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"We had the chance but we were scared. We walked away. WE LIVED OUR LIVES IN FEAR!"

"Shall we dance?"

"We're telling a story. The rumba is the dance of love. Look at me like you're in love. [Fran follows this instruction perhaps a little too enthusiastically] That's it. Good."

"Fran: A life lived in fear is a life half lived."

"Barry Fife: [referring to Ken Railings] Let's not forget, Les, that a Pan Pacific Champion becomes a hero, a guiding light to all dancers, someone who'll set the right example."

"Barry Fife: If you can't dance a step, you can't teach it, and if you can't teach it - we might as well all pack up and go home. With young Liz available again, you've got a chance to get your status quo vadis back... so to speak."

"Paul Mercurio — Scott Hastings"

"Tara Morice — Fran"

"Bill Hunter — Barry Fife"

"Pat Thomson — Shirley Hastings"

"Gia Carides — Liz Holt"

"Peter Whitford — Les Kendall"

"Barry Otto — Doug Hastings"

"John Hannan — Ken Railings"

"Sonia Kruger — Tina Sparkle"

"Kris McQuade — Charm Leachman"

"Pip Mushin — Wayne Burns"

"Leonie Page — Vanessa Cronin"

"Antonio Vargas — Rico"

"Steve Grace — Luke"

"Lauren Hewett — Kylie Hastings"

"Kerry Shrimpton — Pam Short"

"The Moulin... Rouge!!!!!"

"Everything's going so well!"

"The Duke holds the deeds to the Moulin Rouge. He's spending a fortune on you. He's giving you a beautiful new dressing room. He wants to make you a star, and you are dallying with the writer!"

"The show must go on."

"She says it feels so good, inside, when you hold her, and touch her; it makes her feel like a ... virgin."

"We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love."

"Hurt him. Hurt him to save him."

"A magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment. It will be: Spectacular Spectacular. No words in the vernacular can describe this great event. You'll be dumb with wonderment. Returns are fixed at 10%. You must admit that's excellent. And on top of your fee, you'll be involved artistically."

"My little sparrow is dying. She mustn't know, Marie."

"Welcome, to the Moulin Rouge!"

"Invest? Invest! Oh yes, well, invest! You can hardly blame me for trying to hide, uh, Christian away."

"Outside it may be raining, but in here it's entertaining!"

"Why would the courtesan choose the penniless sitar player over the maharajah, who is offering a lifetime of security? That's real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust, he will leave the courtesan with nothing."

"I forgot my hat. [seeing Satine passed out with Christian on the bed] Foul play?!"

"You expect me to believe that scantily clad, in the arms of another man, in the middle of the night, inside an elephant, you were "rehearsing"?"

"I don't care about your ridiculous dogma!"

"Satine will be mine. It's not that I'm a jealous man... I just don't like other people touching my things!"

"And in the end should someone die?"

"Generally I like it."

"You made me believe that you loved me."

"It's the boy, he has bewitched with her the words. Tell her that the show will end my way and she will come to me when the curtain falls...or I'll have the boy killed."

"Look, my dear! A little frog!"

"Let Zidler keep his fairy tale ending."

"It's a little bit funny—this feeling inside."

"I don't like this ending."

"How do you do? My name is Henri Marie Raymond Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa."

"Killed. Killed? Killed! I must warn him!"

"Clean yourself off you bourgeois pig! [snorts]"