Confidentially Yours (1983)

Fanny Ardant: Barbara Becker

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• Barbara Becker : It's really unfair. If a boss can fire me, why can't I fire him?

• Barbara Becker : Listen, Mr. Vercel, why not let your wife pick your next secretary?

• Julien Vercel : I must leave town tonight. Run the agency while I'm gone.

  Barbara Becker : I'm in charge? Didn't you just fire me? Make up your mind.

• Barbara Becker : We aren't professionals, we're amateurs! We act for fun and to entertain others. Who gave touchy-feely Bertrand the part anyway?

• Barbara Becker : It's better when it's hot.

• Julien Vercel : Take it to Clement, but don't tell him I'm here. I can't compromise him.

  Barbara Becker : Compromise him? He's a lawyer, not an alter boy!

• Barbara Becker : Could it be one of her lovers?

  Lablache : In the past 25 years I've learned one thing: Lovers never have a woman shadowed, but husbands do!

• Barbara Becker : What would you do?

  Maitre Clement : If he asked me, I'd tell him what I'm telling you: There's no reason to worry. This is France, where, thank God, juries are often lenient on crimes of passion.

• Barbara Becker : I just wanted to know - is "Paths of Glory" a love story?

• Bertrand Fabre : Why won't you sleep with me anymore?

  Barbara Becker : Do divorced couples have sex?

• Julien Vercel : Tying up an unconscious man isn't very heroic.

  Barbara Becker : We're not here to be heroic.

• Julien Vercel : I found the salon for her. She closed her beauty salon soon after opening it, she said she wanted to spend more time with me. I was so attracted to her, terribly attracted. You couldn't understand.

  Barbara Becker : Then why tell me about it?

• Barbara Becker : The town looks so pretty from here, especially after the rain.

  Julien Vercel : When I opened my agency, whenever a customer hesitated, I'd bring him here to convince him. Behind this multitude of lights are all sorts of things: people watching TV, working night shifts, children sleeping, and our killer, who'll be really surprised when the cops arrest him.

• Barbara Becker : You're blonde, too.

  Secretarial candidate : Yes, I am. So what?

  Barbara Becker : It's a terrific asset. Mr. Vercel hates brunettes. In fact, he fired me. I leave at the end of the month.

  Secretarial candidate : Don't fret, it might not be because you're a brunette. Maybe he just wants to rejuvenate his staff.

  Barbara Becker : Thanks, I feel so much better. It's a pity Mr. Vercel's away. He'd be very interested in you.

• Barbara Becker : You never saw me as a woman. I'm not a platinum blonde with fake eyelashes, so I don't merit a second look.

• Barbara Becker : You despise me?

  Julien Vercel : I don't despise you.

  Barbara Becker : Well, I despise you.

• Barbara Becker : I thought he was fishy ever since he handled my divorce. I even had to slap him in the face.

  Julien Vercel : Why?

  Barbara Becker : It seemed the best way to get his hands off my bra.

• Barbara Becker : This is no time to go to the movies.