Philippe Noiret movie quotes

“Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.”
Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“Whatever you end up doing, love it. The way you loved the projection booth when you were a little squirt.”

Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“Out of the fire of love come ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out.”

Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“- Lucien Cordier: I can't read the aviator's book. It's too well-written.
- Anne: You like sounding illiterate? You're not. So why?
- Lucien Cordier: Habit. Grammar gets rusty like everything else if you don't use it. And in Africa the same goes for good and evil. What's good? What's evil? - Nobody knows. It's not much use here. So it gets rusty...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Irène Skobline - Anne - la nouvelle institutrice

“Better the blind man who pisses out the window than the joker who told him it was a urinal. Know who the joker is? It's everybody.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Lucien Cordier: You know I never arrest anyone unless I have to. I have enough troubles of my own.
- Leonelli: What good is an empty prison?”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Gérard Hernandez - Leonelli

“- Lucien Cordier: Do you know the question no one can answer? The big question?
- George Le Peron: Go ahead.
- Lucien Cordier: When you scratch your balls, is it 'cause they itch, or 'cause it feels good?”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Jean-Pierre Marielle - L'adjudant Georges Le Peron

“I try to save the innocent but there aren't any. All crimes are collective. We contribute to each other's crimes. We all shot your brother. And maybe I did a bit more than my share.”

Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“I'm not a policeman, Georges. I'm Jesus Christ in person, sent here with a load of crosses, each bigger than the next.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Le Peron: You've got nothing to do around here.
- Lucien Cordier: Doing nothing is my job. I'm paid for it.
- Le Peron: So go do nothing somewhere else.”
Jean-Pierre Marielle - Le Peron
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

Do you know why dogs sniff each other's butts? When dogs still ruled the world, they held a convention to vote new laws. The head dog said: "I suggest that due to poor hygiene here, our assholes we leave at the door". The dogs agreed and de-assholed. But just then, a tornado blew in and mixed all the assholes up. Not one dog recognized his own.... (continue)(continue reading)
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“Kicking a dying man isn't very nice. But first, I wanted to, and second, it's no risk. This hurts me more than you.”

Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“There are three kinds of French: real French, shit French, and French shit.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Priest: You'll never arrest anybody. How can they respect you? You've got to show folks you're brave, honest, and hard-working. Here, hold this.
- Lucien Cordier: I can't.
- Priest: Why not?
- Lucien Cordier: First, because I'm not brave, honest, and hard-working, and second, because I don't think my bosses want me to be.
- Priest: How come?
-...” (continue)(continue reading)

Jean Champion - Priest
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Rose: Having you is an honor. Killing my husband for love.
- Lucien Cordier: No, I was just getting rid of trash. The trash also happened to be your husband.
- Rose: There's a lot of trash around.
- Lucien Cordier: There'll be less and less. Had to start somewhere.”
Isabelle Huppert - Rose Mercaillou
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Le Peron: You can always be bribed.
- Lucien Cordier: I've got no choice. First, I'm underpaid; second, my wife takes all my money; and third, fining you is practically a civic duty.”
Jean-Pierre Marielle - Le Peron
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“We all kill what we love.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“I choose my friends for their looks, my enemies for their intelligence.”
Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“Progress always comes late.”
Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“- Lucien Cordier: What are you hunting?
- Leonelli: Nothing, jerk. We're shooting stiffs.
- Le Peron: Doesn't bother them and it's fun for us. When dysentery's cured, we'll find a new sport.”

Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Gérard Hernandez - Leonelli
Jean-Pierre Marielle - Le Peron

“- Rose: You have to help me. I can't take it. What can I do?
- Lucien Cordier: How the hell do I know? Any idiot can see they were shot with your gun.
- Rose: But that's horrible!
- Lucien Cordier: At first it is horrible. But then you start to think about starving kids, little girls sold into slavery, women whose sex is sewn up... God created...” (continue)(continue reading)

Isabelle Huppert - Rose Mercaillou
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Anne: I'm the new schoolteacher of Bourkassa.
- Lucien Cordier: That's a fine profession. A vocation, I'd say. Thanks to you, black children will be able to read their daddy's name on French war memorials.”
Irène Skobline - Anne - la nouvelle institutrice
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“I do things without thinking. Later I understand. I never plan ahead.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“They say we are made in God's image though if that were true I wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley!”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“You kissed too much white ass. You asked to get fucked. This is what I do with friends like you.”

Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier