All About My Mother (1999)

Cecilia Roth: Manuela

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• Manuela : I'm not a whore. I've been fucked around a lot, but I'm not a whore.

• Manuela : You are not a human being, Lola. You are an epidemic.

• Manuela : My friend and her husband with the tits set up a bar here, on the Barceloneta. He spent the day in a tiny bikini, screwing everything he could, and giving her a hard time if she wore a bikini or even a miniskirt. The bastard! How could anyone act so macho with a pair of tits like that?

• Manuela : Do you have any alcohol?

  Agrado : No, I drank it all last night.

  Manuela : I meant for disinfecting.

• Huma Rojo : But can you act?

  Manuela : I can lie very well, and I'm used to improvising.

• Manuela : Eat up. You have to put on a few pounds. Some day you may have to work the streets to keep me.

  Esteban : You don't need pounds for that. You need a big dick.

• Manuela : Apart from the tits, the husband hadn't changed that much; so, she ended up accepting him. Women will do anything to avoid being alone.

  Sister María Rosa Sanz : Women are more tolerant, but that's good.

  Manuela : We're assholes and a bit lesbo.

• Mamen : Why did you go there?

  Manuela : I went after my son's heart.

• Manuela : Is that a real Chanel?

  Agrado : No! How could I buy a real Chanel with all the hunger in the world!

• Manuela : It's just a bit swollen.

  Agrado : A bit swollen? Where can I go with a mug like this?

  Manuela : Come and eat something.

  Agrado : Why did you go to all this trouble? Salad - how wonderful! Oh! It really hurts to chew! I won't be able to suck.

  Manuela : You shouldn't work today.

• Manuela : Nina hates me.

  Huma Rojo : Nina hates everyone, including herself and me.

• Sister María Rosa Sanz : Why do you dislike Lola so much?

  Manuela : Lola's got the worst of a man and the worst of a woman.

• Esteban : Nina Cruz really moved you, didn't she?

  Manuela : No, not her. Stella. Twenty years ago, we did "Streetcar" with the drama group in my town. I played Stella. You father was Kowalski.

  Esteban : Some day you'll have to tell me all about my father.

• Manuela : Don't I look a bit of a slut in this suit?

  Agrado : All the better. These nuns only help whores and transvestites.

• Agrado : I feel so old, Manolita, and it isn't my age.

  Manuela : It's because of the beating.

  Agrado : The beating I've taken the last 40 years!

• Huma Rojo : I started smoking because of Bette Davis. To imitate her. At 18, I was smoking like a chimney. That's why I called myself Huma.

  Manuela : Huma's a very pretty name.

  Huma Rojo : Smoke is all there's been in my life.

• Manuela : I'll tell you a story. I had a friend who got married very young. After a year, her husband went to work in Paris and he was to call her when he got settled. Two years passed. The husband saved some money and came to Barcelona to open a bar. She came here to join him. Two years isn't a long time, but the husband had changed.

  Sister María Rosa Sanz : He didn't love her anymore.

  Manuela : The change was more physical. He'd gotten a pair of tits that were bigger than hers.

• Huma Rojo : Would you like to work for me?

  Manuela : Doing what?

  Huma Rojo : Everything. Everything except sleep with me. I've got enough with Nina.

• Esteban : "Music for Chameleons". How did you know I wanted it?

  Manuela : I know you like Capote.

  Esteban : Read me something, like when I was little.

  Manuela : "Preface. I started writing when I was eight."

  Esteban : See? I'm not the only one.

  Manuela : "I didn't know that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip - and the whip is intended only for self-flagellation." That's enough to put you off writing.

  Esteban : Don't be lame. It's a wonderful preface.

• Esteban : Would you prostitute yourself for me?

  Manuela : I've already done just about everything for you.

• Manuela : Apart from the tits, the husband hadn't changed that much; so, she ended up accepting him.

• Manuela : "A Streetcar Named Desire" has marked my life.