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Gigi (1958 film) Quotes

Gigi (1958 film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Gigi ended in 1970.

It features Arthur Freed as producer, Frederick Loewe in charge of musical score, and Joseph Ruttenberg as head of cinematography.

Gigi (1958 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Gigi (1958 film) is 115 minutes long. Gigi (1958 film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Leslie Caron as Gigi, Louis Jourdan as Gaston Lachaille, Isabel Jeans as Aunt Alicia, Hermione Gingold as Madame Alvarez, Maurice Chevalier as Honore Lachaille, and John Abbott as Manuel.

Gigi (1958 film) Quotes

Maurice Chevalier as Honore Lachaille

  • (Maurice Chevalier) "You wore a gown of gold."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "I was in blue."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Am I getting old?"
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Oh, no, not you. How strong you were, how young and gay / A prince of love, in every way."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Ah, yes, I remember it well --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Each time I see a little girl / of five or six or seven / I can't resist a joyous urge / to smile and say -- / Thank Heaven for little girls / For little girls get bigger every day / Thank Heaven for little girls / They grow up in the most delightful way. / Those little eyes, / so helpless and appealing / when they were flashing / send you crashing through the ceiling / Thank Heaven for little girls / Thank Heaven for them all / No matter where, no matter who / Without them, what would little boys do? / Thank Heaven, thank Heaven / Thank Heaven for little girls --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "But think of a race / with your horse in seventh place / and he suddenly begins and he catches up and wins with a roar."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's a bore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Good afternoon. As you see, this lovely city all around us is Paris, and this lovely park is of course the Bois de Boulogne. Who am I? Well, allow me to introduce myself: I am Honore Lachaille. Born: Paris. When --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "-- not lately. This is 1900, so let's just say not in this century. Circumstances: comfortable. Profession: lover, and collector of beautiful things. Not antiques mind you, younger things."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Yes, definitely younger. Married: what for? Now please don't misunderstand. Like everywhere else, most people in Paris get married, but not all. There are some who will not marry, and some who do not marry. But in Paris, those who will not marry are usually men, and those who do not marry are usually women."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Now for example here we find / Exhibit A, the married kind. / These ladies stood their ground and won / and I salute them, every one. / Here are some others to behold / for whom the bells have never tolled. / Oh, what a poor defenseless pair / in those pathetic rags they wear --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Poor boy. Poor boy. / Downhearted and depressed and in a spin. / Poor boy. Poor boy. / Oh, youth can really do a fellow in. How lovely to sit here in the shade / with none of the woes of man and maid / I'm glad I'm not young anymore -- The rivals that don't exist at all / The feeling you're only two feet tall / I'm glad that I'm not young anymore -- / No more confusion / No morning-after surprise / No self-delusion / That when you're telling those lies / she isn't wise / And even if love comes through the door / the chance that goes on forevermore / Forevermore is shorter than before / Oh, I'm so glad that I'm not young anymore -- / The tiny remark that tortures you / The fear that your friends won't like her too / I'm glad I'm not young anymore -- / The longing to end the stale affair / until you find out she doesn't care / I'm glad I'm not young anymore -- / No more frustration / No star-crossed lover am I / No aggravation / Just one reluctant reply / "Lady, goodbye." The Fountain of Youth is dull as paint / Methuselah is my patron saint / I've never been so comfortable before / Oh, I'm so glad that I'm not young anymore --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "That dazzling April moon."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "There was none that night, / and the month was June."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "That's right, that's right --"
  • (Hermione Gingold) "It warms my heart to know / you remember still the way you do."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Ah, yes, I remember it well --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "That brilliant sky."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "We had some rain."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Those Russian songs."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "From sunny Spain."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Ah, yes, I remember it well --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "This story is about a little girl. It could be about any one of those little girls playing there. But it isn't. It's about one in particular. Her name is Gigi."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Congratulations. It's your first suicide."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Did she send a note?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Obviously."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Oh, good, good. Did you have to change the arrangements?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Don't be vulgar."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Ah, well, she's a wonderful girl, Gigi. So young, so fresh, so vulgar. She's not sophisticated like most other woman are, but then what do sophisticated women have to offer? Nothing. They are boring, they have no surprises. But a liaison with someone like Gigi can last for months."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Good night. Good night."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Look at all the captivating / fascinating things there are to do."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Name two."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Look at the pleasures / of the myriad of treasures / we have got."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Like what?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Look at Paris in the spring / when each solitary thing / is more beautiful than ever before. / You can hear every tree / almost saying "Look at me.""
  • (Louis Jourdan) "What color are the trees?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Green."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "What color were they last year?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Green."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "And next year?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Green."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's a bore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "This is not the first time this has happened. It has even happened to me. Isn't that right Manuel?"
  • (John Abbott) "Oh yes. Many, many, many times."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Not THAT many."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Just imagine her chagrin / when she sees you wander in/ And you find her with that slippery senor / What a moment supreme / when she totters with a scream --."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "What will she do?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Scream."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "What did yours do?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Scream."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "What do they all do?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Scream."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's a bore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "But think of the bliss / of the pleasure you would miss / When she topples in a heap / and you leave her there to weep on the floor --"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's a bore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "You must catch her if you can."
  • (John Abbott) "For the dignity of man."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Take advantage of the chance."
  • (John Abbott) "You owe it, sir, to France."
  • (John Abbott) "This is war."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "All right. But it's a bore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "I must tell you that you upset all my plans for the weekend. I came prepared for battle, and an old wound --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "-- prevented me from charging."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "I don't think she was your type anyway, Honore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "You were watching me?"
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Force of habit. When a pretty woman came by I always had to watch you."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Think of lunch beneath the trees."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Stop the carriage, if you please."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "You mean you don't want to come?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "The thought of lunch leaves me numb."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "But I implore --."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Oh, no, Uncle. It's a bore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "The River Seine."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "All it can do is flow."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "But think of wine."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's red or white."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "But think of girls."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's either yes or no, and if it's no or if it's yes. / It simply couldn't matter less."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "We met at nine."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "We met at eight."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "I was on time."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "No, you were late."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Ah, yes, I remember it well --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Life is thrilling as can be."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Simply not my cup of tea --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "It's a gay romantic fling."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "If you like that sort of thing."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "It's intriguing."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's fatiguing."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "It's a game."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "We dined with friends."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "We dined alone."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "A tenor sang."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "A baritone."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Ah, yes, I remember it well --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Youth is the thing, Gaston. Youth. Stay close to the young and a little rubs off."

Leslie Caron as Gigi

  • (Leslie Caron) "What time tomorrow will we get there? / Can I watch you play roulette? / May I stay up late for supper? / Is it awfully awfully upper?"
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Gigi, you'll drive us wild. / Stop, you silly child."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Is everybody celebrated, / full of sin and dissipated? / Is it hot enough to blister? / Will I be your little sister?"
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Gigi, you are absurd. / Now not another word. Gigi."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Let her gush and jabber, / let her be enthused. / I cannot remember / when I have been more amused."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Stop it."
  • (Leslie Caron) "The night they invented champagne, / it's plain as it can be / they thought of you and me. / The night they invented champagne, / they absolutely knew / that all we'd want to do / is fly to the sky on champagne / And shout to everyone in sight / that since the world began / no woman or a man / has ever been as happy as we are tonight."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "The night they invented champagne --"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "-- It's plain as it can be / they thought of you and me. / The night they invented champagne / they absolutely knew / that all we'd want to do / Is fly to the sky on champagne / and shout to everyone in sight"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "That since the world began / no woman or a man / has ever been as happy as we are tonight."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Can I take a glass of champagne, Mamita?"
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Have you lost your mind, Gigi? Of course not."
  • (Leslie Caron) "I don't know what you want. You told Grandmamma --"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "I know what I told your grandmother. We don't have to repeat it. Just tell me simply what you don't want -- and tell me what you do want."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Do you mean that?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Of course."
  • (Leslie Caron) "You told Grandmamma that you wanted to take care of me."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "To take care of you beautifully."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Beautifully. That is, if I like it. They've pounded into my head I'm backward for my age -- but I know what all this means. To "take care of me beautifully" means I shall go away with you -- and that I shall sleep in your bed."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Please, Gigi, I beg of you. You embarrass me."
  • (Leslie Caron) "You weren't embarrassed to talk to Grandmamma about it. And Grandmamma wasn't embarrassed to talk to me about it. But I know more than she told me. To "take care of me" means that I shall have my photograph in the papers. That I shall go to the Riviera, to the races at Deauville. And when we fight, it will be in all the columns the next day. And then you'd give me up, as you did with Inèz des Cèvennes."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Who's been filling your head with all these old stories? How do you know about that?"
  • (Leslie Caron) "Why shouldn't I know? You're world famous. I know about the woman who stole from you, the Contessa who wanted to shoot you, the American who wanted to marry you. I know what everybody knows."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "These aren't the things we have to talk about together. That's all in the past, over and done with."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Yes, Gaston. Until it begins again."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Is that the scandalous Madame d'Exelmans?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Yes, that is she. Tell me, Gigi, the way that you express yourself -- does you grandmother hear you talk this way?"
  • (Leslie Caron) "She doesn't listen to me much."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Say a prayer for me tonight / I'll need every prayer that you can spare / To get me by -- Say a prayer / And while you're praying, keep on saying / "She's much too young to die -- " "On to your Waterloo," whispers my heart / Pray I'll be Wellington, not Bonaparte -- Oh, say a prayer for me this evening / Bow your head, and please stay on your knees / Tonight --"
  • (Leslie Caron) "Why did he fly off the handle? He knew I'd answer him back."
  • (Leslie Caron) "A necklace is love. A ring is love. / A rock from some obnoxious little king is love. / A sapphire with a star is love. / An ugly black cigar is love. / Everything you are is love. You would think it would embarrass / All the people here in Paris / To be thinking every minute of love."
  • (Leslie Caron) "I would rather be miserable with you than without you."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Is that gold?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "The handle, yes."
  • (Leslie Caron) "You must be very rich to have a gold handle on your cane."

Isabel Jeans as Aunt Alicia

  • (Isabel Jeans) "Such stupidity is without equal in the whole history of human relations."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "And how is your dear father? Well, I hope."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "He has diabetes."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Well, I suppose if you are in the sugar business --"
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists. The greater the artist the greater the art. And what makes an artist?"
  • (Leslie Caron) "Cigars and jewelry?"
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Gigi, you're from another planet."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Without knowledge of jewelery, my dear Gigi, a woman is lost."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Love is eternal spring in an eternal garden."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "And when eternal spring is over?"
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Oh, what difference does that make?"
  • (Hermione Gingold) "It makes a great deal of difference to Gigi. And may I tell you something? I am not so sure that I disagree with her."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Did you work hard in school today? What did you study?"
  • (Leslie Caron) "History. Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "How depressing. What else?"
  • (Leslie Caron) "English."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "English? I suppose we must. They refuse to learn French."
  • (Isabel Jeans) "Liane d'Exelmans has commited suicide -- again."

Louis Jourdan as Gaston Lachaille

  • (Louis Jourdan) "And therefore, I win."
  • (Leslie Caron) "And therefore -- you lose."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "You cheated. Where did you get that fourth ace?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's the same dull world where ever you go, whatever place you are at / The earth is round, but everything on it is flat."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Don't tell me Venice has no lure."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Just a town without a sewer."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "The Leaning Tower I adore."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Indecision is a bore."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "But think of the thrill of a bull fight in Seville / when the bull is uncontrolled / and he challenges the bold matador."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It's a bore."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "What do you think of her?"
  • (Leslie Caron) "She is -- common."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Common? What, you mean "ordinary" common or "coarse" common?"
  • (Leslie Caron) "Ordinary common -- and coarse."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "I'm sorry I kept you waiting, Uncle. Why didn't you come upstairs?"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "I was afraid I'd meet my brother and sister-in-law."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "You would have."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "I have to tell you -- your parents bore me to death."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Me too."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "But I've known them longer, so they've been boring me longer."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "She's a babe. / Just a babe. / Still cavorting in her crib / Eating breakfast with a bib / with her baby teeth / and all her baby curls. / She's a tot. / Just a tot. / Good for bouncing on your knee. / I am positive that she / doesn't even know that boys aren't girls. / She's a snip. / Just a snip. / Making dreadful baby noise, / having fun with all her toys. / Just a chickadee who needs a mother hen. / She's a cub, a papoose. / You could never turn her loose. / She's too infantile to take her from her pen. / Of course, that weekend in Trouville, / in spite of all her youthful zeal, / she was exceedingly polite / and on the whole a sheer delight. / And if it wasn't joy galore, / at least not once was she a bore, / that I recall. / No, not at all -- / Ah, she's a child. / A silly child. / Adolescent to her toes / and good Heaven how it shows / Sticky thumbs are all the fingers she has got. / She's a child. / A clumsy child. / She's as swollen as a grape / and she doesn't have a shape / where her figure ought to be, / It is not. / Just a child. / A growing child / that's so backward for her years, / if a boy her age appears / I am certain he will never call again. / She's a scamp and a brat, / doesn't know where she is at, / unequipped and undesirable to men. / Of course, I must confess / that in that brand new little dress, / she looked surprisingly mature / and had a definite allure. / It was a shock in fact to me, / the most amazing shock to see / the way it clung / on one, so young. / She's a girl, / a little girl. / Getting older, it is true, / which is what they always do / till that unexpected hour / when they blossom like a flower. Oh, no. Oh, no. But -- but -- there's sweeter music when she speaks, isn't there? / Could I be wrong? Could it be so? / Oh where, oh where did Gigi go? / Gigi. Am I a fool without a mind or have I merely been too blind to realize? / Oh Gigi. Why you've been growing up before my very eyes / Gigi. You're not at all that funny, awkward little girl, I knew / oh no. Overnight there's been a breathless change in you --"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "I brought you some caramels."
  • (Leslie Caron) "Thank you, Gaston."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Gaston, you spoil her so."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "The champagne is for you."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "You spoil me too."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Imagine this if you can. Here is a girl, living in a mouldy apartment: decaying walls, worm-ridden furniture, surrounded by filth --"
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "You're ruining my lunch."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "My heart was touched. I wanted to help her. I offered her everything: house, car, servants, clothes, and me."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "And?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "She turned me down."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "Turned you down?"
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Turned me down."
  • (Maurice Chevalier) "It is impossible."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "It is not impossible, it just happened. I was refused, rejected, rebuffed and -- repudiated."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "I must consider my next move very carefully. All of Paris is watching me."
  • (Hermione Gingold) "Gaston, what are you talking about? The whole world is watching you."
  • (Louis Jourdan) "Oh Gigi. While you were trembling on the brink was I out yonder somewhere blinking at a star? / Oh Gigi. Have I been standing up too close or back too far? / When did your sparkle turn to fire, / And your warmth become desire? / Oh what miracle has made you the way you are? Gigi. Gigi. Gigi. Oh no. I was mad not to have seen the change in you. Oh, Gigi."

John Abbott as Manuel

  • (John Abbott) "Listen to your uncle, Monsieur Gaston. He's an old campaigner."

Hermione Gingold as Madame Alvarez

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