Contempt (film) Quotes

Contempt (film) is a television program that first aired in 1970 . Contempt ended in 1970.

It features Georges de Beauregard; Carlo Ponti, Uncredited:, and Joseph E. Levine as producer, France/US:, Georges Delerue, Italy/Spain:, and Piero Piccioni in charge of musical score, and Raoul Coutard as head of cinematography.

Contempt (film) is recorded in French, English, German, and Italian and originally aired in France, and Italy. Each episode of Contempt (film) is 101 minutes long. Contempt (film) is distributed by Marceau-Cocinor, Interfilm, and Embassy Pictures.

The cast includes: Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal, Michel Piccoli as Paul Javal, and Jack Palance as Jerry Prokosch.

Contempt (film) Quotes

Michel Piccoli as Paul Javal

• (Michel Piccoli) "After dinner we'll see a movie. It'll give me ideas."
• (Brigitte Bardot) "Use your own ideas instead of stealing them from everyone else."

• (Michel Piccoli) "There's nothing like the movies. Usually, when you see women, they're dressed. But put them in a movie, and you see their backsides."

• (Michel Piccoli) "Was that smile mocking or tender?"
• (Brigitte Bardot) "Tender."
• (Michel Piccoli) "Answer me, then."
• (Brigitte Bardot) "If it were true, I'd tell you. A woman can always find excuses. But you're a stupid sod sometimes."
• (Michel Piccoli) "Bad language doesn't suit you."
• (Brigitte Bardot) "Doesn't it? Just listen. Asshole -- f*** -- s*** -- goddammit -- bastard -- bollocks -- bloody hassle. You still think it doesn't suit me?"

Jack Palance as Jerry Prokosch

• (Jack Palance) "You've cheated me, Fritz. That's not what is in that script."
• (Fritz Lang) "It is."
• (Fritz Lang) "Oh, no."
• (Jack Palance) "Get the script, Francesca."
• (Jack Palance) "Yes, it's in the script. But it's not what you have on that screen."
• (Fritz Lang) "Naturally, because in the script it is written, and on the screen it's pictures. Motion picture, it's called."

• (Jack Palance) "What do you think -- me?"
• (Brigitte Bardot) "Get in your Alfa, Romeo. We'll see about that."

• (Jack Palance) "Whenever I hear the word "culture," I bring out my checkbook."
• (Jack Palance) "Come here."
• (Fritz Lang) "Some years ago; some horrible years ago; the Nazis used to take out a pistol instead of a checkbook."

• (Jack Palance) "To know that one does not know, is the gift of a superior spirit. Not to know and to think that one does know, is a mistake. To know that this is a mistake, keeps one from making it. I have the knowledge here."

Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal

• (Brigitte Bardot) "I've noticed the more we doubt, the more we cling to a false lucidity, in hope of rationalizing what feelings have made murky."

• (Brigitte Bardot) "I like you better without the hat and cigar."
• (Michel Piccoli) "I'm just imitating Dean Martin in "Some Came Running.""
• (Brigitte Bardot) "Very funny. You don't remind me of Dean Martin, but of Martin and the ass. Don't you know the story about Martin and the ass?"
• (Michel Piccoli) "No."
• (Brigitte Bardot) "One day Martin went to Baghdad to buy himself a flying carpet. And a merchant sold him a very pretty one. Martin sat down on the carpet, but it didn't fly. "Well," said the merchant, "that's not surprising." Are you listening to me?"
• (Michel Piccoli) "Yes."
• (Brigitte Bardot) ""That's not surprising. The carpet will never fly if you think of an ass." "All right," Martin said, "I just won't think of an ass." But then he couldn't stop thinking of an ass. And the carpet wouldn't fly."
• (Michel Piccoli) "I don't see what that has to do with me."
• (Brigitte Bardot) "That's exactly what I mean."

• (Brigitte Bardot) "You like all of me? My mouth? My eyes? My nose? And my ears?"
• (Michel Piccoli) "Yes, all of you."
• (Brigitte Bardot) "Then you love me -- totally?"
• (Michel Piccoli) "Yes. Totally -- tenderly -- tragically."

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