The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)

Michel Simon: Maurice Martin

Quotes 

• Maurice Martin : Well, you called me an admiral, why couldn't I call you a minister? Calling you a minister isn't such a serious insult!

• Oncle Robert : Maybe today you'd be wearing an admiral's uniform.

  Maurice Martin : Do I really look the part?

  Germaine Martin : Fortunately not!

• Maurice Martin : You look even sadder than usual. Any trouble?

  Le marchand de journaux : Well, sales are down. That's no good at all. All is well.

  Maurice Martin : What about those nice murders there have been lately?

  Le marchand de journaux : Mmmm... Crime doesn't pay anymore.

  Maurice Martin : Well, what you need actually is catastrophes, rumors of war, revolutions...

  Le marchand de journaux : Oh yes...!

  Maurice Martin : Well, don't you worry: with our pretty little current society, all that WILL soon be back. You'll make money again.

  Le marchand de journaux : Are you sure?

  Maurice Martin : For certain. Besides all millionaires begin by selling papers, right?

  Le marchand de journaux : Right, but the trouble is that in my case I started by being a millionaire.

• Maurice Martin : You see such a whole lot of millions pass through your hands that you'll wind up becoming a capitalist.

  Oncle Robert : Well, not everybody can be an anarchist!

• Maurice Martin : He gets on my nerves with his "My good man" and "My good Germaine". What gives him the right to speak to me like that? After all he's nothing but a grocer made rich by canned food! What "My good man" means is "My good BROKE man, if you live it's thanks to me, thanks to the money I made in canned food. Be kind, my good Maurice, here's your doggie sugar"...