Died Monday, Jean-Paul Belmondo led life hard - on the screen at least - to his countless traveling companions, his fighting comrades, his friends for one night and, sometimes also, with the public itself.
Here are some of these cult replicas, selected from the actor's abundant filmography.
In
Breathless
, by Jean-Luc Godard (1960):
"If you don't like the sea, if you don't like the mountains, if you don't like the city ... fuck yourself!"
In
A monkey in winter
, by Henri Verneuil (1962):
"A paella without shellfish is like a leg of lamb without garlic, a crook without a rosette: something that displeases God!"
In
L'Homme de Rio
, by Philippe de Broca (1964):
“Leaving his country, his family, his army, his friends, crossing the oceans to see a wench stir with the noise of pots, does that seem normal to you?”
In
One Hundred Thousand Dollars in the Sun
, by Henri Verneuil (1964):
"When the 130-kilo guys say certain things, the 60-kilo guys listen to them."
In
The Mississippi Mermaid
, by François Truffaut (1969):
Jean-Paul Belmondo:
"When I look at you, it's a pain."
Catherine Deneuve:
"Yet yesterday, you said it was a joy."
Jean-Paul Belmondo:
"It's a joy and a suffering."
In
Borsalino
, by Jacques Deray (1970):
Alain Delon:
"François, why are you leaving?"
Jean-Paul Belmondo:
"Because there are two of us."
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In
Doctor Popaul
, by Claude Chabrol (1972):
"I'm tired of being loved for myself, I would like to be loved for my money."
In
Flic ou voyou
, by Georges Lautner (1979):
"I know you didn't kill the other idiot!" But you have shot others! If we add to that racketeering, drugs, whores, it makes a nice career anyway! The twenty years that you are going to take, it is a bit of the medal for the work that we are going to give you. "
In
Le Gignolo
, by Georges Lautner (1980):
"Do you know what the difference is between a jerk and a thief?" A thief, from time to time, it takes a rest ”.
In
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child,
by Claude Lelouch (1988):
"The best way to make people think you know everything is to never sound surprised." Because you often seem surprised, that's a flaw (...) It's astonishing but that shouldn't surprise you. "