An American in Paris (1951)

Oscar Levant: Adam Cook

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Quotes 

• Henri Baurel : Be happy! You only find the right woman once.

  Adam Cook : That many times?

• Adam Cook : I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm... unemployed at the moment.

• Adam Cook : [Jerry, Henri Baurel and Adam are at the café, talking. Adam desperately tries to prevent the other two men from revealing to each other they love the same woman by distracting them]  Did I ever tell you about the time I gave a command performance for Hitler?

• Adam Cook : It's not a pretty face, I grant you, but underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

• Henri Baurel : Then you have no problems!

  Adam Cook : Where'd they go?

• Adam Cook : Henri! Don't kiss me. You'll spoil my makeup.

• Adam Cook : You look great, Hank! What are you doing? Taking injections?

• Henri Baurel : Poor Jacques. He was caught in the Resistance. I took care of Lise all through the occupation. She lived in my house.

  Adam Cook : Your house? Shocking, but generous.

  Henri Baurel : Oh, she was a little girl then. We only became in love after she left.

• Henri Baurel : She has great vitality and "joie de vivre". She loves to go out, have fun and dance. She could dance all night.

  Adam Cook : Sounds tiresome. Kind of a wild kid, huh?

  Henri Baurel : Wild? Whatever gave you that idea?

• Adam Cook : I told you this sponsoring business was complicated. You see what happens today? Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

• Adam Cook : Why are you so glum?

  Jerry Mulligan : I got woman trouble.

  Adam Cook : Well, that proves you're a man.

• Adam Cook : She seems to be a lusty young lady.

• Jerry Mulligan : [singing]  This time it's really love, Tra la-la la

  Adam Cook : To me you're full of, Blah, blah, blah...