Hotel du Nord (1938)

Arletty: Raymonde

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Quotes 

• Raymonde : Atmosphere! Atmosphere! Do I look like an atmosphere?

• Raymonde : How does my kisser look?

• Raymonde : He always has it all figured out. A perfect traveling partner, so unlike his usual self. He's so kind and thoughtful. He buys oranges and peels them for you. Lights your cigarette himself. A perfect gentleman. He tells you the history of all the places. "Here Big Charles did his big heist." "This is ex-con land." "Here Alphonse bumped off Déde." What a geographer! The closer we get to the sea, the tenderer he becomes. The way he behaves on a train, he makes third class feel like first class.

  Jeanne : You often travel together?

  Raymonde : It's the first time.

• Raymonde : Why do you have a crush on her? Aren't we happy?

  Monsieur Edmond : No.

  Raymonde : Are you sure?

  Monsieur Edmond : Yes!

  Raymonde : Don't you like our life?

  Monsieur Edmond : Do you?

  Raymonde : I have to. I got used to it. Despite my black eye, you're a good fella. We may quarrel, but we get along fine when we hit the sheets.

  Monsieur Edmond : I'm sick of it. I feel suffocated. You get it? Suffocated.

• Raymonde : You claim to be what you aren't and brag of what you've been.

• Raymonde : He's a good man. I'm done with killer men. They're afraid work will kill them. I'm done sweating it out to get their steak.

  Nazarède : You're getting old.

  Raymonde : Growing up, that's all.

• Raymonde : Renée double-crossed me. The tart! He fell like a ripe plum.