The Piano Quotes

The Piano is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . The Piano stopped airing in 1970.

It features Jan Chapman as producer, Michael Nyman in charge of musical score, and Stuart Dryburgh as head of cinematography.

The Piano is recorded in English and originally aired in New Zealand. Each episode of The Piano is 117 minutes long. The Piano is distributed by Bac Films (France).

The cast includes: Holly Hunter as Ada, Harvey Keitel as George Baines, Kerry Walker as Aunt Morag, Genevieve Lemon as Nessie, Sam Neill as Stewart, and Anna Paquin as Flora.

The Piano Quotes

Anna Paquin as Flora

• (Anna Paquin) "My mother met my father when she was an opera singer in Luxembourg."
• (Holly Hunter) "That's enough."
• (Anna Paquin) "Why?"

• (Anna Paquin) "I know why Mr. Baines can't play the piano. She never gives him a turn. She just plays whatever she pleases and sometimes she doesn't play at all."
• (Sam Neill) "And when is the next lesson?"
• (Anna Paquin) "Tomorrow."

• (Anna Paquin) "One day when my mother and father were singing together in the forest, a great storm blew up out of nowhere. But so passionate was their singing that they did not notice, nor did they stop as the rain began to fall, and when their voices rose for the final bars of the duet a great bolt of lighting came out of the sky and struck my father so that he lit up like a torch. And at the same moment my father was struck dead my mother was struck dumb. She never spoke another word."

• (Anna Paquin) "She says no. She says she'd rather be boiled alive by natives than get back on your stinkin' tub."
• (Head Seaman) "You be damn fortuned I don't smack your puppy gob, young missy. Damn lucky."

• (Anna Paquin) "She says its her piano and she won't have him touch it. He's an oaf. He can't read. He's ignorant."
• (Sam Neill) "He wants to improve himself. And you'll be able to play it. Teach him how to look after it. You can't go on like this. We're a family now. We all make sacrifices and so will you. You will teach him and I will see to it."

• (Anna Paquin) "I'm not going to call him Papa. I'm not going to call him anything. I'm not even gonna look at him."

Harvey Keitel as George Baines

• (Harvey Keitel) "What happened? Tell me. Tell me. Where is she? Shh. Quiet down. Quiet down. Where is she?"
• (Anna Paquin) "He chopped it off."
• (Harvey Keitel) "What did she tell him? What did she tell him? I'm going to crush his skull."
• (Anna Paquin) "Nooo. No, no. He'll chop her up."

• (Harvey Keitel) "I have given the piano back to you. I've had enough. The arrangement is making you a whore, and me, wretched. I want you to care for me. But you can't. It's yours, leave. Go on, go."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Lovely."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Lift your skirt. Life it higher. Higher. Higher. Lift it higher."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Undo your dress. I want to see your arms. Play. Two keys."

• (Harvey Keitel) "I'd like to make a swap."
• (Sam Neill) "What for?"
• (Harvey Keitel) "The piano."

• (Harvey Keitel) "I want to lie together without clothes on."

• (Harvey Keitel) "Ada, I'm unhappy. 'Cause I want you. 'Cause my mind has seized on you and can think of nothing else. This is why I've suffered. I am sick with longing. I don't eat, I don't sleep. So, if you have come with no feeling for me, then go. Go. Go. Get out. Leave."

Holly Hunter as Ada

• (Holly Hunter) "George has fashioned me a metal finger tip, I am quite the town freak which satisfies."

• (Holly Hunter) "There is a silence where hath been no sound / There is a silence where no sound may be / In the cold grave, under the deep deep sea. -Thomas Hood --"

• (Holly Hunter) "At night. I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It is a weird lullaby and so it is; it is mine."

• (Holly Hunter) "I have told you the story of your father many many times."
• (Anna Paquin) "Oh, tell me again. Was he a teacher?"
• (Holly Hunter) "Yes."
• (Anna Paquin) "How did you speak to him?"
• (Holly Hunter) "I didn't need to speak. I could lay thoughts out in his mind like they were a sheet."
• (Anna Paquin) "Why didn't you get married?"
• (Holly Hunter) "He became frightened and stopped listening."

• (Holly Hunter) "What a death. What a chance. What a surprise. My will has chosen life. Still it has had me spooked and many others besides."

Sam Neill as Stewart

• (Sam Neill) "She has spoken to me. I heard her voice. There was no sound, but I heard it here. Her voice was there in my head. I watched her lips, they did not make the words, yet the harder I listened the clearer I heard her, as clear as I hear you, as clear as I hear my own voice."

• (Sam Neill) "She said, "I have to go, let me go, let Baines take me away, let him try and save me. I am frightened of my will, of what it might do, it is so strange and strong"."

• (Sam Neill) "Can you hear me?"

• (Sam Neill) "Where's your mother? Where's she off to?"
• (Anna Paquin) "TO HELL."

• (Sam Neill) "What would you think if someone played a kitchen table like it were a piano?"
• (Kerry Walker) "Like it were a piano?"
• (Sam Neill) "It's strange isn't it? I mean it's not a piano, it doesn't make any sound."
• (Kerry Walker) "No, no sound."
• (Sam Neill) "I knew she was mute, but now I'm thinking it's more than that. I'm wondering if she's not brain affected."
• (Kerry Walker) "No sound at all?"
• (Sam Neill) "No, it was a table."

• (Sam Neill) "IS IT HIM YOU LOVE?"

Kerry Walker as Aunt Morag

• (Kerry Walker) "You know, I am thinking of the piano. She does not play the piano like we do, Nessie. Up. Up. No, she is a strange creature. And her playing is strange, like a mood that passes into you. Up. Now, your playing is plain and true, and that is what I like. To have a sound creep inside you is not at all pleasant. What's that?"
• (Genevieve Lemon) "It's a pigeon, Auntie."
• (Kerry Walker) "I should have waited."

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