Summer and Smoke (1961)

Rita Moreno: Rosa Zacharias

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Quotes 

• Mrs. Ewell : You watch yourself now, Rosa. Seems to me, you got a tiger by the tail.

  Rosa Zacharias : Mmm. He's a tiger, all right.

  Mrs. Ewell : And I'll bet you're the one who can tame him!

• John Buchanan, Jr : Why is it that whenever we make love, you never make love without biting or scratching or leaving a little blood on me?

  Rosa Zacharias : Because I know I can't hold you and maybe I'm *angry*.

  [kiss] 

  John Buchanan, Jr : You're doing a better job of holding me than anyone else has.

  Rosa Zacharias : For how long, Johnny? One summer? Unless maybe I trap you.

  [pushes Johnny down, gets on top of him, gives him a long kiss] 

• Rosa Zacharias : I was born in the palmetto country and grew up in a one-room house with a dirt floor. And all of us had to sleep in that room, Johnny. Five of us and three geese. And sometimes in the night I would hear sounds that - passed for love. And I used to think to myself how dirty it was, those sounds, and having to sleep on a dirt floor and not smelling good because there wasn't any bathtub.

• Rosa Zacharias : Something might go wrong tonight and - I'll wind up with some dark little friend of Papa's.