Catherine Deneuve credited as playing...
Séverine Serizy • Belle de Jour
- Madame Anais: I have an idea. Would you like to be called "Belle de Jour"?
- Séverine Serizy: Belle de Jour?
- Madame Anais: Since you only come in the afternoons.
- Séverine Serizy: If you wish.
- Duke: [Fantasy sequence] What's your name?
- Séverine Serizy: Belle de jour.
- Duke: Charming. I once had a cat named Dark Beauty. Do you come here often?
- Séverine Serizy: Everyday in my thoughts.
- Séverine Serizy: Don't tell Pierre.
- Henri Husson: Pierre? I admire him more and more.
- Séverine Serizy: Please don't tell him. At least try to understand. I'm lost. I can't help it. I can't fight it. I know I'll have to atone for everything one day. But I couldn't live without it. Fine! Do as you like with me!
- Henri Husson: No. Not now, anyway. I guess what attracted me about you was your virtue. You were the wife of a boy scout. That's all changed now. I have principals, unlike you.
- Pierre Serizy: I'd like everything to be perfect too. If only you weren't so cold.
- Séverine Serizy: Please don't mention that again.
- Pierre Serizy: I didn't mean to upset you. I feel a great tenderness for you.
- Séverine Serizy: What good is your tenderness to me?
- Pierre Serizy: You can be very cruel when you wish.
- Renee: You remember Henriette?
- Séverine Serizy: Yes, very well.
- Renee: It seems - she's turning tricks.
- Séverine Serizy: What?
- Renee: In one of those houses. They say she's there several days a week. Can you believe it? Henriette! Of course, that's all so far from your world. But, can you imagine? A woman like you or me? Can you see her going with just anybody? In those places you don't get to choose. Old or not, lousy looking or not. Even with a man you love it can be unpleasant.
- Madame Anais: You're nice and fresh. Just what they like here. I know it's hard at first, but who doesn't need money now and then? We'll split it fifty-fifty. I have my expenses.
- Séverine Serizy: Thank you very much, but I must be going.
- Madame Anais: Come on. You're just a bit nervous. I bet it's the first time you've worked. It's not really so awful.
- Madame Anais: We'll have a little something to celebrate your arrival.
- Séverine Serizy: No, thank you.
- Madame Anais: I insist. Cherries in brandy.
- Madame Anais: You're doing fine. You're a big hit already. Mr. Adolphe is a simple man, so don't get upset. Do what he wants. That's all he asks.
- Séverine Serizy: No, I want to go.
- Madame Anais: What? You about done putting on airs? Where do you think you are? Go on!
- Séverine Serizy: Who's Hippolyte?
- Charlotte: Wait and see. An odd sort of guy.
- Mathilde: When he has money he throws it around.
- Charlotte: And when he's broke, he wants it for free.
- Madame Anais: [Enters] Come on, girls. All three of you.
- Séverine Serizy: How dare you! Let me go! You brutes! Let go of me! It's not my fault. I can explain everything.
- Pierre Serizy: Go on. Don't worry about roughing up the little slut! Hurry!
- Pierre Serizy: [referring to Husson] I like him. He's amusing.
- Séverine Serizy: He's strange.
- Renee: Worse than that.
- Henri Husson: The mysterious Henriette! The woman with two faces. A double life. How intriguing! Did Renée tell you?
- Séverine Serizy: Yes. But why?
- Henri Husson: Simple: for the money.
- Séverine Serizy: I can't understand women like that.
- Henri Husson: It's the oldest profession in the world. It's mostly arranged by phone now, but the women in those houses are a special breed.
- Séverine Serizy: I'm sure you know them well.
- Henri Husson: Yes, I used to go a lot. I enjoyed it. There's a very special atmosphere. The women are complete slaves. I remember a few around the Opéra. Especially one run by Anaïs. 11 cité Jean de Saumur. I have marvelous memories.
- Marcel: Leave your stockings on. A girl tried to strangle me once. Poor thing.
- Séverine Serizy: If you like, I won't charge you.
- Marcel: Naturally. Plenty of girls would love to be in your place.
- Marcel: I don't get it. You seem to like being with me.
- Séverine Serizy: Very much, but it's not enough.
- Marcel: You love the other guy?
- [Séverine nods her head yes]
- Marcel: Then why are you here?
- Séverine Serizy: I don't know. They're two different things.