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Salvador Mallo: The nights that coincide several pains, those nights I believe in God and I pray to him. The days when I only suffer a type of pain I'm an atheist.
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Salvador Mallo: Alberto, gossip ages, like people.
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Salvador Mallo: Writing is like drawing but with letters.
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Salvador Mallo: Life disgusts me like a useless medicine. And it is then when I feel with clear visions how easy it would be to get away from this tedium if I had the simple strength of wanting to really push him away.
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Federico Delgado: "Love is not enough to save the person you love." It's in your monologue.
Salvador Mallo: Let's not talk about the monologue, it's a very sad text.
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Salvador Mallo: This time I will not fail you, mom.
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Alberto Crespo: You forget I'm an actor... and I suffer very well.
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Alberto Crespo: It took a lot of work to borrow this jacket!
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Zulema: Its your eyes that have changed, darling. The film is the same.
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Salvador Mallo: You have to avoid sentimentality. Control the emotion. Don't cry, actors take any opportunity to cry. The better actor isn't the one who cries, it's the one who fights to hold back his tears.
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Salvador Mallo: I admit that the text is a bit melodramatic now.
Alberto Crespo: Don't worry, I master melodrama. My years in Mexico will be of some use.
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Alberto Crespo: Will you come to see me?
Salvador Mallo: I don't know. I don't think so.
Alberto Crespo: This time I'm not doing Shakespeare, or Chekhov, or Lorca. I'm doing you.
Salvador Mallo: If you do it badly, I'll feel terrible. And if you do it well, I'll feel much worse.
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Alberto Crespo: [performing on stage, Salavdor's "Addiction"] I thought the strength of my love would defeat his addiction. But it wasn't so. Love isn't enough. Maybe love can move mountains, but it isn't enough to save the person you love.
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Dr. A. Galindo: Do you have a new project?
Salvador Mallo: Yes. To improve my quality of life.
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Jacinta: Don't get that storyteller look. I don't want you putting any of this in your films.
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Mercedes: You're invited to give a talk in Iceland. It's well paid.
Salvador Mallo: I don't understand why they like me so much in Iceland.
Mercedes: Neither do I.
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Salvador Mallo: She wanted to die in the village. And I'd promised to take her there. The poor thing died in the ICU of a hospital, alone.
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