Björk movie quotes

“- Norman: You Commies make a big deal out of sharing everything.
- Selma: Yeah. It's... it's a good thing.
- Norman: What are you doing here if Czechoslovakia's so much better than the U.S.A.?”
Jean-Marc Barr - Norman
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Selma: I'm just not that kind of mother.
- Gene Jezkova: Can't you be that kind of a mother?”

Björk - Selma Jezkova
Vladica Kostic - Gene Jezkova

“- Selma: Would it make you feel better if I told you a secret?
- Bill: What secret could you tell me?
- Selma: I'm going blind. Not yet, but... soon. Maybe sometime this year.
- Bill: Blind...
- Selma: It's not as bad as it sounds. It's, uh... It's a family thing.”
David Morse - Bill Houston
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“This isn't the last song, there's no violin, the choir is quiet, and no one takes a spin, this is the next to last song, and that's all...”

Björk - Selma Jezkova

“I used to dream that I was in a musical, 'cause in a musical nothing dreadful ever happens.”
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Selma: Isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?
- Bill Houston: Why?
- Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever.”
Björk - Selma Jezkova
David Morse - Bill Houston

“- Brenda: You'll be transferred to the other cellblock, at some point tomorrow.
- Selma: That's the cellblock where they hang people?
- Brenda: Yeah. That's were they spend the last day.
- Selma: And then they do the 107 steps - it's from that room to the gallows, isn't it?
- Brenda: That's what they say, Selma. But, look it, you're gonna get...” (continue)(continue reading)
Siobhan Fallon - Brenda
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Jeff: Why did you have him? You knew he would have the same disease as you.
- Selma: I just wanted to hold a little baby.”

Peter Stormare - Jeff
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Kathy: I am not that big. And happy, I don't know.
- Selma: You just need someone to pull it out.”
Catherine Deneuve - Kathy
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Kathy: Listen to reason for once, Selma!
- Selma: I listen to my heart.”
Catherine Deneuve - Kathy
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“I've got little games I play when it goes really hard. When I'm working in the factory... and the machines, they make these... rhythms... And I just start dreaming, and it all becomes music.”
Björk - Selma Jezkova

“- Jeff: I don't understand. In musicals... why do they start to sing and dance all of a sudden? I mean, I don't suddenly start... to sing and dance.
- Selma: No... You're right, Jeff. You don't.”
Peter Stormare - Jeff
Björk - Selma Jezkova