Deep Crimson (1996)

Daniel Giménez Cacho: Nicolás Estrella

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• Nicolás Estrella : I don't need your pity. I need my hairpiece!

• Nicolás Estrella : Never be ashamed of your body. The body is the temple God made for love.

• Nicolás Estrella : Who cares about body odor? A woman should steep in her juices.

• Nicolás Estrella : In Spain, Quixote taught us to look upon our Dulcineas with the eyes of the soul, no matter what their physical appearance may be.

  Coral Fabre : I've never been with a gentleman. Do it to me. Just do it. As a favor. Come on.

• Nicolás Estrella : Providence really did bring us together. That, or maybe the devil himself. How did I ever live without you?

  Coral Fabre : You weren't living. You were waiting for me.

• Nicolás Estrella : It's our destiny to find one another, go our separate ways, and keep the memory, a memory lined with velvet.

• Coral Fabre : Did you like it? It doesn't matter. Tonight is mine. Nobody can take it from me. It was like making love to Charles Boyer. Exactly the same.

  Nicolás Estrella : I've never known a woman this way. Flesh and aroma. Flesh and aroma for me alone. Your body is like that of an ancient goddess. Never be ashamed of it.

• Nicolás Estrella : I can't allow a woman to support me. Much less could I care for another man's children. A man has his honor, all the more so if he's Spanish.

• Nicolás Estrella : He incarcerates your sensuality in a prison of poverty. An old and ignorant macho.

• Juanita Norton : My husband. Osvaldo is my husband.

  Nicolás Estrella : You said you're a widow.

  Juanita Norton : I am a widow. The widow of a real man. I get together with Osvaldo. I copulate with him. I'm his concubine.

• Irene Gallardo : They've come to Latin America to do missionary work.

  Sara Silberman : I thought these lands were already Christian.

  Nicolás Estrella : You thought both correctly and incorrectly. This it the Lord's most faithful flock, but the armies of Luther threaten.

  Coral Fabre : We bring food, comfort, and such things to the poor of the continent.

  Sara Silberman : The last time your countrymen came to bring aid to this continent, they left a slew of dead Indians. Baptized, of course.

  Nicolás Estrella : No, that's the dark legend spread by England to discredit Spain.

• Nicolás Estrella : Things like this join two people forever.

  Coral Fabre : Yes, forever.

  Nicolás Estrella : We're accomplices. Eternal accomplices. Nothing and nobody can separate us.

• Nicolás Estrella : I have to do what I have to do. Will you forgive me?