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Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, and Louis Jourdan in Can-Can (1960)

Shirley MacLaine: Simone Pistache

Can-Can

Shirley MacLaine credited as playing...

Simone Pistache

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Quotes18

  • Simone Pistache: What would you like to do with me?
  • Philipe Forrestier: I haven't decided.
  • Simone Pistache: I think you have.
  • Philipe Forrestier: Perhaps you're right.
  • Simone Pistache: You are a lousy lawyer and an unreliable lover!
  • François Durnais: I am *not* a lousy lawyer.
  • Simone Pistache: Fifi? Fifi! Who's Fifi?
  • Simone Pistache: Oh, François! You'll never know how grateful I am.
  • François Durnais: Yes, I will.
  • Simone Pistache: Jewelry on my garter. Makes me feel - irresistible.
  • Simone Pistache: You know what I'm doing? I'm sitting on diamonds. Imagine me, sitting on diamonds. It's quite a sensation.
  • Simone Pistache: You always tease.
  • Simone Pistache: The Can-Can. The Can-Can. It'll be there in a minute.
  • Paul Barriere: The Can-Can?
  • Simone Pistache: For a thousand francs, I'd show you anything! Well, almost anything. Come with me.
  • Simone Pistache: Smoke?
  • Philipe Forrestier: No, thank you.
  • Simone Pistache: Mind if I do?
  • Philipe Forrestier: No.
  • Simone Pistache: Does it shock you?
  • Philipe Forrestier: Not at all. But, isn't it bad for the lungs?
  • Simone Pistache: What do you think?
  • Philipe Forrestier: In my profession, I never give an opinion without examining the evidence.
  • [Simone slips her matches in her cleavage]
  • Claudine: What are you going to do?
  • Simone Pistache: Work on him. Work on him! What else?
  • Simone Pistache: It takes much organization to find out who wants which with whom and who wants who.
  • Simone Pistache: Come in. This is my boudoir. It's also my office. I do most of my work here.
  • Simone Pistache: Yes, he kissed me.
  • François Durnais: Where did he kiss you?
  • Simone Pistache: On the lips!
  • François Durnais: No-no, I mean, in the boudoir...
  • Simone Pistache: François!
  • François Durnais: The biggest reason in the world today for infidelity is marriage. Now, eliminate marriage and you'll never see any such thing as an unfaithful husband.
  • Simone Pistache: Oh! Oh, cut off your legs so you'll never have flat feet!
  • François Durnais: Everybody does it. Why, even in France, the best upper sets do it.
  • [singing]
  • François Durnais: Lithuanians and Letts do it Let's do it, let's fall in love
  • Simone Pistache: Oh, I've heard that before!
  • François Durnais: In old Japan all the Japs do it, Up in Lapland little Laps do it, Let's do it...
  • Simone Pistache: Now, listen, I'm not cheap, I'm not a liar, and I'm not a thief. I want to be treated with re-spect!
  • Simone Pistache: Sin was not invented in Montmartre. It was only perfected here.
  • Simone Pistache: Once I make up my mind to lose something, I never find it.

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