For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)

Akim Tamiroff: Pablo

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Quotes 

• Pilar : Don't try to frighten us, coward!

  Pablo : Coward? Is it cowardly to know what's foolish? Or am I a leader for nothing? Haven't I brought you all alive through a year of this war? This foreigner comes here to do a thing for the good of the *foreigners*. And for this good, you want to sacrifice us! I'm for the good and safety of all.

  Pilar : Safety! Huh! There is no such thing as safety! Did I spend nine years with the worst paid matadors in the world not to learn about fear and about safety? Huh! Speak to me of anything but safety! Look at him. How I believed in him once, and look what he's now. From one year of war you've become lazy, a drunkard, and a coward.

  Pablo : Woman! You have no right to speak in that way.

• Pablo : I am drunk. The wise man gets drunk to spend his time with fools.

• [repeated line] 

  Pablo : I don't provoke.

• Pablo : [speaking of Maria]  She's a very strange woman. She's of no one. But she cooks well.

• Pablo : Here I command!

  Pilar : Here *I* command. Haven't you heard them? Here no one commands but me now.

  Pablo : I should shoot you and the foreigner both.

  Pilar : Try it and see what happens. Listen to me, drunkard! You understand now who commands?

  Pablo : Why, I command!

  Pilar : No! Listen! Take the wax from your ears. Listen well. I command.

  Pablo : All right. All right. You command.

• Pablo : Now, if you're a woman as well as a commander, show us something to eat.

• Pablo : You! You with your head of a bull and your heart of a hawk!

• Anselmo : Until you had horses, you were one of us. Now you're *rich* with horses, you want to retire.

  Pablo : A lie. You know I exposed the horses for the cause.

  Anselmo : To eat well, yes. To steal, yes. To murder, yes. To fight for the Republic - no!

  Pablo : You're an old man who will make trouble with his mouth.

  Anselmo : I'm an old man not afraid to fight. I'm an old man without horses.

  Pablo : You're an old man who might not live long.

  Anselmo : I'm an old man who will live until I die.

• Pablo : I know why you went to see El Sordo. Horses make tracks in the snow, hey, Ingles? Yeah. Now there will be no offensive. No bridge. No. Just snow. Yeah. And no making love in the heather!

• Pablo : I go. I go to the horses. They have more sense than men.

• Pablo : You don't understand me, woman. We understand each other.

  Pilar : Nobody understands you. Neither God nor your mother. Nor I. Nor you, either.