Drifting Clouds Quotes

  • Restaurant chief: [Ilona is applying a new job] To be honest, you're beginning to be too old.

    Ilona: I'm 36.

    Restaurant chief: You can pass away at any time.

  • Man of Olympia: [after Lauri has recovered from beating] You start distantly reminding a human being.

  • Melartin: Let's take the whole bottle, it's cheaper

  • Mrs. Sjöholm: When I was young I drunk many men under the table.

  • Ilona: I started as a dishwasher, then kitchen maid, then waiter until I got to be a head waiter. I could still be a waiter.

    Ravintolapäällikkö (restaurant manager): I understand: but I can't help you... to be honest, you're too old for a waiter.

    Ilona: I'm thirty-eight.

    Ravintolapäällikkö (restaurant manager): There you go. You could drop dead any moment.

    Ilona: You're over fifty yourself!

    Ravintolapäällikkö (restaurant manager): That's different. I got contacts - and you smoke. You got life insurance?

    Ilona: You wanna arm wrestle?