Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film) Quotes

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film) is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Cyrano de Bergerac stopped airing in 1970.

It features Stanley Kramer as producer, Dimitri Tiomkin in charge of musical score, and Franz Planer as head of cinematography.

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film) is 113 minutes long. Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Arthur Blake as Montfleury, José Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac, Morris Carnovsky as Le Bret, Mala Powers as Roxane, Don Beddoe as The Meddler, William Prince as Christian de Neuvillette, Lloyd Corrigan as Duenna, and Edgar Barrier as Cardinal.

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950 film) Quotes

Mala Powers as Roxane

• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Madame, that nose of his, presently he will take it off?"
• (Mala Powers) "No, monsieur, he keeps it, and Heaven help the man who smiles. Good night."

José Ferrer as Cyrano de Bergerac

• (José Ferrer) "Very well, let the old fellow come now. He shall find me on my feet sword in hand."
• (Mala Powers) "Cyrano."
• (Morris Carnovsky) "He's delirious."
• (José Ferrer) "I can see him now; he grins. He is looking at my nose, that skeleton. You there; who are you? A hundred against one, eh? I know them now, my ancient enemies --"
• (José Ferrer) "Falsehood. There. There. Prejudice. Compromise. Cowardice. What's that? Surrender? No. Never. Never."
• (José Ferrer) "Ah, you too, Vanity? I knew you would overthrow me in the end. No. I fight on. I fight on. I fight on."

• (José Ferrer) "Think of me./ Me whom the plainest woman would despise./ Me with this nose of mine that marches on/ Before me by a quarter of an hour./Whom should I love? Why of course it must be/ The woman in the world most beautiful."
• (Morris Carnovsky) "Most beautiful?"
• (José Ferrer) "In these eyes of mine, beyond compare."
• (Morris Carnovsky) "Wait. Your cousin; Roxane."
• (José Ferrer) "Yes. Roxane."

• (José Ferrer) "Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy."

• (José Ferrer) "All my laurels you have riven away -- and my roses; yet in spite of you there is one crown I bear away with me. And tonight, when I enter before God, my salute shall sweep away all the stars from the blue threshold. One thing without stain, unspotted from the world in spite of doom mine own"
• (José Ferrer) "and that is -- my white plume."

• (José Ferrer) "What would you have me do? Seek for the patronage of some great man and like a creeping vine on a tall tree, crawl upward where I cannot stand alone? No thank you. Be a buffoon in the vile hope of teasing out a smile on some cold face? No thank you. Eat a toad for breakfast each morning? Make my knees callous? Cultivate a supple spine? Wear out my belly groveling in the dust? No thank you. With my left hand, scratch the back of any swine that roots up gold for me, while my right, too proud to know his partner's business, takes in the fee? No thank you. Shall I use the fire God gave me, to burn incense all day long? No, thank you. Struggle to insinuate my name into the columns of the Gazette? Calculate, scheme, be afraid? Love more to make a visit than a poem? Seek introductions, favors, influences? No, thank you. No, I thank you and again, I thank you."

• (José Ferrer) "Prince, pray God that is Lord of all, Pardon your soul, for your time has come, Beat, pass. I fling you aslant, asprawl, Then as I end the refrain, thrust home."

• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Monsieur, your nose -- your nose is rather large."
• (José Ferrer) "Rather?"
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Oh, well --"
• (José Ferrer) "Is that all?"
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Well of course --"
• (José Ferrer) "Oh, no, young sir. You are too simple. Why, you might have said a great many things. Why waste your opportunity? For example, thus: AGGRESSIVE: I, sir, if that nose were mine, I'd have it amputated on the spot. PRACTICAL: How do you drink with such a nose? You must have had a cup made especially. DESCRIPTIVE: 'Tis a rock, a crag, a cape. A cape? Say rather, a peninsula. INQUISITIVE: What is that receptacle? A razor case or a portfolio? KINDLY: Ah, do you love the little birds so much that when they come to see you, you give them this to perch on. CAUTIOUS: Take care. A weight like that might make you top-heavy. ELOQUENT: When it blows, the typhoon howls, and the clouds darken. DRAMATIC: When it bleeds, the Red Sea. SIMPLE: When do they unveil the monument? MILITARY: Beware, a secret weapon. ENTERPRISING: What a sign for some perfumer. RESPECTFUL: Sir, I recognize in you a man of parts. A man of -- prominence. Or, LITERARY: Was this the nose that launched a thousand ships? These, my dear sir, are things you might have said, had you some tinge of letters or of wit to color your discourse. But wit? Not so, you never had an atom. And of letters, you need but three to write you down: A, S, S. Ass."
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Insolent puppy, dolt, bunpkin, fool."
• (José Ferrer) "How do you do? And I, Cyrano Savinien Hercule de Bergerac."
• (Antoine Comte de Guiche) "Vicomte, come."
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Such arrogance, this scarecrow. Look at him. No ribbons, no lace, not even gloves."
• (José Ferrer) "True. I carry my adornments only on my soul, decked with deeds instead of ribbons. Manful in my good name, and crowned with the white plume of freedom."
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "But --"
• (José Ferrer) "But, I have no gloves. A pity too. I had one; the last of an old pair; and lost that. Very careless of me. A gentleman offered me an impertinence. I left it; in his face."
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "So be it."
• (José Ferrer) "You shall die exquisitely."
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Oh, a poet?"
• (José Ferrer) "Oh, yes, a poet. So, while we fight, I'll improvise a ballade for you, and as I end the refrain, thrust home."
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Will you?"
• (José Ferrer) "I will. Ballade of the duel at the Theatre of the Burgoyne, between de Bergerac and -- a barbarian."
• (Vicomte de Valvert) "What do you mean by that?"
• (José Ferrer) "Oh, that? The title."

• (José Ferrer) "Very well, then; I enter, with knife, to carve this fat stuffed goose."

• (Vicomte de Valvert) "Dolt. Insolent puppy. Jabbernowl."
• (José Ferrer) "How do you do? And I; Cyrano Savinien Hercule de Bergerac."

Edgar Barrier as Cardinal

• (Edgar Barrier) "I would much rather Monsieur de Bergerac live by the pen than die by the sword. Do you not agree, Antoine?"
• (Antoine Comte de Guiche) "By all means, Your Eminence, by all means."
• (Edgar Barrier) ""And then, as I end the refrain, thrust home.""

Lloyd Corrigan as Duenna

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Morris Carnovsky as Le Bret

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William Prince as Christian de Neuvillette

• (William Prince) ""Thus do I love thee.""
• (José Ferrer) "Idiot. There are a dozen ways to read that line; " Thus do I love thee"; "Thus do I love thee", "Thus do I love thee. thee. thee.""

Arthur Blake as Montfleury

• (Arthur Blake) "Sir, I will not allow you to insult me in this manner."
• (José Ferrer) "Really? In what manner would you prefer?"

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