Lola (1981)

Barbara Sukowa: Lola

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• Lola : Did you love your wife very much?

  Von Bohm : I don't really know, perhaps. I came back from the war, and told myself: That's the woman I really love, otherwise I wouldn't have married her. But I didn't feel love. It was just... like the memory of love... Then she told me there was someone else, and for the first time since being back, I really felt something. Not love, but pain. I was thankful to my wife for teaching me how to feel again, even if it was pain.

• Esslin : [First lines]  He who has no house shall not build one. He who is alone shall long remain so...

  Lola : Why do you only read me sad poems?

  Esslin : Poetry is always sad.

  Lola : And why's that? Why can't it be funny for once?

  Esslin : Because a poem comes from the soul. And the soul is sad.

  Lola : Is it? And why is that? Nitwit.

  Esslin : Because the soul knows more than the mind. That's why it's sad.

  Lola : Strange. For me, it's the other way around. For me, the mind knows more than the soul.

• Lola : This city isn't for you. You should move on. Anywhere. Just don't stay here.

  Von Bohm : But I've only just arrived. How can this city be bad, if it's good for you?

  Lola : The people here have a private life and a public life, and the two have nothing to do with each other.

• Lola : I am corrupt.

• Lola : Bring your new friend along sometime.

  Schukert : Here? You're nuts.

  Lola : I don't know.

  Schukert : He'll never come here.

  Lola : Why? Is he a homo?

  Schukert : What? That's a good one! Von Bohm, a homo! Von Bomo!

• Esslin : Lola, he's no man for you.

  Lola : He's no man for me? He's no man for me? Well, maybe - I'm a woman for him!

• Lola : Just once I'd like to know why the whole world thinks I'm a leper. Even my own mother.

• Lola : Marie, what will become of you? Your Grandma's a cleaning lady and a spy, your mother's a leprous whore, and your father is a bastard with a zest for life.

  Little Marie : What's a whore?

  Lola's Mother : Marie-Louise!

  Lola : A whore is something for sale, like that Ming thing there. Except you can touch them, and they're not so rare.

• Lola : Hello.

  Lola : What are you doing here?

  Lola's Mother : He lives here. He's a Negro.

  Lola : I can see that.

• Lola : A greedy pig like you is even happy to be called a pig.

• Lola : I don't get it?

  Schukert : Then let me explain, young lady. It's because you have the sweetest ass in all of NATO.

  Lola : Do I?

• Lola : If he knew what you're really like, he wouldn't have said "bird of prey." He'd have said "vulture."

  Schukert : A very useful bird.

• Esslin : Would you want to live in a world that has lost all morality? Where there's only evil and depravity and corruption?

  Lola : Gladly.

• Von Bohm : Strip.

  Lola : Naked? That costs extra.

  Von Bohm : Do you have any of that - slutty underwear?

  Lola : That costs extra too.

  Von Bohm : Then put it on.

• Lola : You're such a sweet bastard.