Evita Quotes

Ché: [to Eva] Tell me, before I waltz out of your life, before turning my back on the past - forgive my impertinent behavior, but how long do you think this pantomime can last? Tell me, before I ride off in the sunset, there's one thing I never got clear: How can you claim you're our savior when those who oppose you are stepped on or cut up or simply disappear?

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Ché: Oh, what a circus, oh, what a show! Argentina has gone to town over the death of an actress called Eva Peron. We've all gone crazy, mourning all day and mourning all night, falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right. Oh, what an exit! That's how to go. When they're ringing your curtain down, demand to be buried like Eva Peron. It's quite a sunset, and good for the country in a roundabout way. We've made the front page of all the world's papers today.

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Ché: Turn a blind eye, Evita, turn a blind eye...

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Eva Perón: Did you hear that? They called me a whore! They actually called me a whore!
Italian Admiral: But, Segnora Perón, it's an easy mistake. I'm still called an admiral, though I gave up the sea long ago.

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Peron Advisers: Let's hear it for the Rainbow Tour! It's been an incredible success. We weren't quite sure; we had a few doubts... Juan Perón: Will Evita win through? And the answer is... Ché: A qualified yes.

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Well-to-do People: Things have reached a pretty pass, when someone pretty lower class can be accepted and admired...
Wealthy Woman: But our privileged class is dead. Look who they're calling for now.

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