West Side Story (2021)

Ariana DeBose: Anita

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• Maria Vasquez : I want to make a life, a home. Maybe go to City College like Rosalía's cousin, Virginia. I want to be happy here.

  Bernardo Vasquez : Pero Nueva York no te hace feliz...

  Anita : English!

  Bernardo Vasquez : Puerto Rico, sí.

  Maria Vasquez : That is what you think. I'm gonna think for myself.

• Anita : [to Maria, from trailer]  If you go with him, no one will forgive you.

• Anita : [to Maria]  Get your shoes on. Bernardo will be so mad if we make him late. And I want to dance.

• Maria Vasquez : Bernardo thinks I'm a kid.

  Anita : You *are* a kid, kiddo.

• Anita : [to Tony]  Do you want to start World War III?

• Anita : ¿Pero qué es esto?

  Maria Vasquez : I love him.

  Anita : [slaps Maria and starts singing]  A boy like that, who'd kill your brother? Forget that boy and find another! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind! A boy like that will bring you sorrow - you'll meet another boy tomorrow! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind! A boy who kills cannot love, a boy who kills has no heart! And he's the boy who gets your love, and gets your heart! Very smart, Maria, very smart! A boy like that wants one thing only. And when he's done, he'll leave you lonely! He'll murder your love, he murdered mine! Just wait and see, just wait Maria, just wait and see!

  Maria Vasquez : [singing]  Oh no Anita, no! Anita, no, It isn't true, not for me! It's true for you, not for me, I hear your words, and in my head, I know they're smart... but my heart, Anita, but my heart knows they're wrong, and my heart is too strong, for I belong.

  Anita : [overlapping]  A boy like that, who'd kill your brother? Forget that boy and find another! One of your own kind, stick to your own kind!

  Maria Vasquez : To him alone, to him alone, one thing I know, I am his, I don't care what he is, I don't know why it's so, I don't want to know!

  Anita : A boy who kills cannot love, a boy who kills has no heart! And he's the boy who gets your love, and gets your heart! Very smart, Maria, very smart!

  Maria Vasquez : Oh no Anita, no! You should know better! You were in love, or so you said! You should know better... I have a love, and it's all that I have, right or wrong - what else can I do? I love him, I'm his, and everything he is, I am too. I have a love, and it's all that I need, right or wrong, and he needs me too... I love him, we're one. There's nothing to be done... not a thing I can do. But hold him, hold him forever... Be with him now, tomorrow, and all of my life!

  Anita , Maria Vasquez : When love comes so strong, there is no right or wrong, Your love, Is your life!

• Anita : [in church, at mass, wearing a prayer veil, singing]  Anita's gonna get her kicks, Tonight

  Rosalía : Shh!

  Anita : We'll have our private little mix, Tonight

  Luz : Shh!

  Anita : He'll walk in hot and tired, So what? Don't matter if he's tired, as long as he's hot

  Rosalía , Luz : Shh!

  Anita : Tonight!

• A-Rab : Go back where you came from.

  Anita : [after being assaulted by the Jets]  You think I want to stay here? In this city full of ugly little animals like you? No gracias. Yo no soy Americana. Yo soy Puertorriqueña!

  [to Valentina] 

  Anita : Tell Tony, you tell that murderer, Maria ain't coming. Chino, he found out about them. Tony and Maria. He shot her. Maria is dead. You tell him that.

• Maria Vasquez : Tony. Who cares if he's a...? I don't know what he is. A Yankee?

  Bernardo Vasquez : He's a Polack. That's what he is. A big, dumb Polack.

  Anita : Polack, says the Spic. Now you sound like a real American.

• Anita : He will never be safe here.

  Maria Vasquez : Sí, lo sé.

  Anita : And no one will ever forgive him.

  Maria Vasquez : Will you?

  Anita : You can't ever ask me that.

  Maria Vasquez : Will you forgive me?

  Anita : Te quiero, mi niña. For he will have to go away, and you will have to go with him

• Bernardo Vasquez : Last night I dreamed I was back in Puerto Rico. In my dream, we had six kids.

  Anita : Six kids? Marry a cat.

• Anita : Here, dead man, eat your eggs. And everyone speak English.

• Anita : You want to know where my home is? It's where I pay rent. Right here, where I work my fingers raw, mending pants and hemming neckties so that I can earn enough money to pay other girls to sew for me, so that someday I can rent a shop of my own in this great, big, beautiful Nueva York. Ah. And if you think that I'm going back home to Puerto Rico with six kids that I put to bed hungry every night, amor de mi vida, you are dreaming.

  Bernardo Vasquez : In Puerto Rico, our kids won't get fat like the kids in New York.

• Anita : [singing]  I'll get a terrace apartment

  Bernardo Vasquez : Better get rid of your accent

  Anita , Rosalía , Luz : Life can be bright in America

  Bernardo Vasquez , Braulio , Chago : If you can fight in America

  Anita , Rosalía , Luz : Life is alright in America

  Bernardo Vasquez , Braulio , Chago , Manolo , Pipo , Quique , Sebas : If you're all white in America...

• Snowboy : Come on, you pig, let's see you move!

  Anita : No, no, no.

  A-Rab : Bernardo's black pig.

  Anita : No!

• Anita : Let me pass.

  Ice : You heard her, boys. She wants to pass.

  A-Rab : Hmm, she's too *dark* to pass.

• Anita : I want to see your friend, Tony. He's here? He's supposed to be. I have a message for him. Where is Valentina?

  Snowboy : You're Bernardo's girl.

  A-Rab : We saw you at the gym.

  Big Deal : Yeah, you wanna dance, Chiquita Banana?

  Balkan : Dancing up a storm, you was, dippin' them hips.

• Bernardo Vasquez : The gringos tonight, they stare because...

  Anita : Oh, like you don't stare.

  Bernardo Vasquez : Because our girls make their girls look lousy.

• Anita : Chino is going to be rich.

  Chino : Well, not exactly, pero.

  Bernardo Vasquez : Boxers get rich.

  Maria Vasquez : Boxers get their brains knocked out.