Babylon (I) (2022)
Diego Calva: Manny Torres
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Quotes
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Jack Conrad : You ever been on a movie set before?
Manny Torres : No.
Jack Conrad : You'll see. It's the most magical place in the world.
Manny Torres : Eso dicen.
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Manny Torres : [on the phone, after seeing "The Jazz Singer"] Jack? It's Manny. Everything's about to change.
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Manny Torres : I'm not used to these kind of people.
Jimmy : They're no worse than movie people.
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Manny Torres : I just love watching movies, you know?
Nellie LaRoy : I love watching movies too.
Manny Torres : You sit there. And you're watching the movie and...
Nellie LaRoy : And you escape. You don't have to be in your own shitty fucking life.
Manny Torres : Exactly!
Nellie LaRoy : Exactly!
Nellie LaRoy : You can be in their life!
Manny Torres : Or wherever!
Nellie LaRoy : Or wherever!
Manny Torres : You can be in the fucking Wild West! You can be in fucking space! You can be like a gangster. And people dance in movies and people die in movies. And they're not really dead. It's fucking amazing. They're not really dead!
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Manny Torres : Nothing happened, for real, but at the same time, it's something even more important than life. You can feel it! Like - I don't know. Movies are sad sometimes. Movies are fucking happy.
Nellie LaRoy : They make you feel something.
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Manny Torres : Morphine, opium, ether, heroin, coke. And Louis XIV sat on that.
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Manny Torres : [to Nellie] I've always helped you. And all you've done is break my heart!
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Nellie LaRoy : I'm already a star.
Manny Torres : Ah, you are?
Nellie LaRoy : Yeah.
Manny Torres : What have you been in?
Nellie LaRoy : Nothing yet.
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Jack Conrad : I saw Olga Putti sing to herself in Hungarian, and I think I'm in love. Send two dozen roses to her dressing room every morning this week.
Manny Torres : You know she doesn't speak English?
Jack Conrad : Neither does love.
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James McKay : OK, so there's this 10-year-old kid and he's a prodigy. Good with words, plays piano, recites Lincoln. But the twist is, he's a 50-year-old midget! The joke's on us!
Manny Torres : That is good.
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Elephant Wrangler : This is a truck for horses! Do I look like a fucking Maharaja?
Manny Torres : [bribes the wrangler] And you're invited to the Party.
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Manny Torres : There's a new sensibility now. People care about morals.
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Manny Torres : What's your name?
Nellie LaRoy : Nellie LaRoy.
Manny Torres : Perfect. Once again.
Nellie LaRoy : Nellie LaRoy.
Manny Torres : In French.
Nellie LaRoy : It is French already!
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Manny Torres : Today's white audiences want Negroes in their pictures. Negro music, Negro voices.
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Elinor St. John : Would you mind showing me to the upstairs powder room, my dear boy?
Manny Torres : Sure. Uh, it's here down the hall.
Elinor St. John : No! No, no, upstairs.
Manny Torres : The stairs are very steep, I think.
Elinor St. John : I can be carried.
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Manny Torres : [stuck in the catacombs] It's getting really late.