Princess Yasmin Quotes in Son of the Pink Panther (1993)

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Princess Yasmin Quotes:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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