Pierre Curzi credited as playing...
Pierre
- Pierre: If I'm in love, I get hard. If I don't get hard, I'm not in love. Otherwise, you're deceiving yourself. Like a woman who says she still loves you when she's as dry as sandpaper, and you remember how she'd be dripping if you so much as kissed her on the neck.
- Pierre: I know I'll never be a Toynbee or a Braudel. All I have left is... sex... or love. What's the difference? I don't know what's left for me. That's why age leads to vice.
- Pierre: That's when it happened. I fell head over heels in love. Ejaculating while discussing the millennium was intellectually and physically overwhelming.
- Louise: Better to have kids who love you than to end up like Pierre, alone, bitter, without any family.
- Pierre: But I do have a family. Here, sitting around this table. A family I love. I feel closer to this family than to my brother the insurance broker, or my parents who could never figure me out, and complain 'cause I don't go to mass. You're my family.
- Pierre: I get a kick out of eminent sociologists and psychologists who spew forth theories of sexuality, when I've seen them being flogged with wet towels in a massage parlor.
- Dominique St. Arnaud: You should write a paper on that.
- Pierre: 17,000 scholarly articles are published every day. One more or less...
- Pierre: Want me to describe a female fantasy? The female fantasy? The woman is at home in the nest she has so lovingly decorated. Her husband or lover arrives. He's brought flowers and a bottle of champagne. He is extremely nice. They spend a pleasant evening... and make love. End of fantasy. What a bore.
- Pierre: [explaining why he doesn't want to have kids] You have to like yourself to procreate. I don't. I'm not optimistic enough.
- Dominique St. Arnaud: [asking for comments on her theory] You haven't said a word about the book.
- Louise: I bet they agree with me but are scared to say so.
- Dominique St. Arnaud: I think they feel superior.
- Pierre: Superior? Why?
- Dominique St. Arnaud: [referring to Pierre and Rémy] Because you've both slept with me.
- Pierre: What does that have to do with it?
- Dominique St. Arnaud: I think that for men like you... love always entails a struggle for power. Rémy's often said he'd like to seduce a big intellectual... I don't know, say...
- Alain: Susan Sontag.
- Dominique St. Arnaud: Right. It's the urge to appropriate her. To dominate her, almost physically.
- Claude: Come on... it can also be the desire to share, to be with.
- Dominique St. Arnaud: Perhaps. But I can't trust the disdain of men who've made me come, who've had me.