"[disgusted by Marcello's inability to act and leaving their car] How disgusting! I've always said so. Make me work in the shit - sure, but not with a coward! It's up to me! Cowards, homosexuals, Jews - they're all the same thing! If it were up to me, I'd stand them all against a wall! Better yet - eliminate them when they're born!"

"Oh, hunchbacks bring good luck."

"He'll be a typical intellectual, disagreeable and impotent."

"Enzo Tarascio - Professor Quadri"

"[somewhat inebriated] Shopping is only for women. Husbands pay!"

"Ten years ago, my father was in Munich. Often, after the theater, he told me that he'd go with friends to a Bierstube. There was a nutty man they thought a fool. He spoke about politics. He was quite an attraction. They'd buy him beer and encourage him. He'd stand up on the table making furious speeches. It was Hitler."

"It's funny, though, you know? Everyone would like to be different from the others, but instead you want to be the same as everyone else."

"Fosco Giachetti - Il colonnello"

"Albert Rémy - Scarpia Barrigni"

"Robert Dhéry - Celestin"

"Paul Frankeur - Police Inspector"

"Jacques Castelot - George"

"Pierre Palau - Stage manager of the Funambules"

"Etienne Decroux - Anselme Debureau"

"Jane Marken - Mme. Hermine"

"Marcel Pérès - Director of the Funambules"

"Louis Salou - Comte Édouard de Montray"

"Gaston Modot - Fil de Soie"

"Marcelle Monthil - Marie"

"Fabien Loris - Avril"

"Pierre Brasseur - Frédérick Lemaître"

"Marcel Herrand - Pierre-François Lacenaire"

"Pierre Renoir - Jéricho"

"Jean-Louis Barrault - Baptiste Deburau"

"Louis Florencie - Policeman"

"María Casares - Nathalie"

"Man in the audience: Shut up! We can't hear the pantomime!"

"Arletty - Claire "Garance" Reine"

"The mere thought of them killing each other, over a woman, because of me, comforts me."

"His Lawyer says, "Above all, don't talk." The Priest: "Confession is half-remission." He confesses. The Judge: "You Killed and confessed. Perfect. Off with your head." The fellow, disappointed protests: "But confession is half-remission!" The Judge: "True but justice must be done. So we'll just cut off half your head.""

"A kick in the ass, if well delivered, is a sure laugh. It's true. There's an entire order, a science, a style of kicks in the ass."

"I don't love you, but you are the only women for whom I have no contempt."

"You were right, Garance. Love is simple."

"Jealousy belongs to all if a woman belongs to no one."

"Novelty is as old as the hills."

"I'm dying of silence, like others die of hunger and thirst."

"Raymond Rognoni - Director, 'Grand Theatre'"

"Not only are you rich, but you want to be loved as if you are poor."

"Director: Act! Act! You have the wrong place. We are not allowed to act here. We walk on our hands! And you know why? They bully us. If we put on plays, they'd have to close their great, noble theaters! Their public is bored to death by museum pieces, dusty tragedies and declaiming mummies who never move! But the Funambules is full of life, movement! Extravaganzas! Appearances, disappearances, like in real life! And then-boom-the kick in the pants!"

"Julien Carette - Marceau"