Great Performances (TV Series)

Chess in Concert (2009)

Idina Menzel: Florence Vassey

Quotes 

• Florence Vassy : Well, we can't complain that you've been ignored by the press.

  Frederick Trumper : What'd they say? What'd they say?

  Florence Vassy : They're not too polite.

  Frederick Trumper : They say I'm a shit?

  Florence Vassy : Well, yes.

  [singing] 

  Florence Vassy : In five different languages.

• Florence Vassy : [singing]  Everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same, nobody's on nobody's side.

• Walter de Courcy : Anatoly's return to the Soviet Union is a very decent gesture It's virtually assured us some very important collateral including your father. He must have done it for you, he wouldn't have done it for me. We'll get your father out if he's still alive.

  Florence Vassy : What did you say?

  Walter de Courcy : Well, we can't be sure he is alive. But, then, you couldn't be sure he was dead. No change there, ah? You'll be back next year. It's only a game.

  Florence Vassy : No! I've spent my whole life playing games.

• Anatoly Sergievsky , Florence Vassy , Alexander Molokov , Arbiter : [singing]  It's very sad to see the ancient and distinguished game that used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility, become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee.