Jean-Pierre Léaud credited as playing...
Antoine Doinel
- [English subtitled version]
- Antoine Doinel: You're my sister, you're my daughter, you're my mother.
- Christine Doinel: I would have liked to be your wife.
- [English subtitled version]
- Antoine Doinel: Bored? I don't know what boredom is. I've heard people talk about it but I don't know what it is. There's always something to do: cut the pages of a book, do crossword puzzles, take notes. I wish there were thirty hours in a day cause I never get bored. I can't wait to get old so I can get by on five hours sleep. Why am I even discussing this? I'm going to the bathroom.
- [English subtitled version]
- Christine Doinel: Oh, my poor breasts. If I have a child, I won't breast-feed him.
- Antoine Doinel: Well, don't look at me. He'll have to fend for himself.
- [English subtitled version]
- Antoine Doinel: l'd like to kiss you.
- Christine Doinel: Me too...
- Antoine Doinel: Tenderly.
- Christine Doinel: Me too...
- Antoine Doinel: Is that true?
- Christine Doinel: It's true.
- Christine Doinel: What's this?
- Antoine Doinel: A library staircase. I've always wanted one.
- Christine Doinel: But we don't have a library.
- Antoine Doinel: You have to start somewhere.
- Ginette: You know what I did? I bought new pajamas. I threw away the bottoms and kept just the top. What do you say to that?
- Antoine Doinel: Not a thing.
- Antoine Doinel: I don't fall in love with a girl - I fall in love with her whole family. Her mother, her father. I like a girl with good parents. I enjoy parents - as long as they're not mine!
- Antoine Doinel: Let me see.
- Christine Doinel: Stop it!
- Antoine Doinel: Come on, show me. What's wrong with your breasts?
- [looks]
- Antoine Doinel: They don't match!
- Christine Doinel: You're crazy.
- Antoine Doinel: One is bigger than the other.
- Christine Doinel: That's not true.
- Antoine Doinel: I'm afraid it is.
- Christine Doinel: Everyone's are like that!
- Antoine Doinel: Not true. You might give them names to tell them apart. Laurel and Hardy, for example.
- Christine Doinel: Stop!
- Antoine Doinel: No, I'm serious. Or perhaps you prefer Don Quixote and this plump little guy would be Sancho Panza.
- Christine Doinel: Antoine, you're not funny. Now, good night!
- Christine Doinel: I saw you.
- Antoine Doinel: What?
- Christine Doinel: I'm not blind. You like her.
- Antoine Doinel: Who?
- Christine Doinel: Silvana! You like her! A pretty Italian woman with big breasts and luscious lips. Bastard!
- Antoine Doinel: You said "mashi mashi" on the phone. What does that mean?
- Kyoko: Not "mashi mashi". "Moshi moshi." It means hello.
- Antoine Doinel: Hello? If you say, "hello, hello," is it "moshi moshi, moshi moshi"?
- Kyoko: No, just "moshi moshi".
- Césarin: So what's your novel about?
- Antoine Doinel: Oh, you know: life in general, my youth, moving from the personal to the universal.
- Césarin: Yes, yes, yes. I understand. I trust I'll get an autographed copy.
- Antoine Doinel: Yes, yes. "For Césarin".
- Césarin: What's the title?
- Antoine Doinel: I haven't found one yet.
- Césarin: Oh, that's not hard. Any singing in your novel?
- Antoine Doinel: No.
- Césarin: Any dancing?
- Antoine Doinel: No.
- Césarin: Then call it "No Song and Dance"! Not bad, eh?
- Antoine Doinel: The end of the month, the end of the road, the end of the movie. I hate things that end.
- Christine Doinel: Mother's Day? I'm so sorry. I completely forgot.
- Antoine Doinel: Mother's Day was invented by the Nazis anyway.
- Madame Darbon: Really?
- Antoine Doinel: During the war.
- Antoine Doinel: [playfully] Did you see those big, hairy hands with spindly fingers and hairy knuckles that come out at night to grab women's legs?
- Christine Doinel: Stop it!
- Antoine Doinel: Don't look.
- Christine Doinel: No, I'm reading.
- Antoine Doinel: Naked men are revolting.
- Christine Doinel: Not all of them.
- Antoine Doinel: Yes, all of them.
- Christine Doinel: All except one.
- Antoine Doinel: Ah, you're right! All except one.
- Le réparateur TV: Didn't you get married?
- Antoine Doinel: Yes. I live here. Hear that violin? That's my wife. She gives music lessons.
- Le réparateur TV: A musician, huh? You always did love music - and nice bourgeois girls!
- Antoine Doinel: I never thought of it like that.
- Antoine Doinel: You remember our first kiss?
- Christine Doinel: I was terrified. I couldn't move.
- Antoine Doinel: What? You made the first move!
- Christine Doinel: You've got it backwards.
- Antoine Doinel: No, I remember perfectly. The taxi stopped and I leaned over to give you a little good-bye kiss on the cheek. I saw you had your lips slightly apart. "She really wants me to kiss her!"
- Christine Doinel: You're hallucinating.
- Antoine Doinel: I'm not saying I didn't like it, but you made the first move.
- Christine Doinel: That's your story! You lunged at me and I just went with it.
- Antoine Doinel: No, I remember perfectly well how it was. Your head was tilted back, eyes closed, lips slightly apart, just like this.
- Christine Doinel: Oh là là.
- Antoine Doinel: You'd been thinking about it.
- Christine Doinel: About what?
- Antoine Doinel: About the fact we'd kiss one day.
- Christine Doinel: Well, of course. Every girl thinks about that.
- Antoine Doinel: "Every girl thinks about that." So you admit it, then?
- Ginette: Is your wife in the hospital for a week?
- Antoine Doinel: Yes.
- Ginette: Don't you get bored in your bed - at night - all alone?
- Antoine Doinel: No, I'm just fine.