Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

Annika Tretow: Agda

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Quotes 

• Albert Johansson : It's so quiet here. It's always the same, summer and winter.

  Agda : Yes, it's a quiet street.

  Albert Johansson : Year in and year out - everything stands still.

  Agda : For me it's maturity.

  Albert Johansson : For me it's emptiness.

• Agda : Don't you realize how grateful I am?

  Albert Johansson : What?

  Agda : That's right - grateful. When you left me, I finally found peace. My life was my own again. No more of that dreadful circus that I always loathed and feared. All those people shouting and swearing, always begin on the road, that world of misery, lice, disease. No, my dear, I'm happy now. And grateful.

• Agda : You talk so much

  Albert Johansson : And you say nothing.

  Agda : What do you want me to say?

  Albert Johansson : That I can stay.

  Agda : No, you can't stay.

  Albert Johansson : Is there someone else?

  Agda : What would that matter? I'm not the type to spend my life alone, but no one's going to take away my freedom or peace of mind. You hear? No one.

• Agda : First it was infatuation. Then it was love. But when you left me, all that died practically overnight. It was very strange.

• Agda : All I can offer is pancakes? Will they do?

  Albert Johansson : They'll do just fine.

• Lill-Albert - Albert and Agda's Youngest Son : Mother, there's an old man with a barrel organ and a monkey that does tricks for a nickel.

  Agda : That's too much. A nickel is a lot of money.