Freaks (1932)

Harry Earles: Hans

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Quotes 

• Cleopatra : Can't you see it was only a joke?

  Hans : [broken hearted]  Our wedding a joke... now I see why it's funny.

• Hans : Are you laughing at me?

  Cleopatra : Why no, monsieur.

  Hans : Thanks, I'm glad.

  Cleopatra : Why should they laugh at you?

  Hans : Most big people do, they don't realize that I'm a man with the same feelings they have.

• Frieda : [Cleopatra is on the high trapeze; Frieda says in German]  Ach, Die ist doch so prachtvoll, nicht wahr, Hans?

  [Oh, she is so grand, isn't she, Hans?] 

  Hans : [admiring Cleopatra]  She's the most beautiful big woman I have ever seen.

• Hans : Dummkopf! What have you on your shoulders for heads? Swiss cheese?

• Hans : Give me that little black bottle.

• Cleopatra : [yelling at the Freaks, who just had a "We Accept Her" party for Cleo]  Get out of here! Make me one of you, will you?

  Cleopatra : [to Hans]  Well, what are you going to do? What are you, a man or a baby?

  Hans : [humiliated by the way she treated his Freak friends]  Please, please. You make me ashamed.

  Cleopatra : [mocks him]  Ashamed? You?

  Cleopatra : [sarcastically]  Ooh! Holy jumping Christmas!

• Cleopatra : [faking that she has a pain in her left shoulder]  Oh! Oww!

  Hans : [concerned, immediately goes to her]  What's the matter, Cleo? What's the matter?

  Cleopatra : Oh, I think I strained my shoulder last night. Give it a rub, will you?

  Cleopatra : [pulls the left side of her blouse way down, exposing part of her back, her underarm, and part of her bosom]  Farther.

  Cleopatra : [tries hard not to laugh; Hercules and the 2 Circus Workers can't keep from laughing]  Farther down, down. Over, over.

  Cleopatra : [pretending she is getting turned on, by Hans enthusiastically massaging her]  Oh, it's so good to be rubbed.

  Circus Worker : [and Another Circus Worker, holding out poker cards to Cleopatra, facetiously]  Our cards, lady!

  Cleopatra : What for?

  Circus Worker : [and Another Circus Worker]  A couple of rubbers from Berlin.

  [they all laugh] 

  Hans : [very angry, in German]  Ihr können nicht über meine Frau so sprechen! Ihr gehören auf die Strassen! Ihr niedrigen, dreckigen Schweinen!

  [You can't talk about my woman like that! You belong on the streets! You low-down, dirty pigs!] 

  Hercules : [and the 2 Circus Workers, laughing hysterically]  Ha, ha, ha!

• Frieda : [Frieda visits Hans at his trailer, to talk about Cleopatra]  Now that I'm here, I don't know how to say it, how to make you understand. If you knew how I feel, Hans, to come to you about her.

  Hans : Oh, Frieda, I'm so sorry. I don't want to hurt you, but ich kann es nicht helfen.

  [but I can not help it] 

  Frieda : If you could be happy, Hans, I would not care.

  Hans : But I am happy, Frieda. Never in my life was I so happy.

  Frieda : No, Hans. You think it only. For you, she cannot bring happiness... To me, you're a man. But to her, you're only something to laugh at.

• Frieda : I was saying, tonight you must not smoke such a big cigar. Your voice was very bad at tonight's show.

  Hans : Please, Frieda, don't tell me what I do. When I want a cigar, I smoke a cigar. I want no orders from a woman.

• Cleopatra : You must come to see me sometime. And we'll have a little wine together.

  [pinches Hans' cheek] 

  Hans : Thank you, Fräulein.