The Loves of Carmen (1948)

Margaret Wycherly: Old Crone

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Quotes 

• Old Crone : [Reading Carmen's fortune]  One love. One love emerges from all the rest. And makes the others nothing.

  Carmen García : You're talking nonsense, old witch. There is no such thing as one love to Carmen.

• Carmen García : What is it? What do you see there that makes you look like that?

  [She looks at the tarot cards] 

  Carmen García : That isn't my fortune.

  Old Crone : The fat's in the fire, all right. Just as I said.

  Carmen García : That isn't my fortune, I tell you. I didn't cut the cards.

  [Carmen swats them off the table] 

  Carmen García : Anyway, I don't believe in cards. I never have. As if you could see in those stupid cards that death was walking my way. We all have to die. And I can't think of a nicer way than to be killed by love.

• Shopkeeper : [after Carmen orders a great deal of food]  She's always hungry, that girl!

  Old Crone : [seeing Carmen is with Don Jose, what she says implies her sexual promiscuity]  Someday she'll eat the wrong thing, and then she'll howl about the pain as if she'd never been warned before.

  Carmen García : [Carmen realizes this may affect Don Jose and she looks at him for a reaction]  Because they've lost their own appetites, they hate to see anybody enjoy eating.

• Dancaire : What does spitting fat signify?

  Old Crone : That emotions will grow overheated till they explode. You wait, you'll see.

• Old Crone : There's much love in your cards, darling. Much, much love. And money! A fine new dress. Silk. I can feel the silk. The best quality.