Can-Can (1960)

Frank Sinatra: François Durnais

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Quotes 

• François Durnais : You look like a broken umbrella.

• François Durnais : Your honor, I am a member of the bar and wish to represent myself.

  Philipe Forrestier : You realize that a lawyer who represents himself is said to have a fool for a client?

  François Durnais : That may be true, but it's better than having a fool for a lawyer.

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

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

• 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.

• François Durnais , Paul Barriere : [singing]  Montmart', Montmart', Where the quail never fail to win you, Where we say Oop-la!

  François Durnais : Where are you going, Mama?

  François Durnais , Paul Barriere : Montmart', Montmart', Montmart'

• Paul Barriere : Now, now, now. Wait a minute. The Can-Can is against the law. You know that, François.

  François Durnais : You mean you don't want to see it?

  Paul Barriere : Of course I do! Who doesn't? But, a man my position. If it becomes known that I watched the Can-Can - what does the law call it: lewd and lascivious performance - what could I say? How could I defend myself?

• François Durnais : We were asked to do this for the newspapers, not for postcards.

• Philipe Forrestier : We may never get along, you and I. But, we certainly won't if you take me for a fool.

  François Durnais : I take people as I find them.

• François Durnais : [singing]  When love comes in, And takes you for a spin, Oo-la, la-la, C'est magnifi-que...

• Philipe Forrestier : I've met your type: nothing in life matters, but, having a good time. I know you very well.

  François Durnais : My dear Judge, when I think of things you're missing. How wonderful...

  Philipe Forrestier : Oh, yes, yes. Wonderful, wonderful. Wine from a ladies slipper. A dawn in a strange bed. Intoxicating intrigue. Romance. Romance in gay Paris. Spare me the rest of the cliches, would you?

  François Durnais : I never thought I'd hear a Frenchman say that things are more important than Romance.

• Claudine : [singing]  Mon amour!

  François Durnais : Ring-a-ding-ding-ding...

• François Durnais : Good afternoon, Jacques. Keep your lens clean! Come, ladies.

• 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 : What made you so gullible all of the sudden? His big brown eyes?

• François Durnais : Pretty expensive goo-goo eyes you've been rolling.

• 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...

• François Durnais : [singing]  Though your lips are tempting, They're the wrong lips, They're not her lips, But they're such tempting lips...

• François Durnais : [singing]  There's someone I'm trying so hard to forget, Don't you want to forget someone, too?

• François Durnais : I thought about murder, suicide, chronic alcoholism. But, none of those things satisfy me.

  Paul Barriere : No other schemes?

  François Durnais : Yes, one more. Forget she ever existed.

• François Durnais : I will begin again.