Quotes from Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

Paul Varjak: [about Holly and Jose] So you're getting married, then?
Holly Golightly: Well, he hasn't really asked me, not in so many words.
Paul Varjak: Four you mean?
Holly Golightly: Huh?
Paul Varjak: Well that's how many it takes: will you marry me?

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

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.

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

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!

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

Paul Varjak: And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

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

Paul Varjak: Holly, I'm in love with you.
Holly Golightly: So what?
Paul Varjak: So what? So plenty! I love you. You belong to me.
Holly Golightly: No. People don't belong to people.
Paul Varjak: Of course they do.
Holly Golightly: I'm not going to let anyone put me in a cage.
Paul Varjak: I don't want to put you in a cage. I want to love you.
Holly Golightly: It's the same thing.
Paul Varjak: No it's not. Holly...
Holly Golightly: I'm not Holly. I'm not Lula Mae, either. I don't know who I am! I'm like cat here, a couple of no-name slobs. 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)

Paul Varjak: Holly, you're drunk.
Holly Golightly: True.

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

Paul Varjak: I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before, before.

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

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!

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

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.

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

Paul Varjak: So what? So plenty!

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