Silk Stockings (1957)
Cyd Charisse: Ninotchka Yoschenko
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Quotes
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Well, the Comrade Minister said, but, he didn't tell me - I'm not so sure if for this job a woman, well, physically a woman is not equipped...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : When the Minister sent me here, he did not say it was for a discussion of biology.
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Steve Canfield : Ninotchka, don't you like me at all?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : The arrangement of your features is not entirely repulsive to me.
Steve Canfield : Oh, thank you. Thank you. Don't you think in time, you might go a little further than that?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I have not seen the rest of you.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : In Russia when somebody wants someone they say, "You, come here."
Steve Canfield : Oh, you mad romantic Russians!
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Let us get down to business. You are familiar with Peter Ilyitch Boroff's music? You are a music lover?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Music is essential for parades.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Of course.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : It seems to me that seduction can only take place when one is willing.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Yeeesss. I can see that you would think that. Have you ever been to Paris?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : No! I have never been outside the Soviet Union.
Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : Welllll, heh, heh, I have spent many years in Paris. I got very close to the French people. In fact, they deported me three times.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : I resent being preached to about electricity. You forget we invented it.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Please don't make an issue of my womanhood.
Steve Canfield : I was looking forward to it.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Your attitude is typical of the male in capitalistic society. You will soon be extinct.
Steve Canfield : How long have I got left?
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Steve Canfield : Don't you ever feel so happy that you just want to dance all around the room?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Happiness is the reward of industry and labor. Dancing is a waste of time.
Steve Canfield : Well, I like wasting time.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : For the first time in my life, I looked at something and thought, "How beautiful!" instead of "How useful."
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : I want to ask you a serious question. Are you flirting with me?
Steve Canfield : Of course. No question about it.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Suppress it.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Where is the little comrade's room?
Steve Canfield : Oh, just at the end of the hall.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : A couple of months ago some idiot let Boroff get to Paris and naturally he wants to stay there.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : What do you mean: naturally?
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : What do you want?
Hotel Porter : May I have your bags, madame.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Why?
Brankov, Commisar : He's a porter. He wants to carry them.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Why? Why should you carry other people's bags?
Hotel Porter : Well, it's my business, madame.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : That's no business. That's social injustice!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : [looking at a display of silk stockings] How can such a civilization survive? Where women are permitted to wear things like these?
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : You are an American?
Steve Canfield : Yes, ma'am.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Tell me, in America, are you one of the oppressors or one of the oppressed?
Steve Canfield : Oh, one of the oppressors, definitely.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Aren't you ashamed?
Steve Canfield : Come, now. As one oppressor to the other, you know its the best spot to be in.
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Steve Canfield : You ought to play Portia.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I have. In Gorky's "Merchant of Venice."
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Why can't you understand this is no laughing matter?
Steve Canfield : Comrade, we're in Paris, in the Spring, why can't we make it a laughing matter?
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Steve Canfield : Don't you ever have any desires to see the pleasures of Paris?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Pleasures - Paris - how was you said, "the urge to merge with a splurge"?
Steve Canfield : That's right!
[singing]
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Capitalistic!
Steve Canfield : Loves lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Characteristic.
Steve Canfield : For lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Sensualistic!
Steve Canfield : Is heaven above.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : They should be atheistic.
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Imperialistic!
Steve Canfield : Tells lovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I'm pessimistic.
Steve Canfield : Love is supreme, wake up your dream, and make love!
Ninotchka Yoschenko : That's anti-Communistic!
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Militaristic!
Steve Canfield : One discovers...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You're optimistic.
Steve Canfield : The urge to merge with the splurge of the Spring.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Bourgeoisie propaganda.
Steve Canfield : Paris...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Unrealistic.
Steve Canfield : Love's lovers, for lovers know that love...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Is individualistic.
Steve Canfield : Is...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : And not at all collectivistic.
Steve Canfield : Everything.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Come. Let's go where we can be alone.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : [Steve kisses Ninotchka] Why do you do that?
Steve Canfield : Because you're absurd and irresistible.
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Steve Canfield : Ninotchka, Ninotchka.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You are repeating yourself.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Is this what is known as the courtship?
Steve Canfield : Yeah. The build up. The pitch.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Then I shall get out my little black book and make notes.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Facts are facts!
[singing]
Ninotchka Yoschenko : When the electromagnetic of the he-male, Meets the electromagnetic of the female, If right away she should say, "This is the male!" It's a chemical reaction, that's all. And though your Fascists may answer with hisses, The same applies when your misters and misses, Hey-diddle-diddle with middle-class kisses, It's a chemical reaction, that's all...
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : What is your theory?
Steve Canfield : My theory is there is no theory.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : But, you are attracted to me and, obviously, there must be scientific reasons!
Steve Canfield : Oh, there are reasons. But they have nothing to do with electromagnets.
[singing]
Steve Canfield : I love the looks of you, the lure of you, I'd love to make a tour of you, The arms, the eyes, the mouth of you, The east, west, north, and the south of you, I'd love to gain complete control of you...
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Steve Canfield : You just don't react chemically or otherwise, do ya? Don't you ever let yourself go?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Go where?
Steve Canfield : Oh, I don't know. Just go, go, go!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : You go, go, go. But, you don't get anywhere.
Steve Canfield : You're telling me!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Look, I know perfectly well the pleasures of music and dancing. But pleasure itself is an indulgence. Only by denying selfish interests can one properly serve the State.
Steve Canfield : You. Come here.
[kisses Ninotchka]
Ninotchka Yoschenko : That was restful. Again.
[long kiss]
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Your tie, what is it made of?
Steve Canfield : Why? Silk.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Silk should be used for parachutes.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Why do we always keep the windows closed? Isn't it amazing. At home there is still snow and ice, and here, look at the birds! I always felt a little hurt when our swallows deserted us in winter for capitalistic countries. Now I know why. We have the high idea; but, they have the climate.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : [observing a woman modeling a silk negligee] Tell me, comrade, when a woman wears things like that, is it really so attractive to a man?
Peter Ilyitch Boroff : In a word: Da!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : I don't look too foolish?
Steve Canfield : Foolish? Why, you're only the most beautiful girl in Paris!
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Babinski, I have made a discovery. Champagne is more fun to drink than goat's milk.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : [singing] Without love, what is a woman? A pleasure unemployed. Without love, what is a woman? A zero in the void...
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : I feel so much happiness, it makes me miserable.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : I feel so gay. I am forgetting I am Russian.
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : I am too happy. Nobody can be so happy without being punished. I should be punished.
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Steve Canfield : There's something I want to confess.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You have a wife.
Steve Canfield : No, no. Nothing like that.
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Steve Canfield : You're going to marry me.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Marry you?
Steve Canfield : Well, don't look so shocked.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : This is the first proposition I ever had.
Steve Canfield : Proposal.
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Steve Canfield : Darling, please don't call me Mr. Canfield.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : Mr. Canfield, please don't call me darling.
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Steve Canfield : I thought you were all through with this twisted political thinking. Why, only a few moments ago...
Ninotchka Yoschenko : I know. You were kissing me. But, does every woman who is kissed by you change her politics?
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Ninotchka Yoschenko , Brankov, Commisar , Bibinski, Commisar , Ivanov , Blue Russians : [singing] We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red blues, We got the red, red, Red, that's what we said...
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Ninotchka Yoschenko : Comrades, you have done it again.
Ivanov : Ninotchka, we're no longer comrades. We are friends now.
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Vassili Markovitch, Commisar of Art : But - you are a woman.
Ninotchka Yoschenko : The commissar has good powers of observation.
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Bibinski, Commisar : comrade? do you think you might need help?
Ninotchka Yoschenko : no. I will not need help.
Steve Canfield : don't go too far; i might.
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[after hearing the song made from Boroff's music]
Ninotchka Yoschenko : You were at fault, but so was I. It is now my responsibility.
Bibinski, Commisar : No, I consider it my fault.
Ivanov : Brankov and I feel the same way.
Brankov, Commisar : [nodding and pointing at Bibinski] Da, da, it's Bibinski's fault.