Film Quotes Foreign Language Edition

Monica Vitti in L'Eclisse.

It's time for the 13th iteration of film quotes. Today's is the first to include only quotes from foreign language films. A few of these have previously appeared in film quotes posts.

We spent the whole night talking things over. And for what? I'm so tired and depressed. Disgusted and confused. What can I say? There are times when holding a needle and thread, or a book, or a man - it's all the same. -- Monica Vitti as Vittoria in L’Eclisse (1962).

Worldly wealth corrupts souls and withers hearts. It makes men contemptuous, unjust, pitiless in their egoism. I understand the anger of those who have nothing when the rich feast so arrogantly. —  Philippe Morier-Genoud as Pere Jean in Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987).

We must make an idol of our fear, and call it god. — Max von Sydown as Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal (1957).

You know what kind of plan never fails? No plan. No plan at all. You know why? Because life cannot be planned. Look around you. Did you think these people made a plan to sleep in the sports hall with you? But here we are now, sleeping together on the floor. So, there's no need for a plan. You can't go wrong with no plans. We don't need to make a plan for anything. It doesn't matter what will happen next. Even if the country gets destroyed or sold out, nobody cares. Got it?— Kang-ho Song as Ki-taek in Parasite (2019).

Sometimes everything seems just like a dream. It's not my dream, it's somebody else's. But I have to participate in it. How do you think someone who dreams about us would feel when he wakes up. Feeling ashamed? — Liv Ullman as Eva Rosenberg in Shame (1968).

Maribel Verdu in Y Tu Mama Tambien

We do things my way! One more fight and I'm gone for good!... Now we play by my rules. I won't fuck with any of you. Fuck each other, if you wish. 2. I sunbathe naked and I don't want you sniffing around like dogs. 3. I pick the music. 4. The moment I ask, please shut your mouths. 5. You cook. 6. No stories about your poor girlfriends. 7. If I ask, stay 10 yards from me. Or better 100. 8. Obviously, you do all the manual labor. 9. You may not speak of things you don't agree on. Even better, just keep your mouths shut. 10. You're not allowed to contradict me, much less push me. — Maribel Verdu as Luisa in Y Tu Mama Tambien (2001).

If you ever find me face down in the gutter, turn me around to my back. — Antti Reini as Electrician in The Man Without a Past (2002).

If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day. — Irina Tarkovskaya as Ivan’s mother in Ivan’s Childhood (1962).

You are everything... everything! You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home. — Marcello Mastrioni as Marcello in La Dolce Vita (1960).

As a little girl I learned: "Our Father who art in heaven." I thought it said "who arts in heaven." I imagined my father with an easel painting outside the pearly gates. — Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules and Jim. (1962).

For me it's simple. A golf course is for golf. A tennis court is for tennis. A prison camp is for escaping. — Pierre Fresnay as Le captaine de Boeldieu in La Grande Illusion (1937).

When the child was a child, it was the time of these questions. Why am I me, and why not you? Why am I here, and why not there? When did time begin, and where does space end? Isn't life under the sun just a dream? Isn't what I see, hear, and smell just the mirage of a world before the world? Does evil actually exist, and are there people who are really evil? How can it be that I, who am I, wasn't before I was, and that sometime I, the one I am, no longer will be the one I am? — Bruno Ganz as Daniel in Wings of Desire( 1987).

It's about a society on its way down. And as it falls,it keeps telling itself: "So far so good... So far so good... So far so good." It's not how you fall that matters. It's how you land. — Vincent Cassel as Vinz in La Haine (1995).

Here in America, they value women. It's not like bloody Sweden where they use us like maids during the days and as mattresses at nights. — Monica Zetterlund as Ulrika in The New Land (1972).

You see it, God, you see it. The innocent child's death and my revenge. You allowed it. I don't understand you. Yet now I beg your forgiveness. I know no other way to be reconciled with my own hands. I know no other way to live. — Max von Sydow as Töre in The Virgin Spring (1960).

Ingrid Bergman in Stromboli.

I am your wife. And this is your home, but, I'm not like you. You slept very well last night, huh? But, I didn't sleep. I'm different. I'm very different from you. I belong to another class. I can't live like this in this filth! This is no life for civilized people. Keep on counting your nineteen thousand liras. You need much more for a woman like me. — Ingrid Bergman as Karin in Stromboli (1950).

Skin like satin, like a true courtesan of the Roman Empire. Here's something for your left-wing readers: no undergarments were found in the apartment. — Gian Maria Volontè as Dottore in Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970).

This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself. — Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada in Seven Samurai (1954).

I believe the common people, the lower class people, are less sensitive to pain. Haven't you ever seen a wounded bull? Not a trace of pain. — Patricia Moran as Rita Ugdale in The Exterminating Angel (1962).

A kid? I smoke, I snort. I've killed and robbed. I'm a man. — Darian Cunha as Filé-com-Fritas in City of God (2002).