Philippe Noiret movie quotes

“- Lucien Cordier: What's wrong? You know I have to.
- Vendredi: But Captain, I trusted you. You're different from other white men.
- Lucien Cordier: There's your mistake.”

Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Samba Mané - Vendredi - un noir qui en sait trop

“You could make a mint just doing what you like best, which you do better than any woman I know. And since we'll probably never see each other again, I'll be glad to bang you one last time, even though you're a fugitive.”

Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“Not to take credit away from the Lord, but if I had created the world, in all modesty, certain things would have come out better. But unfortunately such was not the case.”
Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“We've got to laugh in this world, or else we'd shoot ourselves.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Lucien Cordier: Can you excuse a pole for filling a hole? It may squash some rabbits, but is it the pole's fault if it fits that hole?
- George Le Peron: But a pole is an inanimate object.
- Lucien Cordier: Aren't we all more or less inanimate?
- George Le Peron: What do you mean?
- Lucien Cordier: Who knows!”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Jean-Pierre Marielle - L'adjudant Georges Le Peron

“- Rose: You saw everything?
- Lucien Cordier: Let's say I heard everything.
- Rose: And you did nothing?
- Lucien Cordier: Why should I have done something?
- Rose: Why... to stop me.
- Lucien Cordier: It wasn't up to me to stop you. It was up to you, to Huguette, Nono, Marcaillou. If I put temptation in front of you, it's not a reason to use...” (continue)(continue reading)

Isabelle Huppert - Rose Mercaillou
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“- Marcel Chevasson: Where do you think they are now?
- Lucien Cordier: In jail?
- Marcel Chevasson: Someday you'll learn a coffin costs the state less than a man in a cell, old chum.”

Guy Marchand - Marcel Chavasson
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

“Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time... many years... before you can come back and find...” (continue)(continue reading)
Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“- Lucien Cordier: Didn't your regiment squash the peanut pickers' revolt?
- George Le Peron: Sure did.
- Lucien Cordier: It sure took guts. All those niggers armed with clubs. And all you had was machine guns.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Jean-Pierre Marielle - L'adjudant Georges Le Peron

“Get out of here! Go back to Rome. You're young and the world is yours. I'm old. I don't want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you.”

Philippe Noiret - Alfredo

“- Lucien Cordier: I'm exhausted, Rose.
- Rose: Sleep is all you do.
- Lucien Cordier: It's the best thing besides eating. When you eat or sleep, you forget about the things you can't solve. Think about it. You'll see I'm right.
- Rose: Thinking's not what I need.”
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier
Isabelle Huppert - Rose Mercaillou