Quotes

Goya's Ghosts

[Bonaparte and Lorenzo are looking at paintings of Maria Luisa]
Joseph Bonaparte: I met her once... don't recall her being quite so ugly though. How did she have so many lovers?
Brother Lorenzo: [smiling] She was the Queen, Your Majesty.

[Goya is trying to see Inés]
Goya: I am painter to the king!
Asylum Director: To which king? Do you know how many kings I have in here? I even have two Napoleons, and one of them is an Arab. The other one is 7'2" tall.

Hooded Monk: Are you prepared to swear on the holy cross that you're telling the truth?
Inés: About the pork?

Tomás Bilbatúa: Forgive me, Father Lorenzo, but um, have you ever been put to the... to the Question, yourself?
Brother Lorenzo: Have I ever been?
Tomás Bilbatúa: Yes. Have you ever been subjected to the Question?
Brother Lorenzo: Of course not.
Tomás Bilbatúa: Do you think that if you were, and they asked you to confess something grotesquely absurd... say... say you were told to confess that you're really a monkey.
[laughter around the table]
Tomás Bilbatúa: You're sure that god would grant you the fortitude to deny it? Or would you rather confess to being a monkey? To avoid the pain.
Goya: I know I would.
Tomás Bilbatúa: I know you would. So would I.
Tomás Bilbatúa: [to Lorenzo] Would you?
Goya: What is this Tomás, are you playing some sort of silly game with you guest? Nobody would ever ask Father Lorenzo to confess something so absurd.
Tomás Bilbatúa: I would.
[leaves the table]

Tomás Bilbatúa: [reading from a freshly prepared document] I, Lorenzo Casamares, hereby confess, that contrary to my human appearance, I am in fact, the bastard son of a chimpanzee and an orangutan, and I have schemed to join the church, in order to do harm to the holy office.
Tomás Bilbatúa: [places the parchment and quill in front of Lorenzo, then sits down] Sign it.

Inés: [model pointing at defaced portrait] Why doesn't that painting have a face?
Goya: Because he is a ghost.
Inés: No, he is not.
Goya: Have you ever seen a ghost?
Inés: No. But I have seen a witch.
Goya: Oh, did you?
Inés: Yes, but she had a face.
Goya: So what did she look like?
Inés: She was... all bent and creepy, and she...
[whispers:]
Inés: stank.
[makes disparaging sound]
Goya: That's interesting, because the witch that I know, she's... she's young, very lovely, and she smells of jasmine.
Inés: [smiles] She does?
Goya: She does. And I'm working on her portrait... right now.
Inés: [smiles as it dawns on her what he means] I'm no witch!
Goya: [chuckles] How do you know?

Tomás Bilbatúa: [worried father, to his young daughter] You have received a summons from the Holy Office.
[she sits down]
Tomás Bilbatúa: Do you have any idea what it might be about?
Inés: No...
Tomás Bilbatúa: Where did you go with your brothers last night?
Inés: The tavern.
[shakes her head]
Tomás Bilbatúa: Think. Did you say something sacrilegious?
Inés: [shakes her head] No.
Tomás Bilbatúa: [to his two sons] Was there an incident or something they could hold against her?
Álvaro Bilbatúa: She kissed the feet of a dwarf.
[Inés sticks her tongue out at him]
Tomás Bilbatúa: [to his daughter] You did?
Álvaro Bilbatúa: She did.
[his mother scoffs]
Inés: Everyone did.
Ángel Bilbatúa: You know... they can summon her just to... testify against someone else.
María Isabel Bilbatúa: [hoarsely] Someone else?
Inés: Is there someone you know they might be interested in?
Inés: I don't know.
[shakes her head]
Inés: No.

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By what name was Goya's Ghosts (2006) officially released in India in English?