In America (2002)

Djimon Hounsou: Mateo

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Quotes 

• Mateo : I'm an alien, like E.T., from a different planet. My skin is too sensitive for this Earth. The air is too hard for me.

  Ariel : Are you going home like E.T.?

  Mateo : I suppose I'm going home.

• Johnny : Are you in love with her?

  Mateo : No... I'm in love with you. And I'm in love with your beautiful woman. And I'm in love with your kids. And I'm even in love with your unborn child. I'm even in love with your anger! I'm in love with anything that lives!

• Mateo : When luck comes knocking on your door, you can't turn it away.

• Mateo : You the kids from upstairs?

  Christy : Yeah.

  Mateo : Is this Halloween?

  Christy : Yeah.

  Mateo : Hm. Where you from?

  Christy : Ireland.

  Mateo : You came all the way to America to trick or treat?

• Mateo : What was Frankie like?

  Johnny : A warrior.

  Mateo : Maselu masela.

  Johnny : What does that mean?

  Mateo : A warrior who is not afraid to go to the other side.

  Johnny : The other side of what?

• Mateo : You don't believe.

  Johnny : In what? In God? I asked him a favor once. I asked him to take me instead of him. But he took both of us. And look what he put in my place.

• Mateo : This house is haunted, but it's not scary. It's a magic house.

  Ariel : Frankie believed in magic.

  Mateo : Who's that?

  Ariel : Frankie. Our brother. He died.

  Christy : He fell down some stairs when he was two. We thought he was okay... but there was something in his brain. A brain tumor. It was malignant.

  Ariel : [to Mateo]  Are you crying? Are you?

  Ariel : It's okay, he's in Heaven now.

• Christy, Ariel : Trick or treat!

  Mateo : GO AWAY!

• Ariel : What's your name?

  Mateo : Mateo. What's yours?

  Ariel : Ariel, hello.