Freaks (1932)

Olga Baclanova: Cleopatra

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Quotes 

• Cleopatra : Can't you see it was only a joke?

  Hans : [broken hearted]  Our wedding a joke... now I see why it's funny.

• Hans : Are you laughing at me?

  Cleopatra : Why no, monsieur.

  Hans : Thanks, I'm glad.

  Cleopatra : Why should they laugh at you?

  Hans : Most big people do, they don't realize that I'm a man with the same feelings they have.

• Cleopatra : [Invites Hercules into her circus wagon for a meal. Picks up an egg]  How many?

  Hercules : Oh, I'm not very hungry. About six.

  Cleopatra : [Hands on her hips, she sticks out her bosom in a low-cut outfit]  How do you like them?

  Hercules : [looking at "them", meaning her bosom, he smiles]  Not bad.

  [grabs her] 

  Cleopatra : Oh, you are strong. You are squeezing me to death.

  Hercules : And you'll like it!

  Cleopatra : Oh, you are taking my breath away.

• Cleopatra : [yelling at the Freaks, who just had a "We Accept Her" party for Cleo]  Get out of here! Make me one of you, will you?

  Cleopatra : [to Hans]  Well, what are you going to do? What are you, a man or a baby?

  Hans : [humiliated by the way she treated his Freak friends]  Please, please. You make me ashamed.

  Cleopatra : [mocks him]  Ashamed? You?

  Cleopatra : [sarcastically]  Ooh! Holy jumping Christmas!

• Cleopatra : [faking that she has a pain in her left shoulder]  Oh! Oww!

  Hans : [concerned, immediately goes to her]  What's the matter, Cleo? What's the matter?

  Cleopatra : Oh, I think I strained my shoulder last night. Give it a rub, will you?

  Cleopatra : [pulls the left side of her blouse way down, exposing part of her back, her underarm, and part of her bosom]  Farther.

  Cleopatra : [tries hard not to laugh; Hercules and the 2 Circus Workers can't keep from laughing]  Farther down, down. Over, over.

  Cleopatra : [pretending she is getting turned on, by Hans enthusiastically massaging her]  Oh, it's so good to be rubbed.

  Circus Worker : [and Another Circus Worker, holding out poker cards to Cleopatra, facetiously]  Our cards, lady!

  Cleopatra : What for?

  Circus Worker : [and Another Circus Worker]  A couple of rubbers from Berlin.

  [they all laugh] 

  Hans : [very angry, in German]  Ihr können nicht über meine Frau so sprechen! Ihr gehören auf die Strassen! Ihr niedrigen, dreckigen Schweinen!

  [You can't talk about my woman like that! You belong on the streets! You low-down, dirty pigs!] 

  Hercules : [and the 2 Circus Workers, laughing hysterically]  Ha, ha, ha!

• Cleopatra : [playing with Frieda's skirt]  Nice, nice.

  Frieda : [pokes at her with her wand]  Don't, don't.

• Cleopatra : OOH! HOLY JUMPING CHRISTMAS!

• Cleopatra : You dirty, slimy, freaks! Freaks, freaks, freaks! You fools! Make me one of you, will you?

• Cleopatra : You must come to see me sometime. And we'll have a little wine together.

  [pinches Hans' cheek] 

  Hans : Thank you, Fräulein.

• Cleopatra : [invites Hercules into her trailer]  Oh, come on in. Help yourself to a drink.

  Hercules : Ach, that is fine.

  [pours 2 drinks, from a big bottle] 

  Cleopatra : Do you feel like eating something?

  Hercules : Always!

  [hands her a glass] 

  Hercules : Prosit.