Fanny Ardant credited as playing...
Barbara Becker
- Julien Vercel: I must leave town tonight. Run the agency while I'm gone.
- Barbara Becker: I'm in charge? Didn't you just fire me? Make up your mind.
- Barbara Becker: We aren't professionals, we're amateurs! We act for fun and to entertain others. Who gave touchy-feely Bertrand the part anyway?
- Julien Vercel: Take it to Clement, but don't tell him I'm here. I can't compromise him.
- Barbara Becker: Compromise him? He's a lawyer, not an alter boy!
- Barbara Becker: Could it be one of her lovers?
- Lablache: In the past 25 years I've learned one thing: Lovers never have a woman shadowed, but husbands do!
- Barbara Becker: What would you do?
- Maitre Clement: If he asked me, I'd tell him what I'm telling you: There's no reason to worry. This is France, where, thank God, juries are often lenient on crimes of passion.
- Julien Vercel: Tying up an unconscious man isn't very heroic.
- Barbara Becker: We're not here to be heroic.
- Julien Vercel: I found the salon for her. She closed her beauty salon soon after opening it, she said she wanted to spend more time with me. I was so attracted to her, terribly attracted. You couldn't understand.
- Barbara Becker: Then why tell me about it?
- Barbara Becker: The town looks so pretty from here, especially after the rain.
- Julien Vercel: When I opened my agency, whenever a customer hesitated, I'd bring him here to convince him. Behind this multitude of lights are all sorts of things: people watching TV, working night shifts, children sleeping, and our killer, who'll be really surprised when the cops arrest him.
- Barbara Becker: You're blonde, too.
- Secretarial candidate: Yes, I am. So what?
- Barbara Becker: It's a terrific asset. Mr. Vercel hates brunettes. In fact, he fired me. I leave at the end of the month.
- Secretarial candidate: Don't fret, it might not be because you're a brunette. Maybe he just wants to rejuvenate his staff.
- Barbara Becker: Thanks, I feel so much better. It's a pity Mr. Vercel's away. He'd be very interested in you.
- Barbara Becker: You never saw me as a woman. I'm not a platinum blonde with fake eyelashes, so I don't merit a second look.
- Barbara Becker: You despise me?
- Julien Vercel: I don't despise you.
- Barbara Becker: Well, I despise you.
- Barbara Becker: I thought he was fishy ever since he handled my divorce. I even had to slap him in the face.
- Julien Vercel: Why?
- Barbara Becker: It seemed the best way to get his hands off my bra.