Jim Broadbent credited as playing...
Harold Zidler
- Harold Zidler: The show must go on, Satine. We're creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love.
- The Duke: I don't like this ending...
- Harold Zidler: Don't like the ending, my dear Duke?
- The Duke: Why should the courtesan chose the penniless sitar player over the maharajah who is offering her a lifetime of security? That's real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust he will leave her with nothing. I suggest that the courtesan chose the maharajah.
- Toulouse-Lautrec: But, but tell me, that ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom, and...
- The Duke: [shouts] I don't care about your ridiculous dogma! Why shouldn't the courtesan chose the maharajah?
- Christian: [shouts] Because she doesn't love you!... Him... Hi-him, she doesn't love... she doesn't love him.
- The Duke: Oh, I see... Monsieur Zidler, the play will be rewritten with the courtesan choosing the maharajah and without the lovers' secret song. It will be rehearsed in the morning, ready for the opening tomorrow night...
- Harold Zidler: But, my dear Duke, that will be quite impossible.
- Satine: Harold, the Duke is being treated appallingly. These silly writers let their imaginations run away with themselves. Why don't you and I have a little supper, and then we can tell Monsieur Zidler how we would like the story to end.
- Harold Zidler: I am the evil maharajah.
- Satine: Oh Harold, no one could play him like you could.
- Harold Zidler: No one's going to.
- Harold Zidler: Send Christian away.
- Satine: He will fight for me.
- Harold Zidler: Unless he believes that you don't love him.
- Satine: What?
- Harold Zidler: You're a great actress, Satine. Make him believe that you don't love him.
- Satine: No!
- Harold Zidler: Use your talent to save him! Hurt him, Satine. Hurt him to save him. There is no other way. The show must go on. We are creatures of the underworld. We can't afford to love.
- Harold Zidler: A magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment. It will be: Spectacular Spectacular.
- Harold Zidler: The Duke holds the deeds to the Moulin Rouge, he's spending a fortune on you, he's giving you a beautiful new dressing room, he wants to make you a star, and YOU'RE DALLYING WITH THE WRITER!
- Satine: Harold, that's ridic...
- Harold Zidler: I SAW YOU TOGETHER.
- Satine: It's nothing. It's just an infatuation... it's nothing.
- Harold Zidler: The infatuation will end. Go to the boy; tell him it's over, and the Duke is expecting you in the tower at eight.
- Harold Zidler: She said you make her feel "like a virgin."
- The Duke: Virgin?
- Harold Zidler: You know, touched for the very first time.
- Harold Zidler: You know it is. The show must go on. And now my bride it is time to raise your voice to the heavens and say your wedding vows.
- Satine: What's his type? Wilting flower? Bright and bubbly? Or smoldering temptress?
- Harold Zidler: I'd say... smoldering temptress.
- Harold Zidler: You're dying, Satine.
- Satine: [long pause] Another trick, Harold?
- Harold Zidler: The doctor told us.
- Satine: Marie?
- [Marie was silenced and she singing to self]
- Satine: I was a fool to believe, a fool to believe. It all ends today, yes it all ends today.
- Harold Zidler: [singing] If life's an awful bore, and living's just a chore that we do caus' death's not much fun. I just have the antidote, and though I mustn't gloat at the Moulin Rouge. You'll have fun... Scratch that little niggle, have a little wiggle, you know that you can... Because we can can can.
- Harold Zidler: Remember, a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience. And you'll be...
- Satine: A real actress.
- Christian: How could I know... in those last fatal days... that a force darker than jealousy... and stronger than love; had began to take hold of Satine...
- Harold Zidler: Where is she?
- Harold Zidler: [after the Argentinian collapses asleep in mid-rehearsal] Honestly amigo, this is impossible!