Sophia Loren credited as playing...
Suor Germana
- Annibale Pezzi: Look, I know you've got your head in heaven. And mine's down here. But we can meet somewhere in between.
- Suor Germana: And where would that be?
- Annibale Pezzi: The eyes. It's always the eyes. Always.
- Suor Germana: I know about the world. I chose to leave it. And it wasn't hard. I simply had the vocation to serve my faith. You of all people should understand. Hey, would you give up the Party for a woman?
- Annibale Pezzi: In a minute. Because for me there are things called priorities. Women first, and the Party next.
- [Germana laughs]
- Annibale Pezzi: What's so funny?
- Suor Germana: Everything. You're a fine Communist.
- Annibale Pezzi: You're out to get me, just because I happen to be a communist.
- Suor Germana: I admit I think you're naive to be a communist. I think that if men were more honest, communism would work. There are too few honest men.
- Suor Germana: We have more in common than you think. I was born and raised in Libya. That makes me more of a southerner than you.
- Mrs. Ricci: How the hell am I supposed to sleep with all this noise? I can't even get any rest here. It's not a hospital, it's a bordello!
- Suor Germana: Before you arrived, it was a hospital.
- Suor Germana: You mustn't give up, Lucia. Don't you see that?
- Lucia: No, I don't see. Being a nun, you can't possibly know what it's like for anyone to be cut off from a normal way of life.
- Suor Germana: I do, Lucia. It's going to turn out all right. If you believe it will. Do you?
- Lucia: No.
- Lucia: We're from Calabria. Me and Antonio. We came up north together. We both found work right away. And we were going to get married, almost like in a dream. Everything was fine. Then we lost our jobs. The economy was bad, they said. So they started firing people. The southerners first, naturally. He took it hard. He just sat all day at home. Then one day, a friend - came and offered him a way to make easy money. I knew how he'd end up. So I told him that I'd make money for him.
- Suor Germana: He let you?
- Lucia: Oh, not right away. He nearly killed me when I first mentioned it. But before long, he lost his scruples.