The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Stuart Wilson: Don Rafael Montero

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Quotes 

• Don Rafael Montero : [on Esperanza]  I would never have let any harm come to her...

  Don Diego de la Vega : She was never yours to protect.

• Captain Harrison Love : After all, it's only one man...

  Don Rafael : It isn't just one man, damn it. It's ZORRO.

• Don Rafael Montero : What are you doing here? What happened?

  Elena : Zorro. Zorro was here. I fought him and he left. He left!

  Don Rafael Montero : Did you recognize him?

  Elena : No, but he was young and vigorous.

  [pause] 

  Elena : He was very vigorous, father.

  Don Rafael Montero : Vigorous?

  Elena : [smiles]  Yes.

• Don Diego de la Vega : You cannot imagine, Rafael, how I have dreamed of this moment, night and day, twenty long years.

  Don Rafael Montero : Really? I haven't given you a second thought.

• Don Diego de la Vega : [When seeing his house on fire and trying to get out of the prison wagon]  ELENA! ELENA! ELENA!

  Don Diego de la Vega : [When seeing Rafael carrying his daughter]  Let me hold her.

  Don Diego de la Vega : [Rafael doesn't listen to him]  LET ME HOLD HER! RAFAEL!

  Don Rafael Montero : She has her mother's eyes.

  [And walks away] 

  Don Diego de la Vega : RAFAEL, YOU'LL NEVER BE RID OF ME! RAFAEL!

• Captain Harrison Love : Are you all right?

  Don Rafael Montero : Do you have the map?

  Captain Harrison Love : We'll find it.

  Don Rafael Montero : Is your army ready to fight Santa Anna's?

  Captain Harrison Love : No, sir.

  Don Rafael Montero : Then why are you asking me if I'm all right? Of course I'm not all right.

• Don Diego de la Vega : Perhaps I can save you the trouble. Go on reach for it Captain!

  [Talking to Love] 

  Don Rafael Montero : [When being held at a swordpoint]  Who are you?

  Don Diego de la Vega : I've warned you long ago, Rafael. That you will never be rid of me.

  Don Rafael Montero : De la Vega.

  Don Diego de la Vega : Rafael.

  Don Rafael Montero : You were not the Zorro I saw last night? That was your master Don Alejandro.

  Don Diego de la Vega : Yes, but there are many who would proudly wear The Mask of Zorro.

  Don Rafael Montero : Either way there's a consequence, events have been set in motion that you cannot stop.

  Don Diego de la Vega : I'm not here to stop you.

• Don Rafael Montero : I have come to apologize, Esperanza. I'm sorry that I could not protect this country from the peasants who have overrun it. I'm sorry that I couldn't make you love me. And I'm sorry that I have to leave you without a husband.

  [to his guards] 

  Don Rafael Montero : Arrest him.

• Don Rafael Montero : You know, I'm starting to wonder if you really want this operation to succeed at all, Captain.

  Captain Harrison Love : What are you saying?

  Don Rafael Montero : What I am saying, Captain, is that I think my horse could run this army better than you!

• Don Luiz : Who are these men that you would risk your life to have them killed?

  Don Rafael Montero : Who are they? I have no idea. Three peasant pulled at random from the crowd.

• Don Rafael Montero : [Upon assuming governorship of California]  The Spaniards oppressed you, the Mexicans ignored you, and the Dons... well the Dons, the Dons... they merely seek to cheat and lie to you. I say, who in your entire history has ever helped you?

• Don Rafael Montero : Blood never lies - Zorro. You're a traitor to your country and your class. Take him away.

• Don Rafael Montero : The children should never have to see the things we do.

• Don Rafael Montero : I want you to live with the knowledge that you have lost everything that you hold dear. I want you to suffer, as I have suffered, knowing that your child should have been mine.

• Don Rafael Montero : My friends, I give you - El Dorado!