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Roman Polanski in The Tenant (1976)

Roman Polanski: Trelkovsky

The Tenant

Roman Polanski credited as playing...

Trelkovsky

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Quotes18

  • Trelkovsky: [to child] Filthy little brat!
  • [slaps child]
  • Trelkovsky: [while looking at himself in the mirror] Beautiful. Adorable. Goddess. Divine. Divine! I think I'm pregnant.
  • Trelkovsky: Tell me, at what precise moment - does an individual stop being who he thinks he is?
  • Stella: You know, I don't like complications.
  • Trelkovsky: You cut off my arm. I say, "Me - and my arm." You cut off my other arm. I say, "Me and my two arms." You - take out - take out my stomach, my kidneys, assuming that were possible. And I say, "Me and my intestines." Do you follow me? And now, if you cut off my head - would I say, "Me and my head" or "Me and my body"? What right has my head to call itself me? What right?
  • Trelkovsky: I'm not Simone Choule. I'm Trelkovsky! Trelkovsky.
  • Stella: Why don't you take your tie off? You look like you're choking to death.
  • Trelkovsky: I found a tooth in my apartment. It was in a hole.
  • Trelkovsky: These days, relationships with neighbors can be... quite complicated. You know, little things that get blown up out of all proportion? You know what I mean?
  • Stella's Friend: No, no I don't. I mind my own business.
  • Trelkovsky: [talking to himself]
  • [he opens a box and takes out a pair of shoes]
  • Trelkovsky: Oh! My! Where did you find these? They are beautiful! A size 68? I had *no* idea!
  • Trelkovsky: You want me to do it again? I shall do it again! You did not like it the first time.
  • [shouts]
  • Trelkovsky: Simone Choule does not disappoint!
  • Trelkovsky: Please, don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to criticize your apartment, but the toilet is a problem. Suppose I got sick, which I don't often do, I can assure you of that, and I had to relieve myself in the middle of the night. It wouldn't be very convenient, would it?
  • Trelkovsky: There is something odd going on in my building. I quite often see people in the toilets, on the other side of the courtyard.
  • Simon: What are you? A peeping Tom, now?
  • Scope: You mean, people together in the shithouse? Like an orgy?
  • Trelkovsky: No, no, they just stand there for hours, you know? Absolutely dead still.
  • Scope: They're obviously playing with themselves.
  • Trelkovsky: Not at all.
  • Simon: He just told you. They stand dead still. Can you play with yourself without moving?
  • Trelkovsky: They'll never turn me into Simone Choule. Never!
  • Stella: You're strange.
  • Trelkovsky: You must tell me, then. I wouldn't mind, really.
  • Trelkovsky: I'll fight. I'll fight to the bitter end.
  • Trelkovsky: They were trying to kill me! They were playing football with a human head!
  • Trelkovsky: I'll have a beer. No, a coffee.
  • Trelkovsky: Could it have been a disappointment in love, perhaps? Something like that?
  • Stella: Who with?
  • Trelkovsky: I don't know. Some man.
  • Stella: You know she wasn't interested in men.
  • Trelkovsky: Oh, yes, I know, but - women as sensitive as she was, she is, I mean, often tend to have - much more complicated relationships than they seem to.
  • Trelkovsky: Do you sell cigarettes?
  • Cafe Owner: Yes. What would you like?
  • Trelkovsky: Gauloises bleues, please.
  • Georges Badar: Is this Simone Choule's apartment?
  • Trelkovsky: Yes. It used to be. I'm the new tenant.

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