Children of Paradise (1945)

Etienne Decroux: Anselme Debureau

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• Anselme Debureau : A kick in the ass, if well delivered, is a sure laugh. It's true. There's an entire order, a science, a style of kicks in the ass.

• Anselme Debureau : Novelty is as old as the hills.

• Jéricho : Here you are, bandit, body snatcher!

  Anselme Debureau : Don't start!

  Jéricho : Shame on you! You stole my looks, my identity!

  Anselme Debureau : You're not the only ragman in Paris.

• Anselme Debureau : Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! A franc for the boxes if you're well-to-do, four centimes in the Gods if you're badly off. Come in and see "Perils of the Virgin Forest" and "Crime and Virtue". A pantomime that's magic, exotic, pyrotechnic! Come in and see a girl of 15 pursued by a mountain lion! A forest fire! An abduction by balloon! And you shall see me, the one and only, the intimitable Anselme Debureau, who performed in the harem before the Grand Turk and his 82 Turkesses!