# What's New, Pussycat?

What's New, Pussycat? (Quoi de neuf, Pussycat? in French) is a 1965 screwball comedy film about a playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love and seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
    Directed by Clive Donner. Written by Woody Allen.

## Fritz Fassbender

* I've hated you from the first moment I married you!
* You are a monster and a monster, in that order.
* Silence when you're shouting at me!
* You'll like this group analysis, it's a real freak show. If it gets dull, we sing songs.
* My wife, the creature that ate Europe, is here.

## Michael James

* Marriage? That's for life! It's like cement!
* Look, I know you'll think this is crazy, but, er, when the light hits me from a certain direction, I'm... handsome.
* I'll be back tomorrow. If I'm not back tomorrow, send for the police. If they're not back tomorrow, send my clothes.

## Victor Skapopulis

* We played strip chess. She had me down to my shorts and I fainted from tension.
* I just burnt my finger! I'm going to go in the bathroom and scream. I'll be out in a minute.

## Dialogue

    Fritz Fassbender: You're grotesque!
    Anna Fassbender: Lascivious adulterer!
    Fritz Fassbender: Don't you dare call me that again until I have looked it up! [looks in dictionary] "Lascivious adulterer... a man who is a lascivious adulterer"? What kind of book is this?
    Anna Fassbender: Is she prettier than me?
    Fritz Fassbender: Is she prettier than you? I'm prettier than you!
    Michael: Did you get a job?
    Victor: Yes, I got something at the strip-tease. I help the girls dress and undress.
    Michael: Nice job.
    Victor: Twenty francs a week.
    Michael: Not very much.
    Victor: It's all I could afford.
    Liz Bien: You're right. I must face my problems. I can't go through life being a semi-virgin.
    Michael James: What, in the name of all that is gracious, is a semi-virgin?
    Liz Bien: Here, I'm a virgin. In America, I'm not.
    Michael James: What do they do? Stamp it on your passport?
    Fritz Fassbender: My father, the most beloved gynecologist in Vienna, before they took him away on a morals charge for indecent exposure at the State Opera House, said, and I quote: "Please do not take me away, I will not do it again."
    Victor Skakapopulis: Brilliant quote.
    Fritz Fassbender: He was a brilliant pervert.
    Michael James: Could you tell me about your typical clientele?
    Etienne: My typical clientele?
    Michael James: Typical.
    Etienne: All the people who are here now are typical clientele.
    Michael James: Really?
    Etienne: There is a man cheating on his wife in room Lola Montez. There is a woman cheating on her two husbands in Carlotta. Two lovers of indeterminate sex in Reine Margot. And two men cheating in Don Juan.
    Michael James: Yes. Well, one might say the joint is jumping.
    Fritz Fassbender: I, uh, decided to follow you here.
    Michael James: If you followed me here, how did you contrive to be here before me?
    Fritz Fassbender: I followed you... very fast.

## Cast

* Peter Sellers - Dr. Fritz Fassbender
* Peter O'Toole - Michael James
* Woody Allen - Victor Skapopulis
* Romy Schneider - Carole
* Capucine - Renée
* Ursula Andress - Rita
* Paula Prentiss - Liz Bien
* Eddra Gale - Anna Fassbender, Dr. Fassbender's wife
* Jacques Balutin - Etienne

## External links

* What's New, Pussycat? quotes at the Internet Movie Database