West Side Story (1961)
Natalie Wood: Maria
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Quotes
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Maria : All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate!
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Tony : You're not thinking I'm someone else?
Maria : I know you are not.
Tony : Or that we've met before?
Maria : I know we have not.
Tony : I felt, I knew something never before was going to happen, had to happen. But this is so much more.
Maria : My hands are cold.
[he takes them in his]
Maria : Yours too.
[he moves them to his face]
Maria : So warm.
[she moves his to hers]
Tony : So beautiful.
Maria : Beautiful.
Tony : It's so much to believe. You're not making a joke?
Maria : I have not yet learned how to joke that way. I think now I never will.
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[last lines]
Maria : Te adoro, Antone.
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Maria : [after discovering that Bernardo is killed] Make it not true, please make it not true!
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Maria : [singing] I feel pretty, oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and witty, and gay!
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Tony : I- I didn't believe hard enough.
Maria : Loving is enough.
Tony : Not here. They won't let us be.
Maria : Then we'll run away.
Tony : Yeah, we can.
Maria : Yes.
Tony : We will...
Maria : [singing] Hold my hand and we are halfway there, hold my hand and I'll take you there. Somehow! Someday! Some...
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Lieutenant Schrank : At the gym last night, your brother got into a heavy argument because you danced with the wrong boy.
Maria : Yes
Lieutenant Schrank : Who was that boy?
Maria : Another from my country.
Lieutenant Schrank : And his name?
Maria : Jose.
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Tony : [sung] Tonight, tonight, won't be just any night - tonight there will be no morning star! Tonight, tonight, I'll see my love tonight, and for us stars will stop where they are!
Maria : Today, the minutes seem like hours, the hours go so slowly, and still the sky is light... Oh moon, grow bright, and make this endless day endless night!
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Maria : Chino. When I look at Chino nothing happens.
Anita : What do you expect to happen?
Maria : I don't know. Something. What happens when you look at 'Nardo?
Anita : [smiles] It's when I DON'T look that it happens.
Maria : [mischievously] I think I will tell mama and papa about you and 'Nardo in the balcony of the movies!
Anita : [holding up the dress she is sewing] I'll rip this to shreds!
Maria : Oh no! But if perhaps you could manage to lower the neck?
[holds out scissors]
Anita : [taking the scissors back] NEXT year.
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[Anita has found Tony and Maria meeting each other]
Maria : He just came from the drugstore, to deliver aspirin.
Anita : You'll need it.
Tony : Not us. We're fine - we're out of this world!
Anita : You're out of your heads.
Tony : We're twelve feet in the air!
Maria : Anita can see that.
[to Anita]
Maria : You will not tell?
Anita : [sarcastic] Tell what? How can I tell what goes on twelve feet over my head?
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Bernardo : Now, I do not say these things to spoil your evening, or to hear myself talk - I am here longer than you, Maria!
Maria : Sí, Nardo.
Bernardo : Someday, when you're an old, married woman with five children, then you can tell *me* what to do! But right now, it is the other way around. Now go to bed.
Anita : [Bernardo exits, to Maria] He's the old, married woman.
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Maria : Chino?
Chino : There was no one downstairs...
Maria : My mother and father are at the store. I didn't expect for you to come by or I would have waited...
Chino : Maria...
Maria : You have been fighting, Chino?
Chino : Yes... I am sorry...
Maria : That is not like you.
Chino : No...
Maria : You must go home and wash up.
Chino : Maria...?
Maria : I will see you tomorrow.
Chino : Maria, at the rumble...
Maria : There was no rumble.
Chino : There was.
Maria : Oh no, you are wrong.
Chino : There was, Maria! Nobody meant for it to happen!
Maria : Tell me.
Chino : It is bad.
Maria : Very bad?
Chino : You see...
[hesitates]
Maria : It will be easier if you say it very fast.
Chino : There was a fight... and 'Nardo... somehow, a knife... and 'Nardo and someone... they...
Maria : Tony! What happened to Tony? Chino, tell me! Is Tony all right?
Chino : [shouts] He killed your brother!
[runs through the door and down the steps; Maria stands in shock]
Maria : You are lying... Chino! Why do you lie to me?
[following him inside]
Maria : Chino! Chino! It's not true, you are lying! Lying! Why do you lie to me? Chino! Chino!
Little Boy : [from downstairs] ¡Mama, mama! ¡Bernardo esta muerto!
Mother : ¿Bernardo muerto?
Maria : NO!
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Anita : [singing] A boy like that, who'd kill your brother? Forget that boy and find another! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind! A boy like that will bring you sorrow - you'll meet another boy tomorrow! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind! A boy who kills cannot love, a boy who kills has no heart! And he's the boy who gets your love, and gets your heart! Very smart, Maria, very smart! A boy like that wants one thing only. And when he's done, he'll leave you lonely! He'll murder your love, he murdered mine! Just wait and see, just wait Maria, just wait and see!
Maria : [singing] Oh no Anita, no! Anita, no... It isn't true, not for me! It's true for you, not for me... I hear your words, and in my head, I know they're smart... but my heart, Anita, but my heart knows they're wrong, and my heart is too strong, for I belong...
Anita : [overlapping] A boy like that, who'd kill your brother? Forget that boy and find another! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind!
Maria : To him alone, to him alone, one thing I know, I am his... I don't care what he is... I don't know why it's so, I don't want to know!
Anita : A boy who kills cannot love, a boy who kills has no heart! And he's the boy who gets your love, and gets your heart! Very smart, Maria, very smart!
Maria : Oh no Anita, no! You should know better! You were in love, or so you said! You should know better... I have a love, and it's all that I have, right or wrong - what else can I do? I love him, I'm his, and everything he is, I am too. I have a love, and it's all that I need, right or wrong, and he needs me too... I love him, we're one. There's nothing to be done... not a thing I can do. But hold him, hold him forever... Be with him now, tomorrow, and all of my life!
Maria , Anita : When love comes so strong, there is no right or wrong... your love is your life.
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Maria : [looks down at her chest, pulling down her slip's neckline] One inch. How much can one little inch do?
Anita : Too much.
Maria : Anita, it is now to be a dress for dancing, no longer for praying.
Anita : Listen, with those boys, you can start in dancing and end up praying.
Maria : Querida, one little inch, un poquito...
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Maria : You are not one of us and l am not one of you.
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Maria : I feel fizzy and funny and fine, And so pretty, Miss America can just resign. See the pretty girl in that mirror there!
Consuelo , Francisca , Rosalia : What mirror? Where?
Maria : Who can that attractive girl be?
Consuelo , Francisca , Rosalia : Which? What? Where? Whom?
Maria : Such a pretty face,
Consuelo , Francisca , Rosalia : Whom?
Maria : Such a pretty dress,
Consuelo , Francisca , Rosalia : Whom?
Maria : Such a pretty smile
Consuelo , Francisca , Rosalia : Whom?
Maria : Such a pretty me!
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Maria : [singing] I feel pretty and witty and gay! And I pity, Any girl who isn't me today...
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Madam Lucia : If you have to sing, do it with the needle, or you'll be out in the street singing for your supper.
Maria : But Madam Lucia, what can you expect? We use Singer sewing machines.
Madam Lucia : Oh, sure, you make the bad joke at home where I don't hear it.
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Tony : I, Anton, take thee Maria...
Maria : I, Maria, take thee Anton...
Tony : For richer, for poorer...
Maria : In sickness and in health...
Tony : From each sun to each moon...
Maria : From tomorrow to tomorrow...
Tony : From now, to forever...
Maria : Till death do us part.
Tony : With this ring, I thee wed.
Maria : With this ring, I thee wed.
Tony : [singing] Make of our hands one hand, Make of our hearts one heart, Make of our vows one last vow, Only death will part us now.
Maria : [singing] Make of our lives one life, Day after day, one life.
Tony , Maria : Now it begins, now we start, One hand, one heart, Even death won't part us now.
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Maria : [praying to Santa Maria] Madre de Dios, I will do anything! Make me die, only please make it not be true. Le suplico no puede ser! Make it not be...
[sees Tony coming inside]
Maria : [pounds on Tony's chest; sobbing] Killer, killer, killer! Killer, killer, killer...
[collapsed into Tony's arm]
Tony : I tried to stop it. I did try. I don't know what went wrong. I didn't mean to hurt him. I didn't want to. But Riff was like my brother. When Bernardo killed him... Bernardo didn't mean it either... I thought you knew. I didn't come to tell you that. Just for you to forgive me so I can go to the police.
Maria : No!
Tony : It'll be easy now.
Maria : I won't let you.
Tony : I must.
Maria : Stay, stay with me.
Tony : Maria, I love you so much.
Maria : Don't leave me.
Tony : Whatever you want, I'll do.
Maria : Hold me.
Tony : Oh, forever.
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Consuelo : What has Chino done to her?
Maria : Chino? Why Chino?
Rosalia : Maybe she is just dolling up for us. Gracias, querida.
Maria : Rosalia, Consuelo, my adorable friends Can you keep a secret?
Consuelo : I'm hot for secrets.
Maria : No, I won't tell you.
Francisca : What?
Maria : What?
Consuelo : The poor girl is out of her mind.
Maria : I am... crazy?
Rosalia : She might be at that. She looks somehow different.
Maria : I do?
Rosalia : And I Think she is up to something.
Maria : I am?
Consuelo : "I do? I am?" She talks like a parrot.
Rosalia : What is going on with you, Maria?
