Lust in the Dust (1984)

Divine: Rosie

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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.

• Hard Case Williams : Being a leader of men is a very solitary business, miss. So I've been very concerned about my men's libidos until you so conveniently came on the scene.

  Rosie Velez : I'm afraid I don't understand, sir. Are you speaking English? Eso es ingles?

  Hard Case Williams : Poon tang! Poon tang! Is that any clearer little lady? My curse is that I've received the education befitting the son of a Boston preacher, may he rot in hellfire. But I do believe that you get the thrust of my meaning. My men are as horny as jackrabbits.

• 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] 

• Rosie Velez : Always the little ones got something to prove.

• Rosie Velez : Marguerita?

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

• [Rosie's canteen falls and empties its contents in the desert] 

  Rosie Velez : My gin!

• [Rosie is trying to coax her mule] 

  Rosie Velez : Only a few more little miles. Only a few more itsy-bitsy, eeny-weeny little miles...

  [angry] 

  Rosie Velez : ... and then you can drop dead, you miserable hunk of shit!

• Rosie Velez : Where are you doing? Don't leave me out here, mister! Oh, I beg you! My ass is on its last legs! I'll die! I've got nothing to eat!

  [Abel looks up, and shoots in the air. A dead vulture crashes to earth] 

  Rosie Velez : [sarcastic]  Thanks.

• [Hard Case's gang moves forward to rape Rosie] 

  Rosie Velez : No! Stop! Wait! I'm a...

  [looks down] 

  Rosie Velez : ...virgin.

  Hard Case Williams : A virgin? Really?

  [Rosie nods yes] 

  Hard Case Williams : That DOES make a difference. Then I'LL go first.

  [Hard Case starts sneezing violently] 

  Hard Case Williams : I've had carnal knowledge of 215 women and two goats...

  Chang, Hard Case Gang : And the chicken?

  [Hard Case makes a so-so gesture] 

• Rosie Velez : I spy with my little eye something that begins with "C". Give up? CHILE VERDE!

• 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.

• Rosie Velez : Oh well. Maybe he'll be back tomorrow. After all, tomorrow *is* another day.

• Rosie Velez : Madre de Dios! What are you doing? Who are you? Where did you come from? I said who are you? Put that down! What do you want? It's me, isn't it? You're going to take advantage of me. You're going to have your filthy way with me under the hot desert sun, aren't you? You're going to ravage me like I've never been ravaged before. Your hot sweat sliding over my body as we roll in the dust. Oh, as you violate my innermost parts. As you pound against me in orgasmic animal passion! Oh, God, you're disgusting.

• Rosie Velez : What's all that noise out there?

  Big Ed : Is this Saturday? Lynch night. Lynch night!

• Red Dick : You are gorgeous.

  Rosie Velez : Save the speeches, honey. I ain't Juliet and you certainly ain't Romeo. Oo, what a body. At least you're awake.

  Red Dick : Oh, Rosie, you got *everything* a man could want.

  Rosie Velez : Well, let's see if you have what *I* want.

• 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.

• 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.

• Rosie Velez : Oh, please. Let me live. I've never been to Paris.

  Hard Case Williams : C'est la vie, Rosie.

• Hardcase Williams : So, why don't you come out in the open and we'll discuss a business partnership? What do you say?

  Rosie Velez : It's my ass!

  Hardcase Williams : There's enough there for both of us.