Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Björk: Selma Jezkova

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• Selma : You like the movies, don't you?

  Bill Houston : I love the movies. I just love the musicals.

  Selma : But isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?

  Bill Houston : Why?

  Selma : Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever.

• Jeff : You can't see, can you?

  Selma : What is there to see?

• Selma : In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.

• Selma : [singing]  This isn't the last song, there's no violin, the choir is quiet, and no one takes a spin, this is the next to last song, and that's all...

• Jeff : [referring to Gene]  Why did you have him? You knew he would have the same disease as you.

  Selma : I just wanted to hold a little baby.

• Selma : Clatter, crash, clack, racket, bang, thump, rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam! It's music, now dance!

• Selma : I listen to my heart.

• Selma : There's no more to see...

• Selma : Cvalda.

  Kathy : Why do you call me that?

  Selma : It's like, someone whose...

  Kathy : What?

  Selma : I don't know, just big and happy.

  Kathy : I am not that big. And happy, I don't know.

  Selma : You just need someone to pull it out.

• Selma : I'm just not that kind of mother.

  Gene Jezkova : Can't you be that kind of a mother?

• Bill Houston : Thank you for telling me your secret.

  Selma : Thanks for telling me yours.

  Bill Houston : Mums the word, right?

  Selma : Mum?

  Bill Houston : We don't tell anybody.

  Selma : Oh, yes, I won't tell anyone.

• Brenda : You'll be transferred to the other cellblock, at some point tomorrow.

  Selma : That's the cellblock where they hang people?

  Brenda : Yeah. That's were they spend the last day.

  Selma : And then they do the 107 steps - it's from that room to the gallows, isn't it?

  Brenda : That's what they say, Selma. But, look it, you're gonna get your stay. Why don't you try to think of something nice. All right?

  Selma : It's just so quiet here.

• Kathy : But he needs his mother, you know, alive, no matter where!

  Selma : You don't understand! He needs his eyes!

  Kathy : He needs his mother!

  Selma : No!

  Kathy : Yes! Alive!

  Selma : NO!

  Kathy : Listen to reason for once, Selma! Selma...

  Selma : I listen to my heart...

• Selma : You keep readin'.

  Gene Jezkova : So long, farewell auf wiedersehen, adieu, adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu.

  Selma : To yieu and yieu. What - what does that mean? Yieu?

  Gene Jezkova : It's your dumb musical.

  Selma : Yieu?

  Gene Jezkova : It's German.

  Selma : Do you think?

• Selma : [singing]  Forgive me. I am so sorry. I just did what I had to do, I just did what I had to do, I just did what I had to do, I just did what I had to do.

• Norman : You Commie's make a big deal out of sharing everything.

  Selma : Yeah. It's - it's a good thing.

  Norman : What are you doing here - if - eh, Czechoslovakia's so much better than the U. S. of A.?

• Oldrich Novy : [singing]  I didn't mind it at all. That you were having a ball - at my musicals. And I was always there to catch you.

  Selma : You were always there to catch me. You were always there to catch me. You were always there to catch me. When I fall.