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Manuela: I'm not a whore. I've been fucked around a lot, but I'm not a whore.
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Manuela: You are not a human being, Lola. You are an epidemic.
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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?
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Manuela: Do you have any alcohol?
Agrado: No, I drank it all last night.
Manuela: I meant for disinfecting.
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Agrado: Just don't disappear again. I like to say good-bye to the people I love, even if it's only to cry my eyes out, bitch.
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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.
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Huma Rojo: But can you act?
Manuela: I can lie very well, and I'm used to improvising.
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Agrado: Well, as I was saying, it costs a lot to be authentic, ma'am. And one can't be stingy with these things because you are more authentic the more you resemble what you've dreamed of being.
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Agrado: All I have that's real are my feelings and these pints of silicone that weigh a ton.
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Huma Rojo: There are people who think that children are made in a day. But it takes a long time, a very long time. That's why it's so awful to see your child's blood on the ground. A stream that flows for a minute yet costs us years. When I found my son, he was lying in the middle of the street. I soaked my hands in his blood and I licked them. Because it was mine. Animals lick their young, don't they? I'm not disgusted by my son. You don't know what it's like. In a monstrance of glass and topaz. I would put the earth soaked by his blood.
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Agrado: I look like the Elephant Man!
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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.
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Esteban: Would you prostitute yourself for me?
Manuela: I've already done just about everything for you.
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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.
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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.
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Mamen: Why did you go there?
Manuela: I went after my son's heart.
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Agrado: To do that to me, with all she owes me! Since we met in Paris 20 years ago, I've been like a sister to her. We got our tits together.
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Agrado: I took her in. She was in a bad way. As usual, with all the shit she takes. I came back from working the Field all night and she'd cleaned the place out. Watches, jewelry, '70s magazines that were my inspiration. 300,000 pesetas. What hurt most was she took a statue of the Virgin that my mother gave me. What for? She doesn't believe in anything! Unless she's in a satanic sect and wanted it for some ritual.
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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.
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Manuela: Is that a real Chanel?
Agrado: No! How could I buy a real Chanel with all the hunger in the world!
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Manuela: Don't I look a bit of a slut in this suit?
Agrado: All the better. These nuns only help whores and transvestites.
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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!
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Agrado: I always thought I could make it big in the Third World.
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Agrado: The street's getting worse here every day. The whores were bad enough, but the drag queens are wiping us out. I can't stand the drag queens. They're sleaze bags. They confuse transvestism with a circus. Worse, with mime! A woman is her hair, her nails, lips for sucking or for bitching. I mean, have you ever seen a bald woman? I can't stand them. They're all sleaze bags!
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Sister María Rosa Sanz: I doubt there are many drag queens in El Salvador; but, they're in the middle of a war.
Agrado: Yeah? I didn't know that.
Sister María Rosa Sanz: I'm replacing some nuns who were murdered.
Agrado: I'm not sure what I need right now is a war.
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Madre de Rosa: How dare you bring a whore here!
Sister María Rosa Sanz: It isn't easy to find help who'll put up with you.
Madre de Rosa: But a whore!
Sister María Rosa Sanz: That's no reason to be so rude.
Madre de Rosa: I don't like strangers to see me forging Chagalls.
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Sister María Rosa Sanz: I'm sorry about my mother. I'm sorry.
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Huma Rojo: Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
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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.
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Huma Rojo: Success has got no taste or smell. And when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.
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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.
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Manuela: Nina hates me.
Huma Rojo: Nina hates everyone, including herself and me.
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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.
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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.
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Manuela: Apart from the tits, the husband hadn't changed that much; so, she ended up accepting him.
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Manuela: "A Streetcar Named Desire" has marked my life.
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Huma Rojo: She's hooked on junk but I'm hooked on her.
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Agrado: Oh, what a surprise! Three single girls in an empty house always reminds me of "How To Marry A Millionaire."
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Agrado: I'm a model of discretion, when I'm sucking someone's cock. I've sucked a lot of cocks in public places and no one's noticed, except the person involved.
Huma Rojo: It's been ages since I sucked a cock.
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Huma Rojo: I think you're all bullshitters.
Agrado: You have to get to know us.
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Huma Rojo: Can you drive?
Agrado: Yes, I used to be a truck driver.
Huma Rojo: Really?
Agrado: In Paris, before I got my tits. Then I gave up the truck and became a whore.
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Nina: Haven't you ever thought of cutting it off?
Agrado: I'd get no work. The clients like us pneumatic and well-hung.
Nina: Rheumatic? Guys are so odd.
Agrado: Not rheumtic. Pneumatic. A pair of tits as hard as newly inflated tires and a big dick as well.
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Nina: Will you show me your cock later?
Agrado: I'll show it to you and you can lick it. Young people will try anything.
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Mario: I didn't sleep very well last night. I've been on edge all day. Would you give me a blow job?
Agrado: Can't you all get it into your heads that I'm retired?
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Agrado: The whole company is obsessed with my cock! It isn't the only one around. Don't you have a cock?
Lola: Yes.
Agrado: Do people ask you to suck their cocks because you've got one?
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Madre de Rosa: I don't know what I did wrong with Rosa. Ever since she was born, she's been like an alien.
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Agrado: Know why they call me Agrado? I've always tried to make life agreeable for others.
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Nina: Working in theater is worse than being a nun! Taxi!
Huma Rojo: You think not being able to get stoned all day is being a nun!
All About My Mother Quotes
Extended Reading
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Language: Spanish,Catalan Release date: March 31, 2000