Jean-Pierre Léaud Quotes

Alphonse I'm sure Ferrand is wrong. Life is more important than films.

Alphonse You see, I've made a terrible discovery. You can be desperately in love with someone you despise, whose every gesture, word and thought you detest!

Julie What right have you to say that? Say you made a mistake but never be ashamed of having loved. By despising Liliane, you're merely degrading yourself.

Alphonse Maybe you're right. Anyway, my love affairs have always ended badly. I thought women were magic.

Julie Of course they're not magic. Or men are too. Everyone's magic, and no one is.

Alphonse I need money to go to a whorehouse.

Ferrand Come on Alphonse. Go back to your room, re-read the script, learn your lines, then try to sleep. Tomorrow we work. That's what matters. Don't be a fool. You're a very good actor. No one's private life runs smoothly. That only happens in the movies. No traffic jams, no dead periods. Movies go along like trains in the night. And people like you and me are only happy in our work. I'm counting on you.

Antoine Doinel I need some money for lunch, dad. Only 1,000 francs.

Julien Doinel Therefore you hope for 500. Therefore you need 300. Here's 100.

Psychiatrist Your parents say you're always lying.

Antoine Doinel Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes I'd tell them the truth and they still wouldn't believe me, so I prefer to lie.

Alphonse Let me ask you, are women magic?

Lajoie No, they're not. Neither are men. If a woman says she's known outstanding men, it means she's slept around.

Alphonse Bernard, are women magic?

Bernard Not women, their legs! That's why they wear skirts.