Claudia Cardinale Quotes

Guido Could you walk out on everything and start all over again? Could you choose one single thing, and be faithful to it? Could you make it the one thing that gives your life meaning... just because you believe in it? Could you do that?

Claudia I don't know... could you?

Guido No, the character I'm thinking of couldn't. He wants to possess and devour everything. He can't pass anything up. He's afraid he'll miss something. He's drained.

Claudia That's how the film ends?

Guido No, that's how it begins. Then he meets a girl at the springs. She gives him water to heal him. She's beautiful... young, yet ancient... child, yet already a woman... authentic, complete. It's obvious that she could be his salvation.

Guido You'll wear white... with long hair, just as you do now.

Jill But... but those were his men.

Harmonica Yeah.

Jill And they tried to kill him.

Harmonica They must've found someone who pays better.

Jill And you! You saved his life.

Harmonica I didn't let them kill him. That's not the same thing.

Jill Mrs. McBain goes back to civilization. Minus a husband and plus a great future.

Cheyenne You deserve better.

Jill The last man who told me that is buried out there.

Cheyenne You know, Jill, you remind me of my mother. She was the biggest whore in Alameda and the finest woman that ever lived. Whoever my father was for an hour or for a month... he must have been a happy man.

Jill If you want to, you can lay me over the table and amuse yourself. And even call in your men. Well. No woman ever died from that. When you're finished, all I'll need will be a tub of boiling water, and I'll be exactly what I was before - with just another filthy memory.

Cheyenne You make good coffee, at least?

Jill What's he waiting for out there? What's he doing?

Cheyenne He's whittlin on a piece of wood. I've got a feeling when he stops whittlin'... Somethin's gonna happen.

Claudia I don't understand. He meets a girl that can give him a new life and he pushes her away?

Guido Because he no longer believes in it.

Claudia Because he doesn't know how to love.

Guido Because it isn't true that a woman can change a man.

Claudia Because he doesn't know how to love.

Guido And above all because I don't feel like telling another pile of lies.

Claudia Because he doesn't know how to love.

Jill I wish you'll come back someday.

Harmonica Someday.