Helgas flashback #10
“Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.”
Helgas flashback #9
"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."
Helgas flashback #8
"On the bed,
on the floor,
on a towel by the door,
in the tub,
in the car,
up against the mini-bar…."
Helgas flashback #7
"I’d like to see you living like I did, sleeping in a shed! And we ate once a day, that’s all. So, I went with the first one that said "I will bring you to Rome." I married Rome, not him."
Helgas flashback #7
"On s’est connu, on s’est reconnu
On s’est perdu d’vue, on s’est r’perdu d’vue
On s’est retrouvé, on s’est rechauffé
Puis on s’est separé"
Helgas flashback #6
"This is my right; it is the right of every human being. I choose not the suffocating anesthetic of the suburbs, but the violent jolt of the Capital, that is my choice. The meanest patient, yes, even the very lowest is allowed some say in the matter of her own prescription. Thereby she defines her humanity. I wish, for your sake, Leonard, I could be happy in this quietness."
Helgas flashback #5
Me, I keep healthy. I take 7 showers a day to keep clean, also because I’m so vulgarly referred to as "outdoors-y." Well, I’m not "outdoors-y," I’m athletic. I sweat! There it is, now we both know the sordid truth: I sweat, and you’re deaf. Aren’t we a fine pair of misfits?
Helgas flashback #4
My sex change operation got botched; my guardian angel fell asleep on the watch; now all I got is a Barbie doll crotch; I’ve got an angry inch!
Helgas flashback #3
You can break a man’s skull. You can arrest him. You can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you fight an idea?
Helgas flashback #2
"I guess if it wasn’t for Sam, I’d have missed it, whatever it is. I’d have been one of them amity types that thinks that playin’ bridge is about the best thing that life has to offer."