Amarcord 1973 quotes, page 2

I get up at 4:00 am and slave away all day like a mule, and when I come home for a crust of bread, I find a bunch of long faces!

Gradisca

I want one of those long encounters that last a lifetime. I want a family, children, a husband to chat with in the evenings over coffee, maybe, and to make love with now and then, because when you must, you must. But affection is even more important than love. I'm so full of affection. But who can I give it to? Who wants it?

Look how many there are. Millions and millions and millions of stars. Jesus Christ! I wonder how they all stay in place up there. I mean, it's pretty simple for us. To build a house, we use so many bricks, so much lime. But up there, sweet Jesus! Where do you put the foundations? They aren't just confetti, you know.

My father's father used to say, "To be fit as a fiddle, you have to piddle. To be fit as a frog, pee like a dog."

My father's father was known as "Big Meat." He lived to be 107 and he was still doing it!

So when I was little, he taught me to eat at 11:00 in the morning, before the sun burns your head, and at 4:00 in the afternoon. Otherwise food is like poison that gets into your blood.

Tell me, who's the father of this piece of shit?

What are you crying about? It's one big laugh riot!