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French Kiss (1995 film) Quotes

French Kiss (1995 film) is a TV show that debuted in 1970 . French Kiss stopped airing in 1970.

It features Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner; Kathryn F. Galan; Meg Ryan as producer, James Newton Howard in charge of musical score, and Owen Roizman as head of cinematography.

French Kiss (1995 film) is recorded in English, and French and originally aired in United States, and United Kingdom. Each episode of French Kiss (1995 film) is 111 minutes long. French Kiss (1995 film) is distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The cast includes: Kevin Kline as Luc, Meg Ryan as Kate, Timothy Hutton as Charlie, :fr:Laurent Spielvogel as Concierge, :fr:Élisabeth Commelin as Claire, Susan Anbeh as Juliette, Jean Reno as Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon, and François Cluzet as Bob.

French Kiss (1995 film) Quotes

Meg Ryan as Kate

  • (Meg Ryan) "Happy; smile. Sad; frown. Use the corresponding face for the corresponding emotion."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You know, all men are bastards."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Well, not all. I mean, some are just trying to help."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You know, I never thought I'd be the kind of woman to say this, but it's true. All men are bastards."
  • (Kevin Kline) "The guy who was talking to you, he was --"
  • (Meg Ryan) "A bastard. A Eurotrash-in-Armani kind of bastard."
  • (Kevin Kline) "He was wearing a black suit? With a yellow shirt?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Yeah."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You know him?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Come on."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Of course you know him. All you bastards know each other."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Bastard."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Hi there. C'est moi."
  • (:fr:Laurent Spielvogel) "Welcome back, Madame, to the Georges V."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Huh -- it's incredible how you do that. The words come out; "Welcome back"; but the meaning is completely different. What's the deal, is that a French thing or a concierge thing?"
  • (:fr:Laurent Spielvogel) "As Madame wishes."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You did it again. Tell me something, because I just -- I don't get it. Do you enjoy being that rude? Because when you do that, it just gets underneath my skin, and it makes me -- completely -- INSANE."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Donnez-moi un break, you can't make a vineyard out of one vine."
  • (Meg Ryan) "I hate Paris in the springtime/I hate Paris in the fall/I hate Paris in the summer when it sizzles/I hate Paris in the winter when it drizzles/I hate Paris, oh why oh why do I hate Paris?/Because my love is there -- with his SLUT girlfriend."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Why weren't you the one, Charlie? The one who turned on this big shiny Kate-light that burns so bright?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "I've spent most of my adult life trying to protect myself from exactly this situation. And you can't do it. There's no home safe enough, there's no country nice enough, there's no relationship secure enough; you're just setting yourself up for an even bigger fall and having an incredibly boring time in the process."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Happy, smile. Sad, frown. Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion. But no. You want this mysterious --"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Non. No no no. It is not me who wants it. I don't want it."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Well what do you want?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "I want you -- I want you --"
  • (Meg Ryan) "You want me --"
  • (Kevin Kline) "I want you -- to -- make Charlie suffer. To make him feel like even though you are right there in front of him, he can't have you."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Of course you know him. All you bastards know each other."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You'll become one of those hunchbacked, lonely old men, sitting in the corner of a crowded cafe, mumbling to yourself, "My ass is twitching. You people make my ass twitch.""
  • (Meg Ryan) "Spasm. Spasm. Oh, God, here it comes -- lactose intolerance."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Fester, fester, fester. Rot, rot, rot."
  • (Meg Ryan) "I had this feeling about him, same for him. It wasn't exactly a thunderclap, or a lightning-bolt, it was more like a --"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Light drizzle?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "I didn't rush, you were right. But I didn't hide from it, either. I wanted everything to be perfect. I was 18. Jeff the Jock, my basement, Valentine's Day, "Jeopardy." on in the background. It's a game show on TV."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Oui, "Le Jeopardie". We have it."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Jeff said it would last longer with the show on to distract him. Got all the answers wrong except for sports. By Double Jeopardy., he was done; by Final Jeopardy., he was on his way home."
  • (Meg Ryan) "The key to French waiters: If you're nice to them, they treat you like s***. Treat them like s***, they love you."
  • (Meg Ryan) "I mean the kind of love between one man and one woman."
  • (Kevin Kline) "It is not a very interesting question. It is a question of a little girl who still believes in fairy tales."
  • (Meg Ryan) "A healthy person is someone who expresses what they're feeling inside. Express, not repress."
  • (Kevin Kline) "In that case, you must be one of the healthiest people in the world."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Those French. They hate us, they smoke, they have a whole relationship with dairy products I don't understand."
  • (Meg Ryan) "So you'd risk everything for this?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Oui."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Do anything to have it?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Oui."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Get down on your knees and beg?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Oui."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Then what makes you so different from me?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Do you believe in love? The kind that lasts forever?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "I loved my mother."
  • (Meg Ryan) "No, everybody loves their mother. Even people who hate their mothers love their mothers. The question is, one man meant for one woman. That is the question."
  • (Kevin Kline) "But it is not an interesting question. It is the question of a little girl who believes in fairy tales."
  • (Meg Ryan) "What about you? The old bull back in business?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Pht, ole."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Do you think you could urinate with someone standing behind you?"
  • (Con-man) "I think I could manage it. Are you going to be the someone?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "What about my suitcase, my clothes? Ask him about my vitamins."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Her clothes?"
  • (François Cluzet) "I gave them to Monique."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Monique?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "What? What did he say?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "He -- he threw them away."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You know what, Charlie? No matter what I might seem like tonight, it's still the same old me from yesterday you'll wind up with tomorrow. The same old me, who wants the home and the family, who wants to plant some roots and see them grow."
  • (Timothy Hutton) "You want to be a farmer?"
  • (Timothy Hutton) "Sorry."
  • (Meg Ryan) "There's just one thing I don't want anymore."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Sorry, Charlie."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Do what you want, it's a free country -- isn't it?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Uh, oui."
  • (Meg Ryan) "I don't know what they taught you in France, but rude and interesting are not the same things."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You lost your birthright in one hand of poker?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "I'm an asshole. What can I tell you?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Did you know that there are four hundred and fifty-two official government cheeses in this country? Don't you think that's incredible? To come up with four hundred and fifty-two ways of classifying what is basically a bacterial process?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "You would prefer one cheese? One cheeseburger to put it on and one restaurant to eat it in?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "I'm saying I like the cheese. God."
  • (Meg Ryan) "We were happy. I've never been so happy."
  • (Kevin Kline) "When people tell me they are happy, my ass begins to twitch."
  • (Meg Ryan) "No matter what I might seem like tonight, it's still the same old me from yesterday you wind up with tomorrow."
  • (Meg Ryan) "And we had plans together, okay? We had plans for a home and a family. I would remind him of that, too."
  • (Kevin Kline) "He was obviously very attached to them."
  • (Meg Ryan) "And if all else failed --"
  • (Kevin Kline) "You would get down on your knees and beg?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "It's possible."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Oh ho. Now I can see it: There is the goddess, standing next to Charlie in her negligee, and you are there on your knees, begging. Poor Charlie; tough decision."

Kevin Kline as Luc

  • (Kevin Kline) "I'm curious how you got around your whole life, or do you just stay in your house with the doors locked?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "I get around as nature intended: in a car."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Why are you chasing after him after what he's done to you?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Because I love him. And I'm afraid that if he doesn't come back that I'll -- it'll hurt so much that I'll just shrivel up and I'll never be able to love anyone ever again."
  • (Kevin Kline) "You say that now, but -- after a time, you would forget. First, you would forget his chin, and then his nose, and after a while, you would struggle to remember the exact color of his eyes, and one day you wake up and, pfft, he's gone: his voice, his smell, his face. He will have left you. And then you can begin again."
  • (Kevin Kline) "For me, bulls*** is like breathing."
  • (Kevin Kline) "That's all? You have no strategy, no armor, no bulls***?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "How did you meet?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "At a party. I'd just come to Toronto on a teaching exchange. We started talking. I had this feeling about him, same for him. It wasn't exactly a thunderclap or a lightning bolt, it was more like a --"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Light drizzle?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "You really, honestly never had that feeling about anybody in your whole entire life, honestly?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "If I did, I would not admit it. His chin looks a little weak, if you ask me."
  • (Meg Ryan) "It doesn't, and I didn't, and why wouldn't you admit a feeling like that?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Why should I? Look where it has got you."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Maybe if you did, you wouldn't have that little problem we're not supposed to talk about."
  • (Kevin Kline) "It's not a problem, it's just a temporary --"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Now we'll practice. I'll be Charlie."
  • (Meg Ryan) "I'll be Kate."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Kate."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Yes?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "You are not afraid to fly any more? You are thinking of your little stone cottage?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "It's on a hillside next to a beautiful vineyard. But that's not really what I'm thinking about."
  • (Kevin Kline) "What are you thinking about?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "You."
  • (Kevin Kline) "I love the sea. So beautiful, so mysterious -- so full of fish."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Okay, so I try to understand. He tells you he has met this women -- no, no, this goddess. He breaks your heart, he --"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Hurts me. Humbles me."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Humiliates you."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Humiliates me."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Okay, and then, so you come here to Paris so that he can do it again, but this time, right in your face."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Meanwhile, his lover --"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Don't ever use that word again."
  • (Kevin Kline) "All right, this bastard woman --"
  • (Kevin Kline) "You were how old when you lost it?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "It? What "it"?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "You know, it. Your, uh, flower."
  • (Meg Ryan) "My flow -- oh."
  • (Meg Ryan) "My flower is none of your business."
  • (Kevin Kline) "I ask you because some people, they rush towards that fateful moment, their bodies bursting to discover. Others, they guard it like some precious gift."
  • (Meg Ryan) "And you, I suppose, rushed."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Like a bull."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Yeah, I have a picture in my mind. It's very clear."
  • (Kevin Kline) "What do you think, the plane is going to crash and we are all on the ground in a thousand pieces dead? I promise you, if it happens, you won't feel a thing."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You're French, aren't you?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "There is something in his eyes -- vain. It is a word, no?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "It is a word. He has beautiful eyes."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Oh, he knows it. You can see it in his smile -- not even a smile, a smirk. It is a word?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Shut up. Is it a word?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "Two words."
  • (Kevin Kline) "First, you must take some wine. Can you describe it, the taste?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "It's a nice red wine."
  • (Kevin Kline) "I think you can do better."
  • (Meg Ryan) "A bold wine with a hint of sophistication and lacking in pretension."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Actually, I was just talking about myself."
  • (Kevin Kline) "And I am thinking, you should not be flying anywhere."
  • (Meg Ryan) "I shouldn't?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "No, in fact, I am sure of it. I am thinking, I want you."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You want me?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "That's all. I want you."
  • (Kevin Kline) "One night, he got me very drunk. You must understand, I owed him a lot of money. But he knew what he was doing."
  • (Meg Ryan) "What was he doing?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "I lost all of it. One hand of poker."
  • (Meg Ryan) "You lost your birthright -- in one hand of poker."
  • (Kevin Kline) "I'm an asshole, what can I tell you?"
  • (Meg Ryan) "Uh-huh. So that's why he hates you and you hate him."
  • (Kevin Kline) "Oui -- that and I slept with his wife."
  • (Kevin Kline) "I like you. But I don't like the way you say with your face all scrunched up, "you're French, aren't you?" And then I don't like how you say, with your eyes all squinty, "all men are bastards.""

:fr:Laurent Spielvogel as Concierge

  • (:fr:Laurent Spielvogel) "Thank you, Madame, for that fascinating lesson in our cultural differences. I'm sure it would not betray my duty as concierge to inform you that your fiance and his "friend" are no longer our guests."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Well, whose guests would they be now?"
  • (:fr:Laurent Spielvogel) "The Carleton Hotel will have that privilege when they arrive in Cannes this evening. If Madam wishes to catch the last train out of Paris, it will be departing from the station in one hour. I could arrange for a taxi very quickly, Madame."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Yes, thank you."

Susan Anbeh as Juliette

  • (Susan Anbeh) "Is something wrong?"
  • (Kevin Kline) "No, in fact everything is fine."

:fr:Élisabeth Commelin as Claire

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Timothy Hutton as Charlie

  • (Timothy Hutton) "My whole life is passing before my eyes, and we don't even have children yet."
  • (Timothy Hutton) "I met this woman, this apparition, this goddesse."
  • (Meg Ryan) "Goddesse?"
  • (Timothy Hutton) "It's French; for goddess."

Jean Reno as Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon

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