Intermezzo Movie Quotes
Charles Moler
[cutting into Ann Marie's birthday cake]
You know what? Not so long ago your daddy and I went to a birthday party in China.
Ann Marie Brandt
In *China*?
Charles Moler
[thinking about the pronunciation]
Uh-huh. At a Mandarin's house. His name was Chou Ching Chang Chip Chop.
Ann Marie Brandt
Did you have ice cream and cake?
Charles Moler
Oooh, no, indeed. We had swallows' nests, umm, roasted silkworms, snake soup and, uh... cricket eggs!
Ann Marie Brandt
Oh! You didn't eat *that*...?
Charles Moler
Oh, we had to take a double helping of everything, or the Mandarin would've murdered us.
Ann Marie Brandt
Oh, well, Uncle Charles, nobody will murder you here!
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Anita Hoffman
I have been an intermezzo in his life.
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Thomas Stenborg
I wonder if anyone has built happiness on the unhappiness of others.
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Anita Hoffman
It's late for me.
Holger Brandt
It's never too late for a glass of wine.
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Holger Brandt
Yes, champagne's what we need. A couple of glasses of champagne - and two strangers have a rich and happy past.
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Margit Brandt - His Wife
Please, you know how I'd love to come with you. But, darling, you must realize that our home is *my* responsibility. Just as concerts and practice are yours.
Holger Brandt
Yes, I suppose you're right.
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Ann Marie Brandt
Isn't he stupid?
Anita Hoffman
But he's a boy.
Ann Marie Brandt
What's that to be so stuck up about?
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Margit Brandt - His Wife
That Spring you spoke of - that sort of happiness could only come once in one's life.
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Holger Brandt
Bravo.
Anita Hoffman
Thank you.
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Holger Brandt
We're all human, tragically human, and that we, all of us, make mistakes right up to the end of our lives.
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Holger Brandt
There comes a night each year when one senses that Winter is suddenly over.
Anita Hoffman
Yes, that Spring has come. Oh, how I look forward to it through the dreary months.
Holger Brandt
Look, there goes the Winter now: broken, rushing to the sea. Don't you feel when Spring comes that the world is yours just for the asking? That there's nothing that you couldn't be?
Anita Hoffman
Tonight, I would dare anything. Or, perhaps, it's only the champagne.
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Margit Brandt - His Wife
You know, I'd forgotten all this. The look one sees on these people's faces. Yet, it's scarcely any time at all since I sat in places like this - with just such boys and girls - remaking the world to suit ourselves. Just as they're doing now.
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Thomas Stenborg
You were going at it as if it were the climax of a tremendous symphony. You'll frighten my neighbors.
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Holger Brandt
Do you know what you remind me of?
Anita Hoffman
No. Tell me.
Holger Brandt
A Viennese waltz. Smiling but melancholy. A melody of the days when Vienna was a happy city.
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Margit Brandt - His Wife
I hope it won't be a long tour.
Holger Brandt
But I've been home longer than I usually stay.
Margit Brandt - His Wife
For that very reason - the days are going to seem so much emptier.
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Anita Hoffman
I'm ashamed. And I hate being ashamed.
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Holger Brandt
Sensible? That's a strange word from those lips. Love isn't sensible.
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Thomas Stenborg
You're waiting for me to say something very wise and helpful at this point. Well, I'll say to you what I've always said to myself when things seem too difficult: Courage, my friend. Courage.
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Holger Brandt
Anita? What is it? You don't look real in this light.
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Margit Brandt - His Wife
We'll have some of those lovely, gay, irresponsible days. We'll be together in strange places as we used to be.
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Anita Hoffman
What am I? Your shadow. I don't exist without you.
Holger Brandt
You're not a shadow. How can you talk such nonsense?
Anita Hoffman
But it's enough. Let me be with you like this - always.
Holger Brandt
And will that be enough? Always?
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Anita Hoffman
It has been the greatest happiness I've ever known - and the greatest I'll ever know. Such happiness couldn't come more than once in one's life. I know it couldn't. Could it?
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Holger Brandt
As time goes on, I suppose the memory of her will grow vague in my mind. But always in my heart will remain the image of her loveliness.
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Anita Hoffman
Holger, I'm going. I'm going now. Quickly, as if it didn't matter. Don't touch me - or say anything. Don't turn around.
[she leaves, Holger turns around]
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Ann Marie Brandt
He hasn't played Intermezzo yet.
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