Selma Ježková
In Czechoslovakia, I saw a film, and they were eating candy from a tin just like this. I thought to myself... how wonderful it must be in the United States.
Most-quoted character in Dancer In The Dark (2000): in 13 of its 13 quotes
Most scenes with: Jeff (3), Kathy (3)
I've got little games I play when it goes really hard. When I'm working in the factory... and the machines, they make these... rhythms... And I just start dreaming, and it all becomes music.
More lines from Selma Ježková
3 quotes
Selma Ježková
Clatter, crash, clack! Racket, bang, thump! Rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam! It's music, now dance!
Selma Ježková
I used to dream that I was in a musical coz in a musical nothing dreadful ever happens.
Scenes with Selma Ježková
9 scenes
Selma
You're fantastic. You just have to listen to your heart, Cvalda.
I don't want you to call me Cvalda.
Selma
You're Cvalda to me.
Selma
[in the cinema, asking description of the movie because she can't see]
How is she doing?
It's when she cannot keep up, and she's going to faint. Ah, she fainted.
Angry man
Please be quiet.
Oh, give us a break. She doesn't see that well.
Angry man
I paid good money to see this film.
Well, so did she.
Selma
I love it when they dance.
Angry man
For Pete's sake, it's a musical. Of course they're dancing!
We know that!
Angry man
Oh, you're so smart.
Yes.
Selma
I think you made friends, Kathy. [laughing]
Selma
Would it make you feel better If I told you a secret?
Bill What secret could you tell me?
Selma
I'm going blind. Not yet, but... soon. Maybe sometime this year.
Bill Blind...
Selma
It's not as bad as it sounds. It's, uh... It's a family thing.
Bill But, blind?
Selma
I've always known it. From... when I was a little girl, I knew.
Bill And you're okay?
Selma
Well, I came to America because in America, they can give Gene an operation.
Selma
You know when the camera goes really big and it comes up out of the roof, and you just know that it's gonna end? I hate that. I used to cheat on that when I was a little girl back in Czechoslovakia. I would leave the cinema just after the next to last song, and the film would just go on forever. It's lovely, isn't it?
Bill That is lovely.
Look, I don't understand. In musicals... why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden? I mean, I don't suddenly start... to sing and dance.
Selma
No... You're right, Jeff. You don't.
You can't see, can you?
Selma
What is there to see?
Brenda Why don't you try to think of something nice, all right?
Selma
It's just so quiet here.
Brenda What's that got to do with it, Selma?
Selma
You know, when I used to work in the factory... I used to dream that I was in a musical... Because, in a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.
But he needs his mother, you know, alive, no matter where!
Selma
You don't understand! He needs his eyes!
He needs his mother!
Selma
No!
Yes! Alive!
Selma
NO!!
Listen to reason for once, Selma! Selma...
Selma
I listen to my heart...
Why did you have him? You knew he would have the same disease as you.
Selma
I just wanted to hold a little baby... just in my arms.