The English Patient (1996)
Willem Dafoe: Caravaggio
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Quotes
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Caravaggio : You're in love with him, aren't you? Your poor patient. You think he's a saint because of the way he looks? I don't think he is.
Hana : I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
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Muller : [interrogating Caravaggio] Look here, for every name you give me, I'll let you keep a finger. You give me something, and you'll keep something.
Caravaggio : Don't cut me.
Muller : Are thumbs fingers?
[to Lieutenant]
Muller : Ist ein Daumen ein Finger?
Interrogation Room Soldier : [phone rings] Telefon.
Muller : I'm sick of this room. I'm sick of this heat! And I'm sick of this damn telephone!
[hangs it up]
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Caravaggio : In Italy, you get chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there were always eggs, but... never chickens. Who separated them?
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Caravaggio : l'm one of his ghosts and he wouldn't even know it.
Hana : l don't know what that means.
Caravaggio : Ask your saint who he is. Ask him who he's killed.
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Almásy : So, Caravaggio, Hana thinks you invented your name.
Caravaggio : And you've forgotten yours.
Almásy : l said that no one would ever invent such a preposterous name.
Caravaggio : And l said you can forget everything but you never forget your name.
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Almásy : l understand you were in Africa. Whereabouts?
Caravaggio : Oh, all over.
Almásy : All over? l kept trying to cover a very modest portion and still failed.
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Caravaggio : [Fred Astaire's "Cheek to Cheek" on the Victrola] No one should own music. The real question is, who wrote the song?
Almásy : Irving Berlin.
Caravaggio : For?
Almásy : "Top Hat".
Caravaggio : Is there a song you don't know?
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Caravaggio : l saw you - writing in that book, at the embassy in Cairo, when l had thumbs and you had a face - and a name.