Spanglish (2004) quotes

14 total quotes

Cristina Moreno – Victoria Luna
Deborah Clasky – Téa Leoni
Flor Moreno – Paz Vega
John Clasky – Adam Sandler

View Quote Deborah: Do you really think that cupping my breast is going to solve the issue here?
John: It's worked before.
Deborah: Well, now it's infuriating me.
John: Wrong breast.

View Quote Deborah: How are you nicer than me?
John: You didn't set the bar that high.

View Quote Deborah: So tell me again why I can't call him on his cell again?
Evelyn: Besides that he turned it off?
Deborah: Yeah.
Evelyn: Forty messages starts to look needy.

View Quote Evelyn: We have to talk.
Deborah: Mother, are you buzzed?
Evelyn: No. I quit drinking weeks ago! No one noticed, but I guess that's a pretty good indicator that I conducted myself quite well when I was drunk. But this isn't about me right now.

View Quote John: [Trying to explain the money he gave to Cristina. Exasperated] Oh, shit!
Cristina: [Translating for Flor] Ay, mierda!
[Flor looks at her shocked]

View Quote Es lo que quieres para ti? Para llegar a ser alguien muy diferente a mí? [Is what you want for yourself? To become someone very different than me?]

View Quote American women, I believe, actually the feel the same as Hispanic women about weight: a desire for the comfort of fullness. And when that desire is suppressed for style and deprivation allowed to rule, dieting, exercising American women become afraid of everything associated with being curvaceous: such as wantoness, lustfulness, sex, food, motherhood; all that is best in life.

View Quote Do this for me or I'll set my hair on fire and start punching myself in the face! [Victor: Huh?] Yeah, yeah, you're right: that was an unusual way to make myself understood.

View Quote Flor! Look at this child! You could make a fortune doing surrogate pregnancy!

View Quote I know I know we can't do anything, that brings a kind of satisfaction and release, BUT I'M STILL HAVING A GREAT TIME!

View Quote I've been overwhelmed by your encouragement to apply to your university and your list of scholarships available to me. Though, as I hope this essay shows, your acceptance, while it would thrill me, will not define me. My identity rests firmly and happily on one fact: I am my mother's daughter. Thank you, Cristina Moreno.

View Quote They should name a gender after you. Looking at you doesn't do it, staring is the only way that makes sense. And trying not to blink so you don't miss anything. And all of that and you're you. It's just that you are drop dead crazy gorgeous,so much so, that I'm actually considering looking at you again before we finish up here.

View Quote Worrying about your kids is sanity, and being that sane can drive you nuts.

View Quote You were an alcoholic and wildly promiscuous woman during my formative years so that I'm in this fix because of you, it is your fault and I just needed that moment for us to build on.