The Beautician and the Beast (1997)
Timothy Dalton: Boris Pochenko
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Quotes
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Boris Pochenko : Do I not intimidate you at all?
Joy Miller : Is one of your sideburns longer than the other?
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Boris Pochenko : I know where we are.
Joy Miller : Well, where are we?
Boris Pochenko : We're in the woods.
Joy Miller : I knew it. Why can't you just ask one of them for directions?
Boris Pochenko : NO!
Joy Miller : Please! Asking for directions is not the first step to a two-party system.
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Joy Miller : This is a special place. Was it special for someone else too?
Boris Pochenko : It's where I slaughtered my first cow.
Joy Miller : Huh?
Boris Pochenko : I was ten. My father told me I could eat only what I killed myself. All I had was two sticks and a butter knife, but I learned to be a man that day.
Joy Miller : Oh, what a sweet story.
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Joy Miller : Come on, we can make our own sandwich.
Boris Pochenko : I don't know where anything is in this kitchen.
Joy Miller : Oh come on, I can find food at Ghandi's house. What're you kidding me?
Boris Pochenko : You should try running a country for a day. It's not all making war and smashing dissidents, you know. It's hard work.
Joy Miller : I'm sure it is.
Boris Pochenko : Where is some...
Joy Miller : What?
Boris Pochenko : Mayonnaise?
Joy Miller : We finished it.
Boris Pochenko : Oh.
[gives her a look]
Joy Miller : Hmmm?
Boris Pochenko : You're lying.
Joy Miller : It's all gone.
Boris Pochenko : Where is it?
Joy Miller : I had to scrape for this.
Boris Pochenko : Give it me!
Joy Miller : Oh all right, I'll give it you, give it you. Here you go.
Boris Pochenko : Hah. Hah-hah, heh-heh-heh, heh, heh, heh, heh.
Joy Miller : I just hope you realize you're entering those dangerous heart attack years.
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[Pochenko gestures to hit Katrina]
Joy Miller : What are you doing?
Boris Pochenko : You do not understand
Joy Miller : Oh no? You have the temper of an eight year old, your own children are scared to DEATH of you! And you hit girls! Tell me when I'm getting warm!
Boris Pochenko : This whole thing is none of your business!
Joy Miller : You know maybe you're right. Because even if you can't see that doing the right thing even when you have nothing to gain, is what makes you... a mench, and decent, and civilized! I can't have anything to do with you
Boris Pochenko : The boy will remain in prison, it's none of your business
Joy Miller : You know everyone is right about you... you are a beast...
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Boris Pochenko : What a nice man that hermit was. I didn't even know I had a hermit!
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Boris Pochenko : [talking to Svetlana] Hello how are you?
[silence]
Boris Pochenko : I killed a cow right over there.
[more silence]
Boris Pochenko : It was very nice meeting you!
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Boris Pochenko : [about Joy] I mean, who has a voice like that?
[he impersonates Joy's nasal New York accent]
Boris Pochenko : So what if those windows are 12th century? Can't we put screens on them?
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[Trying to talk Pochenko into shaving]
Joy Miller : OK, a lot of great men had mustaches. Hitler, Franco...
Boris Pochenko : Einstein!
Joy Miller : Oh, and that's who you wanna look like?
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Boris Pochenko : Oh my, call an ambulance! She doesn't know what to say!
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Boris Pochenko : Now, about this business at the factory...
Joy Miller : Oh you know what there's no need to apologize, I know that you were cranky 'cause you didn't have your lunch. You could be hyperglycemic, you should carry a piece of cheese with you.
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Boris Pochenko : [Outside Joy's parents house] Before you throw me out, I have three things to say. One; I released the boy from prison. Two; I'm holding free elections in the Spring. Three... Well I can't think of something else.
Joy Miller : One and two are plenty!
[They kiss]
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Boris Pochenko : I don't know where anything is in this kitchen
Joy Miller : Oh come on, I can find food in Ghandi's house, are you kidding me?
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Boris Pochenko : Why must you always go one step too far? You could be such a pleasant person if you just had a tiny little edit button.
