To Be or Not to Be (1983)
Anne Bancroft: Anna Bronski
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Quotes
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Anna Bronski : He's world-famous in Poland!
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Anna Bronski : [as the Nazis are searching for Sasha] First you invade Poland, then you invade Warsaw, then you invade my dressing room... you people are compulsive invaders!
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[Sasha puts on his coat to go out]
Anna Bronski : What's that on your coat?
Sasha : Oh, it's the newest fashion in occupied Warsaw. Jews wear yellow stars, homosexuals wear pink triangles.
Anna Bronski : Sasha! How awful for you!
Sasha : [quietly] I hate it.
Anna Bronski : Now listen, they're rounding up Jews. Are they rounding up...?
Sasha : No, no, so far, so good. Now, don't wait up for me. I've got a hot date with another triangle.
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Colonel Erhardt : Mrs. Bronski, Mrs. Bronski, Mrs. Bronski.
Anna Bronski : We're all here.
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Lieutenant Andre Sobinski : I loved that picture of you on the farm. You behind the plow. By the way, where was that?
Anna Bronski : In the "Chronicle".
Lieutenant Andre Sobinski : No, I mean where's the farm?
Anna Bronski : Oh, the farm. The farm. Well, that's out of town somewhere... You know, that's where they keep them.
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Sasha : Are you all right?
Anna Bronski : I'm fine.
Sasha : Then why are you on the floor?
Anna Bronski : The Floor? I'm on the floor? I'm on the FLOOR. Well get me up.
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Anna Bronski : [to her pet dog] Mootkie, we are living in a rat hole.
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Nazi officer : You are sitting in Col. Erhardt's chair.
Anna Bronksi : Oh, how silly of me. Ten minutes ago it was my chair.
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Anna Bronski : [about the new poster] Look, I don't mind my name in smaller print. I don't even mind it under the title. But in PARENTHESES?
Dr. Frederick Bronski : I like it. It sets your name apart.
Anna Bronski : Well, set yours apart.
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Anna Bronski : All these flowers on a Lieutenant's pay, you shouldn't have.
Lieutenant Andre Sobinski : That's OK. My father is a florist.
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Sasha : Enter, Andre Sobinski.
Anna Bronski : Exit, Sasha Kinski.
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Anna Bronski : They say its going to be a really cold winter.
Capt. Schultz, of Erhardt's Staff : I don't know anyzing about zat!
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Anna Bronski : Oh look, a piano! With KEYS! And it WORKS!
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Anna Bronski : [Anna has just turned down Erhardt's invitation for supper] I never sup after I've dined.
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[Frederick, disguised as Hitler, bursts in on Erhardt trying to assault Anna]
Colonel Erhardt : [weakly] Heil Hit... Hit... Hit...
Anna Bronski : Hitler.
Colonel Erhardt : Hitler.
Frederick Bronski : Heil.
Anna Bronski : I tried to tell him somebody big was coming.
Colonel Erhardt : Big! But...
Frederick Bronski : Come schatze, ve're late.
[Anna exits, but Frederick turns back to Erhardt]
Frederick Bronski : Vat's your name?
Colonel Erhardt : Colonel Er... Er... Er...
[sticking her head back in]
Anna Bronski : Erhardt.
Colonel Erhardt : Thank you.
Frederick Bronski : Erhardt? Erhardt? Aren't you the one who makes that joke about my becoming... A PICKLE?
[He leaves, slamming the door. Erhardt moans]
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Anna Bronski : Oh, but that's enough talk about me. Let's talk about you. How'd you like me in the first act?