La Bamba (1987)

Elizabeth Peña: Rosie Morales

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Quotes 

• Bob Morales : Look Rosie, you're not my wife, all right? Stop being such a drag. What the shit's eating you anyway?

  Rosie Morales : I'm pregnant.

  [Bob stops pouring his drink and pauses] 

  Rosie Morales : Well aren't you gonna say anything?

  Bob Morales : What's there to say? It's not my first. Or my last.

• Rosie Morales : [about Bob]  He doesn't want a wife. He wants a love slave, one that he can kick around.

• Connie Valenzuela : How could you do this to Ritchie!

  Bob Morales : To Ritchie? I did this to me, okay!

  Rosie Morales : That's my Bob, always thinking of others first.

  Bob Morales : Shut your goddamn mouth!

  Ritchie Valens : Hey man, don't take it out on Rosie, okay.

  Bob Morales : Ritchie, you don't understand man. You don't understand a goddamn thing!

  [walking away for the others] 

  Bob Morales : What do you think, the whole fuckin' world revolves around you!

• Rosie Morales : [to Bob]  I am not your puta!

• Ted Quillen : [over the radio while the Valenzuelas listen]  We interrupt this program to bring you this bulletin. Four persons, three identified as nationally famous rock and roll singers, died early today in a plane crash five miles north of Clear Lake, Iowa. Buddy Holly, 22, of Lubbock, Texas. Ritchie Valens, 17, of Los Angeles, California. And J.P. Richardson, 29, of Louisiana, known professionally as The Big Bopper.

  Bob Morales : [shocked]  What the shit!

  Rosie Morales : [crying]  Bob, did you hear? Did you hear what the radio said about Ritchie?

  Bob Morales : Are you sure he said Ritchie?

  Rosie Morales : Oh, my God! What about Connie?

  [Bob runs off to tell his mother the tragic news] 

  Rosie Morales : [shocked]  Bob!