Blood and Sand (1941)
Alla Nazimova: Señora Augustias
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Quotes
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Juan Gallardo : [seeing his mother scrubbing the floor] Get up, get up! Suppose someone should see you?
Señora Augustias Gallardo : There is no one left in the house to see me but you.
Juan Gallardo : But I don't like to see you on your kneees like this!
Señora Augustias Gallardo : But what's wrong with my being on my knees? That's how I pray, and that's how I work! This house was clean when we moved in. Let it be clean when we move out!
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Juan (as a child) : Aren't you going to beat me?
Señora Augustias Gallardo : I'm tired of beating you.
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Juan (as a child) : I'm not going to starve the rest of my life on gazpacho and rotten cod fish. And Encarnacion, how about her? How can she get a husband unless I make money for her dowry. And you! I don't want to see you for the rest of your life on your knees, scrubbing floors.
Señora Augustias Gallardo : That's what your father said, too. And here I am. On my knees. Oh, you! You're your father - come back to plague me again. He died once and I died a thousand times - every time he went into the ring! And now you. You want me to die a thousand times more?
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Señora Augustias Gallardo : Tell me, on those days when Juan goes to the ring, to whom do you pray?
Carmen Espinosa : To our lady of hope, La Macarena.
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Señora Augustias Gallardo : The Virgin. She is only a woman. And women can do so little. Now, I pray to a man God. Jesus of great power.
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Carmen Espinosa : What do you ask for?
Señora Augustias Gallardo : I pray to him to let my son be gored in the ring. Not to die! But, to be hurt. So, he may cheat the end which every torero meets. Yes, that's what I pray for. And I pray to him not to send you a son. For he'll only grow up to torment and let you die every Sunday afternoon - just as you are dying now.
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Juan Gallardo : I don't understand it! The more money I make, the less I seem to have. It melts away before I ever see it!
Señora Augustias Gallardo : Yes. One can't build on sand.
