Richard S. Castellano credited as playing...
Frank
- Richie Vecchio: Don't you understand, Joan and I are just not happy together.
- Frank Vecchio: You hear that, Beatrice? They're not happy together.
- Bea: I heard, Frank.
- Frank Vecchio: So who's happy?
- Bea: Who's happy?
- Frank Vecchio: What, do you see me running around dancing in the streets?
- Bea: Do you see your father running around dancing in the streets?
- Frank Vecchio: What are you, better than me? You think your mother and I are happy?
- Richie Vecchio: You mean you and mom aren't happy?
- Frank Vecchio: [together with Bea] No!
- Richie Vecchio: Then why did you stay together?
- Frank Vecchio: [pause] We're content.
- Bea: We're content.
- Frank Vecchio: These kids today, all they're looking for is happiness.
- Bea: Don't look for happiness, Richie. It will only make you miserable.
- Frank Vecchio: We're all strangers. But after a while you get used to it. You become deeper strangers. That's a sort of love.
- Bea: Frank, you want some veal?
- Frank Vecchio: No, I don't want no more veal.
- Bea: The butcher gave you good veal.
- Frank Vecchio: He's a good butcher.
- Bea: It's not veiny.
- Frank Vecchio: I hate veiny veal.
- Frank Vecchio: So, what's the story Ritchie?
- Mike Vecchio: Look, get off his back, let him work out his own problems.
- Bea: You be quiet, we're not talking about marriage.
- Frank Vecchio: We're talking about divorce.
- Bea: If we were talking about marriage, you could talk.
- Frank Vecchio: Marriage is different from divorce.
- Frank Vecchio: So, what's the story Ritchie?
- Richie Vecchio: We're just not compatible.
- Frank Vecchio: You hear that Beatrice, they're not compatible.
- Bea: I heard, but I'm not listening, Frank.
- Frank Vecchio: They're married for six years, all of a sudden they're looking to be compatible.
- Bea: It's a phase they're going through.
- Frank Vecchio: You stupid kids today, they don't know what to do with themselves, they get a divorce, for kicks.
- Bea: That's what it is, Frank, kicks.
- Richie Vecchio: Look, it's 1970, it happens to a lot of couples, there's nothing you can do about it.
- Frank Vecchio: It's never happened in our family!
- Bea: We don't believe in it.
- Frank Vecchio: It happens to people who don't give a damn.
- Bea: You think the king and queen of England would get a divorce?
- Frank Vecchio: Of course not.
- Bea: They don't believe in it.
- Frank Vecchio: That's why they're together all these years.
- Bea: They know what would happen to England if they broke up.
- Frank Vecchio: Yeah, but our son believes in it.
- Bea: He doesn't care what happens to England, he doesn't care what happens to anybody, it's 1970, so he's getting a divorce.