The Pirate (1948)

Gene Kelly: Serafin

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• Serafin : I can tell you your past, your present, and your future.

  Manuela : You don't have to tell me my future; I know my future.

  Serafin : Am I in it?

  Manuela : No!

  Serafin : Then you don't know your future.

• Manuela : I wish I had now. Now, will you get out of here?

  Serafin : You won't come with me?

  Manuela : No.

  Serafin : Very well then.

  [He goes through the window, turns to Manuela] 

  Serafin : You know, it isn't essential for you to love me to be in the troupe. It helps, but it isn't essential.

  Manuela : Get out!

  Serafin : [leaves to go out window]  Good-bye.

  Manuela : No, not that way! You'll kill yourself.

  Serafin : You do care. You do care!

  Manuela : No, I don't! No, I don't!

  Serafin : Manuela, you love me! You love me!

• Serafin : You should try underplaying sometime. Very effective.

• Serafin : I know that underneath that prim exterior there are depths of emotion, romantic longings, unfulfilled dreams.

  Manuela : That's absurd.

  Serafin : I can read your mind, your innermost thoughts. It's my business.

• Serafin : Manuela, you can't marry that man. You're not in love with him, you're in love with me.

  Manuela : The EGO! The CONCEIT!

• Serafin : [standing by the noose]  Usually for our opening I perform a rope trick, but tonight under the circumstances, I will skip the rope.

• Serafin : It's hard to kill an actor.

• Manuela : Macoco.

  Serafin : Macoco?

  Manuela : Macoco.

  Serafin : Macoco the pirate?

  Manuela : Macoco the fabulous. Macoco the dazzling.

  Serafin : No, no, Manuela, you don't mean that.

  Manuela : Someday he'll swoop down on me like a chicken hawk and carry me away.

• Serafin : You know, it isn't essential for you to love me for you to join the troupe. It-it helps, but it isn't essential.

• Serafin : Señorita, don't marry that pumpkin.

  Manuela : Pumpkin!

  Serafin : Any man who lets you out of his sight is a pumpkin.

• Serafin : [after Manuela smashes a painting over his head]  You're overdoing this! You're being vindictive!

• The Viceroy : I must say, Macoco, you're very satisfying! The other members of your profession whom I've met officially looked more like bookkeepers than pirates, but you - ooo hooo hooo - you fill the eye.

  Serafin : Thank you.

• Serafin : Aren't you interested in love?

  Manuela : No, I told you, I was going to be married!

• Serafin : In England and America, they have a strange custom. The ladies pick their own husbands, and they marry them for love.

  Manuela : Yes, I know. It's a very stupid custom.

  Serafin : Oh, I see. You find enough romance in daydreams.

• Serafin : You have the manners of a spoiled brat and the effrontery of an unbridled egotist!

• Serafin : Boys, here is my last cigar. Divide it among you.

• Serafin : Don't tell me you've never longed for a prince instead of a pumpkin.

• Serafin : Do not anger Macoco. Do not bring down Macoco's wrath upon your head.

• Serafin : I believe a condemned man has a right to one last request.

  The Viceroy : Oh, within reason - a visit from a loved one, a prayer, a beef steak.

• Serafin : [after tricking his troupe and stealing their last cigar]  I was, er... keeping it lit for you.

• Serafin : Come, pure spirit. Come with me.

  Don Pedro Vargas : I forbid it, it's a disgrace!

  The Viceroy : [to Don Pedro]  Sit down, Don Pedro.

  [turns back to Serafin] 

  Serafin : Gracious lady, if you have any wish express it freely to me. I, who am your friend.

  Manuela : I wish...

  Serafin : Yes?

  Manuela : I wish...

  Don Pedro Vargas : Black magic! I won't have him practice black magic on my future wife! Oh, It's an outrage!

  The Viceroy : [to Don Pedro]  Hold your tongue, Don Pedro. I will not have this performance ruined by your bourgeoise possessiveness.

  Serafin : Excellency, would you please tell him this is not flirtation. It is science.

  The Viceroy : It is science.

  Don Pedro Vargas : Whatever you called, I don't like it!

  The Viceroy : [turns to Don Pedro]  I demand that you hold your tongue!

  [turns back to Serafin] 

  The Viceroy : Proceed, sir, with this mesmerism.

• Serafin : [yells]  Macoco!

• Serafin : [singing]  When I arrive in any town, I look the ladies up and down...

• Manuela : I should have thought that in a town like Port Sebastián, bodyguards were unnecessary.

  Serafin : You, gracious lady, will always need a bodyguard. Even in the lonely wastes of the Sahara Desert, the sands would rise up and follow you. Tell me, what is your name?

  Manuela : I do not see how that could possibly concern you.

  Serafin : It is as vital to me as the beat of my heart. Are you married?

  Manuela : No, but I will be by this time next week.

  Serafin : Then you should never step into the sight of other men. It is too great a provocation.

  Manuela : Very well. I shall remove the provocation.

• Gumbo : How do you always manage to get out of doing any of the work?

  Serafin : Gumbo, do not ask me to explain the mysteries of genius.

• Serafin : I must have a pure person, one pure person. "Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered." Purity at last. Purity. Ah, gracious lady, that you should be here makes it indeed a blessing. Come, come. I, Serafin, ask it.

• Serafin : You know whatever I ask you, whatever power I have for you is for your happiness.

• Serafin : We shall galvanize them.

• Manuela : Can't you understand I have nothing but horror and shame for what I did that night?

  Serafin : Horror and shame? Why, you were wonderful.

• Manuela : No! No! No!

  Serafin : Fair Juliet of the Caribbean.

  Manuela : Go away!

• Serafin : I sense in this room an air of strangulated discomfort. These must be relatives. Remove them.

• Serafin : When I held you in my arms and kissed you, you clung to me.

  Manuela : Oh, how cruel to remind me of that. You fooled me! You made a fool of me and you tricked me!

• Manuela : I - I hardly know you.

  Serafin : I hardly know you, either. We'll have the excitement of discovery.

  Manuela : But, I...

  Don Pedro Vargas : Do you two realize that I am in the room?

  Serafin : Must I remind you...

  Don Pedro Vargas : I won't stand by and allow you to make love to my affianced wife!

• Serafin : Fellow artists, overture. Prepare the proscenium. Unmask this funereal garb, and don the bright colors of Thespis. On with your costume, Trillo. Trillo, strike up the music.

  Trillo : What number will it be, Captain?

  Serafin : Our gayest and our best to please our honored guest.

• Serafin : I believe a condemned man has a right to one last request.

  The Viceroy : Well, within reason. A visit from a loved one, a prayer, a beefsteak.

• Serafin : As me mother used to say, no noose is good noose.

• Serafin : [singing]  All the world loves a clown, Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh, Wear the cap and the bells, And you'll rate with all the great swells, If you become a doctor, folks will face you with dread, If you become a dentist, They'll be glad when you're dead, You'll get a bigger hand if you can stand on your head, Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown

  Serafin , Specialty Dancer , Specialty Dancer : Be a clown, be a clown, be a clown...

• Serafin : [singing]  Be a crazy buffoon

  Manuela : And the 'demoiselles will all swoon...

• Serafin : [singing]  Be the poor silly ass

  Manuela : And you'll always travel first class...