Dolly Sinatra Just what the world needs, another punch-drunk palooka.
Played by Olympia Dukakis 
Sinatra (1992) · 34 quotes
Sinatra (1992) · 34 quotes
Tied for 5th most-quoted character in Sinatra (1992): in 3 of its 34 quotes
Most scenes with: Frank Sinatra (2)
Scenes with Dolly Sinatra
3 scenes Dolly Sinatra
Marty Sinatra
Frankie! Hey, Frankie! Frankie! Come on, wake up! Hey! [Frank wakes up] C'mon. Why aren't you at work?
Cuz I didn't go.
Marty Sinatra
What, first you quit your school, now you quit your job?
Yeah.
Marty Sinatra
[short pause]
Dolly! Hey, Dolly! Kid can't stick to anything! He's a quitter!
Dolly Sinatra [Frank gets out of bed, takes out a pint of milk from the fridge] [to Frank]
What the hell's going on?
Mom, pop. I made a decision. I can't do that work no more. I'm gonna find me work being a singer like - like Bing Crosby.
Dolly Sinatra Forget Bing Crosby! Get your job back!
Marty Sinatra
You listen to your mother.
No, I'm telling you! I'm going to be a singer. It's all I do in my free time and free time's not enough no more!
Marty Sinatra
Frankie. You work hard, then you go to college, otherwise your gonna end up like me, a guy that can't even read or write his own name!
I'm not gonna end up like you, pop. I gotta do this.
Marty Sinatra
Than I don't gotta support you! You don't work! You don't live here! [takes the apple out of his hand] And I'll tell you somethin' else! [smashes the apple on the kitchen table] You don't eat here!
Ma, tell him. I can do this. I - I can be someone.
Dolly Sinatra You are someone. Your Frankie Sinatra--
Marty Sinatra
[angrily]
He's not! [to Frank] I'll tell you... You pack your bags! Hit the bricks! Out! Cuz I didn't raise no kid to be no freeloader!
Fine! [throws and smashes the pint of milk at the sink]
[Frank walks out]
Dolly Sinatra [shouts]
You get a good look around this country! People are starving, mister big shot! Our neighbours! And they can't feed the seven kids they've got! Never mind a new one on the way! You know most people in this world today! They'll make $75 a week like you, mister big shot! Most people don't make $75 a month and if they did, they wouldn't quit!
Marty Sinatra
I don't get it.
Pop, I've learned a lot while I was on the road, but I'm a soloist.
Marty Sinatra
You couldn't be a soloist in a relief line. You're nothing but a quitter.
Pop, I'm better than those bums. You don't know, you weren't there.
Marty Sinatra
Do you know what happens when cocky kids are in the ring? They go down. Down! Every time, down.
Dolly Sinatra Your gonna kill us both if you don't straighten out.
Ma, pop's wrong! I'm not going down! I'm going up!
