Can-Can (1960)

Shirley MacLaine: Simone Pistache

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Quotes 

• Simone Pistache : What would you like to do with me?

  Philipe Forrestier : I haven't decided.

  Simone Pistache : I think you have.

  Philipe Forrestier : Perhaps you're right.

• Simone Pistache : You are a lousy lawyer and an unreliable lover!

  François Durnais : I am *not* a lousy lawyer.

• Simone Pistache : Fifi? Fifi! Who's Fifi?

• Simone Pistache : Oh, François! You'll never know how grateful I am.

  François Durnais : Yes, I will.

  Simone Pistache : Jewelry on my garter. Makes me feel - irresistible.

• Simone Pistache : You know what I'm doing? I'm sitting on diamonds. Imagine me, sitting on diamonds. It's quite a sensation.

• Simone Pistache : You always tease.

• Simone Pistache : The Can-Can. The Can-Can. It'll be there in a minute.

  Paul Barriere : The Can-Can?

• Simone Pistache : For a thousand francs, I'd show you anything! Well, almost anything. Come with me.

• Simone Pistache : Smoke?

  Philipe Forrestier : No, thank you.

  Simone Pistache : Mind if I do?

  Philipe Forrestier : No.

  Simone Pistache : Does it shock you?

  Philipe Forrestier : Not at all. But, isn't it bad for the lungs?

  Simone Pistache : What do you think?

  Philipe Forrestier : In my profession, I never give an opinion without examining the evidence.

  [Simone slips her matches in her cleavage] 

• Claudine : What are you going to do?

  Simone Pistache : Work on him. Work on him! What else?

• Simone Pistache : It takes much organization to find out who wants which with whom and who wants who.

• Simone Pistache : Come in. This is my boudoir. It's also my office. I do most of my work here.

• Simone Pistache : Yes, he kissed me.

  François Durnais : Where did he kiss you?

  Simone Pistache : On the lips!

  François Durnais : No-no, I mean, in the boudoir...

  Simone Pistache : François!

• François Durnais : The biggest reason in the world today for infidelity is marriage. Now, eliminate marriage and you'll never see any such thing as an unfaithful husband.

  Simone Pistache : Oh! Oh, cut off your legs so you'll never have flat feet!

• François Durnais : Everybody does it. Why, even in France, the best upper sets do it.

  [singing] 

  François Durnais : Lithuanians and Letts do it Let's do it, let's fall in love

  Simone Pistache : Oh, I've heard that before!

  François Durnais : In old Japan all the Japs do it, Up in Lapland little Laps do it, Let's do it...

• Simone Pistache : Now, listen, I'm not cheap, I'm not a liar, and I'm not a thief. I want to be treated with re-spect!

• Simone Pistache : Sin was not invented in Montmartre. It was only perfected here.

• Simone Pistache : Once I make up my mind to lose something, I never find it.