The Great Waltz (1938)
Miliza Korjus: Carla Donner
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Quotes
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Carla Donner : The only composers I ever knew were fat little men with bald heads.
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Carla Donner : Where are we?
Coachman : Where you wanted to be, in the Vienna Woods, and it's only six o'clock in the morning, and you have a long and beautiful day ahead of you.
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Carla Donner : You probably deserve him more than I do, but he's going with me.
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Dommayer : We shall be glad to refund the money; but, you see, the performance is over.
Cellist : But we don't want the money. We want the music. The performance is not over.
Dommayer : Just a moment, please. Just a moment, please. I am August Dommayer, owner of Dommayer's Casino and the performance is over!
Cellist : And I'm Fritz Cellist, the first tenor of the Imperial Opera and the performance is *not* over!
Dommayer : I don't care who you are, the performance is over!
Carla Donner : [smiles] The performance is *not* over.
Dommayer : The performance is *not* over.
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Johann 'Schani' Strauss II : I thought of you ever since that night.
Carla Donner : And you walked away: proud and angry.
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II : Carla, I'm married.
Carla Donner : Oh. But, you're here now, with your arms around me.
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Carla Donner : Don't you see - it was meant to be like this. Everything has brought us together: the night, the woods, the music. It's all been so sweet and so dangerous.
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Carla Donner : We might as well face it. We two. He loves me and I love him. There is nothing anyone can do about it. You can't. I can't. He can't.
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Carla Donner : You are very unselfish. Or, unexpectedly clever. Whichever it is - I like it.
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Carla Donner : Bad little boys.
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Carla Donner : Give it to me. Will you give it to me?
Johann 'Schani' Strauss II : It has always been yours.
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Carla Donner : Don't ever pull yourself a sacrifice game. Happiness is in your own heart. Not in someone else's. I found that out.