Rosie Velez Quotes in Lust in the Dust (1985)

Rosie Velez: Always the little ones got something to prove.

Rosie Velez: Marguerita?

Marguerita Ventura: The customers call me "Marguerita". The territory calls me "Marguerita". My real close friends call me "Miss Ventura."

Marguerita Ventura: You bitch!

Rosie Velez: Ever since I came here, you've done nothing but treat me like shit. Who the hell do you think you are? Yeah, I was a dance hall girl, but what makes you so high and mighty? You own a whorehouse! A whorehouse!... and with only three whores in it. One of them is just a senile old cow.

[aside to Big Ed]

Rosie Velez: No offense, honey.

[back to Maguerita]

Rosie Velez: And the other one's so new at it, she doesn't know which end to use. So what does that make you? The only whore in Chili Verde. Yeah, I came here for the gold, because I've been poor all my life.

Marguerita Ventura: You've got it all wrong, honey. You've been cheap all your life.

Rosie Velez: Cheap?

[picks up a chair, and breaks it over Maguerita]

Rosie Velez: This furniture is cheap.

[Rosie's canteen falls and empties its contents in the desert]

Rosie Velez: My gin!

[Rosie is trying to coax her mule]

Rosie Velez: Only a few more little miles. Only a few more itsy-bitsy, eeny-weeny little miles...

[angry]

Rosie Velez: ... and then you can drop dead, you miserable hunk of shit!

Rosie Velez: Where are you doing? Don't leave me out here, mister! Oh, I beg you! My ass is on its last legs! I'll die! I've got nothing to eat!

[Abel looks up, and shoots in the air. A dead vulture crashes to earth]

Rosie Velez: [sarcastic] Thanks.

[Hard Case's gang moves forward to rape Rosie]

Rosie Velez: No! Stop! Wait! I'm a...

[looks down]

Rosie Velez: ...virgin.

Hard Case Williams: A virgin? Really?

[Rosie nods yes]

Hard Case Williams: That DOES make a difference. Then I'LL go first.

[Hard Case starts sneezing violently]

Hard Case Williams: I've had carnal knowledge of 215 women and two goats...

Chang, Hard Case Gang: And the chicken?

[Hard Case makes a so-so gesture]

Rosie Velez: I spy with my little eye something that begins with "C". Give up? CHILE VERDE!

Hard Case Williams: Being a leader of men is a very solitary business, miss. So I've been very concerned about my men's libidos until you so conveniently came on the scene.

Rosie Velez: I'm afraid I don't understand, sir. Are you speaking English? Eso es ingles?

Hard Case Williams: Poon tang! Poon tang! Is that any clearer little lady? My curse is that I've received the education befitting the son of a Boston preacher, may he rot in hellfire. But I do believe that you get the thrust of my meaning. My men are as horny as jackrabbits.

Maguerita Ventura: [at Rosie, who is scrubbing the floor] Finished, Honey?

Rosie Velez: You could eat off this floor. And *you* probably will.

Marguerita Ventura: [at Rosie, who is scrubbing the floor] There *are* other ways of earning your keep around here, you know.

[implying prostitution]

Rosie Velez: I'd rather die first.

Marguerita Ventura: Why, Sugar, you must've died a thousand times.

[laughing]

Marguerita Ventura: Lose your way, Honey?

Rosie Velez: Well, it's the cockroach's shift. *I* sleep from 3 to 10.

Marguerita Ventura: If you don't like this place, you can git.

Rosie Velez: Oh, yeah. Well I ain't going nowhere until I find that gold that everybody's been so careful *not* to mention.

Marguerita Ventura: You think you can just breeze into town and dig it up, huh? Buena suerte. Some of us have been looking for it for *years*.

Rosie Velez: [snidely] You can tell.

Marguerita Ventura: [insinuating Rosie killed Red Dick] So... that only leaves *one* person.

Rosie Velez: Don't look at me; I slept like a log.

Marguerita Ventura: Why not? You look like one.

Rosie Velez: Oh well. Maybe he'll be back tomorrow. After all, tomorrow *is* another day.