Silk Stockings (1957)
Fred Astaire: Steve Canfield
Photos
Quotes
-
Steve Canfield : Ninotchka, don't you like me at all?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : The arrangement of your features is not entirely repulsive to me.
Steve Canfield : Oh, thank you. Thank you. Don't you think in time, you might go a little further than that?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I have not seen the rest of you.
-
Steve Canfield : So you may have to persuade him
Peggy Dainton : How can I persuade him if you can't?
Steve Canfield : Because...
[looking at her figure]
Steve Canfield : We're built differently.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : In Russia when somebody wants someone they say, "You, come here."
Steve Canfield : Oh, you mad romantic Russians!
-
Steve Canfield : How much taxes will Russia get on $50,000.
Brankov, Commisar : $50,000.
-
Steve Canfield : [singing] Paris loves lovers, For lovers it's heaven above. Paris tells lovers, "Love is supreme, Wake up your dream, And make love!" Only in Paris one discovers, The urge to merge, With the spurge, Of the spring...
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Please don't make an issue of my womanhood.
Steve Canfield : I was looking forward to it.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Your attitude is typical of the male in capitalistic society. You will soon be extinct.
Steve Canfield : How long have I got left?
-
Steve Canfield : Don't you ever feel so happy that you just want to dance all around the room?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Happiness is the reward of industry and labor. Dancing is a waste of time.
Steve Canfield : Well, I like wasting time.
-
Steve Canfield : You know what prestige means.
Peggy Dainton : Sure - pictures that don't make money.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I want to ask you a serious question. Are you flirting with me?
Steve Canfield : Of course. No question about it.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Suppress it.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Where is the little comrade's room?
Steve Canfield : Oh, just at the end of the hall.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You are an American?
Steve Canfield : Yes, ma'am.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Tell me, in America, are you one of the oppressors or one of the oppressed?
Steve Canfield : Oh, one of the oppressors, definitely.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Aren't you ashamed?
Steve Canfield : Come, now. As one oppressor to the other, you know its the best spot to be in.
-
Steve Canfield : You ought to play Portia.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I have. In Gorky's "Merchant of Venice."
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Why can't you understand this is no laughing matter?
Steve Canfield : Comrade, we're in Paris, in the Spring, why can't we make it a laughing matter?
-
Steve Canfield : I didn't do anything to the commissars. Paris did! It did it to them. It did it to me. It'll do it to you.
-
Steve Canfield : Don't you ever have any desires to see the pleasures of Paris?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Pleasures - Paris - how was you said, "the urge to merge with a splurge"?
Steve Canfield : That's right!
[singing]
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Capitalistic!
Steve Canfield : Loves lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Characteristic.
Steve Canfield : For lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Sensualistic!
Steve Canfield : Is heaven above.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : They should be atheistic.
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Imperialistic!
Steve Canfield : Tells lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I'm pessimistic.
Steve Canfield : Love is supreme, wake up your dream, and make love!
Ninotchka Yoschenko : That's anti-Communistic!
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Militaristic!
Steve Canfield : One discovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You're optimistic.
Steve Canfield : The urge to merge with the splurge of the Spring.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Bourgeoisie propaganda.
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Unrealistic.
Steve Canfield : Love's lovers, for lovers know that love...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Is individualistic.
Steve Canfield : Is...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : And not at all collectivistic.
Steve Canfield : Everything.
-
Steve Canfield : Be careful. You're behaving like a woman. And I might behave like a man.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : [Steve kisses Ninotchka] Why do you do that?
Steve Canfield : Because you're absurd and irresistible.
-
Steve Canfield : Ninotchka, Ninotchka.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You are repeating yourself.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Is this what is known as the courtship?
Steve Canfield : Yeah. The build up. The pitch.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Then I shall get out my little black book and make notes.
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : What is your theory?
Steve Canfield : My theory is there is no theory.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : But, you are attracted to me and, obviously, there must be scientific reasons!
Steve Canfield : Oh, there are reasons. But they have nothing to do with electromagnets.
[singing]
Steve Canfield : I love the looks of you, the lure of you, I'd love to make a tour of you, The arms, the eyes, the mouth of you, The east, west, north, and the south of you, I'd love to gain complete control of you...
-
Steve Canfield : You just don't react chemically or otherwise, do ya? Don't you ever let yourself go?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Go where?
Steve Canfield : Oh, I don't know. Just go, go, go!
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You go, go, go. But, you don't get anywhere.
Steve Canfield : You're telling me!
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Look, I know perfectly well the pleasures of music and dancing. But pleasure itself is an indulgence. Only by denying selfish interests can one properly serve the State.
Steve Canfield : You. Come here.
[kisses Ninotchka]
Ninotchka Yoschenko : That was restful. Again.
[long kiss]
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Your tie, what is it made of?
Steve Canfield : Why? Silk.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Silk should be used for parachutes.
-
Steve Canfield : I wonder if we could use Boroff's music?
Peggy Dainton : No! He's too square!
-
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I don't look too foolish?
Steve Canfield : Foolish? Why, you're only the most beautiful girl in Paris!
-
Steve Canfield : Is this what it's like in Russia? You take a girl home and you find three Party members waiting?
-
Steve Canfield : You look so beautiful today. Champagne agrees with you.
-
Steve Canfield : There's something I want to confess.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You have a wife.
Steve Canfield : No, no. Nothing like that.
-
Steve Canfield : You're going to marry me.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Marry you?
Steve Canfield : Well, don't look so shocked.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : This is the first proposition I ever had.
Steve Canfield : Proposal.
-
Steve Canfield : [singing] We were fated to be mated...
-
Steve Canfield : I never change the past, only the future.
-
Steve Canfield : Darling, please don't call me Mr. Canfield.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Mr. Canfield, please don't call me darling.
-
Steve Canfield : I thought you were all through with this twisted political thinking. Why, only a few moments ago...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I know. You were kissing me. But, does every woman who is kissed by you change her politics?
-
Steve Canfield : I thought I saw a carefully trained robot turn into a woman. But, obviously, I was wrong. You can love the masses, but, to love one man scares the daylights out of you! Doesn't it?
-
Steve Canfield : Wait for me in the Mirror Room. Order two brandies. And stop worrying.
-
Steve Canfield : Comrades, you're too intelligent not to see it! Now, here we have the leading Soviet composer, Boroff, lending his art to a Peggy Dayton picture, which will circle the globe! In Cinemascope! Just think, the Iron Curtain dissolved by music. Why, its absolutely sensational. What a gesture of good will on the part of the Russians. And - what propaganda!
Bibinski, Commisar : Oh, propaganda.
Brankov, Commisar : Propaganda!
Ivanov : Da!
Steve Canfield : Of course, you three will have to stay here and supervise and help. Why you'll become national heroes.
Brankov, Commisar : Comrade Bibinski, he has a very strong point!
Bibinski, Commisar : Propaganda!
Ivanov : Da Da-da-da-da!
-
Bibinski, Commisar : comrade? do you think you might need help?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : no. I will not need help.
Steve Canfield : don't go too far; i might.