Salma Hayek credited as playing...
Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo: I had two big accidents in my life Diego, the trolley and you. You are by far the worse.
- Frida Kahlo: What do you think matters most for a good marriage?
- Guillermo Kahlo: A short memory.
- Frida Kahlo: Why did you get married?
- Guillermo Kahlo: I can't remember.
- Frida Kahlo: I just want your serious opinion.
- Diego Rivera: What do you care about my opinion? If you're a real painter, you'll paint because you can't live without painting. You'll paint till you die.
- Diego Rivera: [upon learning Frida has been unfaithful to him with Leon Trotsky] You've broken my heart, Frida.
- Frida Kahlo: It hurts doesn't it? But why? It was just a fuck, like a handshake.
- Diego Rivera: No. I told you who I was when you married me.
- Frida Kahlo: Yes, you did, and I married you anyway. And, you promised to be loyal. You have been my comrade, my fellow artist... my best friend. But you've never been my husband.
- Diego Rivera: I'm here to ask you to marry me.
- Frida Kahlo: I don't need rescuing, Diego.
- Diego Rivera: I do.
- Frida Kahlo: [sighs] I've lost the toes of one foot. My back is useless, I have an infection of the kidneys. I smoke, I drink, I curse. I can't have children. I have no money and a stack of hospital bills. Shall I keep going?
- Diego Rivera: It's practically a letter of recommendation.
- Diego Rivera: You know, I don't believe in God... but I thank him every day that he kept you safe for me.
- Frida Kahlo: Oh really?... I tell you he's got a lot of explaining to do.
- Frida Kahlo: [to Diego] I want you to burn this Judas of a body. I don't want to be buried. I've spent enough time lying down. Burn it.
- Frida Kahlo: Did I tell you that I'm going to walk again.
- Alex: Yes...
- Frida Kahlo: Did you believe it?
- Alex: Of course I do.
- Frida Kahlo: You'd better, because you are going to miss it.
- [Diego refuses to let her attend her show and is taking her prosthetic leg away]
- Frida Kahlo: Gimme back my fucking leg!
- Diego Rivera: Thank you.
- Frida Kahlo: For what?
- Diego Rivera: For making a fat, old, crazy Communist a happy man.
- Frida Kahlo: Mmm! I always wanted a man with melones bigger than mine.
- Diego Rivera: You know what I've always loved?
- Frida Kahlo: What?
- Diego Rivera: A girl with cojones.
- Frida Kahlo: You've lost weight.
- Diego Rivera: And you've lost your toes.
- Frida Kahlo: Is that why you're here? To offer your condolences?
- Diego Rivera: I'm here to see how you are. How do you feel?
- Frida Kahlo: Tired of answering that question. Otherwise, like shit.
- Diego Rivera: Hijo de puta! That model, huh?
- Diego Rivera: Yes. It was just a fuck, that's all. I've given more affection in a handshake.
- Frida Kahlo: Well, that makes me feel so much better. Was she good, at least?
- Diego Rivera: Not very.
- Frida Kahlo: Too bad. She had such a great ass.
- Diego Rivera: There was this skinny kid with these eyebrows shouting up at me, "Diego, I want to show you my paintings!" But, of course, she made me come down to her, and I did, and I've never stopped looking. But I want to speak about Frida not as her husband, but as an artist. I admire her. Her work is acid and tender... hard as steel... and fine as a butterfly's wing. Loveable as a smile... cruel as... the bitterness of life. I don't believe... that ever before has a women put such agonized poetry on canvas.
- Frida Kahlo: [as she's brought into the gallery] Shut up, panzon. Who died?
- Diego Rivera: Is fidelity that important to you?
- Frida Kahlo: Loyalty is important to me. Can you be loyal?
- Diego Rivera: Sex is like pissing. People take it much too seriously. In Russia, oh, my God, in Russia, everyone was fucking like rabbits.
- Frida Kahlo: Well, this isn't Russia.
- Guillermo Kahlo: Who's there?
- Frida Kahlo: The ghost of Frida Kahlo.
- Guillermo Kahlo: I knew her!
- Frida Kahlo: How are you?
- Guillermo Kahlo: Lonely. Only you ghosts come to visit these days.
- Frida Kahlo: Don't think I am going to sleep with you just because you took me under your wing.
- Diego Rivera: Before you came along, I was painting murals and womanizing in peace.