Don't Make Waves (1967)

Claudia Cardinale: Laura Califatti

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Quotes 

• Carlo Cofield : You know what I want? A box of twenty-five Monte Cristo panatellas. I want a king-size vibrator bed. I want a 35mm. Hasselblad, a Rolls-Royce convertible. I want driving gloves made from the underside of antelope ears. A bold men's cologne for the man who does something to women. A cashmere double-breasted jacket that's going to get me there first.

  Laura Califatti : Get where?

  Carlo Cofield : Doesn't matter. I want to be where the action is. I want to live a life of understated elegance.

• Laura Califatti : They use a new process. It was aromarama. You could smell it!

  Carlo Cofield : Smell what? Smelt the picture?

  Laura Califatti : Yes!... You know, they fixed up the theater so that with every scene there was a different smell. In one scene, I lured this man to a small rose garden and the audience was supposed to smell roses. They pushed this - eh, eh, this, eh...

  Carlo Cofield : Spray?

  Laura Califatti : This spray. This spray - the rose - the smell of roses. But, they make a mistake - and the audience smells fish.

• Laura Califatti : Tonight, you will sleep here - with me! And now - to bed.

• Laura Califatti : Where is the rug of - what do you call the animal? The zig-zag horse? The zebra!

• Laura Califatti : I don't like to look at who I am. I am a - cat woman.

• Laura Califatti : Maybe I will never get the chance again. So, I came.

• Carlo Cofield : Were you in a lot of pictures?

  Laura Califatti : No. I have been only in this one.

• Laura Califatti : I'm a terrible actress. I cannot act. You want?

  [lights Carlo's cigar] 

  Laura Califatti : I cannot pretend one thing, when I feel another. I'm too emotional.

  [blows out the match] 

• Carlo Cofield : What do you do now? I mean, for a living?

  Laura Califatti : I live! I live a rich life. I have my work and for me that is everything.

  Carlo Cofield : Well, I'd like to live a rich life too.

  Laura Califatti : We must all live a full life. A rich life!

• Laura Califatti : Listen, I live here alone. I let you sleep in my house, because, I know you will - you will not make a stupid attempt. Heh? You will behave. Heh? With some men, a woman is not secure. But, you're not such a man.

  Carlo Cofield : I'm not, huh?

  Laura Califatti : No. You're a friend. Ciao!

• Laura Califatti : It's a marauder!

  Rod Prescott : It's a private dick. I'll take care of him right now.

• Laura Califatti : [to Rod]  It is because you don't love me. Only a fool could believe it. Only a fool or someone who didn't care. Why have no jealousy for the one you love? He is my lover!

  Carlo Cofield : Oh, no, no!

  Laura Califatti : He takes me when he pleases!

  Carlo Cofield : Oh, no, no.

  Laura Califatti : We are mad for each other! Tell him!

  Carlo Cofield : I'm not her lover.

  Laura Califatti : Ah, grazie, grazie...

  Rod Prescott : What is your line there, lover boy? You a dance instructor? A paid escort? A hairdresser?

• Laura Califatti : He's too much man to leave her and I'm too much woman to leave him.

• Laura Califatti : I think you're - going to make a pass at me. No?

  Carlo Cofield : Considering our record, so far, that's probably the most self-destructive thing - I could possibly do.

• [last lines] 

  Carlo Cofield : Here we go!

  Laura Califatti : Carlo, please!

• Laura Califatti : I have no name, I have no existence, I'm an item, a deductible item.