La Cage aux Folles (1978)

Michel Serrault: Albin Mougeotte dit Zaza Napoli

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Quotes 

• Albin Mougeotte : He's being taken from us, and we won't have any others.

  Renato Baldi : Unless there's a miracle.

• Albin Mougeotte : [talking to the doctor]  So, you boil down the sauce in the copper frying pan, be careful to take a copper frying pan, I always say to my friends you take a copper frying pan, or else.

  Renato Baldi : So, do you die or do you cook?

• Albin Mougeotte : [Realising what Renato just told him]  You... you're not serious?

  Renato Baldi : Some girl he met at the University. Had to happen one day.

  Albin Mougeotte : With a girl? How awful! Poor little thing, that's not possible, he's... too young. He's gonna ruin his life.

  Renato Baldi : I told him, of course I did, to no avail. He thinks he's gonna be happy, and maybe he will. There's nothing we can do.

  Albin Mougeotte : You know, at first it hurts. I wasn't expecting this and it's hard. I was fine and now suddenly I... just a squeaky stomach I guess, this will pass... That girl, what a bitch!

  Laurent Baldi : [Entering the room and smiling]  I guess you just told him!

• Renato Baldi : Try to walk like John Wayne.

  Albin Mougeotte : The cowboy?

  Renato Baldi : Yes. John Wayne gets down from the horse. He goes toward the saloon. He opens the doors and zap! Try it.

  Albin Mougeotte : I have to be John Wayne?

  Renato Baldi : Yes.

  Albin Mougeotte : Here I go.

  [Albin walks] 

  Renato Baldi : That's John Wayne's daughter!

• Albin Mougeotte : Someone just called me a fag.

• Jacob : Don't go away! Don't leave us!

  Albin Mougeotte : Don't cry, Jacob.

  Renato Baldi : What is this? "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"

• Albin Mougeotte : Look what I have become. A human larva. A dried up fig!

• Albin Mougeotte : I've been dying to meet the father of that naughty girl - who's stealing my baby. The naughty thing!