Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 s Holly Golightly: But I am mad about Jose. I honestly think I`d give up smoking if he asked me.
Mag Wildwood: You know what`s gonna happen to you? I am gonna march you over to the zoo and feed you to the yak.
Holly Golightly: I`ve got to do something about the way I look. I mean a girl just can`t go to Sing Sing with a green face.
Holly Golightly: How do I look?
Paul Varjak: Very good. I must say, I`m amazed.
[first lines]
Sid Arbuck: [seeing Holly enter her building] Hey!
[he chases her inside]
Sid Arbuck: Hey, baby, what`s going on here?
Holly Golightly: Oh, hi!
[last lines]
Holly Golightly: Cat! Cat! Oh, Cat... ohh...
Holly Golightly: He`s all right! Aren`t you, cat? Poor cat! Poor slob! Poor slob without a name! The way I see it I haven`t got the right to give him one. We don`t belong to each other. We just took up one day by the river. I don`t want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I`m not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It`s like Tiffany`s.
Paul Varjak: Tiffany`s? You mean the jewelry store.
Holly Golightly: That`s right. I`m just CRAZY about Tiffany`s!
Holly Golightly: I`m like cat here, a no-name slob. We belong to nobody, and nobody belongs to us. We don`t even belong to each other.
Holly Golightly: Oh, golly gee damn!
Holly Golightly: I`ll tell you one thing, Fred, darling... I`d marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?
Paul Varjak: In a minute.
Holly Golightly: I guess it`s pretty lucky neither of us is rich, huh?
Paul Varjak: Yeah.
Holly Golightly: Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?
Paul Varjak: Yes.
Holly Golightly: Thursday! It can`t be! It`s too gruesome!
Paul Varjak: What`s so gruesome about Thursday?
Holly Golightly: Nothing, except I can never remember when it`s coming up.
Holly Golightly: You know those days when you get the mean reds?
Paul Varjak: The mean reds, you mean like the blues?
Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you`re getting fat and maybe it`s been raining too long, you`re just sad that`s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you`re afraid and you don`t know what you`re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?
Paul Varjak: Sure.
Holly Golightly: Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany`s. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that`d make me feel like Tiffany`s, then - then I`d buy some furniture and give the cat a name!
Holly Golightly: There you are, you sneak!
Mr. Yunioshi: Miss Gorightry!
Holly Golightly: You could always tell what kind of a person a man thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. I must say, the mind reels.
Holly Golightly: Timber!
Holly Golightly: Mag Wildwood. She`s a model, believe it or not, and a thumping bore.
Paul Varjak: You know what`s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You`re chicken, you`ve got no guts. You`re afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life`s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that`s the only chance anybody`s got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you`re terrified somebody`s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you`re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it`s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It`s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.
[takes out the ring and throws it in Holly`s lap]
Paul Varjak: Here. I`ve been carrying this thing around for months. I don`t want it anymore.
Holly Golightly: We`re alike, me and cat. A couple of poor nameless slobs.
Holly Golightly: It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door. I`ll give you two.
Paul Varjak: I don`t think I`ve ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before.
Holly Golightly: `s alright. It`s only me.
Paul Varjak: Uh... Now wait a minute, Miss... uh...
Holly Golightly: Golightly. Holly Golightly. I live downstairs. We met this morning, remember?
Paul Varjak: Yeah.
Paul Varjak: Sing Sing?
Holly Golightly: [she gargles] . Yes. I always thought it was a ridiculous name for a prison. Sing Sing, I mean. Sounds more like it should be an opera house or something.
[Holly whistles loudly to hail a cab]
Paul Varjak: I never could do that.
Holly Golightly: `s easy.
Holly Golightly: [drunk] As Miss Golightly was saying before she was most rudely interrupted...
Paul Varjak: Holly, you`re drunk.
Holly Golightly: True.
Paul Varjak: [giving his name at the police station] Paul Varjak. Varjak, V A R J A K. I`m a writer, W R I T E R.
O.J. Berman: Hey, Fred-baby!
Paul Varjak: No, no. It`s Paul-baby.
Paul Varjak: I love you.
Holly Golightly: So what.
Paul Varjak: So what? So plenty! I love you, you belong to me!
Holly Golightly: [tearfully] No. People don`t belong to people.
Paul Varjak: Of course they do!
Holly Golightly: I`ll never let ANYBODY put me in a cage.
Paul Varjak: I don`t want to put you in a cage, I want to love you!
Paul Varjak: And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.
Holly Golightly: What do you do, anyway?
Paul Varjak: I`m a writer, I guess.
Holly Golightly: You guess? Don`t you know?
Paul Varjak: OK, positive statement. Ringing affirmative. I`m a writer.
Paul Varjak: They`re not the kind of stories you can really tell.
Holly Golightly: Too dirty?
Paul Varjak: Yeah, I suppose they`re dirty, too, but only incidentally. Mainly they`re angry, sensitive, intensely felt, and that dirtiest of all dirty words - promising. Or so said The Times Book Review, October 1, 1956.
Holly Golightly: But just look at the goodies she brought with her.
Paul Varjak: He`s all right, I suppose, if you like dark, handsome, rich-looking men with passionate natures and too many teeth.
Doc Golightly: I love you Lula Mae.
Holly Golightly: I know you do, and that`s just the trouble. It`s the mistake you always made, Doc, trying to love a wild thing. You were always lugging home wild things. Once it was a hawk with a broken wing... and another time it was a full-grown wildcat with a broken leg. Remember?
Doc Golightly: Lula Mae there`s something...
Holly Golightly: You musn`t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they`re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.
Holly Golightly: I`m not hotfooting it after Jose, if that`s what you think. Ohhh no. As far as I`m concerned he`s the future president of nowhere.
Holly Golightly: Ahh... Do I detect a look of disapproval in your eye?
[spays perfume in Paul`s direction]
Holly Golightly: Tough beans buddy, `cause that`s the way it`s gonna be.
Holly Golightly: It`s useful being top banana in the shock department.
Paul Varjak: [Holly, while having a nightmare, begins crying] Why are you crying?
Holly Golightly: [wakes up] If we`re going to be friends let`s get one thing straight right now. I hate snoops!
Trivia
John Frankenheimer was hired to shoot the film with Marilyn Monroe. When the producers suddenly moved to Switzerland and Audrey Hepburn replaced Monroe, she said she had never heard of Frankenheimer and insisted that he be paid off and another director be hired.
Tiffany`s opened its doors on a Sunday for the first time since the 19th century so that filming could take place inside the store.
Author Truman Capote envisioned Marilyn Monroe in the part of Holly. Monroe was originally cast as Holly Golightly but her drama coach, Lee Strasberg, told her that playing a call-girl was not good for her image.
2-E (Patricia Neal`s character) references Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), in which Mickey Rooney played the title role.
Audrey Hepburn hated Danish pastries, making filming the famous opening scene a bit of a chore for her.
Although not visible on camera, hundreds of onlookers watched Audrey Hepburn`s window-shopping scene at the start of the film. This made her nervous and she kept making mistakes. It wasn`t until a crew member nearly got electrocuted behind the camera that she pulled herself together and finished the scene.
Audrey Hepburn said the scene where she throws Cat into the rainy street was the most distasteful thing she ever had to do on film.
Holly`s pad is much larger than the real-life brownstone used for exteriors.
Elements of Holly`s character in the original novel, such as her flirtation with bisexuality, were omitted to make the part more suitable for Audrey Hepburn.
The movie was shot only three months after the birth of Hepburn`s first son, Sean H. Ferrer.
George Peppard was a student of Method acting, a style Hepburn found difficult to work with. Nonetheless, the two actors remained close friends until her death.
Holly`s couch is really an old-fashioned bathtub split in half. In some scenes, you can still see the gold handles at one end and the legs on the bottom.
Audrey felt that she was miscast as Holly Golightly in this film, although it was one of her most popular roles.
The song "Moon River" was written especially for Audrey Hepburn, since she had no training as a singer. The vocals were written to be sung in only one octave.
At a post-production meeting following a screening of the film, a studio executive, in reference to "Moon River," said, "Well, I think the first thing we can do is get rid of that stupid song." Audrey Hepburn stood up at the table and said, "Over my dead body!" The song stayed in the picture.
Truman Capote maintained that he based Holly Golightly on Carol Grace (the former wife of William Saroyan and future wife of Walter Matthau), who had been a friend of his while living in New York.
Steve McQueen was offered the co-starring role. However, he was still under contract for the show "Wanted: Dead or Alive" (1958), which prevented him from appearing. The role eventually went to George Peppard.
Contrary to popular belief, the movie follows `Truman Capote` 9qv)`s original novel quite closely. The character of Mag Wildwood, the Amazon-like model who crashes Holly`s party in the film, is a major character in the novel. Capote describes her as having a stutter. In the film, Mag does indeed stutter though this isn`t explained. During the shoplifting sequence, Holly briefly dons a Huckleberry Hound mask; a direct reference to a line in her song, "Moon River." Although Audrey Hepburn`s performance of "Moon River" is unsurpassed, it would not be officially released until after her death. Holly`s "bad date" prior to her first visit to Paul`s apartment is only heard behind a door. The man who provides this voice is uncredited, but he sounds a lot like Mel Blanc, who at the time was working with film co-star Alan Reed on "The Flintstones" (1960).
Audrey Hepburn`s salary for the film was $750,000, making her the second highest paid actress (behind Elizabeth Taylor) per film at the time.
`Kim Novak` told Larry King that she was offered the part of Holly Golightly before Audrey Hepburn.
The story which Paul received the $50 check for is called Roman Caper, a reference to Audrey Hepburn`s first starring role, Roman Holiday (1953).
About nine cats were used throughout the film as the role of Cat.
In the book rack in the train station behind George Peppard and Audrey Hepburn can be seen in soft focus copies of a paperback version of "Peter Gunn (1962)" which was the TV show on which Henry Mancini and Blake Edwards worked.
The movie`s poster was as #18 of "The 25 Best Movie Posters Ever" by Premiere.
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# The famous black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the opening scenes of this movie was sold for $807,000 on December 4, 2006 at Christie`s Auction House in London, making it the second most expensive piece of movie memorabilia ever sold. The first is the Best Picture Oscar for Gone with the Wind (1939).
Although it`s never explained why Holly is wearing a bed sheet at her cocktail party, an earlier scene (cut before release) established she`d been taking a bath and had to improvise a gown on the spur of moment. The cut scene was featured in Life magazine pictorial shortly before film was released.
In the famous "it should take you exactly 4 seconds to cross from here to that door. I give you two" scene, it takes Paul exactly 4 seconds from when he starts walking to when he reaches the door.
According to the screenplay, 2-E`s real name is Emily Eustace, hence the nickname "2-E."
# Henry Mancini wrote "Moon River" specifically for Audrey Hepburn. He later said that while many version of the song have been done, he feels that Audrey`s was the best.
Though she had known him previously and got along with him fine during rehearsals, Patricia Neal said that George Peppard was unbearable to work with.
After seeing Buddy Ebsen in his country role in Breakfast at Tiffany`s (1961), the creator of _"Beverly Hillbillies, The"_ wanted him to play family patriarch Jed Clampett. At the time, Ebsen was thinking of retiring, but the producers sent him a copy of the script, and he changed his mind.
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Audrey Hepburn
(as Holly Golightly)
with George Peppard
(as Paul 'Fred' Varjak)
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