Gérard Depardieu movie quotes

“In a poets pocket you often find the product of an active imagination.”
Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano De Bergerac

“- Brother Buyl: You treat Christians equally with heathen savages. What do you offer in return?
- Columbus: A New World, Buyl.”
John Heffernan - Brother Buyl
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“- Danton: I refused to shake hands. I pronounced my own death sentence.
- Camille Desmoulins: You don't mean that.
- Danton: Yes, I do.
- Camille Desmoulins: Why did you refuse?
- Danton: His hands are too bloody.”

Gérard Depardieu - Danton
Patrice Chéreau - Camille Desmoulins

“- Aramis: Sometimes there are more important things in life than a good pair of tits.
- Porthos: Really? If you can name me one thing that is more sublime than the feel of a plump, pink nipple between my lips, I'll build you a new cathedral.
- Aramis: Forgiveness...”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis
Gérard Depardieu - Porthos

“I wish to see the stage cured of this affliction... and here is the lancet!”
Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano De Bergerac

“- Sanchez: You seem to have a special talent for making enemies.
- Columbus: Why? Do I have so many already?
- Sanchez: Don't you think to rise so high in so short of time is a dangerous occupation?”
Armand Assante - Sanchez
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“The Revolution is like Saturn: It devours its own children.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“No one must divide us, you and I. No committee, no government, no one. Divided, we both fall. I can't go along with your reign of terror and no one else will either. The people, our strength, will destroy the Revolution.”

Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“- Aramis: Why are you so glum?
- Porthos: I expected action. There was no fighting, there was no killing. I was useless.
- Aramis: Porthos, I grow tired of this attitude. You're surrounded by beauty, by intrigue, by danger. What more can a man want? The robins are singing, the pigeons are cooing. Can't you listen to their song?”
Jeremy Irons - Aramis
Gérard Depardieu - Porthos

“- Andre: My daughter tells some stranger that her father is her, her...
- Nicole: Lover...
- Andre: Oh, God! I hate that word. It's so... so graphic. Who else thinks this?
- Nicole: A few of the other people.
- Andre: How many of them?
- Nicole: All of them.
- Andre: All of them! Incroyable! I've been walking around here with you the past few...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gérard Depardieu - Andre
Katherine Heigl - Nicole

“People of France, you are the Tribunal!”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“- Columbus: Why do you want to help me?
- Santangel: Faith, hope, charity. But greater than all these is banking.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus
Frank Langella - Santangel

“We are trying to adapt to the Indian diet. Meat is only a memory for us.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“The braver the man, the harder they try to destroy him.”
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“I made a mess of everything, even my death.”
Gérard Depardieu - Cyrano De Bergerac

“Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“We come in peace and with honor. They are not savages, neither will we be. Treat them as you would your own wives and children. Respect their beliefs. Pillage will be punished by the whip. Rape, by the sword.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“- Queen Isabella I.: The New World is a disaster.
- Columbus: And the old one an achievement?”
Sigourney Weaver - Queen Isabel of Castille
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“I'd rather die covered in blood than an old man lying in my own piss.”
Gérard Depardieu - Porthos

“I want to get something straight. I was thrilled to play here, in a real theater, in a real play, but if I must take my pants off to prove I'm not a Jew, thanks, but no thanks. Besides, I refuse to take the part of another actor.”
Gérard Depardieu - Bernard Granger

“October 21st, 1492. I think we have returned to Eden. Surely this is how the world was in the beginning of time. If the natives are to be converted to our ways, then it will be by persuasion and not by force. I believe no man will ever see this land again as we do, for the fist time.”
Gérard Depardieu - Columbus

“They must kill me because I'm honest. Because I tell the truth. Because I frighten them. Three reasons to murder a decent man!”

Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“- Porthos: Aramis! You sawed the beam! You knew I would I try to hang myself and you sawed the beam! Admit it. Admit it!
- Aramis: Of course I knew! And now that you've got the idea of killing yourself out of your head you can stop boring everyone and be useful for a change. And put some clothes on!”

Gérard Depardieu - Porthos
Jeremy Irons - Aramis

“- Robespierre: Don't you forget that I'll stop at nothing to bring happiness to the people.
- Danton: Bring happiness to the people? You know nothing of the people! How could you know? Look at you. You don't drink, you in your powdered wigs! Swords make you faint, and they say you've never had a woman. Who do you speak for? Make men happy?...” (continue)(continue reading)
Wojciech Pszoniak - Robespierre
Gérard Depardieu - Danton

“- Nicole: My whole life will be ruined.
- Andre: No. No, no. Your life will not be ruined. Mine maybe, but yours won't.
- Nicole: He'll hate me!
- Andre: No, no, he won't hate you.
- Nicole: Yes, he will! I'm going to die!”

Katherine Heigl - Nicole
Gérard Depardieu - Andre