Valentino (1977)

Michelle Phillips: Natasha Rambova

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• Natasha Rambova : Is that Valentino? Well, he certainly can dance.

  Alla Nazimova : What? I like. Yes, I like very much. Very good. Oh, beautiful. Beautiful animal! Like a tiger! He moves like a tiger! That face. What sensuality. Oh, how clever you are.

• Rudolph Valentino : You are the spirit that moves the universe, the song that wakes the day, the waves that soothe the sand, the giving hand, the magic of the touch, the peace of afterglow, the mystery of night, the promise of delight,

  Natasha Rambova : Ha-ha. You make me sound like a shopping list.

  Rudolph Valentino : The thrill of surrender, the fount of all pleasure, the power of religion, my meaning for existence, my vision of heaven, my life eternal, my love, my friend.

• Rudolph Valentino : Now, I must go back inside there or forever lose my self respect.

  Natasha Rambova : Self respect? I'd call it vanity. But, if you really want to win the respect of the crew, you better screw that little whore, Lorna! And make sure everybody knows about it!

• Jesse Lasky : If you ever want a job as a slave girl, just give me a ring.

  Natasha Rambova : Fine. If you ever want to learn how to run a studio, just give me one.

• Natasha Rambova : Here with a loaf of bread, beneath the bough, a flask of wine, a book of verse, and thou beside me, singing in the wilderness, and wilderness is paradise enough.

  Rudolph Valentino : Did you write that?

  Natasha Rambova : Ha-ha-ha. Omar Khayyam.

  Rudolph Valentino : Hey, maybe he can write our subtitles.

  Natasha Rambova : Ha-ha-ha. Well, he's sort of retired. Anyway, it'd be kind of a mouthful to say during the big rape scene, don't you think?

  Rudolph Valentino : You couldn't, by any chance, be kidding me, could you?

  Natasha Rambova : I've never been more serious.

• Natasha Rambova : [to Valentino]  Just look at that costume! And you promised to fold it away neatly for the big rape scene tomorrow. Now, would you get dressed. You look silly lying there in nothing but a turban.

• Natasha Rambova : Hollywood's killing me.

• Natasha Rambova : I only know, there will never be another Valentino! There will never be one even remotely like him. He was a god.