Memorable Quotes from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Screenplay written by: George Axelrod
Novel by: Truman Capote
Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly/Lulamae Barnes
George Peppard as Paul Varjak/"Fred"
Mickey Rooney as Mr. Yunioshi
Patricia Neal as Liz
Buddy Ebsen as Doc Golightly
-Holly Golightly: I've got to do something about the way I look. I
mean a girl just can't go to Sing Sing with a green face.
-Holly Golightly: We're alike, me and cat. A couple of poor nameless
slobs.
-Paul Varjak: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store.
Holly Golightly: That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!
-Paul: I'm....sorry. Is he all right?
-Holly: Sure. Sure. He's okay. Aren't you, Cat? Poor old Cat. Poor
slob. Poor slob without a name. I don't have the right to give him one. We
don't belong to each other. We just took up one day. I don't want to own
anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not
sure where that is, but I know what it's like. It's like Tiffany's.
-Paul: Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store?
-Holly: That's right. I'm crazy about Tiffany's. Listen. You know those
days when you get the mean reds?
-Paul: The "mean reds?" You mean, like the blues?
-Holly: No. The blues are because you're getting fat or it's been raining
too long. You're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible.
Suddenly you're afraid, and you don't know what you're afraid of. Don't
you ever get that feeling?
-Paul: Sure. Some people call it angst.
-Holly: When I get it, what does any good is to jump into a cab and go to
Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness, the proud look.
Nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life
place that made me feel like Tiffany's, then... then I'd buy some
furniture and give the cat a name...I'm sorry. You wanted something. Oh,
the telephone...
-Paul Varjak: My name is not now, nor has it ever been, Fred. My name
is Paul, Paul Varjak. Say it!
Paul Varjak!
-Holly Golightly: Look, I know what you think. And I don't blame you,
I've always thrown out such a jazzy line. But really...except for
Doc...and you...Jose
is my first non-rat romance. Oh, not that he's my ideal of the absolute
finito. He tells little lies and worries about what people think and he
wants to be the President of Brazil. I mean it's such a useless thing for
a grown man to want to be and takes about fifty baths a day. I think a man
should smell...at least a little bit. No, he's too prim and cautious to be
my absolute ideal. If I were free to choose from anybody alive...just snap
my fingers and say "Come here, you!"...I wouldn't pick Jose. Nehru
maybe...or Adlai Stevenson or Sidney Poiter or Leonard Bernstein...but I
do love Jose. I honestly think I'd give up smoking if he asked me to!
-Holly Golightly: It should take you four seconds to walk out that
door. I'll give you two.
-Paul Varjak: You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are?
You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to
stick out your chin and say, "Okay,
life's a fact, people do fall
in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance
anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a
"wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage.
Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's
not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land.
It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up
running into yourself.
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