I Love You to Death (1990)
Joan Plowright: Nadja
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Quotes
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Rosalie Boca : They look like drug addicts.
Devo Nod : Well, they are drug addicts.
Rosalie Boca : Oh my God! You hired drug addicts?
Devo Nod : Who'd you expect me to hire? The Red Cross?
Nadja : They seem like very polite boys.
Rosalie Boca : I don't like having drug addicts in my house!
Nadja : Oh no, Rosalie. Don't think of them as drug addicts. Think of them as killers.
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Harlan James : This is only two hun'erd. We was promised five.
Devo Nod : For killing him five, for wounding him two.
Harlan James : You wanted me to shoot him so I shot him.
Nadja : You woke him up! What good is that?
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[Discussing hiring a hit man to kill Joey]
Devo Nod : How much can we pay?
Rosalie Boca : As much as we have to.
[Rosalie exits]
Nadja : Yeah, you know, not too much. Try for discount.
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Lt. Larry Schooner : Jesus!
Devo Nod : What?
Lt. Larry Schooner : What the hell's going on here?
Rosalie Boca : What's wrong?
Sgt. Carlos Wiley : What is it?
Lt. Larry Schooner : He's been shot in the head!
Nadja : Ah!
Rosalie Boca : Oh!
Devo Nod : Really.
Joey Boca : What.
Nadja : No wonder he has headache!
Lt. Larry Schooner : Headache? he's got a bullet in him! Carlos, get an ambulance over here right away.
[see's Devo sneaking away]
Lt. Larry Schooner : Devo!
Devo Nod : ...I was gonna get a band-aid... for Joey...
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[to Joey]
Nadja : You know, I like you once. Maybe someday I like you again.
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Nadja : Last week on TV, I heard about a woman who stabbed her husband twenty-seven times. And you know why? Because he refused to put the top back on the mustard jar. Twenty-seven times! Can you imagine?
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Rosalie Boca : We didn't do it. I swear to God we didn't. We found him outside, on the lawn...
Devo Nod : ...Right outside...
Rosalie Boca : ...He was lying there, someone had shot him, and thrown him on the lawn...
Nadja : Yeah, it was a mess...
Rosalie Boca : ...It was terrible. So we brought him inside and we... we put him in bed... and... yep... It must have been the Mafia.
Lt. Larry Schooner : Mafia?
Devo Nod : The Mafia.
Nadja : Yeah. Joey was Italian.
Rosalie Boca : He *is* Italian.
Devo Nod : He *is* Italian.
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Nadja : I am her mother. I do what I want.
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Rosalie Boca : I don't know. Maybe I didn't give him enough.
Nadja : But he ate three whole bowls! What an ox!
Rosalie Boca : Joey is not a normal man. You know how he is. He works ten... maybe 12, or 14 hours a day, seven days a week... and out with a different girl... every night.
Nadja : Rosalie...
Rosalie Boca : That's just it. He eats anything he wants. He never seems to gain any weight. He's not human! He's like an animal. Like we're dealing with a machine!