Gérard Depardieu credited as playing...
Bernard Granger
- Nadine Marsac: You read palms?
- Bernard Granger: Oh-la-la-la-la.
- Nadine Marsac: Go ahead. What do you see?
- Bernard Granger: I see...
- Nadine Marsac: Yes?
- Bernard Granger: I see that there are two women in you.
- Nadine Marsac: That's true!
- Bernard Granger: [Arlette kisses Raymond goodbye] Do I get a kiss too?
- Arlette Guillaume: You get a handshake.
- Bernard Granger: If you insist. Please, allow me. I'll read your palm. There are two women in you.
- Arlette Guillaume: Sorry, neither one wants to sleep with you.
- Bernard Granger: I want to get something straight. I was thrilled to play here, in a real theater, in a real play, but if I must take my pants off to prove I'm not a Jew, thanks, but no thanks. Besides, I refuse to take the part of another actor.
- Bernard Granger: [during the stage play] You are beautiful, Helena. So beautiful it hurts to look at you.
- Marion Steiner: Yesterday, you said it was a joy.
- Bernard Granger: It is a joy, but it hurts.
- Bernard Granger: I've been here before in the audience. I saw Madame Steiner in "The Cherry Orchard" by Chekhov.
- Bernard Granger: I'm alone, so I thought we might have a drink and talk.
- Arlette Guillaume: Listen, I'm not thirsty and I have nothing to say. Let me go.
- Bernard Granger: You've got me all wrong. Do you think I do this every day? No.
- Arlette Guillaume: No, only every other day.
- Bernard Granger: Do you know what it's like to be attracted to someone? Please believe me. I haven't picked up a strange woman in four years.
- Arlette Guillaume: I should feel honored.
- Jean-Loup Cottins: This is Arlette Guillaume, our set and costume designer. Bernard Granger. He'll play Carl. You must have seen him on stage.
- Arlette Guillaume: I don't think so. Wait. Yes, now I recall it.
- Jean-Loup Cottins: At the Grand Guignol?
- Arlette Guillaume: No, it was in something more ordinary. He played a man cruising the streets.
- Bernard Granger: You can't judge me by that part. I was improvising.
- Arlette Guillaume: Yet, I could have sworn you knew this role by heart.
- Bernard Granger: [being tape measured for his stage costume] I can't stand to have a man touch me, Arlette. Could you take his place?
- Arlette Guillaume: And what about me? What if I can't stand touching a man?
- Bernard Granger: Tell me, Arlette. Would you help me rehearse my lines in my dressing room?
- Arlette Guillaume: The kind of help you're looking for is not hard to find. You should try a brothel, I think.
- Bernard Granger: Boy! I really was on the wrong track with her.
- Jean-Loup Cottins: That's for sure. She's not for you. She's actually more like competition. You liked her that much?
- Bernard Granger: I just wanted to sleep with her. I don't know what it is. It was like craving a hot croissant.