Quotes

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life

Serge Gainsbourg: [after a man tips him while he plays the piano] What are you fucking kidding me? I'm not a jukebox!

Serge Gainsbourg: You match my aesthetic criteria. You're pure beauty and you're also the tragic figure of despair.
[pause]
Serge Gainsbourg: Do you understand what I'm saying?
Bambou: You want to screw me?
Serge Gainsbourg: Maybe. I'm just saying it more poetically.

Lucien Ginsburg: When I go out, it's to meet up with women. How else do think I was able to draw cunt hair?

Serge Gainsbourg: [about the Jamaicans in the studio] Why do they look so fucking miserable?
Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg: They want to know what you're going to play. I don't know what to tell them about your sexual songs.
Serge Gainsbourg: Why? They don't fuck?
Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg: They don't mess around with reggae. To them, it's sacred music.
Serge Gainsbourg: Then tell them we'll sing La Marseillaise.
Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg: How do I explain that?
Serge Gainsbourg: [to the Jamaicans in English] It's a French war song.

Olga Ginsburg: Your sisters didn't cry as much as you did for that dog. You cried more for that dog than for your own poor father.

France Gall: Everyone loves the songs my father chooses for me.
Serge Gainsbourg: Don't you want to piss your father off once in a while?
France Gall: Why?
Serge Gainsbourg: A guy once told me, if the parents like what you do, then it's shit.
[pause]
Serge Gainsbourg: You want me to write you a dirty song?

[last lines]
Serge Gainsbourg: [looking at his newborn baby] Let's name him after his daddy.
Bambou: The king Serge.
Serge Gainsbourg: Non Lucien the second. Called to take over France like his dad. And Navarre too, don't forget.

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By what name was Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010) officially released in Canada in English?