The Great Waltz Movie Quotes
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Thanks for firing me, Mr. Wertheimer. Goodbye, you worms!
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
He's the greatest music publisher in Vienna!
Fritz Schiller
Well, he's still Hofbauer.
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Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
Mark my words, young man, if it hasn't got the imprint of Hofbauer, it isn't even music.
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Carla Donner
The only composers I ever knew were fat little men with bald heads.
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Policeman outside Hohenfried's
Don't forget to turn out the light.
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
I was just going to arrest her, don't you see how guilty she looks?
Policeman outside Hohenfried's
I wish my wife looked as guilty as that.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
I don't care who sings this! Vienna will sing this!
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Carla Donner
Where are we?
Coachman
Where you wanted to be, in the Vienna Woods, and it's only six o'clock in the morning, and you have a long and beautiful day ahead of you.
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Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
He must be full of marches after a revolution like this.
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Poldi Vogelhuber
We don't have revolutions every day, thank Heaven.
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Carla Donner
You probably deserve him more than I do, but he's going with me.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Have you ever been on the Danube?
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
And the earth, and the blood of life itself is vanity.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Something difficult and honest had to be said, and it was just like you to say it.
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Emperor Franz Josef
Tell me, is there still anything about me that annoys you?
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Wertheimer
Join those revolutionaries! They don't want to work either.
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Dommayer
We shall be glad to refund the money; but, you see, the performance is over.
Cellist
But we don't want the money. We want the music. The performance is not over.
Dommayer
Just a moment, please. Just a moment, please. I am August Dommayer, owner of Dommayer's Casino and the performance is over!
Cellist
And I'm Fritz Cellist, the first tenor of the Imperial Opera and the performance is *not* over!
Dommayer
I don't care who you are, the performance is over!
Carla Donner
[smiles]
The performance is *not* over.
Dommayer
The performance is *not* over.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
You call banking a career? Do you know what a career is? Well, you've heard of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven? They had what I call a career.
Vogelhuber
Did they make money?
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
They made glorious music!
Poldi Vogelhuber
Yes, Papa, that's right, they made glorious music.
Vogelhuber
Yeah, yeah, I've heard their music.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Where's Miss Donner? I don't see her.
Cellist
She'll see you when she wants to.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Kienzl, what do you love the most in the world?
Kienzl
Huh? Well, sometimes a girl or most times goulash.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Oh, Poldi, what would I do without you?
Poldi Vogelhuber
I don't know what you're doing with me.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Poldi, you do believe in me don't you?
Poldi Vogelhuber
You know I do.
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
I could kiss you for that.
Poldi Vogelhuber
Yes, Schani. What?
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Poldi, you know what?
Poldi Vogelhuber
What?
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Popofinger! Hans Popofinger! He's out of the job and he's the best double bassoon player in old Vienna!
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Cellist
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I'm in love with Vienna, I'm in love with Vienna, Every sight, every sound on the street, Is sweet and dear to me, I was born in Vienna, I was born in Vienna, With a waltz in my heart, And with a heart that has to sing...
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Mrs. Vogelhuber
Is this the way to look when a young man comes to see you? You know, Poldi, sometimes it's good for a woman to make a man think about something else besides his troubles. How do you think I finally got your Papa? Keeping his mind on apple strudel?
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
And now the polka, you worms. And play as you've never played before in your life. For Vienna!
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
I thought of you ever since that night.
Carla Donner
And you walked away: proud and angry.
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Carla, I'm married.
Carla Donner
Oh. But, you're here now, with your arms around me.
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Poldi Vogelhuber
If you want to stay out at night, you are free to do so. But, you must leave me free to worry about you, if I like. You must respect my feelings. To be the wife of Johann Strauss is not an easy thing. I have tried to be worthy of it. I am very proud of it.
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Carla Donner
Don't you see - it was meant to be like this. Everything has brought us together: the night, the woods, the music. It's all been so sweet and so dangerous.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
I'm a lucky fool, Poldi. I never knew I was this much in your heart.
Poldi Vogelhuber
You always are.
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Wertheimer
I hear you sang a waltz too. Another one of your bohemian evenings, my darling?
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Count Hohenfried
She will destroy him. They will destroy each other. She's a woman of violent feelings, of strange whims, irresistible impulses.
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Carla Donner
We might as well face it. We two. He loves me and I love him. There is nothing anyone can do about it. You can't. I can't. He can't.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
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One day when we were young, One wonderful morning in May, You told me you loved me, When we were young one day, Sweet songs of spring were sung, And music was never so gay...
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Poldi Vogelhuber
I wouldn't change you. Nothing of you. Not even your moods or temper; because, I know you must be like this - to be you.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
Let's go away. It'll be better for - better for both of us - and forget we ever saw Vienna.
Poldi Vogelhuber
Forget Vienna?
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Carla Donner
You are very unselfish. Or, unexpectedly clever. Whichever it is - I like it.
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Poldi Vogelhuber
I've been happier than most women their whole life. *Everything* comes to an end. Everything. And the world goes on, just the same. Even when we die.
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Julius Hofbauer, Music Publisher
Keep an eye on him - and all those Hungarian women.
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Carla Donner
Bad little boys.
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Carla Donner
Give it to me. Will you give it to me?
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II
It has always been yours.
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Carla Donner
Don't ever pull yourself a sacrifice game. Happiness is in your own heart. Not in someone else's. I found that out.
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