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Björk in Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Björk: Selma Jezkova

Dancer in the Dark

Björk credited as playing...

Selma Jezkova

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  • Selma: You like the movies, don't you?
  • Bill Houston: I love the movies. I just love the musicals.
  • Selma: But isn't it annoying when they do the last song in the films?
  • Bill Houston: Why?
  • Selma: Because you just know when it goes really big... and the camera goes like out of the roof... and you just know it's going to end. I hate that. I would leave just after the next to last song... and the film would just go on forever.
  • Jeff: You can't see, can you?
  • Selma: What is there to see?
  • Selma: In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens.
  • Selma: [singing] This isn't the last song, there's no violin, the choir is quiet, and no one takes a spin, this is the next to last song, and that's all...
  • Jeff: [referring to Gene] Why did you have him? You knew he would have the same disease as you.
  • Selma: I just wanted to hold a little baby.
  • Selma: Clatter, crash, clack, racket, bang, thump, rattle, clang, crack, thud, whack, bam! It's music, now dance!
  • Selma: I listen to my heart.
  • Selma: There's no more to see...
  • Selma: Cvalda.
  • Kathy: Why do you call me that?
  • Selma: It's like, someone whose...
  • Kathy: What?
  • Selma: I don't know, just big and happy.
  • Kathy: I am not that big. And happy, I don't know.
  • Selma: You just need someone to pull it out.
  • Selma: I'm just not that kind of mother.
  • Gene Jezkova: Can't you be that kind of a mother?
  • Bill Houston: Thank you for telling me your secret.
  • Selma: Thanks for telling me yours.
  • Bill Houston: Mums the word, right?
  • Selma: Mum?
  • Bill Houston: We don't tell anybody.
  • Selma: Oh, yes, I won't tell anyone.
  • Selma: [singing] Forgive me. I am so sorry. I just did what I had to do, I just did what I had to do, I just did what I had to do, I just did what I had to do.
  • Oldrich Novy: [singing] I didn't mind it at all. That you were having a ball - at my musicals. And I was always there to catch you.
  • Selma: You were always there to catch me. You were always there to catch me. You were always there to catch me. When I fall.
  • Brenda: You'll be transferred to the other cellblock, at some point tomorrow.
  • Selma: That's the cellblock where they hang people?
  • Brenda: Yeah. That's were they spend the last day.
  • Selma: And then they do the 107 steps - it's from that room to the gallows, isn't it?
  • Brenda: That's what they say, Selma. But, look it, you're gonna get your stay. Why don't you try to think of something nice. All right?
  • Selma: It's just so quiet here.
  • Kathy: But he needs his mother, you know, alive, no matter where!
  • Selma: You don't understand! He needs his eyes!
  • Kathy: He needs his mother!
  • Selma: No!
  • Kathy: Yes! Alive!
  • Selma: NO!
  • Kathy: Listen to reason for once, Selma! Selma...
  • Selma: I listen to my heart...
  • Selma: You keep readin'.
  • Gene Jezkova: So long, farewell auf wiedersehen, adieu, adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu.
  • Selma: To yieu and yieu. What - what does that mean? Yieu?
  • Gene Jezkova: It's your dumb musical.
  • Selma: Yieu?
  • Gene Jezkova: It's German.
  • Selma: Do you think?
  • Norman: You Commie's make a big deal out of sharing everything.
  • Selma: Yeah. It's - it's a good thing.
  • Norman: What are you doing here - if - eh, Czechoslovakia's so much better than the U. S. of A.?

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