The Great Waltz (1938)

Miliza Korjus: Carla Donner

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Quotes 

• Carla Donner : The only composers I ever knew were fat little men with bald heads.

• Carla Donner : Where are we?

  Coachman : Where you wanted to be, in the Vienna Woods, and it's only six o'clock in the morning, and you have a long and beautiful day ahead of you.

• Carla Donner : You probably deserve him more than I do, but he's going with me.

• Dommayer : We shall be glad to refund the money; but, you see, the performance is over.

  Cellist : But we don't want the money. We want the music. The performance is not over.

  Dommayer : Just a moment, please. Just a moment, please. I am August Dommayer, owner of Dommayer's Casino and the performance is over!

  Cellist : And I'm Fritz Cellist, the first tenor of the Imperial Opera and the performance is *not* over!

  Dommayer : I don't care who you are, the performance is over!

  Carla Donner : [smiles]  The performance is *not* over.

  Dommayer : The performance is *not* over.

• Johann 'Schani' Strauss II : I thought of you ever since that night.

  Carla Donner : And you walked away: proud and angry.

  Johann 'Schani' Strauss II : Carla, I'm married.

  Carla Donner : Oh. But, you're here now, with your arms around me.

• Carla Donner : Don't you see - it was meant to be like this. Everything has brought us together: the night, the woods, the music. It's all been so sweet and so dangerous.

• Carla Donner : We might as well face it. We two. He loves me and I love him. There is nothing anyone can do about it. You can't. I can't. He can't.

• Carla Donner : You are very unselfish. Or, unexpectedly clever. Whichever it is - I like it.

• Carla Donner : Bad little boys.

• Carla Donner : Give it to me. Will you give it to me?

  Johann 'Schani' Strauss II : It has always been yours.

• Carla Donner : Don't ever pull yourself a sacrifice game. Happiness is in your own heart. Not in someone else's. I found that out.