The Best Moulin Rouge! Quotes
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Smoldering Temptress
Satine: What's his type? Wilting flower? [sighs] Bright and bubbly? [giggles] Or smoldering temptress? [growls]
Zidler: I'd say, smoldering temptress. - 2
Don't Be Unkind, Nini!
[As Satine is being carried to her dressing room, having passed out.]
Nini: Looks like the Duke won't be getting his money's worth tonight.
Dancer: Don't be unkind, Nini!
[They both giggle] - Photo: user uploaded image3
Confess Her Sins
Zidler: SHE'S CONFESSING!
The Duke: Confessing?! What kind of imbecile do you take me for, Zidler?!
Zidler: She suddenly had a terrible desire...to go to a priest and...confess her sins. - 4
Don't Worry, Shakespeare.
The Duke: I don't like this ending...
Zidler: Don't like the ending, my dear Duke?
The Duke: Why should the courtesan chose the penniless sitar player over the maharajah who is offering her a lifetime of security? That's real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust he will leave her with nothing. I suggest that the courtesan chose the maharajah.
Toulouse-Lautrec: But, but tell me, that ending does not uphold the Bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom, and...
The Duke: [shouts] I don't care about your ridiculous dogma! Why shouldn't the courtesan chose the maharajah?
Christian: [shouts] Because she doesn't love you!... Him... Hi-him, she doesn't love... she doesn't love him.
The Duke: Oh, I see... Monsieur Zidler, the play will be rewritten with the courtesan choosing the maharajah and without the lovers' secret song. It will be rehearsed in the morning, ready for the opening tomorrow night...
Zidler: But, my dear Duke, that will be quite impossible.
Satine: Harold, the Duke is being treated appallingly. These silly writers let their imaginations run away with themselves. Why don't you and I have a little supper, and then we can tell Monsieur Zidler how we would like the story to end.
Nini: [to Christian] Don't worry, Shakespeare. You'll get your ending, once the Duke gets his end-in! - Photo: user uploaded image5
No One's Going To
Zidler: I AM THE EVIL MAHARAJAH! YOU WILL NOT ESCAPE!
Satine: Oh Harold, no one could play him like you could!
Zidler: No one's going to. - 6
It's Just An Infatuation
Zidler: The Duke holds the deeds to the Moulin Rouge, he's spending a fortune on you, he's giving you a beautiful new dressing room, he wants to make you a star, and YOU'RE DALLYING WITH THE WRITER!
Satine: Harold, that's ridic...
Zidler: I SAW YOU TOGETHER.
Satine: It's nothing. It's just an infatuation... it's nothing.
Zidler: The infatuation will end. Go to the boy; tell him it's over, and the Duke is expecting you in the tower at eight. - Photo: user uploaded image7
SHEEEE'S MINE!
Toulouse-Lautrec: Things aren’t always the way they seem.
Christian: Things are exactly the way they seem.
Toulouse-Lautrec: Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know what love is, only because I long for it with every fiber of my being. She loves you, I know it, I know she loves you.
Christian: Go away, Toulouse. Leave me alone. [Toulouse-Lautrec cringes but does not leave] Go. Away. [Toulouse-Lautrec still looks at Christian] GO AWAY!!!!!!!! [wordlessly, Toulouse-Lautrec leaves]
Christian: [narrating] I wanted to shut out what Toulouse had said, but he had filled me with doubt and there was only one way to be sure. I had to know. So I returned to the Moulin Rouge one last time. [Christian enters the Moulin Rouge and the show begins]
Zidler: SHEEEEEEEEEEE'S MINE! - 8
TELL ME YOU DON'T LOVE ME!!
Zidler: [as the evil Maharajah waiting for the Courtesan] Open the door!
Christian: [as the penniless sitar player pleading to the Courtesan] TELL ME YOU DON'T LOVE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Photo: user uploaded image9
There Was A Boy
Toulouse-Lautrec: There was a boy
A very strange enchanted boy
They say he wandered very far
Very far
Over land and sea
A little shy
And sad of eye
But very wise, was he
And then one day
One magic day he, passed my way
and while we spoke of many things, fools and kings, this he said to me . . .
The greatest thing, you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved . . . in return - 10
Glad To Die For Lover
Satine: The French are glad to die for love.
They delight in fighting duels
But I prefer a man who lives
And gives expensive . . .
Jewels. - Photo: user uploaded image11
Help You Feed Your Pussy Cat
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend
A kiss may be grand but it won't pay the rental on your humble flat
Or help you feed your (purrs) pussycat - 12
Girls Best Friend
Men grow cold as girls grow old
And we all lose our charms in the end
But square-cut or pear shaped these rocks don't lose their shape
Diamonds are a girl's best friend - Photo: user uploaded image13
Tiffany's!
Tiffany's! - 14
Cartier!
Cartier! - Photo: user uploaded image15
Material Girl
'Cause we are living in a material world
And I am a material girl (Blows kiss) - 16
Come And Get Me Boys
Come and get me boys (Whoops) - Photo: user uploaded image17
Tell Me About It
Roscore: Talk to me
Harry Zildler: Tell me all about it!
- 18
May Come A Time
There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer
But diamonds are a girl's best friend - Photo: user uploaded image19
Come A Time
There may come a time when a hard-boiled employer think you're- - 20
Awfully Nice
Zidler: Awfully nice. - Photo: user uploaded image21
Else No Dice
Satine: Ah! But get that ice or else no dice - 22
Start To Desend
Girls of the Moulin Rouge: He's your guy when, stocks are high
But beware when they start to descend - Photo: user uploaded image23
Diamonds Are Girls Best Friend
Diamonds are a girl's best,
Diamonds are a girl's best,
Diamonds are a girl's best friend - 24
Ole!
Nini: Ole! - Photo: user uploaded image25
Go Back To Their Spouses
Satine: 'Cause that's what those louses go back to their spouses
Diamonds . . .
Are a . . .
Girl's . . .
Best . . .
..(Satine gasps and falls) - 26
Dreaming Ends
Satine: I follow the night
Can't stand the light
When will I begin
To live again
One day I'll fly away
Leave all this to yesterday
What more could your love do for me
When will love be through with me
Why live life from dream to dream
And dread the day when dreaming ends - Photo: user uploaded image27
How Wonderful Life Is
Christian: How wonderful life is, now you're in the world - 28
One Day I'll Fly Away
Satine: One day I'll fly away
Leave all this to yesterday
Why live life from dream to dream
And dread the day
When dreaming ends
One day I'll fly away...
Fly...fly...away - Photo: user uploaded image29
A Girl Has Got To Eat
Christian (spoken): Love is like oxygen.
Satine (spoken): What?
Christian (spoken): Love is a many-splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong! All you need is love.
Satine (spoken): Please don't start that again.
Christian: All you need is love.
Satine (spoken): A girl has got to eat –
Christian: All you need is love.
Satine (spoken): She'll end up on the street!
Christian: All you need is love.
Satine (spoken): Love is just a game.
Music begins
Christian: I was made for loving you, baby, you were made for loving me.
Satine: The only way of loving me, baby, is to pay a lovely fee.
Christian: Just one night, give me just one night.
Satine: There's no way, 'cause you can't pay.
Christian: In the name of love, one night in the name of love.
Satine: You crazy fool, I won't give in to you.
Christian: Don't…leave me this way. I can't survive, without your sweet love, oh baby…don't leave me this way.
Satine: You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.
Christian: I look around me and I see, it isn't so. Oh, no.
Satine: Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.
Christian: Well, what's wrong with that? ... I'd like to know ... 'cause here I go again! ...Love lifts us up where we belong-
Satine (spoken): Get down! Get down!
Christian: Where eagles fly, on a mountain high!
Satine: Love makes us act like we are fools. Throw our lives away, for one happy day.
Christian: We could be heroes ... Just for one day.
Satine: You, you will be mean.
Christian: No, I won't!
Satine: And I... I'll drink all the time.
Christian: We should be lovers.
Satine: We can't do that.
Christian: We should be lovers, and that's a fact.
Satine: Though nothing will keep us together
Christian: We could steal time-
Christian and Satine: Just for one day ... We could be heroes, forever and ever! ... We could be heroes, forever and ever! ... We can be heroes!
Christian: Just because I ... will always love you.
Satine: I
Christian and Satine: Can't help loving –
Christian: You.
Satine: How wonderful life is
Christian and Satine: Now You're in the world.
Satine (spoken): You're going to be bad for business, I can tell.
Christian and Satine kiss
Operatic outro (The singing moon): Evviva la forza dell'amor. - 30
Until The End Of Time
Christian: Never knew I could feel like this
Like I've never seen the sky before
Want to vanish inside your kiss
Every day I love you more and more
Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing,
Telling me to give you everything
Seasons may change, winter to spring
But I love you until the end of time
