Antonio Banderas credited as playing...
El Mariachi
- [trapped on the upper floor of a hotel by Marquez's men]
- El Mariachi: Any suggestions, Ms. "Why don't we get a room on the 5th floor so we can see the beautiful sunset"?
- [last lines]
- Carolina: [in Spanish]
- [subtitled version]
- Carolina: What do you want in life?
- El Mariachi: To be free...
- Carolina: Simple.
- El Mariachi: No.
- El Mariachi: Go practice.
- Fideo: Practice playing or shooting?
- El Mariachi: What do you think?
- Fideo: I don't think, I drink.
- El Mariachi: You want me to shoot the cook?
- Agent Sands: No. I'll shoot the cook. My car's parked out back, anyway.
- Marquez: [in Spanish, sub-titled] Carolina?
- El Mariachi: She died.
- Marquez: Your daughter?
- El Mariachi: She died.
- Marquez: You?
- El Mariachi: Dead.
- Marquez: And me?
- El Mariachi: Alive and well.
- [Marquez draws a gun, El Mariachi draws and fires, and Marquez falls wounded. El Mariachi walks up and places his gun to Marquez's head]
- El Mariachi: In hell.
- [Kills him]
- El Mariachi: Why me?
- Sands: Frankly, because you've got nothing to live for... and in a way you're already dead and Marquez is the one that killed you so why not return the favor?
- [El meets Cucuy in the middle of town]
- Cucuy: There's cartel on every corner.
- El Mariachi: Sands told me you handle protection.
- Cucuy: I don't work for Sands anymore. And since I'm a Mexi-can, I can do whatever I want.
- El Mariachi: Then I guess I don't work for Sands neither. Goodbye.
- [Cucuy grabs his arm]
- Cucuy: There's a price on your head. I'm going to collect. Why don't you just tell Barillo everything you know and then maybe he'll just cut off your hands.
- El Mariachi: And if I don't?
- Cucuy: Remember that old man I killed in your village? What if your whole village was next?
- El Mariachi: Would you kill them?
- Cucuy: Me?
- [Points to his men]
- Cucuy: They certainly would.
- El Mariachi: Then I guess I have no choice... but to kill you all.
- [a cartel soldier sees El Mariachi coming and goes for his gun, but El Mariachi gets there first and aims his shotgun]
- El Mariachi: [in Spanish] What do you want in life?
- [the soldier throws his gun away]
- El Mariachi: [in English] Good choice.
- [knocks him unconscious]
- [sliding down the stairs of a church, El Mariachi gets the drop on a cartel soldier]
- El Mariachi: [in Spanish] What do you want in life?
- [the soldier puts down his gun]
- El Mariachi: [in English] Good choice.
- [He punches the soldier unconscious instead of shooting him.]