to rice, and beans, and cheese, To leather, to dildos, to curry-vindaloo, to huevos rancheros, and Maya Angelou.

Mimi: [on hands and knees to find her drugs] They say I have the best ass below 14th street. Is it true?

Roger: What?

Mimi: You're staring again.

Roger: Oh no. I mean, you do have a nice, I mean...

Joanne: Didn't give an inch, when I gave a mile!

Mark: Come on!

Mimi: I gave a mile!

Roger: Gave a mile to who?

Mimi: [sung] Excuse me, did I do something wrong? I get invited then ignored all night long!

Mimi: Would you light my candle?

Mimi: They call me... they call me... Mimi.

Collins, Mark, Maureen, Mimi, Joanne, Angel, Roger Davis: To people living with, living with, living with... not dying from disease. Let he among us without sin be the first to condem La Vie Boheme.

Mimi: I die without you.

Roger: [sung, when the dripping candle wax burns Mimi] Oh the wax. It's...

Mimi: Dripping. I like it between my...

Roger: [interrupting] Fingers! I figured. Oh well, goodnight!

Mimi: [sung] Where all the scars from the "nevers" and "maybes" die!

Joanne, Collins, Mark, Angel, Mimi, Maureen, Roger, Benjamin Coffin III: All Its time now to sing out, though the story never ends. Lets celebrate remember the year of the life of friends. Remember the love.

Joanne: You got to, you got to remember the love.

Collins, Mark, Angel, Mimi, Maureen, Roger, Benjamin Coffin III: Remember the love.

Joanne: You know that love us a gift from up above.

Collins, Mark, Angel, Mimi, Maureen, Roger, Benjamin Coffin III: Remember the love.

Joanne: Share love, give love, spread love.

Life Cafe Waiter: [sung] So that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad, three soy burger dinner, two tofu dog platters, and one pasta with meatless balls.

Roger: Ugh!

Collins: It tastes the same.

Mimi: If you close your eyes!

Collins, Mark, Maureen, Roger, Mimi, Joanne: No day but today!

Mark, Mimi: Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow to blow off Auntie Em

All: La vie Boheme!

Mimi: He was always "Run away, Hit the road, Don't commit". You're full of shit!

Mimi: [sung] Excuse me, did I do something wrong? I get invited then ignored all night long!

Roger Davis: [sung] I've been tryin', I'm not lyin'! No one's perfect, I've got baggage!

Mimi: [sung] Life's too short, babe, time is flyin'! I'm lookin' for baggage that goes with mine!

Roger Davis: [sung] I should tell you...

Mimi: [sung] I've got baggage, too!

Roger Davis: [sung] Should tell you...

Roger Davis: [simultaneously] Baggage...

Mimi: [simultaneously] Baggage...

Collins: [all but Mimi and Roger] Wine and beer!

Mimi: [pagers go off] AZT break.

Roger Davis: [sung] You?

Mimi: [sung] Me. You?

Roger Davis: [sung] Mimi.

Roger: I once was born to be bad. I used to shiver like that...

Mimi: I have no heat. I told you...

Roger: I used to sweat.

Mimi: I got a cold.

Roger: Uh-huh. I used to be a junkie...

Mimi: But now and then, I like to...

Roger: Uh-huh.

Mimi: ...feel good.

Oscar: What happened to your dance classes?

Mimi: Dancing has to come from the heart.

Oscar: So?

Mimi: My heart is broken.

Mimi: I want to marry you. I want to give you babies. I want to give you the rest of my life!

Oscar: I don't want the rest of your life. I want my own.

Oscar: What have you been doing In Möntenich ? Waiting tables?

Mimi: Yes till the manager found out I could dance then he put me on the floor show.

Oscar: Kind of him.

Mimi: Yes he was very kind , he almost restored my faith in human nature.

Oscar: Only almost ?

Mimi: He did until I remembered you.

Oscar: Touché.

Nigel: Are you feeling any better?

Mimi: Better than what?

Nigel: You know, this afternoon... in the loo?

Mimi: The loo? Is that your usual pick-up routine?

Mimi: You don't have a right to criticize yourself. It's my privilege.

Mimi: Don't play with your zi zi while I am gone there is no point.

Oscar: So you didn't kill yourself ?

Mimi: What for ? I was dead already.

Oscar: Where have you been ?

Mimi: You bought the tickets you should know.

Oscar: What are you doing back here ?

Mimi: Just visiting, I heard about your misfortune thought I could see if you needed anything.

Oscar: You know what I really need baby? I need you to stay out of my life.

Mimi: You haven't lost your charm Oscar I should have known.

Oscar: [Mimi is eating croissants and drinking milk straight from the bottle] Do you have to drink it that way? Why can't you use a glass ?

Mimi: Whats the difference it tastes the same ?

Oscar: It doesn't look the same.

Mimi: Ola la I didn't know you were so delicate.

Oscar: What do you mean delicate ?

Mimi: I mean delicate.

Oscar: I know what you mean but it's just not the right word in English. If you don't know the right word in English say it in French.

Mimi: I don't say it in French because your French isn't good enough.

Oscar: It's better than your English.

Mimi: After all these years in Paris so it should be. Maybe your English isn't that good enough either, maybe that's why no one wants to publish your books.

Oscar: So now you are literary agent? That's great coming from a waitress.

Mimi: I am not a waitress I am a dancer.

Oscar: Dancer to hell! You would still be begging tips if I hadn't picked you up from that fucking restaurant.

[Mimi stone faced throws the bottle of milk at Oscar and rushes out with Oscar in hot pursuit. He grabs her by the hair and slaps her hard and she falls to the floor]

[last lines]

Mimi: I run to death,and death meets me as fast, and all my pleasures are like yesterday.

Tabitha: Now how do you fall drunk dick first into a dead man's ass and still be pitching a tent?

Mimi: That's a big ass tent.

Mimi: Foolish one... foolish, foolish one...

Mimi: ...I am tired... so tired...

Mimi: Mademoiselle! How did it go? At the police, I mean? Oh, would you like a glass of water?