The Red Shoes Movie Quotes
Boris Lermontov
Why do you want to dance?
[Vicky thinks for a short while]
Victoria Page
Why do you want to live?
[Lermontov is suprised at the answer]
Boris Lermontov
Well I don't know exactly why, er, but I must.
Victoria Page
That's my answer too.
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Boris Lermontov
You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never.
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[last lines]
Victoria Page
Julian?
Julian Craster
Yes, my darling?
Victoria Page
Take off the red shoes.
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Boris Lermontov
Don't forget, a great impression of simplicity can only be achieved by great agony of body and spirit.
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Boris Lermontov
[to Julian Craster]
It is worth remembering, that it is much more disheartening to have to steal than to be stolen from, hmmm?
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Grischa Ljubov
You can't alter human nature.
Boris Lermontov
No? I think you can do even better than that. You can ignore it!
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[Describing the ballet of the Red Shoes]
Boris Lermontov
The Ballet of the Red Shoes is from a fairy tale by Hans Andersen. It is the story of a young girl who is devoured with an ambition to attend a dance in a pair of red shoes. She gets the shoes and goes to the dance. For a time, all goes well and she is very happy. At the end of the evening, she is tired and wants to go home, but the red shoes are not tired. In fact, the red shoes are never tired. They dance her out into the street, they dance her over the mountains and valleys, through fields and forests, through night and day. Time rushes by, love rushes by, life rushes by, but the red shoes go on.
Julian Craster
What happens in the end?
Boris Lermontov
Oh, in the end, she dies.
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Julian Craster
One day when I'm old, I want some lovely young girl to say to me, "Tell me, where in your long life, Mr. Craster, were you most happy?" And I shall say, 'Well, my dear, I never knew the exact place. It was somewhere on the Mediterranean. I was with Victoria Page." "What?" she will say. "Do you mean the famous dancer?" I will nod. "Yes, my dear, I do. Then she was quite young, comparatively unspoiled. We were, I remember, very much in love."
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Boris Lermontov
The music is all that matters. Nothing but the music.
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[Before the curtain goes up on the premiere]
Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
You're a magician, Boris. To have produced all this in three weeks, and from nothing.
Boris Lermontov
My dear Livy, not even the best magician in the world can produce a rabbit out of a hat if there is not already a rabbit in the hat.
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Boris Lermontov
How would you define ballet, Lady Neston?
Lady Neston
Well, one might call it the poetry of motion perhaps, or...
Boris Lermontov
One might. But for me it is a great deal more. For me it is a religion. And one doesn't really care to see one's religion practised in an atmosphere... such as this.
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Julian Craster
Vicky?
Victoria Page
Julian, I love you!
Julian Craster
But you love that more.
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[first lines]
[holding doors closed]
Doorman
They're going mad, sir. It's the students.
[From outside]
Julian Craster
Down with tyrants!
Manager, Covent Garden
All right, let them in.
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Boris Lermontov
Shh... arming!
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Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
[Craster has called the orchestra to rehearsal one hour early, Livy is upset]
Mr. Craster! Precisely what is going on? I can only suppose you have taken leave of your senses! Do you realize that by calling the orchestra one hour early we shall have to pay them?
[orchestra laughs]
Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
And why are you rehearsing Heart of Fire? Did I ever ask you to do that? Tell me, I'm interested.
Julian Craster
Well, I...
Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
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I'm sure Mr. Lermontov will be interested,too. Well?
Julian Craster
I like it.
Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
You like it? I've no doubt you also like the national anthem and La Marseillaise. I hope you're not thinking of summoning the full orchestra at dawn to practice those noble melodies!
[orchestra laughs]
Livingstone 'Livy' Montagne
Well I leave this young man to you, Lermontov. After all he is your... discovery. Not mine.
Boris Lermontov
Mr. Craster, I must ask you to exercise in future a little more control over your natural ambitions. And why you should have chosen Heart of Fire for this early morning escapade...
[acknowledges the orchestra members]
Boris Lermontov
... good morning, gentlemen,
[orchestra answers]
Boris Lermontov
is a mystery that I shall never hope to solve. And may I see that wrong note in the score, please?
[Craster presents the score, points out his correction]
Boris Lermontov
Hmm... however there are passages in Heart of Fire which no one need be ashamed of.
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