Waiting for the Hearse (1985)
China Zorrilla: Elvira Romero de Musicardi
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Quotes
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Elvira : [criticising her neighbour] I cook Puchero, she cooks Puchero; I cook ravioli, she cooks ravioli. What a country!
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Elvira : [to Nora at the funeral, listening some people crying about Mama Cora was too young to die] The 'Petite Emilia'! The things you have to hear! Did you hear that? The old woman was almost 80! What did they want? That she reached 100? If I get to live only one more day after my 80th birthday, I kill myself! I swear!
Nora : That's what she did.
Elvira : Oh... That's what she did, you're right!
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Nora : [when Elvira is trying to take her sunglasses off] No! Not my sunglasses! I hate noon's sunlight.
Elvira : Oh, right...
[to Sergio, her husband, as she leaves]
Elvira : Sergio! take care of the 'drinks'
[in English]
Nora : [ironically, to Sergio] 'Drinks'? Those language lessons seem to be paying off.
Sergio : Yes, she already learned how to say 'No' in four different languages.
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Elvira : [hanging up the phone] Well, it seems we've gotten the wrong corpse!
Emilia : What?
Elvira : The woman we've been mourning all day is not your mother! It's a hungarian woman who commited suicide and left a note saying so. Her daughter is coming here to pick up the corpse. But why? I say, why these communists can't stay in their own country?
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Susana : [crying about their mother-in-law who seems to have commited suicide] This is horrible... Jorge will never forgive me.
Elvira : Oh, he will. He's a poor, spineless man.
Susana : [sobbing] I will never forgive myself.
Elvira : Oh. That's a whole different thing... If you have any reasons to feel guilty...
Susana : And you? What is it you do so you don't feel remorse?
Elvira : Me? Nothing. I do what I am supposed to do, try not to be unfair to people...
Nora : Yet me, who are the less guilty of us all, I'm full of aweful remorses!
Elvira : Why less guilty? You are as innocent as I am!
Nora : Elvira, I wouldn't like to put my finger on an open sore... but in the end you and Sergio are living in what used to be Mama Cora's house. And these are her furnitures!
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Elvira : [to her in-laws] What are you doing here? Who called you here? I surely didn't! Has anyone by any chance heard my voice calling you?
Susana : We came to see you, because we believe you are the one who wears the trousers in this house, and we know the rock you have as heart!
Elvira : You, of all people dare to talk about my heart? You! Who didn't hesitate in sending away a poor old martyr lady to the street just because she ruined a f... ing mayonnaise?
Susana : Nobody sent her away!
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Elvira : Who does recognize their own mother by the shoes only? What a family! And here we are all dying of pain as idiots!
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Susana : [fighting with her sister-in-law in front of Nora and Matilde] If I only used those three stupid reasons you just mentioned to say one only little thing that I happen to know...!
Elvira : What do you have to say?
Susana : Oh... nothing.
Elvira : [mocking her] 'Oh... nothing'! Don't give me now the 'Oh... nothing'! Or do you think you are going to spoil my reputation as you just spoiled my carpet! And don't stay standing there like a Greek mummy, sowing the seed of doubt in Nora and Matilde. If you have something to say... just spit it out!
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Elvira : [fighting loudly with her husband] ... hey, hey, hey, don't take flight since you're not a kite! And stop yelling at me if you don't want me to go for help to the nun's convent!
Nora : [standing up, sick of the shouting] Oh, no! no! I'm leaving! I can't no longer cope with this! In my house nobody ever raised his voice, not even to say 'good morning', so, I believe you are all very kind and very lovable, but I'm leaving...
[to Antonio, her husband]
Nora : Antonio!
Antonio : [reading the newspaper, with a bored expression] Nora, what happens now?
Nora : [leaving the house, followed by everyone else] My nerves aren't made of steel! My problem is not that I'm sensitive, I'm hyper-sensitive!
