Lust in the Dust (1984)

Lainie Kazan: Marguerita

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Quotes 

• Marguerita Ventura : You bitch!

  Rosie Velez : Ever since I came here, you've done nothing but treat me like shit. Who the hell do you think you are? Yeah, I was a dance hall girl, but what makes you so high and mighty? You own a whorehouse! A whorehouse!... and with only three whores in it. One of them is just a senile old cow.

  [aside to Big Ed] 

  Rosie Velez : No offense, honey.

  [back to Maguerita] 

  Rosie Velez : And the other one's so new at it, she doesn't know which end to use. So what does that make you? The only whore in Chili Verde. Yeah, I came here for the gold, because I've been poor all my life.

  Marguerita Ventura : You've got it all wrong, honey. You've been cheap all your life.

  Rosie Velez : Cheap?

  [picks up a chair, and breaks it over Maguerita] 

  Rosie Velez : This furniture is cheap.

• Marguerita Ventura : [at Rosie, who is scrubbing the floor]  There *are* other ways of earning your keep around here, you know.

  [implying prostitution] 

  Rosie Velez : I'd rather die first.

  Marguerita Ventura : Why, Sugar, you must've died a thousand times.

  [laughing] 

• Maguerita Ventura : [to Rosie, after her audition song]  Ya sing like ya look!

• Maguerita Ventura : [singing]  Let me take you south of my border, just north of my garter, Where everything's on order, for you, Where it's sweet like a potion, Feel the heat, Feel the motion...

• Rosie Velez : Marguerita?

  Marguerita Ventura : The customers call me "Marguerita". The territory calls me "Marguerita". My real close friends call me "Miss Ventura."

• Marguerita Ventura : Freeze, hombre. Or I'll be wearing your asshole for a garter.

• Maguerita Ventura : [at Rosie, who is scrubbing the floor]  Finished, Honey?

  Rosie Velez : You could eat off this floor. And *you* probably will.

• Marguerita Ventura : Lose your way, Honey?

  Rosie Velez : Well, it's the cockroach's shift. *I* sleep from 3 to 10.

  Marguerita Ventura : If you don't like this place, you can git.

  Rosie Velez : Oh, yeah. Well I ain't going nowhere until I find that gold that everybody's been so careful *not* to mention.

  Marguerita Ventura : You think you can just breeze into town and dig it up, huh? Buena suerte. Some of us have been looking for it for *years*.

  Rosie Velez : [snidely]  You can tell.

• Marguerita Ventura : [insinuating Rosie killed Red Dick]  So... that only leaves *one* person.

  Rosie Velez : Don't look at me; I slept like a log.

  Marguerita Ventura : Why not? You look like one.

• Hardcase Williams : Hey! Be careful with those scissors.

  Marguerita Ventura : [sticks scissors up against his crotch]  Okay big boy, one move out of you, one lie, and I'll be wearing your jinglebobs for earrings. Nod if you follow my drift.

• Maguerita Ventura : Ninfa, get that shower ready for Mr. Wood, huh? 'Cause that man is hot and sticky.

• Maguerita Ventura : Always shower with your boots on?

  Abel Wood : I do everything with my boots on.

• Marguerita Ventura : Drop 'em. Nice pair of jingle bobs.

  Abel Wood : Thanks.

• Maguerita Ventura : When I'm finished with you, honey, you're gonna look like a plate of frijoles!

• Maguerita Ventura : [singing]  My lust is my livin', I can't stop, Once I start givin', Givin' it to you blow by blow...

• Maguerita Ventura : Did he get a freebie off of you last night?

  Ninfa, Whore at Marguerita's : Who?

  Maguerita Ventura : Dead Dick, that's who.

  Ninfa, Whore at Marguerita's : No! I swear. We bury Bernardo and go to bed - eh, to sleep - apart!

• Hardcase Williams : We need her to find the gold.

  Maguerita Ventura : What do you know about the gold?

  Rosie Velez : Search me?

  Hardcase Williams : That's what we aim to do.

• Maguerita Ventura : Who the Hell are you?

  Hard Case Williams : I think I can say with some measure of certainty that we are the meanest sons of bitches you ever laid them pretty eyes on.

• Rosie Velez : What do you want with me?

  Hardcase Williams : "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I will repay," St. Paul's epistle to the Romans, Chapter 12, Verse 19. Of course, St. Paul never had a disciple that got his neck broke by a slut from a Santa Fe whorehouse.

  Maguerita Ventura : Oh, I like this hombre.

• Maguerita Ventura : Abel, you and me were two of a kind. We made love. It was fireworks explodin'. A big long Roman candle shootin' off inside me.