Clive Revill: Rogozhin
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Holmes : [after he learns Madame Petrova wants him to impregnate her] This is all very flattering, but surely there are other men, better men.
Nikolai Rogozhin : To tell truth, you were not the first choice. We considered Russian writer, Tolstoy.
Holmes : Oh, that's more like it. The man's a genius.
Nikolai Rogozhin : Too old. Then we considered philosopher, Nietzsche.
Holmes : Well, absolutely first-rate mind.
Nikolai Rogozhin : Uh-uh. Too German. Then we considered Tchaikovsky.
Holmes : Oh, you couldn't go wrong with Tchaikovsky.
Nikolai Rogozhin : We could, and we did. It was catastrophe.
Holmes : Why?
Nikolai Rogozhin : You don't know? Because Tchaikovsky, how shall I put it? Women not his glass of tea.
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Nikolai Rogozhin : Mr. Holmes, what you have seen tonight is last, and positively final performance of Madame Petrova. She is retiring.
Holmes : What a shame.
Nikolai Rogozhin : She's been dancing since she was three years old, and after all, she is now thirty-eight.
Holmes : I must say, she doesn't *look* thirty-eight.
Nikolai Rogozhin : That is because she is forty-nine.
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Holmes : Madame must not be too hasty. She must remember that I am an Englishman.
Nikolai Rogozhin : So?
Holmes : You know what they say about us: if there's one thing more deplorable than our cooking, it's our lovemaking. We are not the most romantic of people.
Nikolai Rogozhin : Perfect! We don't want sentimental idiots, falling in love, committing suicide. One week in Venice with Madame, she goes back to St. Petersburg with baby, you go back to London with fiddle.
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Nikolai Rogozhin : He is your... . glass of tea?
