Avanti! (1972)
Jack Lemmon: Wendell Armbruster, Jr.
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Quotes
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Carlo Carlucci : In Italy, the lunch hour is from one to four.
Wendell Armbruster : *Three hours* for lunch?
Carlo Carlucci : Mr. Armbruster. Here we do not rush to drugstore for chicken sandwich & Coca-Cola. Here, we take our time. We cook our pasta, we sprinkle our Parmigiano, we drink our wine, we make our love...
Wendell Armbruster : What do you do in the evening?
Carlo Carlucci : In the evening, we go home to our wives.
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Wendell Armbruster : [moving his face close to hers] Permesso?
Pamela Piggott : Why don't you just make a contribution to your favorite charity?
Wendell Armbruster : [firmly] *Permesso.*
Pamela Piggott : Avanti.
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Carlo Carlucci : While you are here, maybe you should take some mud baths.
Wendell Armbruster : No thanks, I had one on the train.
Carlo Carlucci : On the train?
Wendell Armbruster : I drank it. They call it espresso.
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Pamela Piggott : For instance, you need a coffin lined with some sort of metal.
Wendell Armbruster : Zinc.
[to Carlucci]
Wendell Armbruster : Better get a couple of those.
Carlo Carlucci : I had trouble finding one!
Wendell Armbruster : Come on. You can dig up a couple of coffins.
Carlo Carlucci : [hesitating] You want second-hand coffins?
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Wendell Armbruster : [as Pamela strips at the seaside] Miss Piggott! Please keep in mind that it's Sunday, and this is a Catholic country!
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Wendell Armbruster : [entering Carlucci's hotel] Well, it doesn't look like a Hilton.
Carlo Carlucci : I accept the compliment.
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Pamela Piggott : [Talking about her ex-boyfriend] The bastard walked out on me. Stole my telly, two Picasso posters, and my hair dryer. Moved in with some skinny girl in Kensington... When I found out, would you believe I tried to kill myself?
Wendell Armbruster : No!
Pamela Piggott : Yes. I took my week's salary, bought myself a suitcase full of fish and chips and a dozen bottles of Guinness stout, and tried to eat myself to death. Took them hours to pump my stomach out.
Wendell Armbruster : Was it worth it, for a guy like that?
Pamela Piggott : It was stupid. But I've learned my lesson: No more fish and chips!
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Pamela Piggott : I guess there is something to what it says in the tourist guide.
Wendell Armbruster : What does it say?
Pamela Piggott : It says Italy is not a country - it's an emotion.
Wendell Armbruster : Well, it's certainly been an experience!
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J.J. Blodgett : We don't need an export licence. We're gonna bypass all that bull...
Wendell Armbruster : Bypass, how can you do it?
J.J. Blodgett : No sweat. We're appointing your father commercial attaché to the embassy in Rome, and that entitles him to all the rights and immunities of a diplomat.
Wendell Armbruster : But wait a minute, we're going to appoint him...
J.J. Blodgett : Why not?
Wendell Armbruster : A dead man?
J.J. Blodgett : Just proves that we don't discriminate against anybody for reasons of race, creed, color, or state of health.
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Wendell Armbruster : Wait a minute, your mother? Where is she?
Pamela Piggott : In the morgue.
Wendell Armbruster : What's she doing in the morgue?
Pamela Piggott : What do people usually do in the morgue? She's lying there.
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Wendell Armbruster : Aagh! Goddamn Ralph Nader! Who asked him!
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Wendell Armbruster : Is that what you call italian justice?
Carlo Carlucci : What about Sacco and Vanzetti?
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Wendell Armbruster : Is this how justice works in Italy?
Carlo Carlucci : Shold we talk about Sacco and Vanzetti?
