Selena Quintanilla Quotes in Selena (1997)

Abie Quintanilla: What's Dad gonna say?

Selena Quintanilla: [imitating Abraham] I don't believe this, son! What were you thinking?

[scene switches]

Abraham Quintanilla: I don't believe this, son! What were you thinking of? Who's that laughing? Is that Selena? Listen, where are you?

Abraham Quintanilla: You were out there wearing a bra!

Selena Quintanilla: It's not a bra!

Abraham Quintanilla: It's a bra with little sprinkly things on it!

Selena Quintanilla: I may not be street wise and all that, but at least I'm not that dumb!

Selena Quintanilla: I've been thinking about the crossover tour a lot. I've even had dreams about it. It's just this whole different world for us, you know? We've been working for this ever since we were kids. I guess I'm a little scared...

[whispers]

Selena Quintanilla: Are they gonna love me, Mama?

Marcela Quintanilla: Yes, Mija, they're gonna love you.

Selena Quintanilla: [their elopement has been heard on the radio and Chris tries to turn to the Corpus Christi entrance] Don't go to Corpus, go the other way!

Chris Perez: Where are we gonna go, Alaska?

Selena Quintanilla: Anywhere but Corpus!

Selena Quintanilla: You know I was just thinking, I've never seen you dance. Do you dance?

Chris Perez: Dance? Oh yea, I dance. Yea I put on my white shoes and black jacket and dance like John Travolta.

Selena Quintanilla: Yea, well, we can dance this. Come on. Let me see you dance.

Chris Perez: I was just kidding.

[Chris eats pizza with Hot sauce]

Selena Quintanilla: Now you have to try some of mine.

Chris Perez: I don't eat pepperoni, too hot.

Abraham: No female has ever made it and now you're number one. You cracked the Tejano market wide open. You walked into Mexico and they don't even accept Mexican-Americans and they love you, and now?

Selena Quintanilla: And now... gringos. Disney World!

Abraham: You remember?

Selena Quintanilla: Uh-huh.

Abraham: And all the barriers that have stopped people before... and you went through them like they didn't exist. Maybe for you they don't exist. I love you, and I'm very proud of you.

Selena Quintanilla: Hey dad, what was so important you had to drag me over here?

Abraham: Aye, Selena we have a problem. And I don't know where to start. It's Yolanda.

Selena Quintanilla: What?

Abraham: We started to get complaints from fans who had sent money to the fan club and had received nothing. Not a picture, nada. Then I found out she had a problem with her previous employer.

Selena Quintanilla: Well what kind of problem? Because you know Yolanda. She wouldn't do that.

Abraham: Money problems. We didn't find out about it because they had settled it out of court. But I went to the records at some of the fan clubs to find these cheques. They're very suspicious to me.

[Selena looks at the cheques]

Abraham: And what's worse, is that a lot of the records are missing. Selena, I'm worried. She's been handling a lot of business in the boutiques.

Selena Quintanilla: [unnerved] I know.

Selena Quintanilla: [on Chris] I love him. And he loves me too.

Abraham Quintanilla: Of course he does! You're young, you're beautiful and you're rich!