Giulietta Masina credited as playing...
Giulietta Boldrini
- Giorgio: Jose owns one of the biggest bull farms. Sometimes at night this madman puts on his own bullfight.
- Giulietta Boldrini: What courage! Isn't it dangerous?
- Giorgio's friend: No, signora, it's poetry. Poetry is never dangerous. My best friends are toreadors. They compose music, write verse, and abhor blood.
- Valentina: Enchanting! Such an intoxicating perfume! Look at the dew. This is dew, isn't it? Such purity. My heart aches, it's all so beautiful. I want to roll around naked in it.
- Giulietta Boldrini: Why don't you?
- Valentina: I can't. We've become so complicated, so uncivilized.
- Giulietta Boldrini: "Get revenge." "Forgive." Who should I believe? "Make yourself beautiful." "Life is a sacrifice." "Be more feminine. We'll teach you." My life if full of people talking, talking! Go away! Get out, all of you!
- Giorgio's friend: Water. When I need something absolutely pure, something sincere, I always ask for water. Simple things are so important in life. Things that don't conceal something else. Water is like a sincere glance that conceals nothing. Don't be afraid of the truth. The truth sets us free. After all, who cares about other people's opinions? In my country there's a saying : "I am my own roof, window and hearth. I feed upon my words and drink from my thoughts. Therefore I am happy."
- Giulietta Boldrini: Are you real, yes or no? And what advice can you give me? Tell me, what should I do?
- Giorgio's friend: I wouldn't know. I just want you to live happily.
- Bhisma: Giulietta, do you know the Kama Sutra? Sexual intercourse is a conflict. To be happy, you must behave as if in combat. The place to be fought over is the body.
- Giulietta Boldrini: The body?
- Bhisma: And within the body, the shoulders and between the breasts.
- Bhisma: Did you buy those stockings?
- Giulietta Boldrini: No. What stockings?
- Bhisma: The black fishnets. Women want to be treated like angels, but they don't do their job -...
- Giulietta Boldrini: Is love a "job"?
- Bhisma: I didn't say "job." I said "the art of love."
- Giulietta Boldrini: I got it right. You said "job." Whoring - some advice!
- Giorgio (Giulietta's husband): Look what your friend Val brought you.
- Giulietta Boldrini: Thanks. What is it?
- Valentina: Its a charm against spirits! You must hang it here.
- Valentina: He's a fabulous clairvoyant. A man-woman with the secrets of both sexes! An oracle. He can change your life, reveal all.
- Giulietta Boldrini: He's an Indian?
- Valentina: Indian, Tibetan -- who cares? Bhisma belongs to the world
- Giulietta Boldrini: Here's what's happening. It's as if everything's been lost since last night. I'm afraid my husband has another woman.
- Bhisma: Learn to better please your husband, Giulietta.