Quotes from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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!

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Holly Golightly: How do I look?
Paul Varjak: Very good. I must say, I'm amazed.

- George Peppard (as Paul Varjak) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Holly Golightly: I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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.

- George Peppard (as Paul Varjak) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

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.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Holly Golightly: It should take you exactly four seconds to cross from here to that door. I'll give you two.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Holly Golightly: It's better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Holly Golightly: It's useful being top banana in the shock department.

- Audrey Hepburn (as Holly Golightly) in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)