Princess Yasmin Quotes in Son of the Pink Panther (1993)
Princess Yasmin Quotes:
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Princess Yasmin: Do you like being a cop?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Yes, sometimes. How is it being a princess?
Princess Yasmin: It's not much fun.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh. Fun is important.
Princess Yasmin: Yes. What else is important to you?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Singing.
Princess Yasmin: Yes?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [sings]
Princess Yasmin: That's... terrible.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Yes. And poetry. "Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys who lead'st along in airy dance."
Princess Yasmin: That's Byron.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Yes. Yes. And rain, and sleeping. And and and my mother.
Princess Yasmin: You like your mother?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Yes, very much, yes. And women.
Princess Yasmin: What kinds of women?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: All kinds. Especially dark women with blue eyes and full red lips who smell like night-blooming jasmine, and taste like a warm mango.
Princess Yasmin: Warm mango?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: And honey.
Princess Yasmin: Oh, my god.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Mine, too.
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King Haroak: [King Haroak and Princess Yasmin are riding in a limousine; Yasmin lights a cigarette and starts to smoke it] Oh... I wish you wouldn't smoke.
King Haroak: We should never have sent you to America, you picked up such appalling habits there.
Princess Yasmin: And nobody smokes in Lugash.
King Haroak: That's different.
Princess Yasmin: Hmm... of course... and there's nothing wrong with America, Father. My mother was American, you married her.
King Haroak: Your mother never smoked.
Princess Yasmin: Well, I'm surprised you noticed. You know, she wasn't dead three weeks before you married that... woman.
King Haroak: Well, you will no doubt be pleased to know that I am about to pay the price for that folly.
Princess Yasmin: Then, the rumor is true?
King Haroak: Yes, it would seem so, but Yasmin, please keep it to yourself. I don''t want to alert your stepmother until I have proof.
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King Haroak: [at a Monaco casino, after Yasmin has just won a game of baccarat] Praise Allah someone in this family is lucky.
Princess Yasmin: Hmm.
[Yasmin gets out of her seat and leaves the baccarat table]
Princess Yasmin: [to Hans] Cash this in.
Hans Zarba: How do you know I can be trusted?
Princess Yasmin: [Yasmin slaps Hans, then she puts her glasses on] Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were one of my bodyguards, it's all right. Uh, what's the going rate on a slap these days?
Princess Yasmin: [Hans holds up a casino chip] You're cheap.
[Hans tosses the chip to the baccarat dealer, who responds "Merci, monsieur."]
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Hans Zarba: Please, my sister may be dying.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Okay.
[Gambrelli walks over to the back of Hans's van]
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Uh, please, please, stand back, stand back. Haa!
[Gambrelli opens the door, hitting Dreyfus in the face, and a machine gun falls to the ground]
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [Gambrelli picks up the machine gun] You've been hunting?
Hans Zarba: Yes, hunting... hunting. Very perceptive.
Princess Yasmin: [Gambrelli kneels to check Hans's "sister", unaware that she is really Princess Yasmin; romantic music plays in the background as he takes a look at her face, she speaks softly] Hello.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [dreamily] Hello.
Princess Yasmin: [Yasmin giggles at Jacques. and puts her finger on his nose] Who are you?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [in a slow voice] I am Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli, second class. Who are you?
Princess Yasmin: I am -
[Hanif looks at Hans Zarba with a suspicion that she might reveal her identity and blow their cover; she yawns and goes unconscious]
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Your sister is very... very unconscious. Yes, I suspect that she had 'receiv-ed' a 'beump' on the head.
Hans Zarba: What?
Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus: [Dreyfus corrects Gambrelli's mispronunciation] Bump.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: What?
Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus: Oh, never mind. Come, François.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Yes, she requires immediate emergency treatment, Mister... uh...
Hans Zarba: Jones, Jones.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [Gambrellia closes the van door, getting his gloves and fingers caught in the van door] Take her quickly to the Nice hospital, Mr. Jones, and I will phone ahead to - Aah! - to tell them that you're - Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones, please stop! Mr. J - Wait, Mr. Jones, my hand! My - where are you go - Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones! Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, please stop!
[the van backs up and then drives away with Gambrelli's hand caught in the back door]
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Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [Gambrelli hiccups and wakes up] Oh... ohh... Ah... ah...
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [Gambrelli glances at Princess Yasmin] 'Oh... but soft, what... light through yonder window breaks? Oh, it is the east, and Juliet... is the sun."
Princess Yasmin: [He stumbles at the foot of Yasmin's bunk; she wakes up] Romeo...
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh, no,
[Jacques hiccups]
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Jacques.
Princess Yasmin: You know what they say.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: No.
Princess Yasmin: Yes: "A rose by any other name would - "
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [Jacques completes the line from Romeo and Juliet] "Would smell as sweet."
Princess Yasmin: [giggles] Yes. What are you doing here, sweetie?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: I came to rescue you.
[he hiccups]
Princess Yasmin: Hold your breath.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Like this?
Princess Yasmin: Mm-hmm.
[Yasmin sniffs in some air, Jacques hiccups]
Princess Yasmin: Longer.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: I can't.
Princess Yasmin: Oh, here, try again.
[Yasmin inhales with her nose, then she kisses Jacques while holding his nostrils shut]
Princess Yasmin: Ahhh.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [Jacques hiccups] It's no use.
Princess Yasmin: Yeah. There is one other way, okay? It's a little extreme, but it always works.
[Yasmin kisses Jacques and embraces him lovingly]
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Princess Yasmin: No more hiccups.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Amazing, but how did you discover it?
Princess Yasmin: I was, uh, engaged to a football player when I was in college in the States, and he, uh, always had the hiccups.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh, who could blame him?
Princess Yasmin: Hmph.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: How about you?
Princess Yasmin: I never have hiccups.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh, never?
Princess Yasmin: But if I ever do, I hope you're somewhere in the neighborhood.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh, I would consider it an honor and a privilege to be of assistance.
Princess Yasmin: How long have you been a policeman, Officer Gambrelli?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh, three years next May.
Princess Yasmin: Yes?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: How long have you been a princess, Your Highness?
Princess Yasmin: All my life.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh, that's a long time to be anything.
Princess Yasmin: Yes.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Do you like being a cop?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Yes, sometimes. How is it being a princess?
Princess Yasmin: It's not much fun.
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Oh, fun is important.
Princess Yasmin: What else is important to you?
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: Mmm... singing.
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Hans Zarba: Salaam alaikum.
Uncle Idris: Wa alaikum salaam.
Uncle Idris: [in English] Welcome to my home away from home, your Highness.
Princess Yasmin: Who are you?
Uncle Idris: My Muslim name is Sharif Latiff Abdul al-Idris al-Saba, but you can call me Uncle Idris.
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Hans Zarba: [Hans enters the room carrying a gun] Come, Yasmin!
Princess Yasmin: Never!
Hans Zarba: We'll make our escape!
Gendarme Jacques Gambrelli: [Jacques recites some poetry from memory] "When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me. / Plant thou no roses at my head, no shady cypress tree / Be the green grass above me, with showers and dew drops wet, / And if thou wilt remember, and if thou wilt forget."
[Hans shoots at Jacques]
Princess Yasmin: Jacques!
[Yasmin grunts as she struggles to get away from Hans; Cato, who has been hiding in am urn, hits Hans from behind with a brass frying pan]
Hans Zarba: That's it, no more mister nice guy!
[Hans faints to the floor]
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