Breakfast At Tiffany's

"You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself." - Paul

"I'm like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don't even belong to each other." - Holly

"I'm a very stylish girl." - Holly

"Let me make one thing clear. I am not now - nor have I ever been - named Fred". - Paul

"If we're going to be friends, lets get one thing straight now. I hate snoops!" - Holly

Paul: "I love you."

Holly: "So what."

Paul: "So what? So plenty! I love you, you belong to me!"

Holly : "No. People don't belong to people."

Paul: "Of course they do!"

Holly: "I'll never let ANYBODY put me in a cage."

Paul: "I don't want to put you in a cage, I want to love you!"

Doc Golightly: "I love you Lula Mae."

Holly: "I know you do, and that's just the trouble. It's the mistake you always made, Doc, trying to love a wild thing. You were always lugging home wild things. Once it was a hawk with a broken wing... and another time it was a full-grown wildcat with a broken leg. Remember?"

Doc Golightly: "Lula Mae there's something..."

Holly: "You mustn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky."

"A girl can't read that sort of thing without her lipstick." - Holly

Holly: "You know those days when you get the mean reds?"

Paul: "The mean reds, you mean like the blues?"

Holly: "No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?"

Paul: "Sure."

Holly: "Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!"

Holly: "I'll tell you one thing, Fred, darling... I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?"

Paul: "In a minute."

Holly: "I guess it's pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh?"

Paul: "Yeah."

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot." - Holly

"It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door. I'll give you two." - Holly

"Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed." - Holly

Holly: "What do you do, anyway?"

Paul: "I'm a writer, I guess."

Holly: "You guess? Don't you know?"

Paul: "OK, positive statement. Ringing affirmative. I'm a writer."

"I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead." - Holly

"It's useful being top banana in the shock department." - Holly

"It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear." - Holly

"You know what's gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak." - Mag

"You disapprove of me, and I do not accept drinks from gentlemen who disapprove of me." - Holly

Holly: "He's all right! Aren't you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven't got the right to give him one. We don't belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's."

Paul: "Tiffany's? You mean the jewelry store."

Holly: "That's right. I'm just CRAZY about Tiffany's!"

"I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before." - Paul

Holly: "Do you think she's talented, deeply and importantly talented?"

Paul: "No. Amusingly and superficially talented, yes. But deeply and importantly, no."

"And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors." - Paul

Holly: "Thursday! It can't be! It's too gruesome!"

Paul: "What's so gruesome about Thursday?"

Holly: "Nothing, except I can never remember when it's coming up."

Paul: "They're not the kind of stories you can really tell."

Holly: "Too dirty?"

Paul: "Yeah, I suppose they're dirty, too, but only incidentally. Mainly they're angry, sensitive, intensely felt, and that dirtiest of all dirty words - promising. Or so said The Times Book Review, October 1, 1956."