Beauty and the Beast (TV Series)

Chamber Music (1988)

Ron Perlman: Vincent

Quotes 

• Vincent : What makes you smile?

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : Everything. This is a wonderful spot.

  Vincent : I've spent many an evening here. I've heard all the great music... here.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : The sound is remarkable. It's like we're in the first row.

  Vincent : We're just under it.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I have been coming to concerts in the park all my life. It's strange to think there might have been nights we were listening to the same music. That you were so close.

  Vincent : I come here, and the music engulfs and... I can feel the presence of everyone sitting just above us. You'll see. When the music ends, you'll hear fragments of conversations echo throughout the chamber, and... and footsteps. And then... all will be very still again.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : The stillness. Didn't it make you feel...

  Vincent : Alone? Sometimes. And sometimes I found a wonderful peace in that stillness.

• Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : [after getting caught in a downpour of rain]  I don't think I'll ever be able to hear Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" in quite the same way.

  Vincent : I wanted to share that place with you.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : Thursday night, they're playing the Brandenburg concertos.

  Vincent : Then I'll come for you... Thursday night.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I'll be here.

• Vincent : Rolley's gift was immense. But it was fragile and it was lost to us. I don't think there's ever been a young person in our world with more promise and more desire. Catherine, I must see him.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : Are you sure he wants to see you, Vincent? To be reminded of that terrible loss?

  Vincent : While he's still alive, there's hope to regain that loss, to recover his gift.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : I'm thinking of you, trying to spare you more disappointment.

  Vincent : Catherine, if we don't act now, next time may be too late.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : Then we must. I'll be ready in a minute

• [last lines] 

  Vincent : He won't come back.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : You did everything you could.

  Vincent : Catherine, I feel as though I'll never see him again.

  Asst. Dist. Atty. Catherine Chandler : But he knows now that you'll wait for him, that you love him. And as long as you do, Vincent, there's hope.