Marcello Mastroianni credited as playing...
Carmine Sbaratti • Renzo • Augusto Rusconi
- Carmine Sbaratti: The people of Forcella are out of this world. They've risen up in a gesture of solidarity!
- Verace's sister: I must say, it almost makes you forget how filthy and ignorant they are.
- Carmine Sbaratti: He wanted Adelina Sbaratti? He can shove it!
- Dr. Verace (segment "Adelina"): That's all you know, lewd gestures, threats. Where do you think that will get you? You're in a real fix and at your own hands!
- Carmine Sbaratti: Mr Lawyer, help us! She can't go to jail!
- Adelina Sbaratti: What jail? I was fined for selling cigarettes. You know how long it takes to make 28,000 lire? Days, weeks even. I'm always out there, rain or shine. You know how long my husband's been out of work? Heh? Ever since he completed his military service! How can we get by? How will my child eat? Then some creep comes along and arrests you.
- Dr. Verace (segment "Adelina"): No, wait a minute. They can't arrest her.
- Carmine Sbaratti: What do you mean?
- Dr. Verace (segment "Adelina"): She's expecting!
- Carmine Sbaratti: Always the same old song. "Carmine, get busy!" "Carmine, the nursing term's over!" "Carmine go to bed early!" "Carmine, turn out the light!" And all on one bowl of soup a day. I'm not made of iron. Doing it now and then is one thing, but this is nonstop!
- Mama Sbaratti: You do look peaked.
- Carmine Sbaratti: Of course I do. Dizzy spells that come and go, wobbly legs. And if you must know, I fainted twice in the street. And the more of a wreck I become, the stronger she gets. How pretty she's become, Mama. She's blossomed like a rose.
- Mama Sbaratti: She's bleeding you dry, destroying you. You've become just as ugly as an ape. Let that rose get someone else to give her a big belly!
- Carmine Sbaratti: I'll kill her - if something like that happens.
- Carmine Sbaratti: You can't imagine what an urge I have. It's killing me! I can't wait for you to get out. I've finished the treatment.
- Adelina Sbaratti: Oh, shut up! That's just talk. When I needed actions, you ran off to Mama.
- Anna Molteni: Were you surprised I called?
- Renzo: No, I was expecting it. I'd have called if you hadn't.
- Anna Molteni: If you're worried about my husband, you can relax.
- Renzo: Sounds like it bothers you.
- Anna Molteni: Nobody likes living with an addict.
- Renzo: I didn't know.
- Anna Molteni: Yes, an addict. Not in the way you think, but it's worse. He's like a cog in the wheel: work, success, money. Money, success, work. He can't stop. And there's no room for anything else.
- Renzo: Anna, I like you a lot.
- Anna Molteni: But you don't think I'm sincere, do you?
- Renzo: I don't know. I don't know.
- Anna Molteni: Don't you get it? I like you precisely because you're different. Unlike those robots I know, busy making money all day. You write. You're intelligent. I never think about money, Renzo. I swear I don't.
- Renzo: Because you have it.
- Anna Molteni: What am I supposed to do? Throw it out the window?
- Renzo: Yes, throw it all away: money, cars, jewelry, those Cleopatra bracelets.
- Renzo: The fact is you have money in your veins.
- Anna Molteni: In me there's only emptiness, a profound emptiness.
- Renzo: Anna, if you hadn't called me this morning, who would you have called?
- Anna Molteni: Nobody. Nobody. I'm alone.
- Renzo: With all the people you know?
- Anna Molteni: With all the people I know.
- Anna Molteni: Renzo, help me. Let's go far away, to the sun. To Rome, Naples.
- Renzo: Yes, let's go.
- Anna Molteni: We'll arrive at night, in the lamplight. The still, silky water. We'll ride in a carriage and find a nice small, small place, just for us. The dark sky, full of stars. And music, lots of music in the air through the streets under our windows. Tomorrow we'll wake up late, as the sun creeps into the bed and over your eyes. You'll take me in your arms and caress me. You'll hold me so tight!
- Anna Molteni: You must have slammed on the brakes like a brute! These cars are delicate. They're jewels. Jewels! You slam on the brakes like it was a truck!
- Renzo: But I could've killed that kid!
- Anna Molteni: Who cares about that idiot?
- Augusto Rusconi: Darling, sweetheart! Girl of unending beauty! You're a garden of loveliness. Mara! Mara!
- Mara: Quiet! Keep your voice down!
- Augusto Rusconi: Mara, you're a garden of loveliness.
- Augusto Rusconi: Listen, Mara. Tonight you've got to wear this. I want to see you dressed in this, like a schoolgirl.
- Mara: Are you crazy? You're killing me.
- Augusto Rusconi: You can call me uncle. I'll call you my little niece.
- Mara: You're nuts, Bolognese. Do you get a kick out of that?
- Augusto Rusconi: I need a lot of tenderness, Mara. Next time, I'll wear short pants. You'll sing me a lullaby and I'll fall asleep in your arms.
- Augusto Rusconi: I've really got to run. No, don't kiss me! I won't let you go! Just look! There isn't a single thing wrong with you. Make a face or I can't go. No, no, no, don't do that! It turns me on even more!
- Mara: But that granny will be crying tears of blood, you'll see.
- Augusto Rusconi: You must try to understand. Come here, come to Uncle.
- Mara: As if I felt like making love at a time like this!
- Augusto Rusconi: Come on, Mara. We'll go to bed and cuddle up together like good children. We won't even talk.
- Mara: I need to talk and let off steam.
- Augusto Rusconi: Okay, but in bed?
- Mara: I'm too mad. I'd be like a stone. Be honest, am I a scandal? Do I do it on the terrace?
- Augusto Rusconi: Fine by me! I'm willing to go out on the terrace! Like Nero looking over Rome.