The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Minnie Driver: Carlotta

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Quotes 

• The Phantom : Did I NOT instruct that Box 5 was to be left empty?

  Meg Giry : He's here, the phantom of the opera!

  Christine : It's him!

  Carlotta : Your part is silent, little toad!

  The Phantom : A toad, madam? Perhaps it is you who are the toad...

• [as she attempts to leave the first time] 

  Carlotta : Andiamo. Tutti. No, es finito. Is finished. Get my doggy, bring my doggy. Bye-bye. Bye-bye, dancing girls. Bye-bye. See you later, because I'm going now. It is finished. See you later.

• [the Phantom drops a backdrop on Carlotta] 

  Andre : Signora, these things do happen.

  Carlotta : For the past three years, these things do happen!

  [to LeFevre] 

  Carlotta : And did you stop them from happening? No!

  [to Firmin and Andre] 

  Carlotta : And you two - you're as bad as him! "These things do happen!" Ma... until you stop these things from happening, this thing does not happen! Ubaldo! Andiamo! Bring my doggy and my boxy!

  [Carlotta storms out with her maid, seamstress, and hairdresser] 

  Piangi : [to Firmin and Andre]  Amateurs!

  Carlotta : Bye-bye and ciao! Now you see. Bye-bye, I'm really leaving!

• Carlotta : Why you spray on my chin all the time, huh?

• Carlotta : Well, if my managers command. Mr. Reyer?

  Reyer : If my diva commands.

  Carlotta : Yes, I do.

• Andre : [trying to convince Carlotta to come back and sing]  Your public needs you!

  Firmin : We need you, too!

  Carlotta : Would you not rather have your precious little ingenue?

  Andre , Firmin : Signora, no! The world wants you! Prima donna, first lady of the stage! Your devotees are on their knees to implore you!

  Andre : Can you bow out when they're shouting your name?

  Firmin : Think of how they all adore you!

  Andre , Firmin : Prima donna, enchant us once again!

  Andre : Think of your muse...

  Firmin : And of the queues round the theatre!

  Andre , Firmin : Can you deny us the triumph in store? Sing, prima donna, once more!

• Carlotta : I hope he as excited by dancing girls as your new managers, because *I* WILL NOT BE SINGING!

• Carlotta : [sung]  I know who sent this: The Vicomte - her lover!

  Raoul : Indeed! Can you believe it?

• Lefevre : As you know, for some weeks there have been rumors of my imminent retirement. I can now tell you that these were all true...

  Carlotta : Ah ha!

  Lefevre : ...and it is my pleasure to introduce you to the two gentlemen who now own the Opera Populaire: monsieur Richard Firmin and monsieur Gilles Andre.

  [polite applause] 

  Lefevre : I'm sure you've read of their recent fortune amassed in the junk business.

  Andre : Scrap metal, actually.

• Andre , Firmin : Far too many notes for my taste, and all of them about Christine. All we've heard since we came is Ms. Daaé's name.

  Madame Giry : Ms. Daaé has returned.

  Firmin : I hope no worse for wear, as far as we're concerned.

  Andre : Where precisely is she now?

  Madame Giry : I thought it best she was alone.

  Meg Giry : She needed rest.

  Raoul : May I see her?

  Madame Giry : No, monsieur, she will see no one.

  Carlotta , Piangi : Will she sing? Will she sing?

  Madame Giry : Here, I have a note.

  Andre , Firmin , Raoul , Carlotta , Piangi : Let me see it!

• Andre : Signor, isn't there a rather marvelous aria for Elissa in Act 3 of Hannibal? Perhaps the signora...

  Carlotta : Yes, yes, yes, yes. No! Because I have not my costume for Act 3 because somebody not finish it! And... I HATE MY HAT!