Marc Michel credited as playing...
Roland Cassard
- Roland Cassard: I've thought a lot about you and me. It doesn't matter now. It's not your fault or mine. It's just how it is. We're alone and we stay alone. But what counts is to want something, no matter what it takes. There's a bit of happiness in simply wanting happiness.
- Lola: We barely know each other.
- Roland Cassard: Call it love at first sight. You know how that is.
- Lola: At 16, yes, but we're not 16 anymore. Admit you just want to sleep with me.
- Roland Cassard: Of course I do. But I want the feeling to be mutual.
- Roland Cassard: I was set on finishing this fascinating novel.
- Le directeur de Roland: Let me see. It's a great novel. It was my bedtime reading for years.
- Roland Cassard: Then you understand. There's a line on page 55: "There's no dignity nor real life for a man who works 12 hours a day without knowing what he's working for." It's true. I don't know what I'm working for.
- Le directeur de Roland: Very well. Come back when you've figured it out.
- Roland Cassard: I'm leaving. I saw a Gary Cooper movie this afternoon. It was a beautiful place. The people seemed happy.
- Claire, the bar owner: Where?
- Roland Cassard: At the Katorza.
- Claire, the bar owner: I meant what country.
- Roland Cassard: Matareva, a Pacific island near Tahiti.
- Claire, the bar owner: It's always beautiful in the movies.
- Roland Cassard: I walked around all night. I thought about our childhood and all sorts of memories came flooding back - with you at the center of them all. I've lived on dreams till now. That was wrong. You give me a reason to live.
- Le directeur de Roland: My father always used to say, "Punctuality is the mark of kings," to which he'd add, "If you wish to succeed in life, be punctual." You'll say you're no king and succeeding means little to you. Right?
- Roland Cassard: More or less.
- Le directeur de Roland: You're no doubt intelligent -- No, don't deny it. I've been observing you. But you have a major fault. You're off in the clouds.
- Roland Cassard: I do dream a bit.
- Le directeur de Roland: That's not good. Look things square in the face.
- Roland Cassard: We don't know how to live here anymore. Me with my boss, you with your drunks.
- Claire, the bar owner: You know how to live?
- Roland Cassard: I figure I'll learn.
- Claire, the bar owner: By traveling?
- Roland Cassard: To each his own, but for me, it's the only cure.
- Claire, the bar owner: For what?
- Roland Cassard: Boredom.
- Lola: Isn't life a beautiful thing?
- Roland Cassard: In theory, but what we do with it isn't always great.