Mandalay (1934)

Rafaela Ottiano: Madame Lacalles

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• Madame Lacalles : Good morning, Tanya. Still on hunger strike? You're making such a fool of yourself. If I had your beauty and my experience, hmm, what I could do.

  Madame Lacalles : [Tanya is unresponsive]  Well, I don't suppose it's any use in my telling you. You'll have to find out for yourself. But if you've got any sense, you'll make the best of it. You'll go on living. And before you get through, you'll find out that it's easier to make men do what you want them to, than it is to fall in love, and have *them* make a fool of *you.* Anyway, you're pretty enough to go a long way - if you use your head.

  Madame Lacalles : [continues, as Tanya remains blank]  You'd like to get away from here, wouldn't you? Well, make these thick-headed goats do it for you. Use them for everything they're worth. And then you can laugh at them, just like one of them is laughing at you now.

  Madame Lacalles : [continues]  It's no use lying there, worrying like this. It doesn't get you anywhere. All you get out of it is a headache. And what can you do? Make the most of it.

  Tanya Borodoff : [casually lights a cigarette, exhales a puff of smoke]  I think you're right. Thanks.