M. Butterfly (film) Quotes

M. Butterfly (film) is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . M. Butterfly stopped airing in 1970.

It features Gabriella Martinelli as producer, Howard Shore in charge of musical score, and Peter Suschitzky as head of cinematography.

M. Butterfly (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of M. Butterfly (film) is 101 minutes long. M. Butterfly (film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Jeremy Irons as Rene Gallimard, John Lone as Song Liling, Shizuko Hoshi as Comrade Chin, Ian Richardson as Ambassador Toulon, and Annabel Leventon as Frau Baden.

M. Butterfly (film) Quotes

John Lone as Song Liling

• (John Lone) "Please come back. My audiences miss the white devil in their midst."

• (John Lone) "Why, in Chinese theater, are women always played by men? Because only men know how women should act."

• (John Lone) "Well, education has always been undervalued in the West, hasn't it?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "I wouldn't say that."
• (John Lone) "No, of course you wouldn't. After all, how can you objectively judge your own values?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "I think it's possible to achieve a little distance."
• (John Lone) "Do you?"

• (John Lone) "Under the robes, beneath everything, it was always me. Tell me you adore me."
• (Jeremy Irons) "How could you, who understood me so well, make such a mistake? You've shown me your true self, and what I love was the lie, perfect lie, that's been destroyed."
• (John Lone) "You never really loved me."
• (Jeremy Irons) "I'm a man who loved a woman created by a man. Anything else simply falls short."

• (John Lone) "Now that we embark on the most forbidden of loves, I'm so afraid of my destiny."
• (Jeremy Irons) "There is no destiny, except the one we make for ourselves."

• (John Lone) "He was very responsive to my ancient Oriental ways of love, all of which I invented myself, just for him."

• (John Lone) "Comrade. Why in Beijing opera are woman's roles traditionally played by men?"
• (Shizuko Hoshi) "I don't know. Most probably a remnant of the reactionary and patriarchal social structure."
• (John Lone) "No. It's because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act."

• (John Lone) "The days I spent with you were the only days I ever truly existed."

• (John Lone) "The Oriental woman has always held a certain fascination for you Caucasian men. Is that not true?"
• (Jeremy Irons) "Yes, but that fascination is imperialist, or so you tell me."
• (John Lone) "Yes, it is always imperialist. Sometimes -- sometimes it is also mutual."

Jeremy Irons as Rene Gallimard

• (Jeremy Irons) "Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore; correct, even; that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?"

• (Jeremy Irons) "You made me see the beauty of the story, of her death. It's, it's pure sacrifice. He's not worthy of it, but what can she do? She loves him so much. It's very beautiful."
• (John Lone) "Well, yes, to a Westerner."
• (Jeremy Irons) "I beg your pardon?"
• (John Lone) "It's one of your favorite fantasies, isn't it? The submissive Oriental woman and the cruel white man."

• (Jeremy Irons) "The Oriental woman: when she's good, she's very very very good. But when she's bad, she's Christian."

Annabel Leventon as Frau Baden

• (Annabel Leventon) "Still playing the missionary are you, Gallimard? Or -- are there other positions that interest you as well?"

Shizuko Hoshi as Comrade Chin

• (Shizuko Hoshi) "Don't you understand how degrading those images are to women? And why do you have to behave this way when he is not even here?"
• (John Lone) "Comrade, in order to better serve the Great Proletarian State, I practice my deception as often as possible. I despise this costume, yet for the sake of our Great Helmsman, I will endure it, along with all the other bourgeois Western perversions."
• (Shizuko Hoshi) "I'm not convinced that this will be enough to redeem you in the eyes of the Party."
• (John Lone) "I'm trying my best to become somebody else."

Ian Richardson as Ambassador Toulon

• (Ian Richardson) "The Americans always love to hear how welcome they are."

• (Ian Richardson) "You said the Americans would succeed in Vietnam. You were kidding, right?"

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