Cher credited as playing...
Loretta Castorini
- Ronny Cammareri: You're gonna marry my brother? Why you wanna sell your life short? Playing it safe is just about the most dangerous thing a woman like you could do. You waited for the right man the first time, why didn't you wait for the right man again?
- Loretta Castorini: He didn't come!
- Ronny Cammareri: I'm here!
- Loretta Castorini: You're late!
- Rose: Do you love him, Loretta?
- Loretta Castorini: Ma, I love him awful.
- Rose: Oh, God, that's too bad.
- Loretta Castorini: Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been two months since my last confession.
- Priest: What sins have you to confess?
- Loretta Castorini: Twice I took the name of the Lord in vain, once I slept with the brother of my fiancé, and once I bounced a check at the liquor store, but that was really an accident.
- Priest: Then it's not a sin. But... what was that second thing you said, Loretta?
- Ronny Cammareri: You ruined my life.
- Loretta Castorini: That's impossible! It was ruined when I got here! *You* ruined *my* life!
- Loretta Castorini: [after seeing La Boheme] That was so awful.
- Ronny Cammareri: Awful?
- Loretta Castorini: Beautiful... sad. She died!
- Ronny Cammareri: Yes.
- Loretta Castorini: I was surprised... You know, I didn't really think she was gonna die. I knew she was sick.
- Ronny Cammareri: She had TB.
- Loretta Castorini: I know! I mean, she was coughing her brains out, and still she had to keep singing!
- [Loretta announces she's going to marry Johnny Camareri]
- Cosmo Castorini: I don't like him.
- Rose: You're not going to marry him, Cosmo. Do you love him, Loretta?
- Loretta Castorini: No.
- Rose: Good.
- [She looks at Cosmo]
- Rose: When you love them they drive you crazy because they know they can.
- Johnny: In time you will see that this is the best thing.
- Loretta Castorini: In time you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress!
- Loretta Castorini: You ruined my life!
- Ronny Cammareri: No, I didn't.
- Loretta Castorini: Oh, yes, you did! Oh, yes, you did! Y'know, you got them bad eyes, like a gypsy, and I don't know why I didn't see it yesterday. Bad luck! That's what it is. Is that all I'm ever gonna have? I should have taken a rock and killed myself years ago!
- Ronny Cammareri: This was painted by Marc Chagall. And, as you can see, he was a very great artist.
- Loretta Castorini: It's kind of little gaudy, don't you think?
- Ronny Cammareri: Well, he was havin' some fun.
- Old Crone: You have someone on that plane?
- Loretta Castorini: Yeah, my fiancé.
- Old Crone: [angry] I put a curse on that plane. My sister is on that plane. I put a curse on that plane that it's gonna explode, burn on fire and fall into the sea. Fifty years ago, she stole a man from me. S'aprese il mio uomo! Today she tells me that she never loved him, that she took him to be strong on me. Now she's going back to Sicily. Ritorna in Sicilia! I cursed her that the green Atlantic water should swallow her up!
- Loretta Castorini: I don't believe in curses.
- Old Crone: [shrugging] Eh, neither do I.
- Loretta Castorini: What am I going to tell him?
- Cosmo Castorini: Tell him the truth. They find out anyway.
- Rose: Would anyone like some oatmeal?
- Ronny Cammareri: Yes, Mrs. Castorini, I would LOVE some oatmeal.
- Loretta Castorini: No, we don't want any oatmeal!
- Loretta Castorini: I'm getting married.
- Cosmo Castorini: Again?
- Loretta Castorini: Yeah.
- Cosmo Castorini: You did this once before, it didn't work out.
- Loretta Castorini: The guy died!
- Cosmo Castorini: It looks stupid. It's a pinky ring. It's a man's ring!
- Loretta Castorini: It's temporary!
- Cosmo Castorini: Everything is temporary! That don't excuse nothin'!
- [Johnny, at his mother's deathbed, telephones his fiancee Loretta]
- Loretta Castorini: Did you tell her we're getting married?
- Johnny: I'm waiting... I'm waiting for a moment when she is peaceful.
- Loretta Castorini: Well, don't wait until she's dead.
- Loretta Castorini: [after spending the night with Ronny] I'm gonna marry him.
- Ronny Cammareri: What?
- Loretta Castorini: Last night never happened, you hear me? I'm gonna marry him anyway and last night never happened, and you and I are gonna take this to our coffins!
- Ronny Cammareri: I can't do that.
- Loretta Castorini: What are you doing?
- Ronny Cammareri: [He lifts Loretta into his arms] Son of a bitch!
- Loretta Castorini: Where are you taking me?
- Ronny Cammareri: To the bed.
- Loretta Castorini: Oh, God. I don't care. I don't care. Take me to the bed.