- Chico: You look like a Yankee!
- Rita: But i still like kidney beans...
- Chico: I've seen you in magazines. You're headed for Hollywood, right? Aren't you tired of playing Miss Charming?
- Rita: Don't you like me sitting by your side, eating kidney beans?
- Chico: I like it so much, it frightens me...
- Rita: What are you frightened of?
- Chico: Same thing as you...
- Rita: Why should i be frightened?
- Chico: Of listening to your heart for once. Of leaving your cage and not finding your way back.
- Rita: You really believe that?
- Chico: Uh-huh...
- Rita: Come with me!
- Soldier: [in la habana's airport] Your passaport will be withheld until further notice.
- Chico: What?
- People: [in la habana's streets] Long live the revolution!, Free Cuba!, Long live the bearded!
- Girl: Stupid union!
- [girl kiss in Chico's cheek]
- Girl: Long live the revolution!
- Owner: [in the hotel habana riviera] Chico? They've cancelled tonight's show!
- Chico: What?
- Owner: They don't like this kind of music any more. Jazz is considered imperialist. It's the enemy's music. If you wanna keep on working. You'II have to join the Party. That's it!
- Chico: But. that's crazy!
- Chico: [in the new york's police station] But... what are they accusing me of?
- Detective: [shows him the drugs from your jacket] Drug trafic.
- Chico: What?
- [Chico was deported by the new york's police]
- Chico: An telephone... I need to make a call... Please!
- Police: Shut up! Get in the car!
- [Chico is taken to the airport]
- [last lines]
- Chico: [Chico and Rita they met again at the Motel Eden Rock in Las Vegas] I thought...
- Rita: What?
- Chico: That I'd never see you again.
- Rita: I've been waiting... 47 years for you... waiting for you... everyday... to knock on this door... and just like that... you're here... no call, no nothing.
- Chico: You haven't changed... you look as beautiful... as ever.
- Rita: Oh, Chico!
- Chico: All this time... you were... you were here?
- Rita: They were nice to me... they let me have this room... in exchange for my doing the house-keeping.
- Chico: May I come in?
- [Chico and Rita they kiss and they stand at the Motel Eden Rock]