Frida (2002)
Salma Hayek: Frida Kahlo
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Quotes
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Frida Kahlo : I had two big accidents in my life Diego, the trolley and you. You are by far the worse.
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Frida Kahlo : I just want your serious opinion.
Diego Rivera : What do you care about my opinion? If you're a real painter, you'll paint because you can't live without painting. You'll paint till you die.
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Frida Kahlo : What do you think matters most for a good marriage?
Guillermo Kahlo : A short memory.
Frida Kahlo : Why did you get married?
Guillermo Kahlo : I can't remember.
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Frida Kahlo : At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
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Diego Rivera : [upon learning Frida has been unfaithful to him with Leon Trotsky] You've broken my heart, Frida.
Frida Kahlo : It hurts doesn't it? But why? It was just a fuck, like a handshake.
Diego Rivera : No. I told you who I was when you married me.
Frida Kahlo : Yes, you did, and I married you anyway. And, you promised to be loyal. You have been my comrade, my fellow artist... my best friend. But you've never been my husband.
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Diego Rivera : I'm here to ask you to marry me.
Frida Kahlo : I don't need rescuing, Diego.
Diego Rivera : I do.
Frida Kahlo : [sighs] I've lost the toes of one foot. My back is useless, I have an infection of the kidneys. I smoke, I drink, I curse. I can't have children. I have no money and a stack of hospital bills. Shall I keep going?
Diego Rivera : It's practically a letter of recommendation.
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Diego Rivera : You know, I don't believe in God... but I thank him every day that he kept you safe for me.
Frida Kahlo : Oh really?... I tell you he's got a lot of explaining to do.
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[Diego refuses to let her attend her show and is taking her prosthetic leg away]
Frida Kahlo : Gimme back my fucking leg!
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Frida Kahlo : [to Diego] I want you to burn this Judas of a body. I don't want to be buried. I've spent enough time lying down. Burn it.
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Frida Kahlo : Did I tell you that I'm going to walk again.
Alex : Yes...
Frida Kahlo : Did you believe it?
Alex : Of course I do.
Frida Kahlo : You'd better, because you are going to miss it.
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Frida Kahlo : Mmm! I always wanted a man with melones bigger than mine.
Diego Rivera : You know what I've always loved?
Frida Kahlo : What?
Diego Rivera : A girl with cojones.
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Frida Kahlo : You've lost weight.
Diego Rivera : And you've lost your toes.
Frida Kahlo : Is that why you're here? To offer your condolences?
Diego Rivera : I'm here to see how you are. How do you feel?
Frida Kahlo : Tired of answering that question. Otherwise, like shit.
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Diego Rivera : Thank you.
Frida Kahlo : For what?
Diego Rivera : For making a fat, old, crazy Communist a happy man.
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Diego Rivera : Hijo de puta! That model, huh?
Diego Rivera : Yes. It was just a fuck, that's all. I've given more affection in a handshake.
Frida Kahlo : Well, that makes me feel so much better. Was she good, at least?
Diego Rivera : Not very.
Frida Kahlo : Too bad. She had such a great ass.
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Diego Rivera : There was this skinny kid with these eyebrows shouting up at me, "Diego, I want to show you my paintings!" But, of course, she made me come down to her, and I did, and I've never stopped looking. But I want to speak about Frida not as her husband, but as an artist. I admire her. Her work is acid and tender... hard as steel... and fine as a butterfly's wing. Loveable as a smile... cruel as... the bitterness of life. I don't believe... that ever before has a women put such agonized poetry on canvas.
Frida Kahlo : [as she's brought into the gallery] Shut up, panzon. Who died?
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Frida Kahlo : They say never believe a limping dog or the tears of a woman.
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Frida Kahlo : Don't think I am going to sleep with you just because you took me under your wing.
Diego Rivera : Before you came along, I was painting murals and womanizing in peace.
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Diego Rivera : Is fidelity that important to you?
Frida Kahlo : Loyalty is important to me. Can you be loyal?
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[first lines]
Frida Kahlo : Careful, guys. This corpse is still breathing. Try to get me there in one piece.
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Guillermo Kahlo : Who's there?
Frida Kahlo : The ghost of Frida Kahlo.
Guillermo Kahlo : I knew her!
Frida Kahlo : How are you?
Guillermo Kahlo : Lonely. Only you ghosts come to visit these days.
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[They kiss for the first time and all the lights in the street turn on when they separate]
Frida Kahlo : Did you arrange for that?
Diego Rivera : Cost me a fortune.
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Diego Rivera : Sex is like pissing. People take it much too seriously. In Russia, oh, my God, in Russia, everyone was fucking like rabbits.
Frida Kahlo : Well, this isn't Russia.
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[last lines]
Frida Kahlo : Happy silver.
Diego Rivera : It's not for two more weeks.
Frida Kahlo : Seventeen days.
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Frida Kahlo : [Carried in her bed, arriving at her exhibition in Mexico] Shut up Panzone. Who died? Where is the music? You see doctor, I followed your orders. I didn't leave my bed.
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Diego Rivera : [after learning that Frida is pregnant] I cannot bare to think of you in pain.
Frida Kahlo : I'm used to pain.
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Diego Rivera : Unfortunately, I'm physiologically incapable of fidelity.
Frida Kahlo : Oh, really?
Diego Rivera : Yes. A doctor acquaintance of mine confirmed this.
Frida Kahlo : What a convenient diagnosis.
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Frida Kahlo : I'm just keeping you honest, panzon.
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Frida Kahlo : If I'm not good enough, I have to do something else to help my parents.
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Frida Kahlo : How am I feeling? I can't even remember what it felt like before the pain.
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Frida Kahlo : When I get out of this cast, I'm going to show you a couple of things I still remember from before.
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Frida Kahlo : I told the doctor the handrail had taken my virginity.
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Frida Kahlo : Right now I'm a burden. But I hope to be a self-sufficient cripple one day.
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Diego Rivera : Do you know Alvarez Bravo?
Frida Kahlo : I know his work. It's good.
Diego Rivera : I'll introduce you to him. He'll want to photograph you.
Frida Kahlo : Without clothes, of course.
Diego Rivera : Of course.
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Frida Kahlo : Some people have told me not to trust what you say. They say if a girl asks your opinion, and she's not a complete fright, you'll gush all over her. I need you to tell me one thing honestly - do you actually believe that I should continue to paint?
Diego Rivera : Yes.
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Diego Rivera : What if I told you that easel painting like yours is finished, that it's headed for the trash like other elitist, bourgeois pastimes?
Frida Kahlo : I'd say cut the propaganda.
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Frida Kahlo : Now you look like a gringa movie star.
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Frida Kahlo : You can't be true to only one woman.
Diego Rivera : True, yes. Faithful, no.
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Frida Kahlo : My mother was wrong about you, you know? She said you were an elephant. But you're not. Elephants are strong and courageous, and they defend their mates. You're a toad. You even look like a toad.
Diego Rivera : And you look like a dog. Dove! Dove! Did I say "dog"? No, I meant "dove." You are my little paloma.
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Diego Rivera : I was at the Ministry explaining why a history of the Mexican people is an appropriate subject for the Mexican National Palace.
Frida Kahlo : Again?
Diego Rivera : When I work, they scream about my politics. When I don't work, they scream about the delays. It's a farce.
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Diego Rivera : I've been offered a show in New York. A solo exhibition at the new Modern Museum. It would be a wonderful entree. I could get commissions out of it. I thought you'd be excited.
Frida Kahlo : They don't care that you're a Communist pig?
Diego Rivera : They can't afford to. All the greatest painters are Communist pigs.
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Diego Rivera : I put socialism on the government walls. I've got the fascists calling me the most dangerous subversive in the country, and I'm the traitor to the party?
Frida Kahlo : Soon we'll have no one left to drink with.
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Frida Kahlo : I see the majesty that Diego sees. But all that American comfort is a myth. While the rich drink their coctelitos, thousands are starving.
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Frida Kahlo : Diego loves it. He's like a big Mexican piñata with enough candy for everyone. Everything about this country inspires him.
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Gracie : Why do you put up with it?
Frida Kahlo : Look, Diego's how he is and that's how I love him. I cannot love him for what he's not.
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Frida Kahlo : If an old man can do it, why not a cripple?
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Frida Kahlo : I'm all right. At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.
Leon Trotsky : That's what I loved about your paintings - that they carry that message. You said that nobody would care about them, but I think you are wrong. Because your paintings express what everyone feels - that they are alone in pain.
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Frida Kahlo : Whatever happens, you have aroused people. You've made them get passionate about their ideals. There's not another painter in the world who can say that.
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Frida Kahlo : Why didn't you tell me Paris was such a nightmare? The French are the most pretentious bores in the world. I'd rather sit on the floor of a market in Toluca selling tortillas than have to listen to the prattling of the artistic bitches of Paris.
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Frida Kahlo : I don't think I'm Frida anymore. I think all the Frida in me has disappeared. Look at what's left.
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Frida Kahlo : Ay, doctor, if you let me have this tequila, I promise not to drink at my funeral.
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Frida Kahlo : The gringos are friendly enough, but the most important thing in Gringolandia is to have ambition - to succeed in becoming somebody.