Mad Love (1935)

Peter Lorre: Doctor Gogol

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Quotes 

• Doctor Gogol : Impossible?

  Dr. Wong, Gogol's Assistant : Impossible!

  Doctor Gogol : Napoleon said that word is not French.

• Doctor Gogol : [Referring to wax statue of Yvonne, being loaded into a truck]  Where are you taking that figure?

  Lavin - Waxworks Proprietor : To the melting pot.

  Doctor Gogol : Melting pot?

  Lavin - Waxworks Proprietor : There's fifty francs of wax in that thing.

  Doctor Gogol : Then no doubt you'd take seventy-five for it, would you?

  Lavin - Waxworks Proprietor : What's the idea?

  Doctor Gogol : Did you ever hear of Galatea?

  Lavin - Waxworks Proprietor : Gala - who? Not wanting a statue of him, are you?

  Doctor Gogol : I don't want a statue of Galatea. You see, she was a statue herself. Pygmalion formed her. Out of marble, not wax. And then she came to life in his arms.

  Lavin - Waxworks Proprietor : [calling to his assistant]  Start the motor, Henry. There's queer people on the streets of Montmartre at this time of night.

  Doctor Gogol : [handing him his card]  Here, a hundred francs if you deliver the statue to my house.

  Lavin - Waxworks Proprietor : [reading card]  It's a go, Dr. Go... gol. First thing in the morning.

• Doctor Gogol : [despairingly]  I have conquered science! Why can't I conquer love?

• Doctor Gogol : There's blood on your cheek, Galatea.

  [giggles] 

  Doctor Gogol : It seems that wax can bleed.

• Doctor Gogol : To be near you like this is more happiness than I've ever known.

  Yvonne Orlac : But Dr. Gogol, quite frankly, I asked you here to come here to talk about Stephen, and you must tell me the truth. Will he ever be able to play again? I mean, as he used to play?

  Doctor Gogol : Her thoughts are only for him!

  Yvonne Orlac : He's my husband and I love him.

  Doctor Gogol : Is there no room in your heart, even pity for a man who has never known the love of a woman but - but who has worshiped you since the day he first walked by that absurd little theater...

  Yvonne Orlac : Dr. Gogol, please.

  Doctor Gogol : Oh, I can't be silent any longer! You are a woman, you must have known!

  Yvonne Orlac : Yes, yes, I knew of your feelings for me. I traded on them. And since you saved Stephen I feel deeper friendship for you than for anyone, but I can give you nothing else in return.

  Doctor Gogol : Nothing!

  Yvonne Orlac : Nothing. Even if I didn't love him, there's something about you that...

  Doctor Gogol : Repulses you.

  Yvonne Orlac : Frightens me.

  Doctor Gogol : You are cruel! But only to be kind.

  Yvonne Orlac : Oh, thank you for trying to understand.

• Doctor Gogol : And so I find a thing to do with all her hair... in one long raven string I wind three times her little throat around... and strangle her. No pain feels she. I am quite sure she feels no pain.

• Doctor Gogol : [to wax statue of Yvonne]  Galatea! And I am no Pygmalion!

  [Picks up a book and reads] 

  Doctor Gogol : "The face of all the world has changed, I think, since first I heard the footsteps of thy soul..."

  [Turns back a page] 

  Doctor Gogol : "Guess now who holds thee? Death, I said. But there the silver answer rang: Not death, but love!"

• Doctor Gogol : Each man kills the thing he loves.

• Doctor Gogol : Triumph, Galatea! Triumph! He thinks he murdered his father, when it's I who killed him! Galatea! She'll come here now! Flesh and blood, not wax like you. And he, he shall be shut up in the house where they keep the mad. I, Gogol, will do that. He shall be shut up when it's I who am mad! But nobody knows that excepting you and me. It's our little secret. And now I shall play to you for the last time.

• Doctor Gogol : There's blood on your cheek, Galatea. So it seems that wax can bleed. Galatea! I am Pygmalion! You were wax but you came to life in my arms!

  Yvonne Orlac : Let me go, Gogol! Please!

  Doctor Gogol : You speak! You speak to me! My love has made you live! Galatea, give me your lips!

  Yvonne Orlac : Let me go! Let me go!

  Doctor Gogol : Why are you afraid of me? I love you! I love you! You came to life for me! Don't you know me, Galatea?

  Yvonne Orlac : Yes. Yes, I am Galatea. But let me go now, please! I promise to come back!

  Doctor Gogol : You are lying. You wouldn't come back. You hate me. You despise me.

  Yvonne Orlac : No, no!

  Doctor Gogol : [hearing in his imagination Yvonne's voice saying, "Liar! Hypocrite! You disgust me!"]  But I love you!

  [Hearing his own voice chanting, "Each man kills the thing he loves. Each man kills the thing he loves. Each man kills the thing he loves."] 

  Doctor Gogol : Yes! Yes! Each man kills the thing he loves!