Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) Quotes

Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Breakfast at Tiffany's ended its run in 1970.

It features Martin Jurow; Dick Shepherd as producer, Henry Mancini in charge of musical score, and Franz Planer, Uncredited:, and Philip H. Lathrop as head of cinematography.

Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) is recorded in English, and Portuguese and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) is 114 minutes long. Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) is distributed by Paramount Pictures.

The cast includes: George Peppard as Paul Varjak, Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, Buddy Ebsen as Doc Golightly, Dorothy Whitney as Mag Wildwood, Martin Balsam as O.J. Berman, Alan Reed as Sally Tomato, Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi, and Claude Stroud as Sid Arbuck.

Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) Quotes

George Peppard as Paul Varjak

• (George Peppard) "Holly, you're drunk."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "True."

• (George Peppard) "I never could do that."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "'s easy."

• (George Peppard) "What are you doing?"
• (2-E) "I'm writing a check. You must have seen me write checks before."

• (George Peppard) "So what? So plenty."

• (George Peppard) "You're crazy."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "What? Do you think you own me?"
• (George Peppard) "That's exactly what I think."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "I know. It's what everybody always thinks but everybody happens to be wrong."
• (George Peppard) "But I am not everybody, or am I? Is that what you really think? That I'm no different from all your others rats and super-rats? Wait a minute. That's it. If that's what you really think, there's something I want to give you."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "What's that?"
• (George Peppard) "Fifty dollars for the powder room."

• (George Peppard) "Sing Sing?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) ". Yes. I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison. Sing Sing, I mean. Sounds more like it should be an opera house or something."

• (George Peppard) "They're not the kind of stories you can really tell."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Too dirty?"
• (George Peppard) "Yeah, I suppose they're dirty, too, but only incidentally. Mainly they're angry, sensitive, intensely felt, and that dirtiest of all dirty words; promising. Or so said The Times Book Review, October 1, 1956."

• (George Peppard) "Holly, I'm in love with you."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "So what?"
• (George Peppard) "So what? So plenty. I love you. You belong to me."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "No. People don't belong to people."
• (George Peppard) "Of course they do."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "I'm not going to let anyone put me in a cage."
• (George Peppard) "I don't want to put you in a cage. I want to love you."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "It's the same thing."
• (George Peppard) "No it's not. Holly --"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "I'm not Holly. I'm not Lula Mae, either. I don't know who I am. I'm like cat here, a couple of no-name slobs. We belong to nobody and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other."

• (George Peppard) "So you're getting married, then?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Well, he hasn't really asked me, not in so many words."
• (George Peppard) "Four you mean?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Huh?"
• (George Peppard) "Well that's how many it takes: will you marry me?"

• (George Peppard) "I love you."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "So what."
• (George Peppard) "So what? So plenty. I love you, you belong to me."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "No. People don't belong to people."
• (George Peppard) "Of course they do."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "I'll never let ANYBODY put me in a cage."
• (George Peppard) "I don't want to put you in a cage, I want to love you."

• (George Peppard) "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."

• (George Peppard) "I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before."

• (George Peppard) "Why are you crying?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "If we're going to be friends let's get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops."

• (George Peppard) "Paul Varjak. Varjak, V A R J A K. I'm a writer, W R I T E R."

• (George Peppard) "We could have something engraved, couldn't we?"
• (Tiffany's salesman) "Yes, I suppose so, yes indeed -- the only problem is you would more or less have to buy something first if only in order to have some object upon which to place the engraving -- You see the difficulty --"
• (George Peppard) "Well, uh"
• (George Peppard) ", we could have this engraved, couldn't we? I think it would be very smart."
• (Tiffany's salesman) "This, I take it, was not purchased at Tiffany's?"
• (George Peppard) "No, actually it was purchased concurrent with, uh, well, actually, came inside of -- well, a box of Cracker Jack."
• (Tiffany's salesman) "I see --"
• (Tiffany's salesman) "Do they still really have prizes in Cracker Jack boxes?"
• (George Peppard) "Oh yes."
• (Tiffany's salesman) "That's nice to know -- It gives one a feeling of solidarity, almost of continuity with the past, that sort of thing."

• (George Peppard) "You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
• (George Peppard) "Here. I've been carrying this thing around for months. I don't want it anymore."

Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly

• (Audrey Hepburn) "It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door. I'll give you two."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. I must say, the mind reels."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "'s alright. It's only me."
• (George Peppard) "Uh -- Now wait a minute, Miss -- uh --"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Golightly. Holly Golightly. I live downstairs. We met this morning, remember?"
• (George Peppard) "Yeah."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Mag Wildwood. She's a model, believe it or not, and a thumping bore."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Timber."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Cat. Cat. Oh, Cat -- ohh --"

• (Audrey Hepburn) "We're alike, me and cat. A couple of poor nameless slobs."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "I've got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "I'm not hotfooting it after Jose, if that's what you think. Ohhh no. As far as I'm concerned he's the future president of nowhere."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Shoes."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "But I am mad about Jose. I honestly think I'd give up smoking if he asked me."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "A girl can't read that sort of thing without her lipstick."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Small-craft warnings, Block Island to Hatteras."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "But just look at the goodies she brought with her."
• (George Peppard) "He's all right, I suppose, if you like dark, handsome, rich-looking men with passionate natures and too many teeth."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Do you think she's talented, deeply and importantly talented?"
• (George Peppard) "No. Amusingly and superficially talented, yes. But deeply and importantly, no."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "You know those days when you get the mean reds?"
• (George Peppard) "The mean reds, you mean like the blues?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?"
• (George Peppard) "Sure."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then; then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "He's all right. Aren't you, cat? Poor cat. Poor slob. Poor slob without a name. The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's."
• (George Peppard) "Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "There you are, you sneak."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Oh, golly gee damn."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "I'll tell you one thing, Fred, darling -- I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?"
• (George Peppard) "In a minute."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "I guess it's pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh?"
• (George Peppard) "Yeah."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk; very drunk indeed."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "As Miss Golightly was saying before she was most rudely interrupted --"

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Thursday. It can't be. It's too gruesome."
• (George Peppard) "What's so gruesome about Thursday?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Nothing, except I can never remember when it's coming up."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Ahh -- Do I detect a look of disapproval in your eye?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Tough beans buddy, 'cause that's the way it's gonna be."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "What do you do, anyway?"
• (George Peppard) "I'm a writer, I guess."
• (Audrey Hepburn) "You guess? Don't you know?"
• (George Peppard) "OK, positive statement. Ringing affirmative. I'm a writer."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?"
• (George Peppard) "Yes."

• (Audrey Hepburn) "I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other."

Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi

• (Mickey Rooney) "Miss Gorightry."

Alan Reed as Sally Tomato

• (Alan Reed) "Snow flurries expected this weekend in New Orleans."

Claude Stroud as Sid Arbuck

• (Claude Stroud) "Hey."
• (Claude Stroud) "Hey, baby, what's going on here?"
• (Audrey Hepburn) "Oh, hi."

Buddy Ebsen as Doc Golightly

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Martin Balsam as O.J. Berman

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Dorothy Whitney as Mag Wildwood

• (Dorothy Whitney) "You know what's gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak."

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