Selena (1997)
Jennifer Lopez: Selena Quintanilla
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Quotes
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Abie Quintanilla : What's Dad gonna say?
Selena Quintanilla : [imitating Abraham] I don't believe this, son! What were you thinking?
[scene switches]
Abraham Quintanilla : I don't believe this, son! What were you thinking of? Who's that laughing? Is that Selena? Listen, where are you?
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Selena Quintanilla : I've been thinking about the crossover tour a lot. I've even had dreams about it. It's just this whole different world for us, you know? We've been working for this ever since we were kids. I guess I'm a little scared...
[whispers]
Selena Quintanilla : Are they gonna love me, Mama?
Marcela Quintanilla : Yes, Mija, they're gonna love you.
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Abraham : No female has ever made it and now you're number one. You cracked the Tejano market wide open. You walked into Mexico and they don't even accept Mexican-Americans and they love you, and now?
Selena Quintanilla : And now... gringos. Disney World!
Abraham : You remember?
Selena Quintanilla : Uh-huh.
Abraham : And all the barriers that have stopped people before... and you went through them like they didn't exist. Maybe for you they don't exist. I love you, and I'm very proud of you.
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Selena Quintanilla : I may not be street wise and all that, but at least I'm not that dumb!
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Abraham Quintanilla : You were out there wearing a bra!
Selena Quintanilla : It's not a bra!
Abraham Quintanilla : It's a bra with little sprinkly things on it!
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Selena Quintanilla : You know I was just thinking, I've never seen you dance. Do you dance?
Chris Perez : Dance? Oh yea, I dance. Yea I put on my white shoes and black jacket and dance like John Travolta.
Selena Quintanilla : Yea, well, we can dance this. Come on. Let me see you dance.
Chris Perez : I was just kidding.
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[Chris eats pizza with Hot sauce]
Selena Quintanilla : Now you have to try some of mine.
Chris Perez : I don't eat pepperoni, too hot.
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Selena Quintanilla : [on Chris] I love him. And he loves me too.
Abraham Quintanilla : Of course he does! You're young, you're beautiful and you're rich!
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Selena Quintanilla : [their elopement has been heard on the radio and Chris tries to turn to the Corpus Christi entrance] Don't go to Corpus, go the other way!
Chris Perez : Where are we gonna go, Alaska?
Selena Quintanilla : Anywhere but Corpus!
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Selena Quintanilla : Hey dad, what was so important you had to drag me over here?
Abraham : Aye, Selena we have a problem. And I don't know where to start. It's Yolanda.
Selena Quintanilla : What?
Abraham : We started to get complaints from fans who had sent money to the fan club and had received nothing. Not a picture, nada. Then I found out she had a problem with her previous employer.
Selena Quintanilla : Well what kind of problem? Because you know Yolanda. She wouldn't do that.
Abraham : Money problems. We didn't find out about it because they had settled it out of court. But I went to the records at some of the fan clubs to find these cheques. They're very suspicious to me.
[Selena looks at the cheques]
Abraham : And what's worse, is that a lot of the records are missing. Selena, I'm worried. She's been handling a lot of business in the boutiques.
Selena Quintanilla : [unnerved] I know.
