Amarcord 1973 quotes

He's getting worse and worse! They're a pair of little hoodlums! You've brought them up wrong!

Then you do it! Let's see how well you do! I can't stand any more! I'm going crazy! I'm going mad! I'll kill the whole lot of you! No? No? I'll put strychnine in your soup! That's what I'll do! But I'll kill myself first!

Good.

Right now!

Go ahead.

You'll see!

I'll kill myself first!

I can stare at an egg for hours, wondering how nature can make things so perfect.

'Cause it was God who made nature, not an ignoramus like you!

Miranda. Miranda! Who locked the gate?

I did.

Why?

You know why.

Unlock it. You've heard what's been going on in the piazza all day. Open up. I have business to take care of.

Nothing doing. You're staying at home. What's all this stuff? If I wanted to be a widow, I'd kill you myself. I'll strangle you with your neckerchief!

Think I'm scared of those black-shirted lice? Give me the key. Give me the key! Miranda! Damn it all!

Mortar, let the boss hear your poem.

Let's hear it. What's it called?

Bricks.

Good title!

My grandfather made bricks. My father made bricks. I make bricks too. But, where's my house?

Do you commit impure acts? Do you touch yourself? Do you know Saint Louis weeps when you touch yourself?

Titta

Let him cry. I'm not gonna tell you, because you'll only tell Dad. Don't tell me you don't touch yourself. How can you not, when you see the woman in the tobacco shop, as stacked as she is and she says... Export brand? And the math teacher who looks just like a lion? Mother of God! How can you avoid touching yourself when she looks at you that way?

Do you honor your father and mother?

Titta

Yes, but they don't honor me. They beat me.

You must annoy them.

Do you tell lies?

Titta

I have to!

You think my fanny's a good-luck charm?

In our town, the puffballs and spring arrive hand in hand. These are the sort of puffballs that drift around, soaring over the cemetery, where all rest in peace, soaring over the beachfront and over the Germans, newly arrived, who don't feel the cold. Drifting, drifting... swirling... swirling... swirling... Drifting, drifting, drifting!

Are you Polish? Only Polish women have that fire in their eyes.

I always find German women to be pushovers. She's really fallen for me. And to prove it, she even offered me posterior intimacy.

Titta

I didn't know people kissed like that. Did you? With their tongues going in and out?

I'll ask the questions here.

Titta

Uncle's not feeling good.

Then take him to the whorehouse.

Where am I? I don't seem to be anywhere. If death is like this, I don't think much of it. Everything's gone. People, trees, birds, wine. Well, up yours!

Gradisca

But winter's dying and spring is on its way. I can feel it all over me already!