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The Mother and the Whore (1973)

Jean-Pierre Léaud: Alexandre

The Mother and the Whore

Jean-Pierre Léaud credited as playing...

Alexandre

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Quotes31

  • Alexandre: How do you want to make love? Tenderly, or violently?
  • Veronika: [after seeing Alexandre making the bed by jumping with the sheets on top of it] Funny way to make a bed.
  • Alexandre: I saw it done in a film. Films teach you how to live, how to make a bed.
  • Alexandre: I never lose my way when it comes to liquor.
  • Alexandre: I have never understood people who let their lovers. I never stopped anybody, so I always leave my. I think time passes, life, they work well together or separates people. I do nothing, I will leave time.
  • Alexandre: I like people who disobeys. They say: Do not come and come. Do you say: Go and stay. As the drunks who get kicked out of bars. They say, 'Go away and come back. I do not like dignity. My only dignity is my baseness.
  • Alexandre: Every morning, each day spent together is not a lost day, a massacre, a crime.
  • Alexandre: It is curious, I have not ceased to suffer. I have not stuck to you, but I'm suffering. I tried to hold onto, simply to preserve what is ours. The day you stop suffering, go ahead and say that I've become something else and no longer want that to happen, because then we'll no longer find. I'm no fool, you know? Time passes, I can not fight long against him. I came for you, but if you do not know what you want. You know when you may be too late. I'm tired! I'm tired. Do you remember that film in which Michel Simon said: Look to the unfaithful wife, look at the treacherous friend grandiloquence this gives a little ridiculous that suffering? Fuck! I'm sick. Bye.
  • Alexandre: Bernanos said: I can not deprive of the face and the human voice, so I write in cafes. It also said that it would do more often powerful republics if not taxed spirits.
  • Alexandre's Friend: Want a drink?
  • Alexandre: What a question!
  • Alexandre: I can only be interested in someone who is interested in me. Although it is a question of looks. In the same way that I can not love a woman who loves me not.
  • Alexandre: I wish I had known that time when the girls, on city streets and highways of the fields went into raptures before the soldiers, to the prestige of the uniform. Now go into ecstasies against SUVs. Now, young entrepreneurs, young executives, the professions have replaced the soldiers. I do not know if we won.
  • Alexandre: Why snatched the hope if not even know what you want?
  • Alexandre: You've always had talent to convince you that do not exist.
  • Alexandre: Only known people of the same class, I know.
  • Alexandre: Think you recover when in fact you get used to mediocrity. After the crisis have to forget everything. As France after the occupation, after May 68. You recover as France after May 68, my love.
  • Alexandre: And now you become the wife of an executive. You will do very good match, a couple new society. A thief and a criminal. But beware, you are building on rotten foundations. Families are always lost.
  • Alexandre: I wonder if there will be a montage. Although there is no chance.
  • Alexandre: Should be silent or speak much, after the same thing. But searching for the words, choose this or that. Why? In general, people, women I like for external reasons that have nothing to do with them. Guest on them as a robe, a coat that could pose to another.
  • Alexandre: The important thing is to know a woman, not seduce her.
  • Alexandre: Women are such liars.

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