Zorro: The Gay Blade (1981)

Ron Leibman: Esteban

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Quotes 

• Esteban : What commands priests to wear such strange clothing?

  Bunny Wigglesworth : We are followers of Peter the Dressmaker. He was Christ's tailor.

• Esteban : [to guards]  Remember, he is cunning, he is crafty. He's not just going to walk in here and say 'Here I am!'

  Zorro : Here I am!

• Esteban : Is your blade as sharp as your tongue?

  Zorro : Is yours as dull as your wit?

• Esteban : A little clumsy, are you not, my friend?

  Zorro : To be your friend I would have to be more than clumsy. I would have to be stupid.

• Don Diego : He is a mute.

  Esteban : Bueno! Perhaps he can give lessons to my wife.

• Esteban : Say something like a sissy girl.

  Don Diego : Something like a sissy girl...

  Esteban : No... you know. Swing... your... hips.

  [puts hands on hips] 

  Esteban : Make them sway and flap your wings.

• Esteban : I have always depended on people being nicer than me, and I have never in my life been disappointed.

• Esteban : You naughty, evil Alcalde! I'm going to do such terrible things to you!

• Esteban : It is a beautiful day... for a Reign of *terror*!

• Esteban : [threatening Charlotte Taylor Wilson with execution in order to lure and trap Zorro]  Do you wish for a blindfold?

  Charlotte Taylor Wilson : No. The eyes of freedom will always see through the blindfolds of tyranny. And the bonds of oppression will always be broken with muscles of liberty.

• Esteban : [Referring to their annual lovemaking]  Do you know that little thing we do one night every year?

  Florinda : [Eagerly]  Yes! Oh, yes!

  Esteban : We still have three months to go!

  Florinda : You beast!

• Esteban : [to Zorro]  I know you will not kill an innocent man... or me either, for that matter.