Mercedes Salinas Quotes in Mahogany Sunrise (2014)

Mercedes Salinas: So, tell me all about your pretty boy face. What's you name?

Jackson Schultz: Jackson. What's your name?

Mercedes Salinas: Mercedes.

Jackson Schultz: [waitress comes over] Can I buy you a drink?

Mercedes Salinas: [takes charge] I'll have a Mexican margarita, Sally.

[She moves closer to Jackson]

Mercedes Salinas: So, where are you from?

John Morrison: [interjects] We're from Austin.

Jackson Schultz: Yeah we're here doing some work at the community college.

Mercedes Salinas: Cruising for college girls?

Jackson Schultz: [smiles] Not exactly. We're updating their VOIP suite.

Mercedes Salinas: [quizzically] IP suite?

Jackson Schultz: You can go ahead and forget that. It's geek speak, I'm sorry.

Jackson Schultz: [seeing Mercedes being strong armed by Chato] Let her go.

Mercedes Salinas: Stay out of this.

Chato: Who's this chapete? Get the fuck out of here gringo.

Juan: [noticing that Jackson is carrying a guitar case] You gonna play us some music white boy?

Mota: Hey, you a long way from home Malibu

[laughs]

Jackson Schultz: [looks at Chato] I said let her go.

Mercedes Salinas: [Mercedes eyes scan the sheets of fashion sketches as she shuffles through them] I always wanted to be a fashion designer. I would drive my mother and my family crazy with my "fashion shows".

Jackson Schultz: Why not fashion then?

Mercedes Salinas: I'm just a girl from this small town. Who's gonna want to wear my stuff?

Jackson Schultz: How do you know if you never try?

Mercedes Salinas: [She smiles. Then comes over and sits beside Jackson on the bed. She looks over at her guitar leaning against the wall] You see that guitar right there. My father gave it to me. About the only thing he left me.

[She looks to Jackson]

Mercedes Salinas: Play me something.

Mrs. Salinas: When are you going to get it together and find a better job?

[Mercedes rolls her eyes, she's heard it all before]

Mrs. Salinas: You need to be a better mother and start thinking about your daughter.

Mercedes Salinas: That's what I'm doing. That's why I work at that place. So, I can make the money for her to be in that school.

Mrs. Salinas: Who is this guy? Where did you meet him... at the club?

Mercedes Salinas: Yes. It's not like that. Mom, you see him, he's in there reading to Melissa. He's a good guy.

Mrs. Salinas: [coming over to sit next Mercedes on the couch] Why do you always do this? You meet these guys. What makes you think he's different?

Mercedes Salinas: Well. He's not from this town. He's not in a gang...

Mrs. Salinas: But he's going to hurt you. All men do. They lie and they take, take till there's nothing left. And then they leave.

Mercedes Salinas: Ma, just because father left

[beat]

Mercedes Salinas: doesn't make every man like him

Mrs. Salinas: What if he comes back? What am I supposed to tell him?

Mercedes Salinas: [With Melissa in tow, she turns back before she leaves] Tell him I've left.

[beat]

Mercedes Salinas: Tell him I never want to see him again.