Garbo Talks (1984)

Anne Bancroft: Estelle Rolfe

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Quotes 

• Estelle Rolfe : If your head's in the toilet, don't blow bubbles.

• Estelle Rolfe : I wanna meet Garbo!

  Gilbert Rolfe : Why?

  Estelle Rolfe : Why shouldn't I? I'm dying!

• Estelle Rolfe : You know, I know everybody's gotta die, but I really thought I was gonna be the first exception.

• Estelle Rolfe : Could I see that picture of Garbo in the window?

  Shopkeeper : Ha ha, it's from Grand Hotel.

  Estelle Rolfe : It's from Mata Hari.

  Shopkeeper : Grand Hotel, I own the shop!

  Estelle Rolfe : No, it's from Mata Hari, it's the scene in the prison cell, where she has a reunion with Rosanoff, just before they take him to the firing squad to be executed. Look at the costumes, it's "Mata Hari".

  Shopkeeper : That's 35 dollars.

  Estelle Rolfe : This isn't rare, I've seen it before!

  Shopkeeper : Then buy it before! The frame makes it higher.

  Estelle Rolfe : I'll take it without the frame!

  Shopkeeper : I don't sell it without the frame. That's 35 dollars!

  Estelle Rolfe : It's Mata Hari, go to the movies!

• Estelle Rolfe : Do you care anything about basketball? The Knicks are out of the playoffs and I'm not entirely happy about that. The world is full of injustices. They either bother you or they don't. Me - they bother.

• Estelle Rolfe : You had me in the palm of your hands. Every time you moved, I sighed. You walked from one end of the room to the other. It was as if your feet never touched the ground.

• Estelle Rolfe : We didn't have anything to do. So, I bought a newspaper. "Anna Christie" was playing. It was the only movie of yours I hadn't seen. Garbo Talks! "Give me a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. And, don't be stingy, baby!"

• Estelle Rolfe : I turned on the TV. They were playing "Queen Christina". That close-up of you at the end, I thought it would never end. I mean it just went on and on and on. Oh, God, how I hated you. I really hated myself. I thought if I looked like you, if I had that face, if I had those eyes, I wouldn't be so alone.

• Puerto Rican Nurse : Estelle, our contract is up the first of the year. They want to raise us from 7.10 an hour to 7.90. None of us knows what to do? I mean, we do not make waves.

  Estelle Rolfe : Make waves.

  Puerto Rican Nurse : We don't want to start something.

  Estelle Rolfe : Start something.

  Puerto Rican Nurse : Okay!

• Estelle Rolfe : Walter and I got a divorce. The world's a crazy place to live in, isn't it? He thought I was eccentric.

• Estelle Rolfe : I don't know. You love somebody. You have a child. And then it's over. Why? I don't know. It's crazy.