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An American in Paris Quotes

Adam Cook: It's not a pretty face, I grant you, but underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Jerry Mulligan: That's quite a dress you almost have on.
Milo Roberts: Thanks.
Jerry Mulligan: What holds it up?
Milo Roberts: Modesty.

Jerry Mulligan: Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here but it sounds better in French.

Lise Bouvier: Maybe Paris has a way of making people forget.
Jerry Mulligan: Paris? No. Not this city. It's too real and too beautiful to ever let you forget anything.

Henri Baurel: Be happy! You only find the right woman once.
Adam Cook: That many times?

Adam Cook: I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm... unemployed at the moment.

Jerry Mulligan: What gets me is, I don't know anything about her. We manage to be together for a few moments and then off she goes. Sometimes we have a wonderful time together and other times it's no fun at all. But I got to be with her.

Jerry Mulligan: She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver...You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture...They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

Jerry Mulligan: Well, uh, with a binding like you've got, people are going to want to know what's in the book.

Lise Bouvier: Jerry, don't let me leave you this way.

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Movie Quotes

1950s Oscar Winners for Best Picture:
1959: Ben-Hur
1958: Gigi
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956: Around the World in Eighty Days
1955: Marty
1954: On the Waterfront
1953: From Here to Eternity
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth
1951: An American in Paris
1950: All About Eve

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