The Harder They Come (1972)

Janet Bartley: Elsa

Quotes 

• Ivan Martin : [referring to the Preacher's bicycle]  I can fix it up. Maybe you and I could go for a ride.

  Elsa : I don't think so, you know.

  Ivan Martin : Just a ride.

  Elsa : Perhaps. Depends.

  Ivan Martin : Depends on what?

  Elsa : It you're a true Christian. The rest of boys too rude.

  Ivan Martin : Some Christians rude too.

• Elsa Friend : Preacher on the warpath tonight.

  Drunk : I wonder why.

  Elsa Friend : Must've noticed what we noticed.

  Elsa : What has Preacher got to do with that?

  Elsa Friend : Preacher is a man of the Lord, but, still...

  Drunk : He is a man, all the same.

  Elsa Friend : And the Lord say, "Go ye forth and multiply," and Preacher don't multiply yet!

• Preacher : You've been fornicating with him!

  Elsa : No!

  Preacher : You gave him your lips.

  Elsa : No! No!

  Preacher : You gave him your body!

  Elsa : No! No!

• Ivan Martin : Give me $2 for tonight.

  Elsa : Where I must get it from?

  Ivan Martin : You have it in your bosom, man.

• Ivan Martin : Don't worry about money, man. After my record...

  Elsa : You sold out the record to Hilton for $20. You don't have any more to get.

  Ivan Martin : Just wait until the other producers hear my record tonight. We'll drive away from this place tomorrow.

• Elsa : Ivan, you're a dreamer.

  Ivan Martin : Me? Dreamer? Who's a bigger dreamer than you? Always talking about milk and honey in the sky. Well, no milk and honey in the sky! No, not for you, not for me. It's right down here, and I want mine now, tonight!

• Ivan Martin : Big night tonight, you know. Look what I buy you.

  Elsa : Ivan, you mean you take your money and buy that?

  Ivan Martin : It's a mini. Sexy!

• Elsa : What you say?

  Pedro : I say no. What you say, Elsa?

  Elsa : You know what I say, Pedro. Every game I play, I lose.

• Elsa : They say they hold a plane in Florida loaded with ganja. They say it come from here too.

  Ivan Martin : Let me see.

  [takes the newspaper from Elsa] 

  Ivan Martin : One hundred thousand dollar.

  Elsa : One good thing. They say the U.S. Government will aid the army to clamp down on them.

  Ivan Martin : Where's Pedro?

  Elsa : I don't know.

  Ivan Martin : All right. I soon come.

  [leaves] 

• Elsa : Where are you going now? Where are you going to hide?

  Ivan Martin : Hide? I not hidin'.

  Elsa : But everybody will be looking for you.

  Ivan Martin : You didn't believe me? Didn't I tell you I was going to be famous one day?

  Elsa : You're mad.