Full of Life (1956)

Richard Conte: Nick Rocco

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Quotes 

• Nick Rocco : Whatever happened to Dianetics and all that other nonsense?

  Emily Rocco : It's not nonsense. It's why you need semantics. It helps you learn about the true meanings of things.

• Emily Rocco : Why do you have to sleep in here?

  Nick Rocco : Hmm? Because you keep throwing me out.

• Nick Rocco : This house if full of life. Babies to be born, books to be written.

  Emily Rocco : How many, Nick?

  Nick Rocco : You give me the babies and I'll give you the books.

• Nick Rocco : It's coming out of me like a blowtorch.

  Emily Rocco : Go on. Go on!

  [Nick spanks Emily's behind] 

  Emily Rocco : Don't you ever dare do that again!

  Nick Rocco : What? What did I do?

  Emily Rocco : You know very well what you did and I don't like it and I want you never to do it again.

• Nick Rocco : Relax, Sweetheart. I know how you feel about cleanliness - and it's beautiful. But, we need the dust and the dirt too. It's what we're made of.

  Emily Rocco : We're not made of broken gin bottles and beer cans and soggy tea bags.

  Nick Rocco : I know, honey.

  Emily Rocco : I like clean dirt, Nick. It's the dirty dirt I hate.

• Emily Rocco : I hope it's a boy.

  Nick Rocco : That doesn't matter - whatever it is.

  Emily Rocco : Oh, I hate girls. They're all right when they're little. They grow up to be treacherous.

• Nick Rocco : [in Papa passing out while telling a story]  He never got to bandits.

  Emily Rocco : What do you care? Make them up.

  Nick Rocco : I can't. It's impossible.

  Emily Rocco : Why? You're a writer. Invent them.

  Nick Rocco : What do I know about Italian bandits?

  Emily Rocco : What's there to know? They're like any other bandits, only they eat pizza.

• Father Gondolfo : Why don't you go to church anymore?

  Nick Rocco : Well, I don't know. Lots of things. I've changed. My thinking has changed. The church never changes.

  Father Gondolfo : Seems to me that should be one of it's great attractions.

  Nick Rocco : The world has changed too, Father.

  Father Gondolfo : Oh, we have atomic energy and the hydrogen bomb. But, mankind, the same.

• Nick Rocco : There's no birth control in the church.

  Papa Vittorio Rocco : Birth control?

  Nick Rocco : Well, we gotta draw the line some place.

  Papa Vittorio Rocco : I don't like that kind of talk.

• Nick Rocco : I don't know. Whatever it is, I don't know what it is. At first I feel good about it - and then I feel like I'm being pushed and I don't like the feeling. It's no good, no good at all. It's - it's very hard, very hard.