Colette Movie Quotes
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Colette
Did you ever feel like you were playing a part, Sido?
Sido
In what way?
Colette
As a wife. Or a mother. Like you were just going through with it.
Sido
Sometimes, as a wife. Never as a mother.
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Willy
People love to talk. They praise you to your face. Then the moment you turn around there's knives in your back.
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Colette
You hurt and you hurt and you hurt, and you think that by saying "I'm a man, that's what men do", you clear it all away.
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Colette
I can read you like the top line of an optician's chart.
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Willy
Do remember, if a book bores you you can throw it away, if a painting is too garish you can close your eyes, but bad theater, it's like dentistry. You're compelled to stay in your chair having your skull drilled until the entire grisly procedure is over.
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Willy
[taking a stroll in the countryside]
I don't know why you're so keen on nature. Animals are vile to each other.
Colette
Animals are honest at least. They never lie.
Willy
Yes, my dear. Well, that's because they don't speak.
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Willy
You're overreacting. This was purely a business decision.
Colette
Isn't that what our whole marriage has been? Wasn't I the best investment you ever made? No dowry, but my God, she can write for her keep!
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Colette
When you raise your eyelids it's as if you were taking off all my clothes. Don't look away. Look at me. Look at me looking at you.
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Colette
You found me when I knew nothing. You moulded me to your own designs, to your desires. And you thought that I could never break free.
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[last lines]
Colette
Yes, this is the dangerous, lucid hour. Now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.
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