Moulin Rouge (1952)

Zsa Zsa Gabor: Jane Avril

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• Jane Avril : Henri, my dear, we just heard you were dying. We simply had to say good-bye.

• Jane Avril : What is wrong with me, Henri? Other women find love and happiness. I find only disenchantment.

  Henri : But you find it so often.

• Jane Avril : Have you ever had contact with a legal mind, Henri? It's beyond belief. I wasn't the vision of his dreams, I was the party of the first part. He didn't declare his love for me, he merely acknowledged that as a state of affection exists... Oh Henri, why couldn't you be tall and handsome?

  Henri : Two more of these and I shall be.

  [He drinks] 

  Jane Avril : You are the only man who has never bored me.

  Henri : I am the only man who has never loved you.

  Jane Avril : Henri, over there. There is the most beautiful creature. Look at those shoulders.

  Henri : For your sake, I pray that they are not padded.

• Henri : Well, Jane, what a long road you have traveled. Only a few years ago you were singing for your supper, and here you are a full-fledged star at twenty-nine.

  Jane Avril : Twenty-five!

  Henri : Of course, I beg your pardon. Twenty-five.

  Jane Avril : I have been twenty-five for four years, and I shall stay there for another four. Then I'll be twenty-seven for a while. I intend to grow old *gracefully*!

• Jane Avril : Myriamme, you are incorrigible! The first time you're out with a man and you tell him your father died of *alcoholism*! Anyway, whose father *didn't*?

• Jane Avril : Tomorrow, I'll think of a very good answer, but in the meantime, I prefer to change the subject.

• Jane Avril : If you are going to do a poster, it should be of me! I am the attraction here! It's my singing that draws the crowds.

  Henri : Forgive me, Jane, but it is much harder to draw a song than a dance.

• Jane Avril : I ask you, what is the world coming to when a girl won't even accept a horse?

• Jane Avril : I know it's all my fault, Henri. I see them as I want them to be, not as they really are. The mists of my dreams around them. They walk in beauty to the music of a Shepard's pipe. Then, the morning wind blows, the mists is swept away.