Eli Wallach: Sancho Panza, Cervantes' Manservant

Quotes 

• [Sancho is dozing in the saddle of his donkey] 

  Don Quixote de la Mancha : Sancho.

  [Sancho wakes with a start] 

  Sancho Panza : Huh? Oh, forgive me, Your Grace, I was... dreaming.

  Don Quixote de la Mancha : Of adventure?

  Sancho Panza : Of home. Of my wife, Teresa, and my children. I can see their little mustaches now!

• Don Quixote de la Mancha : Oh, Sancho, I envy them.

  Sancho Panza : I wouldn't, Your Grace, unless they are feeling better than you.

• Sancho Panza : [close to tears, sitting by the dying Don Quixote's bedside]  What a time I've been having since I got back, Your Grace. You know my wife Teresa, how strong she is... muscles like a bull. Well, she beat me. She hit me with everything but the house itself. And she yells at me... "Where's all the gold and all the jewels you were going to bring back? Where's that kingdom you were going to conquer?" Well, I kept a dignified silence, Your Grace... because there are some questions you just can't answer. Like when a man yells, "What are you doing with my wife?" That's a question you just can't answer.

• Sancho Panza : One of these days, it'll get you killed.

  Don Quixote de la Mancha : [delirious]  Never- never!

• Sancho Panza : [sobbing into the wall]  He's dead! My master is dead!