Nadia (1984 TV Movie)

Simone Blue: Older Teodora Ungureanu

Quotes 

• Older Teodora Ungureanu : I took an Olympic silver medal right next to you, and no-one even knows that I was there!

  Older Nadia Comaneci : It's not my fault if people don't pay attention to you! I wish they would! I wish they'd leave me alone.

• Older Teodora Ungureanu : I'm sorry.

  Older Nadia Comaneci : For what?

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : For being jealous. You deserve all your wins.

  Older Nadia Comaneci : I have often wondered what would have happened if Bela had chosen you in Paris, instead of me.

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : So have I.

• Bela Karolyi : You're late again, Teodora; that's two hundred sit-ups.

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : [sarcastically]  Why not make it four hundred?

  Bela Karolyi : Very good idea, make it four hundred.

• Older Teodora Ungureanu : So, Nadia, how do you like Fort Worth?

  Older Nadia Comaneci : The judges were tough on you.

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : It was about right.

  Older Nadia Comaneci : You usually do better. Judges resent the fact that little girls grow up.

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : Nadia, gymnastics has changed, and we're the ones that changed it. What used to be special is now ordinary. You and I, we can't compete with ourselves anymore! I wanted to help the team win if I could, but before Fort Worth, I had already decided to retire. It's tough being with a lot of twelve-year-olds that are better than I am...

  Older Nadia Comaneci : They're not.

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : Not all of them. But they're getting better, and I'm getting worse! It's time.

  Older Nadia Comaneci : What will you do?

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : Join the circus.

  Older Nadia Comaneci : The circus?

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : Yeah. It'll be fun!

• [the Romanian gymnasts have just walked in the parade of athletes at the Montreal Olympic Games and now stand before a huge crowd of spectators] 

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : [whispering]  What do you think?

  Older Nadia Comaneci : [whispering back]  Let's go home!

• Older Nadia Comaneci : Is that how you talk about me when I'm not here?

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : No, I just...

  Older Nadia Comaneci : You tell everybody I'm fat, right?

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : No...

  Older Nadia Comaneci : Right?

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : I don't have to, Nadia. Look at you; you are fat.

• Older Nadia Comaneci : [sitting by an open window, whispers]  Teodora! Teodora! Psst! Over here! Smell that food?

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : Mmmm. What is it?

  Older Nadia Comaneci : I don't know. But I like the way it smells!

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : Do you think they're dancing down there?

  Older Nadia Comaneci : Maybe. I know they're eating, though.

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : I think we ought to sneak down there, don't you?

  [Nadia shakes her head nervously] 

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : Nadia - it's now or never!

  Older Nadia Comaneci : Let's go.

• Sorin Cepoi : [Nadia and Teodora attend their first party in Bucharest, but Nadia is singled out for attention while Teodora is left standing alone at the door. Sorin approaches her:]  You must be the other one!

  Older Teodora Ungureanu : [smiling embarrassedly]  That's me.