The Pianist * Quotes

Wladyslaw Szpilman: "I don't know how to thank you."
Captain Hosenfeld: "Thank God, not me. He wants us to survive. Well, that's what we have to believe."

[Szpilman is wearing a German Reichsmacht coat as the polish army discovers him]
Wladyslaw Szpilman: "No. Please. I'm Polish. I'm not a German."
Polish Soldier: "Then why the fucking coat?"
Wladyslaw Szpilman: "I'm cold."

Wladyslaw Szpilman: "What are you reading?"
Henryk Szpilman: "'If you prick us, do we not bleed? It you tickle us, we we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?'"
Wladyslaw Szpilman: [seeing that he reads Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice] "Very appropriate."

Captain Hosenfeld: "What is your name? So I can listen for you."
Wladyslaw Szpilman: "My name is Szpilman."
Captain Hosenfeld: "Spielmann? That is a good name, for a pianist."

"Here, sell this. Food is more important than time."
[handin over off his watch]

Wladyslaw Szpilman: "I'm not going anywhere."
Halina: "Good. I'm not going anywhere either."
Mother: "Don't be ridiculous, we've got to keep together."
Wladyslaw Szpilman: "Look, look... If I'm going to die, I prefer to die in my own home. I'm staying put."

Wladyslaw: "It's a funny time to say this, but..."
Halina: "What?"
Wladyslaw: "I wish I knew you better."