The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

Anthony Quinn: Bombolini

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Quotes 

• Italo Bombolini : It's nice to have a hot meal before you die.

  Rosa Bombolini : You aren't going to die.

  Italo Bombolini : I'm the mayor, no? The Germans come. I greet them. They threaten me! I spit in their face! They put a pistol to my head and blow out my brains!

  Rosa Bombolini : Why would they put a pistol to your head? The whole world knows Bombolini's brains are in his ass.

• [Young Fabio has been caught making love to Bombolini's daughter, Angela] 

  Italo Bombolini : I'm going to punish that boy so that he remembers it for the rest of his life.

  [In the next scene, Fabio and Angela leave the church, having just been married] 

• Italo Bombolini : [the town council wants to resist German occupation]  Every Santa Vittorian has known for the last thousand years: brave men and good wine - they don't last long.

• Italo Bombolini : "Mathematically"! If I only had a mind like his. *Math-ay-mat-tee-cally*!

• Italo Bombolini : [yelling to the crowd below while drunk and sitting on top of the water tower]  What do you want? Go on home. Go on home. Your lunch is ready.

• Italo Bombolini : [after being told that his 16 year old daughter Angela was just caught in bed with Fabio]  Rosa, maybe it's love?

  Rosa Bombolini : She doesn't even know what love is - and she's making it right now!

  Italo Bombolini : I brought her to you. You were supposed to teach her!

  Babbaluche : [pointing to Rosa]  It's the mother's fault!

  Rosa Bombolini : I told you shut up! Listen, Mayor Bombolini, I demand that you put on your pants *immediately* and come down and kill him.

• Italo Bombolini : You know what Rosa said? She said that tomorrow, when the town is sobered up, they will want me to resign. That's what she said.

  Babbaluche : Rosa's a loud-mouthed bitch, no offense.

• [repeated line] 

  Italo Bombolini : There is no wine.

• [last lines] 

  Italo Bombolini : [yelling to the crowd in mimicking a just departed Captain Von Prum]  What kind of people are you?

  [the crowd erupts in cheers, laughter and merriment] 

• Rosa Bombolini : You drunken clown, go away from here and take these bums with you.

  Italo Bombolini : Woman, I tell you to open the gates.

  Rosa Bombolini : I open no gates to a mob of idiots.

  Italo Bombolini : This is no mob! These are the citizens of Santa Vittoria. And I order you to open those gates?

  Rosa Bombolini : Order? You order? You order me?

• Italo Bombolini : Angela, I want your mother to teach you two things: the beauty of women and the danger of men!

• Angela : I always cry when Fabio goes.

  Italo Bombolini : Of course, he's like a brother to you.

  Angela : I don't love him like a brother. I love him like a woman.

  Italo Bombolini : Angela... you're too young to think such things.

  Angela : That's what Fabio thinks. That I am a child.

  Italo Bombolini : He's right!

  Angela : But, I am 16 years old!

  Italo Bombolini : You're only 16.

  Angela : And I have the breasts of a woman.

  [cups her breasts] 

  Italo Bombolini : Angela, please.

  Angela : And at night, when I'm in my bed, my breasts *ache* for Fabio.

  Italo Bombolini : Don't do that.

  [slaps Angela's hands cupping her breasts] 

  Angela : And I only want to be with him.

• Italo Bombolini : Shut up! We've had enough democracy for awhile. I am the mayor here. I am the voice of the people!

  Benedetti : What the hell do you know about the people?

  Italo Bombolini : I smell the people! And the people smell me.

  Babbaluche : At least, no one can argue about that.

• Babbaluche : If there are two people in the world you should never meet, its the German and your wife Rosa.

  Italo Bombolini : Babbaluche, do you think she'll make trouble?

  Babbaluche : With Rosa, that's trouble.

• Italo Bombolini : I couldn't ask my people to rape themselves for 25%!

  Captain Von Prum : For what figure then would you be prepared to ask your poeple to rape themselves?

• Italo Bombolini : Hey, how do I look?

  Babbaluche : Like always. Like a clown.

• Rosa Bombolini : You stand there fast asleep and a man is seducing a virgin.

  Italo Bombolini : Where?

  Rosa Bombolini : Right under your nose.

  Italo Bombolini : At this time of night? Who is it?

  Rosa Bombolini : It's your young friend Fabio.

  Italo Bombolini : [laughs]  That young goat!

  Babbaluche : Good for him.

  Italo Bombolini : Who? Who is the lucky girl?

  Rosa Bombolini : The lucky girl, Mayor Stupid of the Stupid City of Saint Stupid is your daughter Angela.

  Italo Bombolini : Angela? My baby Angela?

• Rosa Bombolini : Don't try to cheat him. You are not *smart* enough.

  Italo Bombolini : I am not trying to cheat him. I am only trying to make him think I'm cheating him. If he doesn't think I'm cheating, he's gonna start wondering why I am not cheating or even trying to cheat.

• Italo Bombolini : He was so beautiful at first. His promises for us. He was gonna help us build a school. Build roads. We were gonna plant the hillside with grass and trees. This tower to give us free water. Oh, the miracles of Benito Mussolini.

• Italo Bombolini : Without our wine, we are nothing!

• Italo Bombolini : Look, you be reasonable and keep your fat mouth shut! Or, I'm gonna feed you my fist. I swear.

  Rosa Bombolini : [sarcastically]  I'm frightened to death - of you and the cat.

• Italo Bombolini : I want to apologize. I'm not responsible now for what my wife says.

  Captain Von Prum : That's all right, Bombolini. I decided to forget it. But, she certainly is a bitch.

• Captain Von Prum : We are simply trying to defray the cost of our occupying and, if necessary, protecting this community.

  Italo Bombolini : But, it's like paying a stranger to sleep in your bed with your wife!

  Captain Von Prum : I suppose it is.

• Italo Bombolini : Oh, you all shout like heroes. You are a bunch of *grape* growers!

• Italo Bombolini : The trouble is, to all the important men in Santa Vittoria, I'm just a clown. A big, stupid clown. Don't deny it.

  Babbaluche : Who could deny it?

• Italo Bombolini : I will issue an official statement. Something simple and dignified: You can take this job and shove it up your ass.

  Babbaluche : That will be the finest moment in Italian history.