Cat People (1982)
Nastassja Kinski: Irena Gallier
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Quotes
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Irena Gallier : I'm not like you.
Paul Gallier : Well, that's the lie that will kill your lover. At least let me spare you that - horror.
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Paul Gallier : Did they ever tell you how our parents died?
Irena Gallier : Yes.
Paul Gallier : What did they tell you about me?
Irena Gallier : Well, not much. I knew I had a brother but I was only four. I used to fantasize about you when I was in the orphanage.
Paul Gallier : Fantasize?
Irena Gallier : Well, you know, about you coming to rescue me and things. Daydreams.
Paul Gallier : Yes, I had the same dreams.
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Paul Gallier : Long ago, our ancestors sacrificed their children to the leopards. The souls of the children grew inside the leopards, until the leopards became human. We were gods then.
Irena Gallier : We are a incestuous race. We can only make love with our own, otherwise we transform. And before we can become human again, we must kill.
Paul Gallier : Welcome home.
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Oliver Yates : Why'd you run away like that?
Irena Gallier : Well, you scared me.
Oliver Yates : But, the leopard doesn't?
Irena Gallier : You can sense how an animal feels.
Oliver Yates : Oh, you can?
Irena Gallier : Yeah, sometimes. We're all connected.
Oliver Yates : Who are you?
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Irena Gallier : I flew in the day before yesterday. Went site-seeing. Forgot to eat. And you started chasing me and I just got all excited.
Oliver Yates : Yeah, well, I - I do sometimes have that affect on woman.
Irena Gallier : Oh, really?
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Irena Gallier : How do you eat this?
Oliver Yates : Well, you take this little wedge of lemon, like this. Squirt it on your oyster. Then, you hit it with some of this horseradish red sauce. Just a touch. Pick it up and then let that sucker slide down your throat.
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Alice Perrin : Jesus, don't encourage these assholes, please.
Irena Gallier : How do you not encourage them?
Alice Perrin : I tell them I'm gay.
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Alice Perrin : So, what happened?
Irena Gallier : Um, what did - what - I don't remember, what did...
Alice Perrin : The boy you liked.
Irena Gallier : Oh, right! So, you know, we petted and stuff like that. He wanted to go all the way and so did I; but, I don't know, I got scared. He looked so...
Alice Perrin : What?
Irena Gallier : Huge!
Alice Perrin : God! What's his name? Quick.
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Irena Gallier : I guess I'm a romantic at heart. When it's right, it'll happen. It'll be magical.
Alice Perrin : I'm not knocking it. Here's to the magic.
[toast]
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Irena Gallier : Paul, don't you touch me!
Paul Gallier : But, I'm the only one who can touch you. You're the only one who can touch me. Don't you see we're safe together because we're the same.
Irena Gallier : I'm not like you!
Paul Gallier : Oh, yes you are. You've always known it.
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Irena Gallier : Listen.
Oliver Yates : What?
Irena Gallier : Can't you hear it?
Oliver Yates : Yeah, that's alligators. They're about to eat us.
Irena Gallier : [doubtingly] Alligators.
Oliver Yates : Yeah! There's only one way to keep them away. You know what that is?
Irena Gallier : No.
Oliver Yates : You have to make love.
[kiss]
Oliver Yates : They hate the sound.
[kiss]
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Irena Gallier : What am I? What am I!
Female : Shhh. Don't ask what you already know.
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Irena Gallier : Free me. Free me. Make love to me again.
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Paul Gallier : I didn't think you were ready, but you are. I knew it when I saw you with him.
Irena Gallier : Who? Oliver?
Paul Gallier : You want to fuck him, don't you? You dream about fucking him! Your whole body burns, it burns all along your nerves, in your mouth, your breasts, you go wet between your legs.
Irena Gallier : Stop it!
Paul Gallier : Every time it happens, you tell yourself that it's love. But it isn't. It's blood. Death. You can't escape your nightmare without me and I can't escape without you. I've waited a long time for you.
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Alice Perrin : If you want to get laid, you can do a lot better than that, believe me.
Irena Gallier : Say, I was just being friendly. I was not trying to get laid.
Alice Perrin : Occasionally, they're compatible.
Irena Gallier : I wouldn't know.
Alice Perrin : How come?
Irena Gallier : I just never met anybody I liked enough to have sex with.
Alice Perrin : Never?
Irena Gallier : Not so far, no.
Alice Perrin : Really? You're still a virgin?
Irena Gallier : Come on, don't make it sound so perverse.
Alice Perrin : Oh, no, no. Not at all. I just - incomprehensible, maybe. Especially these days!
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Paul Gallier : Some little mice sat in the barn to spin. Pussy came by and popped her head in. What are you doing my little men?
Paul Gallier , Irena Gallier : Weaving coats for...
Paul Gallier : Gent...
Irena Gallier : Gentlemen.
Paul Gallier : Very good! Shall I come in and cut your throats off?
Paul Gallier , Irena Gallier : Oh, no kind sir, we will snap our heads off.
