All About My Mother (1999)

Marisa Paredes: Huma Rojo

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• Huma Rojo : There are people who think that children are made in a day. But it takes a long time, a very long time. That's why it's so awful to see your child's blood on the ground. A stream that flows for a minute yet costs us years. When I found my son, he was lying in the middle of the street. I soaked my hands in his blood and I licked them. Because it was mine. Animals lick their young, don't they? I'm not disgusted by my son. You don't know what it's like. In a monstrance of glass and topaz. I would put the earth soaked by his blood.

• Huma Rojo : But can you act?

  Manuela : I can lie very well, and I'm used to improvising.

• Huma Rojo : Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

• Huma Rojo : Success has got no taste or smell. And when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.

• Manuela : Nina hates me.

  Huma Rojo : Nina hates everyone, including herself and me.

• Huma Rojo : I started smoking because of Bette Davis. To imitate her. At 18, I was smoking like a chimney. That's why I called myself Huma.

  Manuela : Huma's a very pretty name.

  Huma Rojo : Smoke is all there's been in my life.

• Huma Rojo : Would you like to work for me?

  Manuela : Doing what?

  Huma Rojo : Everything. Everything except sleep with me. I've got enough with Nina.

• Agrado : I'm a model of discretion, when I'm sucking someone's cock. I've sucked a lot of cocks in public places and no one's noticed, except the person involved.

  Huma Rojo : It's been ages since I sucked a cock.

• Huma Rojo : She's hooked on junk but I'm hooked on her.

• Huma Rojo : I think you're all bullshitters.

  Agrado : You have to get to know us.

• Huma Rojo : Can you drive?

  Agrado : Yes, I used to be a truck driver.

  Huma Rojo : Really?

  Agrado : In Paris, before I got my tits. Then I gave up the truck and became a whore.

• Nina : Working in theater is worse than being a nun! Taxi!

  Huma Rojo : You think not being able to get stoned all day is being a nun!