Cabaret (1972)

Liza Minnelli: Sally Bowles

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Quotes 

• Brian : Screw Maximilian!

  Sally : I do.

  Brian : So do I.

  Sally : You two bastards!

  Brian : Two? Two? Shouldn't that be three?

• Sally : Doesn't my body drive you wild with desire?

• Sally : I'm going to be a great film star! That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.

• Brian Roberts : You're American.

  Sally : Oh God, how depressing! You're meant to think I'm an international woman of mystery. I'm working on it like mad.

• Brian : What is it darling?

  Sally : GOD DAMN IT, I'M GOING TO HAVE A BABY!

• [on the pronunciation of "phlegm"] 

  Brian Roberts : P H is always pronounced as F, and, uh, you don't sound the G.

  Natalia Landauer : Then why are they putting the G, please?

  Brian Roberts : That's, that's a very good question, but rather difficult to explain.

  Sally : Try, Brian.

  Brian Roberts : Well, uh, it's just there.

  Natalia Landauer : So, Mr. Professor, you do not know?

  Brian Roberts : No.

  Natalia Landauer : Then I am sorry. I cannot help you.

• [describing a telegram from her father] 

  Sally : Ten words exactly. After ten it's extra. You see, Daddy thinks of these things. If I had leprosy, there'd be a cable: "Gee, kid, tough. Sincerely hope nose doesn't fall off. Love."

• Sally : [singing]  Life is a cabaret ol' chum so come to the Cabaret.

• Sally : Well obviously those three girls were just...

  Brian , Sally : [both laughing]  ... the wrong three girls.

• Sally : I saw a film the other day about syphilis. Ugh! It was too awful. I couldn't let a man touch me for a week. Is it true you can get it from kissing?

  Fritz : Oh, yes. And your king, Henry VIII, got it from Cardinal Wolsey whispering in his ear.

  Natalia : That is not, I believe, founded in fact. But from kissing, most decidedly; and from towels, and from cups.

  Sally : And of course screwing.

  Natalia : Screw-ing, please?

  Sally : Oh, uh...

  [thinking] 

  Sally : fornication.

  Natalia : For-ni-ca-tion?

  Sally : Oh, uh, Bri, darling, what is the German word?

  Brian Roberts : I don't remember.

  Sally : [thinking]  Oh... um... oh yes!

  Brian Roberts : Oh, no...

  Sally : Bumsen!

  Natalia : [appalled]  Oh.

  Brian Roberts : That would be the one German word you pronounce perfectly.

  Sally : Well, I ought to. I spent the entire afternoon bumsening like mad with this ghastly old producer who promised to get me a contract.

  [pause] 

  Sally : Gin, Miss Landauer?

• Sally : So, you took on the whole Nazi party?

  [Brian holds up three fingers] 

• Sally : I suppose you're wondering what I'm doing, working at a place like the Kit Kat Club.

  Brian Roberts : Well, it is a rather unusual place.

  Sally : That's me, darling. Unusual places, unusual love affairs. I am a most strange and extraordinary person.

• Sally : My God! It's enough to drive a girl into a convent! Do they have Jewish nuns?

• Sally : Does it really matter so long as you're having fun?

• Natalia : I am sorry to bother you, but I could not tell no one else. I do not know no other woman who gives her body so frequently... Oh! I am sorry, my English. Have I offended you?

  Sally : Oh, no, not at all.

• Sally : Mayr tells Kost's fortune every morning, and it's always the same: "You will meet a strange man." Which under the circumstances is a pretty safe bet.

• Sally : Bri, listen... we're practically living together, so if you only like boys I wouldn't dream of pestering you.

  [pause] 

  Sally : Well, do you sleep with girls or don't you?

  Brian : Sally! You don't ask questions like that!

  Sally : I do.

• Brian Roberts : You did it, didn't you?

  Sally : Did what, darling?

  Brian Roberts : The abortion. In God's name, why?

  Sally : One of my whims?

• Sally Bowles : Divine decadence darling!

• Sally : The only thing you can do with virgins like that is pounce!

• Sally : Of course, I may bring a boyfriend home occasionally, but only occasionally, because I do think that one ought to go to the man's room if one can. I mean, it doesn't look so much as if one expected it, does it?

• Sally : Don't be so British!

• Brian : [after trying a prairie oyster for the first time]  Peppermint prairie oysters?

  Sally : Oh, you got the toothpaste glass!

  [laughs a little] 

• Sally : Have you got a cigarette? I'm desperate!