It Started in Naples (1960)

Vittorio De Sica: Mario Vitale

Quotes 

• Mario Vitale : A man can be a pig and a lawyer at the same time.

• Mario Vitale : I am a lawyer.

  Lucia Curcio : You're a pig.

  Mario Vitale : A man can be a lawyer and a pig at the same time. It happens often.

• Mario Vitale : [as he backs his mini car up]  Uh, please - your knee's in the way.

  Michael Hamilton : Why don't we all get out and carry it?

• Mario Vitale : A man of great stature - your brother Mr. Joseph Hamilton. A gentleman in the real sense of the word... in the whole sense of the word.

  Michael Hamilton : My brother was a lazy, irresponsible, no-good so and so... in any sense of the word. Unless he changed a lot in the last few years.

  Mario Vitale : No. Not at all.

• Michael Hamilton : [Talking about his brother, Joe, leaving his wife]  When he left 10 years ago, he told her he was just going out for a short beer.

  Mario Vitale : I'm sure he had one.

• Mario Vitale : Miss Curcio bears a great affection for you. She has told me. I am like a father to her, unfortunately.

• Mario Vitale : Please, be so kind as to go away. It is not proper for me to be seen with my opponent.

  Lucia Curcio : You call yourself an Italian, and you plot with an American to take a child away.

• Michael Hamilton : What are you trying to do?

  Mario Vitale : I must say a few kind things about Miss Curcio. I must win the confidence of the court that I am an open-minded man.

  Michael Hamilton : You're not supposed to be open-minded. You're supposed to be my lawyer. And keep your eyes off of her. And ask for permission to speak in English.

  Mario Vitale : As you wish. But I'm not half as effective in English, huh.

  Michael Hamilton : That's my only hope.

• Michael Hamilton : [in court]  Ask for permission to speak in English.

  Mario Vitale : As you wish. But I'm not half as effective in English.

  Michael Hamilton : That's my only hope.

• Mario Vitale : Mr. Hamilton has a great affection for you. He has told me. You have my word of honor.

  Lucia Curcio : The word of honor of a pig.

  Mario Vitale : But a lawyer.

• Mario Vitale : I am a human being first and a lawyer next. And perhaps, a pig after that.

• Mario Vitale : I will now speak in English, so that my client, a lawyer from America who wishes to study the methods of Italian jurisprudence, may receive an education.

• Mario Vitale : [Addressing the court]  In the meantime, in America will be a happy child. He will have new shoes...

  [lowered voice] 

  Mario Vitale : factory-made. He will go to school with air-conditioning and learn about the poverty in Italy - the type of life that he has escaped.