Gérard Depardieu credited as playing...
Gerard Lafayette
- Gerard Lafayette: Rats are smart. Men are stupid.
- Andreas Flaxman: Ah, during the time if Julius Caesar rodents were the cause of starvation among the populace. Bear this in mind, Lafayette, civilizations fade away, but the rats remain. The future belongs to the rats!
- Gerard Lafayette: You put Nixon's head upon Nero's body. I saw up there.
- Andreas Flaxman: There is history and there is compromise. Sometimes the two flow together, and we have what is called historical compromise.
- Andreas Flaxman: Look, can't you see he already considers you his father? Listen to me, Lafayette. Get rid of it before it's too late. Listen to the voice of reason. Ah, ah, ah, ah!
- [Lafayette stops picking his nose]
- Andreas Flaxman: Mon frere, get rid of it.
- Gerard Lafayette: [Saddened] Sure.
- Andreas Flaxman: [Gently] Forget the dictates of your heart.
- [Lafayette tearfully shakes his head no]