Water for Elephants (2011)
Reese Witherspoon: Marlena
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Quotes
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Marlena : He sold off two dead-beat clowns and a train car so he could buy Lucinda, our lovely fat lady. And Rex.
August : Rex.
Marlena : But you kept the coochie girls, didn't you?
August : No denying they're good revenue. I needed money. So I had to scavenge every dead circus for every act we have.
Marlena : But you didn't have to buy me, did you?
August : No. I had to marry you.
Marlena : That's right.
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Marlena : I was born a passenger. They found me wrapped in a newspaper under a seat on the Baltimore and Ohio. I was just three days old. I grew up in foster homes. I'd always daydream about who my parents were. When I was five, for an entire year, I pretended my mom was an Appaloosa mare. I did. And that I was a filly, and that I was just dreaming that I was a girl. And that one day I'd wake up, and I'd run home. One thing's for sure, I was a lot safer in those stables than I ever was in those homes. And then the circus came to town.
