Catherine Freneau:
I'm a... a picture straightener.
Walter Eckland: You're a what?
Catherine Freneau: A picture straightener.
Walter Eckland: Oh.
Catherine Freneau: When I see a picture on a wall that doesn't hang straightly, I straighten it.
Walter Eckland: Oh, you do that.
Catherine Freneau: And I brush my teeth every morning and every night.
Catherine Freneau: And if I don't have a toothbrush...
Catherine Freneau: [Demonstrating] ... I use my finger.
--Leslie Caron (as Catherine Freneau) in Father Goose
Walter Eckland: You're a what?
Catherine Freneau: A picture straightener.
Walter Eckland: Oh.
Catherine Freneau: When I see a picture on a wall that doesn't hang straightly, I straighten it.
Walter Eckland: Oh, you do that.
Catherine Freneau: And I brush my teeth every morning and every night.
Catherine Freneau: And if I don't have a toothbrush...
Catherine Freneau: [Demonstrating] ... I use my finger.
--Leslie Caron (as Catherine Freneau) in Father Goose
Catherine Freneau:
Mr Eckland is a rude, foul-mouthed, drunken, filthy beast
--Leslie Caron (as Catherine Freneau) in Father Goose
--Leslie Caron (as Catherine Freneau) in Father Goose
Fanny:
Why weren't you at the dance last night?
Marius: Well, I can live without dancing.
Fanny: I dance practically every dance with Victor. Very good dancer. Very polite and clever too.
Marius: Victor? Is he that little boy with the large pimples?
Fanny: Oh the pimples are all gone now.
Marius: I'm glad to hear it.
Fanny: They've been replaced by boils.
--Leslie Caron (as Fanny) in Fanny
Marius: Well, I can live without dancing.
Fanny: I dance practically every dance with Victor. Very good dancer. Very polite and clever too.
Marius: Victor? Is he that little boy with the large pimples?
Fanny: Oh the pimples are all gone now.
Marius: I'm glad to hear it.
Fanny: They've been replaced by boils.
--Leslie Caron (as Fanny) in Fanny
Gigi:
[pointing at Gaston's cane] Is that gold?
Gaston Lachaille: The handle, yes.
Gigi: You must be very rich to have a gold handle on your cane.
--Leslie Caron (as Gigi) in Gigi
Gaston Lachaille: The handle, yes.
Gigi: You must be very rich to have a gold handle on your cane.
--Leslie Caron (as Gigi) in Gigi
Gigi:
[pointing] Is that the scandalous Madame d'Exelmans?
Gaston Lachaille: Yes, that is she. Tell me, Gigi, the way that you express yourself... does you grandmother hear you talk this way?
Gigi: She doesn't listen to me much.
--Leslie Caron (as Gigi) in Gigi
Gaston Lachaille: Yes, that is she. Tell me, Gigi, the way that you express yourself... does you grandmother hear you talk this way?
Gigi: She doesn't listen to me much.
--Leslie Caron (as Gigi) in Gigi
Gigi:
A necklace is love! A ring is love! / A rock from some obnoxious little king is love! / A sapphire with a star is love! / An ugly black cigar is love! / Everything you are is love! You would think it would embarrass / All the people here in Paris / To be thinking every minute of love!
--Leslie Caron (as Gigi) in Gigi
--Leslie Caron (as Gigi) in Gigi
Lili Daurier:
We don't learn. We just get older, and we know.
--Leslie Caron (as Lili Daurier) in Lili
--Leslie Caron (as Lili Daurier) in Lili
Mardou Fox:
I go through men as other women go through money. I'm a spendthrift with men ... I want so badly to be a miser!
--Leslie Caron (as ) in The Subterraneans
--Leslie Caron (as ) in The Subterraneans
