La Ronde (1950)

Odette Joyeux: Anna

Quotes 

• Anna : Oh, that naughty champagne! The things it made me do. What you must think of me!

  Charles Breitkopf : I think you like me.

  Anna : Yes, but that champagne!

  Charles Breitkopf : What about it? When two young people like each other, there's no need to drug the champagne, I assure you.

  Anna : I was only saying that. We all have our pride. I'm a bit ashamed.

• Anna : Will I see you soon?

  Charles Breitkopf : I don't live in Vienna. I just visit from time to time.

  Anna : I bet you're married. When a man says he doesn't live in Vienna, he's usually married.

  Charles Breitkopf : And you wouldn't feel guilty about seducing a married man?

  Anna : Not at all. I imagine his wife would be off doing the same.

• Anna : Couldn't you talk like everyone else?

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : I've never tried.

• Robert Kuhlenkampf : I can't see you at all. Are you blonde or brunette?

  Anna : You should have written it down.

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : That's incredibly profound! In one phrase you sum up the whole tragedy of desire.

• Anna : For you I think love must be something...

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : Yes?

  Anna : Something...

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : Intangible. Take off your dress.

  Anna : Robert!

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : Take it off! Night envelops us in her veil of stars. She's spread the Milky Way at our feet. A thousand stars sparkle before us. Take it off!

  Anna : But I'm cold.

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : Night reveals 20, 30, 50 suns hidden by the light of day. Imagine we're in the Indies, in a mysterious palace. Take off your slip. The nights are hot. The humid night air surrounds us. Take off your slip.

  Anna : Do you love me?

• Robert Kuhlenkampf : Let's go away, shall we?

  Anna : Go away?

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : For three months - or three weeks.

  Anna : What about your lawyer? And my mother?

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : They'll console each other. We'll live naked in the forest, drink from babbling brooks, eat nature's golden fruit, and then say farewell.

  Anna : Why? I thought...

  Robert Kuhlenkampf : There is no true love without farewells. Kiss me.

• Anna : There must be something in the champagne. My head is spinning.

  [Lays down on a couch] 

  Anna : Oh, what will happen if I can't get up?

  Charles Breitkopf : I adore you.