Manny Torres quotes from Babylon (2022)

Manny Torres

Today's white audiences want Negroes in their pictures. Negro music, Negro voices.

Manny Torres

Jack? It's Manny. Everything's about to change.

Manny Torres

I've always helped you. And all you've done is break my heart!

Manny Torres

There's a new sensibility now. People care about morals.

Manny Torres

It's getting really late.

Jack Conrad

You ever been on a movie set before?

Manny Torres

No.

Jack Conrad

You'll see. It's the most magical place in the world.

Manny Torres

Eso dicen.

Manny Torres

I'm not used to these kind of people.

Jimmy

They're no worse than movie people.

Manny Torres

I just love watching movies, you know?

Nellie LaRoy

I love watching movies too.

Manny Torres

You sit there. And you're watching the movie and...

Nellie LaRoy

And you escape. You don't have to be in your own shitty **** life.

Manny Torres

Exactly!

Nellie LaRoy

Exactly! You can be in their life!

Manny Torres

Or wherever!

Nellie LaRoy

Or wherever!

Manny Torres

You can be in the **** Wild West! You can be in **** space! You can be like a gangster. And people dance in movies and people die in movies. And they're not really dead. It's **** amazing. They're not really dead!

Manny Torres

Nothing happened, for real, but at the same time, it's something even more important than life. You can feel it! Like - I don't know. Movies are sad sometimes. Movies are **** happy.

Nellie LaRoy

They make you feel something.

Nellie LaRoy

I'm already a star.

Manny Torres

Ah, you are?

Nellie LaRoy

Yeah.

Manny Torres

What have you been in?

Nellie LaRoy

Nothing yet.

Jack Conrad

I saw Olga Putti sing to herself in Hungarian, and I think I'm in love. Send two dozen roses to her dressing room every morning this week.

Manny Torres

You know she doesn't speak English?

Jack Conrad

Neither does love.

Okay, so there's this 10-year-old kid and he's a prodigy. Good with words, plays piano, recites Lincoln. But the twist is, he's a 50-year-old midget! The joke's on us!

Manny Torres

That is good.

This is a truck for horses! Do I look like a **** Maharaja?

Manny Torres

And you're invited to the party.

Manny Torres

What's your name?

Nellie LaRoy

Nellie LaRoy.

Manny Torres

Perfect. Once again.

Nellie LaRoy

Nellie LaRoy.

Manny Torres

In French.

Nellie LaRoy

It is French already!

Elinor St. John

Would you mind showing me to the upstairs powder room, my dear boy?

Manny Torres

Sure, uh, it's here down the hall.

Elinor St. John

No! No, no, upstairs.

Manny Torres

The stairs are very steep, I think.

Elinor St. John

I can be carried.