Nadia (1984 TV Movie)
Simone Blue: Older Teodora Ungureanu
Quotes
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Older Teodora Ungureanu : I took an Olympic silver medal right next to you, and no-one even knows that I was there!
Older Nadia Comaneci : It's not my fault if people don't pay attention to you! I wish they would! I wish they'd leave me alone.
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Older Teodora Ungureanu : I'm sorry.
Older Nadia Comaneci : For what?
Older Teodora Ungureanu : For being jealous. You deserve all your wins.
Older Nadia Comaneci : I have often wondered what would have happened if Bela had chosen you in Paris, instead of me.
Older Teodora Ungureanu : So have I.
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Bela Karolyi : You're late again, Teodora; that's two hundred sit-ups.
Older Teodora Ungureanu : [sarcastically] Why not make it four hundred?
Bela Karolyi : Very good idea, make it four hundred.
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Older Teodora Ungureanu : So, Nadia, how do you like Fort Worth?
Older Nadia Comaneci : The judges were tough on you.
Older Teodora Ungureanu : It was about right.
Older Nadia Comaneci : You usually do better. Judges resent the fact that little girls grow up.
Older Teodora Ungureanu : Nadia, gymnastics has changed, and we're the ones that changed it. What used to be special is now ordinary. You and I, we can't compete with ourselves anymore! I wanted to help the team win if I could, but before Fort Worth, I had already decided to retire. It's tough being with a lot of twelve-year-olds that are better than I am...
Older Nadia Comaneci : They're not.
Older Teodora Ungureanu : Not all of them. But they're getting better, and I'm getting worse! It's time.
Older Nadia Comaneci : What will you do?
Older Teodora Ungureanu : Join the circus.
Older Nadia Comaneci : The circus?
Older Teodora Ungureanu : Yeah. It'll be fun!
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[the Romanian gymnasts have just walked in the parade of athletes at the Montreal Olympic Games and now stand before a huge crowd of spectators]
Older Teodora Ungureanu : [whispering] What do you think?
Older Nadia Comaneci : [whispering back] Let's go home!
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Older Nadia Comaneci : Is that how you talk about me when I'm not here?
Older Teodora Ungureanu : No, I just...
Older Nadia Comaneci : You tell everybody I'm fat, right?
Older Teodora Ungureanu : No...
Older Nadia Comaneci : Right?
Older Teodora Ungureanu : I don't have to, Nadia. Look at you; you are fat.
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Older Nadia Comaneci : [sitting by an open window, whispers] Teodora! Teodora! Psst! Over here! Smell that food?
Older Teodora Ungureanu : Mmmm. What is it?
Older Nadia Comaneci : I don't know. But I like the way it smells!
Older Teodora Ungureanu : Do you think they're dancing down there?
Older Nadia Comaneci : Maybe. I know they're eating, though.
Older Teodora Ungureanu : I think we ought to sneak down there, don't you?
[Nadia shakes her head nervously]
Older Teodora Ungureanu : Nadia - it's now or never!
Older Nadia Comaneci : Let's go.
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Sorin Cepoi : [Nadia and Teodora attend their first party in Bucharest, but Nadia is singled out for attention while Teodora is left standing alone at the door. Sorin approaches her:] You must be the other one!
Older Teodora Ungureanu : [smiling embarrassedly] That's me.