Sylvie Quotes in Charade (1963)
Sylvie Quotes:
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Sylvie: It is infuriating that your unhappiness does not turn to fat!
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Reggie Lampert: Silvie, I am going to get a divorce.
Sylvie: From Charles?
Reggie Lampert: He's the only one husband I have.
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Sylvie: I don't understand. Why do you want a divorce?
Reggie Lampert: Because I don't love him and he doesn't love me.
Sylvie: That's no reason to get a divorce!
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Sylvie: That's no reason to get a divorce! With a rich husband and this year's clothes, you won't find it difficult to make some new friends.
Reggie Lampert: Look, I admit I came to Paris to escape American Provincial, but that doesn't mean I'm ready for French Traditional.
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Housewares Saleswoman: I think everything's gonna be computerized in twenty years.
Sylvie: Soup won't be computerized.
Housewares Saleswoman: Why not?
Sylvie: It's a liquid.
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Sylvie: You want to be a little bird and get a little worm? Just lie down and peep.
Robby: Peep, peep, peep.
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Peter Swersey: I'd live up there if I could, if there was no gravity
Sylvie: Yeah, but if you lived up there, all the stuff in my room would fall on you and crush you and you'd die
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Sylvie's Mom: Kids are so adaptable.
Sylvie: Am I adaptable?
Sylvie's Mom: Yes.
Richard Swersey: Yes, well, they have absolutely no control over their lives, so... But if things were reversed - you know, like that movie Freaky Friday - you can be sure Pam and I would be sent to our rooms for all our Friday. Yes, they would give us a time-out and tell us we could not come out until we had really thought about what we had done.
[pause. Very soberly]
Richard Swersey: What have we done?
[pause]
Richard Swersey: But... there are no time-outs, there's not enough time for... time-out.
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Ruth: It must be his boat.
Sylvie: That or he's some sort of lunatic. Either way, I'm not going back to find out.
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Sylvie: I love to ride on trains. Especially in the passenger cars.
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Fisherman: You come back here! Lady, you come back here! Lady, you come back!
Sylvie: He always does that. If he thinks someone's watching him, he just carries on even more.
Fisherman: Come back here!
Sylvie: Pitiful. He's gonna have a heart attack someday.
Ruth: It must be his boat.
Sylvie: Either that or he's some kind of lunatic. I'm certainly not going back to find out.
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Mrs. Jardine: She looks so sad.
Sylvie: She is sad. She should be sad.
[sigh]
Sylvie: I don't mean she should be. I mean, who wouldn't be? That's how it is with family.
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Sylvie: Bonjour. I had the most amazing dream last night. I was making love to a man with a beard. Hi. I'm Sylvie. I'm French.
Rhys: I am Rhys and I am Welsh.
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Natacha: -In French- I think I want to do exactly like you.
Sylvie: -In French- Humm, what ? What do you mean by that ?
Natacha: -In French- Bah, just do nothing, like you. After all is it not main goal in life ? Do nothing.
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