Chantal Goya credited as playing...
Madeleine Zimmer
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Do you think one can live alone? Always alone.
- Paul: No, I don't think one can, it's impossible. Without tenderness you'd shoot yourself.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: [Voice-over] Give us a TV and a car, but deliver us from liberty.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: What's the center of the world for you?
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: The center of the world? We've never talked, and the first time we do, you ask me weird questions.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: I think it's a perfectly normal question. Come on. Answer me.
- Paul: Love, I guess.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Funny. I'd have said "me."
- Paul: What about the car?
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: What car?
- Paul: The car.
- Paul: You stole one?
- Paul: Yes.
- Catherine-Isabelle: I doubt that.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: You're not Pierrot le Fou. He stole cars for his women.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Are you looking for work?
- Paul: Not exactly, but I just did my military service.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Was it fun?
- Paul: It's 16 months of your life with no comfort, money, love, or free time. In other words, modern life. 24 a day of submission to unbridled authority, 16 months of struggle a young Frenchman must endure to win relative freedom from authority, when he's had no exposure to culture. It can become a life of submission, because the military and industrial complex coexist well, as the logics of money and order.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: It doesn't sound like fun.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Why do you want to go out with me tonight?
- Paul: Because I think you're pretty. And for some tenderness.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Ever go with a hooker?
- Paul: It's happened. But I don't like hookers. It's sad and without feeling.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Spare me the details.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: [Voice-over] Today in Paris. What do young women dream about? But which young women? The assembly-line inspectors with no time to make love because they're so worn out? The manicurists on the Champs-Élysées who start hooking at age 18 at the big Right Bank hotels? The rich schoolgirls who only know Bergson and Sartre because their bourgeois parents keep them locked up? The is no average Frenchwoman.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: [Voice-over] I'm glad Paul's in love with me. I might let him screw me. But he'd better not become a pest.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: [Referring to her newly released record single] I'm No. 6 in Japan.
- Catherine-Isabelle: Really?
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: With "Pinball Champ".
- Paul: More! Who's ahead of you?
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: The Beatles, France Gall, Bob Dylan...
- Elisabeth: Move your behind, Madeleine.
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: Don't say "behind." Say "bottom."
- Paul: Not "bottom." "Buns."
- Elisabeth: No, you say "butt."
- Paul: No, "Bum."
- Madeleine Zimmer - une petite chanteuse: "Heinie."
- Elisabeth: "Moons."
- Paul: "Rear end."