Yuriy Nikulin credited as playing...
Semyon Semyonych Gorbunkov • Senya
- Mystery man: Hey, buddy, do you have a cigarette?
- [Gorbunkov stutters]
- Mystery man: What are you, deaf-mute?
- Semyon Gorbunkov: [immediately, very clearly and distinctly] Yes!
- Semyon Gorbunkov: As they say in London, dog is man's best friend.
- Superintendent: I don't know what they say in London - I haven't been there - but over here the house manager is man's best friend!
- Semyon Gorbunkov: Slipped and fell, got a closed fracture, became unconscious, when I came through I had this cast on.
- [Cops are carrying a body of a passed out drunk, Gorbunkov thinks he is dead]
- Semyon Gorbunkov: I should have been in his place!
- Cop: Get drunk, then you will be.
- Superintendent: On Wednesday you're giving a lecture. We've put up the posters. You're the only one from our community who has ever been there. The subject is 'New York, City of Contrasts'.
- Semyon Gorbunkov: I haven't been to New York, I've been to Istanbul.
- Superintendent: 'Istanbul, City of Contrasts'. What difference does it make?
- Semyon Gorbunkov: They don't drink vodka with duck. We must drink...
- Gennady: I get you. Fedya, champagne!
- Nadezhda Gorbunkova: Senya, tell me, where did you get that pistol and that money? I beg you, please tell me!
- Semyon Gorbunkov: All right, I will tell you. But don't say a word to anyone!
- Nadezhda Gorbunkova: I swear.
- Semyon Gorbunkov: It's a state secret. That money and that gun were given me to help me with my mission.
- Nadezhda Gorbunkova: What mission?
- Semyon Gorbunkov: Sorry, I can't tell you that. When the time comes, you'll know everything. You might even... get a reward... After I'm gone!
- Nadezhda Gorbunkova: Please tell me the truth, horrible as it may be.
- Semyon Gorbunkov: I walked in the street and I slipped...
- Nadezhda Gorbunkova: You never knew how to lie, did you? I know what happened.
- Semyon Gorbunkov: Who told you?
- Nadezhda Gorbunkova: I'm sure it's not a closed fracture. What have you got there?
- Semyon Gorbunkov: Gold and diamonds.
- Nadezhda Gorbunkova: Stop kidding!