An American in Paris (1951)

Nina Foch: Milo Roberts

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Quotes 

• Jerry Mulligan : That's... quite a dress you almost have on.

  Milo Roberts : Thanks.

  Jerry Mulligan : What holds it up?

  Milo Roberts : Modesty.

• Milo Roberts : [after watching Jerry dismiss a young woman looking at his work]  Do you mind if I have a look, or will you chew my head off too?

  Jerry Mulligan : No, you're all right.

  Milo Roberts : Oh, thank you.

  Jerry Mulligan : She's just one of those third year girls who gripe my liver.

  Milo Roberts : Third year girls?

  Jerry Mulligan : Yeah, you know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture. They give me a swift pain.

  Milo Roberts : Why? They're harmless enough.

  Jerry Mulligan : They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

• Milo Roberts : Why do you make such an issue of money?

  Jerry Mulligan : Because I ain't got any. And when you ain't got any, it takes on a curious significance.

• Jerry Mulligan : Where is everybody?

  Milo Roberts : Here.

  Jerry Mulligan : Downstairs?

  Milo Roberts : No, here in this room.

  Jerry Mulligan : What about that extra girl?

  Milo Roberts : That's me.

• Jerry Mulligan : Hey, uh, how'd you come by all these worldly possessions? A rich husband or a rich father?

  Milo Roberts : Father.

• Milo Roberts : What's your name?

  Jerry Mulligan : Jerry Mulligan. What's yours?

  Milo Roberts : Milo Roberts.

  Jerry Mulligan : Milo?

  Milo Roberts : Yeah, as in "Venus de".

• Milo Roberts : By golly, you know, these are good! I've seen hundreds of paintings by young artists and not one has impressed me till these!

  Jerry Mulligan : Yeah? I'm glad. Makes it easier to give up.

  Milo Roberts : Give up?

  Jerry Mulligan : Yeah. It's kind of hard for an artist to sell. A writer, a composer can buy a copy of what they create. But, with a painter, it's the original that counts. Once that's gone, it's out of his life.

• Milo Roberts : Will that be satisfactory?

  Jerry Mulligan : That'll be good and satisfactory.

• Jerry Mulligan : Are you sure you know what you're doing?

  Milo Roberts : What do you care?

• Tommy Baldwin : Milo, you're going to have trouble with that one.

  Milo Roberts : Oh no, I'm not. He's just not - housebroken yet. That's all.

  Tommy Baldwin : When are you going to stop getting yourself involvied yourself with young itinerant artists?

• Jerry Mulligan : I want some champagne!

  Milo Roberts : So do I! They all seem a bottle ahead of us!

• Milo Roberts : Oh, I feel like a woman - for a change.