Peter Chatel credited as playing...
Eugen Thiess
- Franz Bieberkopf: I think you're daft.
- Eugen Thiess: Do you?
- Franz Bieberkopf: Yes, pretty much.
- Eugen Thiess: How about you? Do you wash yourself from time to time?
- Franz Bieberkopf: Some people wash themselves, and some people are clean.
- Eugen Thiess: And some people stink, even though they're clean.
- Franz Bieberkopf: And that's good, because some people are turned on by a bit of smell.
- Eugen Thiess: Don't look at me.
- Eugen Thiess: [to Max] Where did you pick him up? At a public lavatory?
- Philip: Don't be indecent, darling.
- Max: I've had the best experiences with public lavatories.
- Eugen Thiess: But the stench, old girl.
- Eugen Thiess: Did you do it with Uncle Max?
- Franz Bieberkopf: No pain, no gain, my dear girl.
- Eugen Thiess: We'll see which of us is the "girl".
- Franz Bieberkopf: By the way, if something stinks, it's me. I took off my shoes. Yeah, they're new, you know. Quite tight and pinching.
- Eugen Thiess: Maybe your pants are pinching, too.
- Eugen Thiess: Let it be. A little escapade.
- Philip: How little? Eight inches? Or seven? Or even smaller?
- Eugen Thiess: I thought you were still in bed.
- Franz Bieberkopf: I am. But you won't come.
- Eugen Thiess: You want to do it again?
- Franz Bieberkopf: Yes. I'm a member of the proletariat. They're more potent than...
- Eugen Thiess: That's an old wives tale. Invented to defame the working class as brainless. Nothing in the head but drinking, eating and fucking.
- Franz Bieberkopf: This was one of my first records. "Why Do You Paint Only White Angels?"
- Eugen Thiess: Yes, and that was very long ago. I loathe that kind of music. I'll have to teach you what good music is as well.
- Franz Bieberkopf: Sure, but, somehow I like this kind of music, you know. It reminds me of my past.
- Eugen Thiess: Exactly! You were a different person then. You'll have to learn, learn, and learn. You'll have to learn about culture. It's different, you know. But in the end, we'll manage to make a human being of you.
- Eugen Thiess: A dark Chinese silk rug here. And over there, an English suite in leather, 19th Century. And here a bookshelf.
- Franz Bieberkopf: Pardon?
- Eugen Thiess: A bookshelf. For books, my darling.
- Franz Bieberkopf: What books?
- Eugen Thiess: Books for reading.
- Franz Bieberkopf: I don't need any books.
- Eugen Thiess: Well, you don't need any books.
- Philip: Well, are you happy?
- Eugen Thiess: Happy? What's that?
- Philip: It's when you're together with someone you can talk to. Isn't it?
- Eugen Thiess: Time will tell.
- Eugen's mother: You didn't miss anything last time at the opera. It wasn't music, just noise. Those modern composers are all the same.
- Eugen Thiess: What did you see? "The Firebird"?
- Eugen's mother: Yes, unfortunately. Terrible. And so loud. No, no. I like Mozart much better. Or, do you like Stravinsky?
- Franz Bieberkopf: Strav-what?
- Philip: He's really desperate.
- Eugen Thiess: Nonsense. People like him are much too dull to be desperate.