In 2001, 20th Century Fox released the romantic musical drama, Moulin Rouge!. The film – directed by Baz Luhrmann – starred Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent, and Richard Roxburgh, and told the story of a penniless writer, who falls in love with a courtesan, with tragic results.
Featuring great performances, exceptional direction, plenty of glitz and glamour, and a superb soundtrack, Moulin Rouge! was a huge hit upon release. The film proved to be a ‘spectacular spectacular’, filled with drama, love, and romance, and it is a picture which audiences return to again, and again, and again.
In this post I am taking a look back at Moulin Rouge! with a run-through of the best lines from this memorable movie. The quotes below showcase the comedy, excitement, tragedy, and passion, depicted in the film.
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Best Moulin Rouge! movie quotes
Satine – “Besides, I can’t fall in love with anyone.”
Christian – “Can’t… fall… in love? But, a life without love, that’s… terrible…”
Satine – “No, being on the street, that’s terrible.”
Christian – “No! Love is like oxygen!”
Satine – “What?”
Christian – “Love is a many splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!”
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Christian – “It’s a little bit funny.”
Satine – “What?”
Christian – “This feeling inside. I’m not one of those who can easily hide. Is this ok? Is this what you want?”
Satine – “Ah, poetry. Yes, this it what I want naughty words.”
Christian – “I don’t have much money but boy if I did, I’d buy a big house where we both could live. If I were a sculptor, but then again, no. Or a man who makes potions a traveling show. I know it’s not much…”
Satine – “Oh Naughty, don’t stop, don’t stop.”
Christian – “But it’s the best I can do.”
Christian – “My gift is my song. And this one’s for you. And you can tell everybody that this is your song. It may be quite simple but now that it’s done. I hope you don’t mind, I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words… how wonderful life is now you’re in the world.”
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The Duke – “I don’t like this ending…”
Zidler – “Don’t like the ending, my dear Duke?”
The Duke – “Why should the courtesan chose the penniless sitar player over the maharajah who is offering her a lifetime of security? That’s real love. Once the sitar player has satisfied his lust he will leave her with nothing. I suggest that the courtesan chose the maharajah.”
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Toulouse-Lautrec – “Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fibre of my being.”
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Satine – “Christian, I’m a courtesan. I’m paid to make men believe what they want to believe.”
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Christian, Satine – “Come what may, I will love you until my dying day.”
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Satine – “I don’t need you anymore! All my life you made believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me! But Christian loves me. He loves me! He loves me, Harold. And that is worth everything! We’re going away from you, away from the Duke, away from the Moulin Rouge!”
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Christian – “This woman is yours now. I’ve paid my whore. I owe you nothing. And you are nothing to me. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love.”
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Satine – “Tell our story Christian, that way I’ll-I’ll always be with you.”
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Zidler – “I am the evil maharajah.”
Satine – “Oh Harold, no one could play him like you could.”
Zidler – “No one’s going to.”
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Satine – “Never knew I could feel like this. Like I’ve never seen the sky before. Want to vanish inside your kiss. Every day I’m loving you more and more. Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing? Come back to me, and forgive everything. Seasons may change, winter to spring… I love you ’til the end of time.”
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Zidler – “She said you make her feel “like a virgin.””
The Duke – “Virgin?”
Zidler – “You know, touched for the very first time.”
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Christian – “Then I’ll write a song and we’ll put it in the show and whenever you sing it or hear it. Or whistle or hum it then you’ll know. It’ll mean that we love one another.”
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Zidler – “Send Christian away.”
Satine – “He will fight for me.”
Zidler – “Unless he believes that you don’t love him.”
Satine – “What?”
Zidler – “You’re a great actress, Satine. Make him believe that you don’t love him.”
Satine – “No!”
Zidler – “Use your talent to save him! Hurt him, Satine. Hurt him to save him. There is no other way. The show must go on. We are creatures of the underworld. We can’t afford to love.”
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Zidler – “A magnificent, opulent, tremendous, stupendous, gargantuan, bedazzlement, a sensual ravishment. It will be: Spectacular Spectacular.”
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The Duke – “You expect me to believe that scantily clad, in the arms of another man, in the middle of the night, inside an elephant, you were rehearsing?”
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Nini Legs-In-The-Air – “This ending’s silly. Why would the courtesan go for the penniless writer? Whoops. I mean sitar player.”
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Christian – “I had come to write about truth, beauty, freedom, and that which I believed in above all things: love.”
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Zidler – “Send Christian away. Only you can save him.”
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The Duke – “Why shouldn’t the courtesan go for the maharajah?”
Christian – “Because she doesn’t love you. Him… hi… him… sh… she doesn’t love… him…”
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Satine – “We’re going away, away from you, away from the Duke, away from the Moulin Rouge. Goodbye Harold!”
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And finally…
Christian – “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
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