“French Postcards” quotes

“- Toni: You know, I don't understand anything you are saying.
- Joel: Don't you speak French?
- Toni: Not your French.”
Valérie Quennessen - Toni
Miles Chapin - Joel

“- Laura: Maybe I should drive.
- Sayyid: In my country, women do not drive.
- Laura: Figures.
- Sayyid: In my country, in fact, the women run behind the cars.”
Blanche Baker - Laura
Mandy Patinkin - Sayyid

“- Joel: You know, you could have told me you'd been here before.
- Toni: I didn't even think about Stephen until they mentioned it.
- Joel: Mentioned it. They had a goddamn billboard with your picture on it.”
Miles Chapin - Joel
Valérie Quennessen - Toni

“- Alex: I spent a week in Grenada mostly watching the famous rain in Spain. All in all the trip was incredibly - it was - lonely. But don't tell Joel that, ok. I just told him the trip was great.
- Laura: I was going to say that about my trip. But it's hard when they bring you back in an ambulance.”
David Marshall Grant - Alex
Blanche Baker - Laura

“Come back with me to the States. Your English is good. You're studying to be a teacher. I've taught you all the best dirty words. You can tutor French and live with me.”
Miles Chapin - Joel

Now I know that in some of your universities the students say, "No, we don't want literature, not philosophy for us this year. This year we think we will study... mushrooms". Mushrooms? I have news for you. This year, at my school, you will not study mushrooms!

Jean Rochefort - Monsieur Tessier