Shoot the Piano Player (1960)

Charles Aznavour: Charlie Koller, Edouard Saroyan

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• Charlie Kohler : Remember: "When I'll hate you, I'll wear a cap.

• Charlie Kohler : Just call me Charlie.

  Charlie Kohler : Okay, if you call me Léna.

  Charlie Kohler : Why Léna?

  Léna : Well, Helén became Heléna, then Léna.

• Charlie Kohler : Don't let women scare you. They are not poison.

• Charlie Kohler : [Talking to himself]  Come on, come on, get your mind on something else. Think of Art Tatum. Has he got talent? And Erroll Garner? Yes, Erroll Garner *has* talent.

• Clarisse : You still sleep in the raw?

  Charlie Kohler : Yes. It's healthier.

• Clarisse : The girls always ask me where I buy my things. Aren't they cute? I pay four hundred francs apiece. Dirt cheap!

  Charlie Kohler : I'm not an authority on girls' panties.

• Clarisse : I did go to the movies this afternoon. I saw "Torpedoes in Alaska".

  Charlie Kohler : How was it?

  Clarisse : It's a picture with John Wayne, to show that the Americans want peace.

  Charlie Kohler : No kidding? Then they're just like me, the Yankees.

  Clarisse : You're always making fun of me.

  Charlie Kohler : No, I'm not making fun of you, my little chickadee.

• Charlie Kohler : If I may quote him, my father used to say about women: When you've had one, you've had them all!

• Thérèse Saroyan : What's the matter? You're moody.

  Charlie Kohler : Nothing, nothing.

  Thérèse Saroyan : Yes, there is. In the car, you were very gay. Then you suddenly stopped talking, as if I had said something you didn't like.

  Charlie Kohler : No, it's not anything you said. I just stopped talking when I realized you were not listening.

• Charlie Kohler : I'm fed up, do you hear, fed up! This is not life for an artist! Of course, I'm not a real great artist, but people must believe in me in order that I may become one. Good God, is it asking too much?

  Thérèse Saroyan : If you think it doesn't try one's patience to live with you, you're mistaken! Ah, your conversation has really improved in a year! If people ask you what you think of Hemingway: "I hear he is a great collector of my recordings."