Anna Magnani credited as playing...
Serafina Delle Rose
- Estelle Hohengarten: I have some silk with me I want made into a shirt. There.
- Serafina Delle Rose: Wonderful. Look at that colore. Rosa, huh? Wonderful stuff for a blouse, pajamas.
- Estelle Hohengarten: Oh, I want a man's shirt made out of it.
- Serafina Delle Rose: Silk this color for a - for a shirt for a man?
- Estelle Hohengarten: Well, this man's wild like a gypsy. He likes to feel silk on his skin and wants everything rose-colored.
- Serafina Delle Rose: A woman should not encourage a man to be wild. Never.
- Estelle Hohengarten: If a man's wild, he's hard for a woman to hold. But if he's tame, would a woman want to hold him?
- Serafina Delle Rose: Ah, I like the smell of rose oil in your hair.
- [kiss]
- Serafina Delle Rose: Good. Good.
- Serafina Delle Rose: Where is somebody, please, to carry this package for me on the street? My husband don't allow me to carry big packages like a horse on the street. Please!
- Serafina Delle Rose: Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak. Please don't. Don't speak. Please don't. Don't speak. Don't speak. Don't speak, please. Don't speak. Don't speak.
- Serafina Delle Rose: I'm a married woman in business. I don't know nothing about wild men and wild women.
- Serafina Delle Rose: Go in the house. And wash your face with saltwater and throw the saltwater away. Go in the house! Go in, quick. She's coming! Malocchio.
- Serafina Delle Rose: You don't study no civics tonight.
- Rosa Delle Rose: "Don't study no civics." Why do you talk like you just came over in steerage? This isn't Sicily, Mother, and you are not a baroness. You do sewing. Daddy - Daddy hauled bananas.
- Alvaro Mangiacavallo: Rose?
- Serafina Delle Rose: How do you know my name?
- Alvaro Mangiacavallo: What other name could it be?
- Serafina Delle Rose: Here is the memory of my husband, with a - with a body like a young boy and skin on him smooth and sweet as a yellow rose petal. I'm satisfied to remember, because I had the best, and not the second best, but the only best, a rose.
- Serafina Delle Rose: I'm satisfied to remember the love of a man that was mine, only mine. Never touched by nobody. Nobody but me. Just me.
- Serafina Delle Rose: We are Sicilians. We don't leave the girls with the boys they are not engaged to.
- Seaman Jack Hunter: Mrs. Delle Rose, this is the United States.
- Serafina Delle Rose: I know, but we are Sicilians. We are *not* cold-blooded. My girl is innocent, pure. She is or she was. I would like to know which.
- Seaman Jack Hunter: Look, I come home after three months at sea. My sister was going to a high-school dance, and she took me with her. And there I met your daughter.
- Serafina Delle Rose: What did you do?
- Seaman Jack Hunter: At the dance? We danced.
- Serafina Delle Rose: What did you do after that?
- Serafina Delle Rose: Who are you? What are you?
- Rosa Delle Rose: Mama, I just introduced him. His name is Jack Hunter.
- Serafina Delle Rose: Hunter?
- Seaman Jack Hunter: Yes, ma'am, Hunter. Jack Hunter.
- Serafina Delle Rose: What are you hunting, Jack?
- Rosa Delle Rose: Mama. Mama.
- Serafina Delle Rose: What all of them are hunting. To have a good time, and the devils cares who pays for it. I'm sick of men, and I'm sick of women.
- Seaman Jack Hunter: This is the first time I really wanted to.
- Serafina Delle Rose: Wanted to what?
- Seaman Jack Hunter: Make love.
- Serafina Delle Rose: You, a sailor.
- Seaman Jack Hunter: Well, I had opportunities to, but - well, I always thought of my mother.
- Serafina Delle Rose: Huh?
- Serafina Delle Rose: I know what men want. Not to eat ice cream with girls or dance on the floor, no. And boys are the same, only younger. Come here.