The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969)

Anna Magnani: Rosa

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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.

• 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.

• 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?

• Rosa Bombolini : I fell in love with him, at once, without even thinking. Only because he was handsome, strong, happy, with his big, beautiful hands.

• Angela : I love him so much. I can't help sweating.

  Rosa Bombolini : Well, I understand. Believe me, my girl, I understand you. You see, Fabio even in your sleep.

  Angela : Yes, Mama! Yes! And when I talk to him, I can't help it, the juices flow inside me.

  Rosa Bombolini : What?

  Angela : The juices, Mama!

  [Rosa slaps Angela] 

  Angela : You can hit me all you like, but, that doesn't change anything. You are a woman, Mama. And so am I. It's time you taught me everything you know.

  Rosa Bombolini : No! What do I know after a life with your father?

• Rosa Bombolini : I told my parents I want that man in my bed. Only him! My father should have hit me over the head with the bottle.

  Angela : But, I don't want to marry Papa. I want to marry Fabio.

  Rosa Bombolini : I had him in bed. I had him! And that was all. Drunk! Drunk everyday from 12 noon to 4 in the morning. And the rest of the time snoring, like a jackass!

• Rosa Bombolini : Bombolini, why do you always have to go all the way around the mountain when you want to take a leak next door?

• 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 : I have no more tears left for that man. I cried my *guts* out the day he supported Nazis. Up with Mussolini! Down with Mussolini! Yes! No! Yes! No! He's been doing it for 16 years!

• 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 : 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.