Grand Prix (1966 film) Quotes

Grand Prix (1966 film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Grand Prix ended its run in 1970.

It features Edward Lewis as producer, Maurice Jarre in charge of musical score, and Lionel Lindon as head of cinematography.

Grand Prix (1966 film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Grand Prix (1966 film) is 179 minutes long. Grand Prix (1966 film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Yves Montand as Jean-Pierre Sarti, Eva Marie Saint as Louise Frederickson, Jack Watson as Jeff Jordan, Antonio Sabàto Sr. as Nino Barlini, James Garner as Pete Aron, Adolfo Celi as Agostini Manetta, Toshiro Mifune as Izo Yamura, Brian Bedford as Scott Stoddard, Geneviève Page as Monique Delvaux-Sarti, Jessica Walter as Pat Stoddard, and Françoise Hardy as Lisa.

Grand Prix (1966 film) Quotes

Antonio Sabàto Sr. as Nino Barlini

• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "Hey, sayonara."
• (Brian Bedford) "My goodness, Nino, I thought they belonged to the Yamura boys."
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "I have them on temporary loan."
• (Jessica Walter) "Really, two of them?"
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "They are very small. See you later, maybe."

• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "I used to think nothing could be better than motorbike racing. Three times I am a World Champion on my motorbike. I am happy. Then I go into one of these, these cars: you sit in a box, a coffin, gasoline all around you. It is like being inside a bomb. Crazy, but of course the cars are faster, and that is the most important thing."

• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "And what do you think of this man? In the middle of the race, he decides to take a swim. It cost me two seconds."
• (Yves Montand) "Pete, do you ever get tired, of the driving?"
• (James Garner) "No."
• (Yves Montand) "Lately, I sometimes get very tired, you know? Very tired."

Toshiro Mifune as Izo Yamura

• (Toshiro Mifune) "Why do you drive racing cars, or do you not think about it?"
• (James Garner) "Oh, Mr. Yamura, I don't think there's one of us who doesn't ask himself at least once in the middle of a race, "What the hell am I doing here?" Of course, when it's over, we conveniently forget that we asked ourselves that question. I think about it and a lot of reasons I don't know. Maybe to do something that brings you so close to the possibility of death and to survive it is to feel life and living so much more intensely."

• (Toshiro Mifune) "Some years ago, when I decided to race cars, I tried to buy the Jordan-BRM company."
• (James Garner) "Oh yes, I had heard that."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Impatience on my part. I also manufacture radios and sewing machines. In order to save time, I wanted a proven product. That was not to be, however. Racing cars are not merely another product. They require great attention if any success is to be hoped for."
• (James Garner) "Then that's why you're here."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "I have been racing my cars in Formula One for two years, and have yet to win my first Grand Prix. I intend to win, by whatever means are open to me."
• (James Garner) "That's the right attitude. All you have to do is go fast enough and long enough."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "And with the best drivers. Do you want a job with me?"
• (James Garner) "Driving?"
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Driving, of course."
• (James Garner) "Who are you dumping?"
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Dumping?"
• (James Garner) "Ah, which one of your drivers are you getting rid of?"
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Neither one. I am entering a third car."
• (James Garner) "That'll be expensive."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Yes."
• (James Garner) "You've got a driver."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "My racing headquarters is at Silverstone, in England. Can you be there next week?"
• (James Garner) "Yes, sir."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "We must begin to think about; Spa."
• (James Garner) "Next week, then."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "By the way, you are a terrible broadcaster."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Oh, Mr. Aron, if giving you the job would have meant firing one of the other drivers, would you still have taken it?"
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Good."

• (Toshiro Mifune) "Right after the war, my house in Tokyo was used by an American general and his family. When it was returned to me, it had: flowered wallpaper, three new bathrooms, and four new closets. Americans, I think, are over-devoted to bathrooms and closets."
• (James Garner) "Well, we accumulate things."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "And then you lock them away in closets. And the bathrooms?"
• (James Garner) "No, no, you don't get me on that one."

Yves Montand as Jean-Pierre Sarti

• (Yves Montand) "I suppose what's wrong with me is my life. But I can't change it, or won't. So there's nothing you can do for me."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "What's wrong with your life?"
• (Yves Montand) "I've begun to see the absurdity of it. All of us, proving what? That we can go faster, and perhaps remain alive? Nino gambling his life for a trophy, then fills it with beer, and does tricks. Stoddard filling himself with drugs in order to drive, and still passing out with the pain. Don't you see how absurd it all is? Who cares?"
• (Eva Marie Saint) "I thought you cared, for yourselves. I didn't know you asked of anyone else. Nevertheless, others do care. 100,000 of them cared today."
• (Yves Montand) "And did you see them rush to see Peter burn? Did you see the looks on their faces? I saw. For the first time today I really saw those faces."
• (Eva Marie Saint) "But not all of them, Jean-Pierre. There are some who come for that, for the accidents and the fires. But the others -- the others ride with you all. You put something in their lives they can't put there themselves."

• (Yves Montand) "The danger? Well, of course. But you are missing a very important point. I think if any of us imagined; really imagined; what it would be like to go into a tree at 150 miles per hour we would probably never get into the cars at all, none of us. So it has always seemed to me that to do something very dangerous requires a certain absence of imagination."

• (Yves Montand) "You have to grasp the mind of Sr. Manetta, my darling. If a driver can be reached by those tactics, it means he probably will fear for his place on the team. That is exactly what Manetta wants, because that driver will try all the harder to win. He will perhaps take a risk which he would ordinarily avoid. And risks are always risks."

Geneviève Page as Monique Delvaux-Sarti

• (Geneviève Page) "He now wonders if you're ready to be beaten."
• (Yves Montand) "No one is ever ready for that."
• (Geneviève Page) "You will never retire, Jean-Pierre."
• (Yves Montand) "What does it matter to you, Monique?"
• (Geneviève Page) "To me?"
• (Yves Montand) "Yes."
• (Geneviève Page) "As always, as a hero, you're a good asset to the company."
• (Yves Montand) "Well, perhaps, I'm tired of being an asset to the company. And tired, too, of this farce we perform, you and I, for public consumption."
• (Geneviève Page) "Well, it doesn't really matter that you are tired of these things, Jean-Pierre. If you should decide not to continue with, eh, the farce, as you call it, that of course is up to you. But it will make no difference. As long as you're my husband, the company will have the prestige of your name, and whether or not you ever step into one of these again. And you will always be my husband. You know that, don't you. This one may be different to you, but not to me. To me, she's just like all the others, and we will always be married, you and I."
• (Yves Montand) "Stay away from me, Monique. Let me alone, please."
• (Yves Montand) "Tell me, what terrible thing have I done to you that make you want to labor me to this absurd life we have together? What terrible thing, Monique?"

Brian Bedford as Scott Stoddard

• (Brian Bedford) "Y'know one of the most beautiful things about a car? If it isn't working properly, you can strip the skin off, expose the insides, find out exactly where the trouble is, take out the faulty part and replace it with a new one. If only we could do that with people."

Adolfo Celi as Agostini Manetta

• (Adolfo Celi) "The question is, Jean-Pierre, what are you doing to do about it?"
• (Yves Montand) "Do? I don't understand."
• (Adolfo Celi) "The time for losing comes to every man, of course. I had not expected yours to come so soon."
• (Yves Montand) "There have been problems with the car."
• (Adolfo Celi) "Come, come, Sarti. I expect excuses like that from lesser men than you. You have been one of the best that ever lived, there is no question of that in my mind. Never a wrong move, concentration always there, 100 percent, till this woman."
• (Yves Montand) "You have been misled, Sr. Manetta. Do you take me for a trained dog, to jump at the snap of your fingers? My life belongs to no one but myself."
• (Adolfo Celi) "I have been thinking seriously of your retirement, Sarti."
• (Yves Montand) "Then retire me now."
• (Adolfo Celi) "Kindly lower your voice. Of course I will not retire you now. Tomorrow there is a race to be run, and I also well know that you want to drive it. After tomorrow, who knows, Jean-Pierre?"
• (Yves Montand) "After tomorrow, Sr. Manetta, I will decide to retire or not."
• (Adolfo Celi) "Sarti, you're further gone than I'd thought. A pity, a great pity. I always considered you to be the best."
• (Yves Montand) "I'm still the best."

• (Adolfo Celi) "What means far more to me than anything else is: our good name. Our reputation represents desire for perfection of the highest quality. I gamble that reputation gladly, because I have absolute faith in every car that leaves this factory. But I will not risk it on a driver in whom I cannot have an equal faith. There are fewer than thirty men in the world qualified to drive Formula One; a mere half-dozen, perhaps, to win. At this moment, I am inclined to think you are not one of them."

Françoise Hardy as Lisa

• (Françoise Hardy) "I'm leaving you"
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "Leaving? For how long?"
• (Françoise Hardy) "For always you fool. Forever."
• (Françoise Hardy) "I met a boy, an American who want to go to the Greek islands and dive for relics."
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "In the first place, diving is a great bore."
• (Françoise Hardy) "How do you know? Have you ever done it?"
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "Some things one can tell without doing them that they will be a great bore and the underwater is for fish not for people."
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "In the second place, they are not relics at all."
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "I have on authority from a close friend that things are manufactured and then dumped into the water to be found by foolish American boy tourists and the girl who are foolish enough to go with them."
• (Françoise Hardy) "This is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard."
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "I have on authority from a close friend"
• (Françoise Hardy) "Do you want me to stay?"
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "You are old enough to make your own decisions."
• (Françoise Hardy) "Then I'm going, all right?"
• (Antonio Sabàto Sr.) "Yes, I definitely think you should go to the Greek islands with your Amerrican boyfriend. I think you should go to hell."

James Garner as Pete Aron

• (James Garner) "Ah, were you in the war?"
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Yes, and you?"
• (James Garner) "No, I missed it by a year."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "In the war, I was a fighter pilot. I shot down 17 American planes."
• (James Garner) "Okay."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "I believe that some things must not be left unsaid. There will come a time when you will ask yourself, "What did he do in the war, this man, Yamura?""
• (James Garner) "Mr. Yamura, I like you."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "Why?"
• (James Garner) "Well, because -- because you come right to the point."
• (Toshiro Mifune) "In a sense, you are here because you drive a car the way I conduct my business. You come right to the point."

Jack Watson as Jeff Jordan

• (Jack Watson) "Let's try to get the season off to a good start. Shall we? Drive the car. Don't try to stand it on its bloody ear."

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