The Bride Wore Black (1968)

Michael Lonsdale: Rene Morane

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Quotes 

• Rene Morane : Life is like a big race. Someone has to win and someone has to lose.

• Rene Morane : What are you crying for? Get a grip. You knew it would happen sooner or later. Your mother's no spring chicken.

  Madame Morane : You might be a little more sympathetic. A poor sick lady alone in that big house, at her age.

  Rene Morane : Alone, my eye. She's got a TV set.

• Rene Morane : The world can still function without a woman that old.

• Rene Morane : You know, I may not look like a Don Juan, but as a general rule politicians make it big with women. It's normal because a woman can say "For an hour, he completely forgot France and gave himself to me."

• Rene Morane : I went to sleep, dreaming I was in a movie.

• Rene Morane : Cookie, how are things in school?

  Cookie Morane : Everything's fine, Papa.

  Rene Morane : That's surprising. Who'll get the star of the month?

  Cookie Morane : I think José Macias.

  Rene Morane : The Spanish boy?

  Cookie Morane : He told me he can't speak any Spanish.

  Rene Morane : The boy may not speak it, but his father does.

• Rene Morane : If you don't attend to politics, politics will attend to you.