The Golden Coach (1952)

Anna Magnani: Camilla

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Quotes 

• Camilla : I must understand. I'm absolutely sincere in life and on the stage. Then why do I succeed on the stage and destroy everything in my life? Where is truth? Where does the theater end and life begin?

• Camilla : At the end of the second act, when Colombine goes, driven away by her masters, there is a tradition you seem not to know. The comedians bow to her.

• Camilla : I still believe.

  Felipe : Believe what?

  Camilla : That those two hours on the stage every night, are worth everything.

• Camilla : Oh, Felipe, it's impossible. I can't win them in a foreign language.

  Felipe : Win who?

  Camilla : Them - the audience. The only "them" who matters.

• Camilla : You there, don't glare at me like that. I'm not a bull.

  [Ramon, the matador, laughs] 

• Camilla : Felipe! Felipe, they like me! These people.

  Felipe : Wait until you know them.

  Camilla : I don't want to know them. I want to feel they're there. Like tonight. It was wonderful. Wonderful!

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Mademoiselle, what is your name?

  Camilla : Colombine on the stage, Your Highness. In life, Camilla.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Thank you. It's a rare occasion when I'm able to laugh like this.

  Camilla : Why? You should all be so happy - you're laden with gold.

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : That's it. That's the point. We're here only for this treacherous gold. No one dreams of anything else. And where gold commands, laughter vanishes. If you had a gold mine here, you too would stop laughing.

  Camilla : No, no. Never!

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : If you did find one, what would you do?

  Camilla : Buy a beautiful golden coach - just as you did.

• Camilla : [from the stage]  Money. Always money. There must be more to life. Grieving in my heart, love struggles to awake.

• Camilla : Can they be learned?

  Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : What?

  Camilla : All those nice little tricks. Your ease. The way you dismiss everything feel is so important.

• Felipe : Camilla, are you happy? You've had great success.

  Camilla : And great complication. Success is not always enough.

• Felipe : I was a prisoner of the Indians for many months. At first, it was miserable. Then, I began to learn their language and to understand their way of life. Now, I know them. They're not savages. They helped me discover a truth and kindness and beauty.

  Camilla : Tell me.

  Felipe : They're much better than we are. That's what I've discovered.

• Ferdinand, Le Viceroy : Now, I can love you like an ordinary man.

  Camilla : You love me like a man. Can I love - like a real woman?

• [last lines] 

  Camilla : Felipe, Ramon, the Viceroy... disappeared, gone... Don't they exist anymore?

  Don Antonio : Disappeared - now they are a part of the audience. Do you miss them?

  Camilla : ...A little.