Cyd Charisse credited as playing...
Ninotchka Yoschenko
- Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: Well, the Comrade Minister said, but, he didn't tell me - I'm not so sure if for this job a woman, well, physically a woman is not equipped...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: When the Minister sent me here, he did not say it was for a discussion of biology.
- Steve Canfield: Ninotchka, don't you like me at all?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: The arrangement of your features is not entirely repulsive to me.
- Steve Canfield: Oh, thank you. Thank you. Don't you think in time, you might go a little further than that?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: I have not seen the rest of you.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: In Russia when somebody wants someone they say, "You, come here."
- Steve Canfield: Oh, you mad romantic Russians!
- Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: Let us get down to business. You are familiar with Peter Ilyitch Boroff's music? You are a music lover?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Music is essential for parades.
- Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: Of course.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: It seems to me that seduction can only take place when one is willing.
- Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: Yeeesss. I can see that you would think that. Have you ever been to Paris?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: No! I have never been outside the Soviet Union.
- Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: Welllll, heh, heh, I have spent many years in Paris. I got very close to the French people. In fact, they deported me three times.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Please don't make an issue of my womanhood.
- Steve Canfield: I was looking forward to it.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Your attitude is typical of the male in capitalistic society. You will soon be extinct.
- Steve Canfield: How long have I got left?
- Steve Canfield: Don't you ever feel so happy that you just want to dance all around the room?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Happiness is the reward of industry and labor. Dancing is a waste of time.
- Steve Canfield: Well, I like wasting time.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: For the first time in my life, I looked at something and thought, "How beautiful!" instead of "How useful."
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: I want to ask you a serious question. Are you flirting with me?
- Steve Canfield: Of course. No question about it.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Suppress it.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Where is the little comrade's room?
- Steve Canfield: Oh, just at the end of the hall.
- Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art: A couple of months ago some idiot let Boroff get to Paris and naturally he wants to stay there.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: What do you mean: naturally?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: What do you want?
- Hotel Porter: May I have your bags, madame.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Why?
- Brankov, Commisar: He's a porter. He wants to carry them.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Why? Why should you carry other people's bags?
- Hotel Porter: Well, it's my business, madame.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: That's no business. That's social injustice!
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: [looking at a display of silk stockings] How can such a civilization survive? Where women are permitted to wear things like these?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: You are an American?
- Steve Canfield: Yes, ma'am.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Tell me, in America, are you one of the oppressors or one of the oppressed?
- Steve Canfield: Oh, one of the oppressors, definitely.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Aren't you ashamed?
- Steve Canfield: Come, now. As one oppressor to the other, you know its the best spot to be in.
- Steve Canfield: You ought to play Portia.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: I have. In Gorky's "Merchant of Venice."
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Why can't you understand this is no laughing matter?
- Steve Canfield: Comrade, we're in Paris, in the Spring, why can't we make it a laughing matter?
- Steve Canfield: Don't you ever have any desires to see the pleasures of Paris?
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Pleasures - Paris - how was you said, "the urge to merge with a splurge"?
- Steve Canfield: That's right!
- [singing]
- Steve Canfield: Paris...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Capitalistic!
- Steve Canfield: Loves lovers...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Characteristic.
- Steve Canfield: For lovers...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Sensualistic!
- Steve Canfield: Is heaven above.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: They should be atheistic.
- Steve Canfield: Paris...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Imperialistic!
- Steve Canfield: Tells lovers...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: I'm pessimistic.
- Steve Canfield: Love is supreme, wake up your dream, and make love!
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: That's anti-Communistic!
- Steve Canfield: Paris...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Militaristic!
- Steve Canfield: One discovers...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: You're optimistic.
- Steve Canfield: The urge to merge with the splurge of the Spring.
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Bourgeoisie propaganda.
- Steve Canfield: Paris...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Unrealistic.
- Steve Canfield: Love's lovers, for lovers know that love...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: Is individualistic.
- Steve Canfield: Is...
- Ninotchka Yoschenko: And not at all collectivistic.
- Steve Canfield: Everything.