31 Cinema Paradiso Quotes (2024) #2

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Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita - Child: Don't you like anything about it?
Alfredo: Oh, you get used to it. Sometimes you can hear that the house if full of people laughing and having fun. Then you're happy too. It makes you feel good to hear them.Like you're the one who made them laugh - who made them forget their troubles. That part I like.

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Alfredo: "A mob doesn't think. They don't know what they're doing." Spencer Tracy said that in "Fury."

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Alfredo: That's probably how it was meant to be. Each of us has his own destiny.

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Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: Mama, I deserted you. Ran out on you like a bandit, without any explanation.
Maria Di Vita - Older: I never asked for any. You don't have to explain anything to me. I always thought you did what was right. Why dwell on it? You were right to leave. You did what you wanted to do. Every time I call you, a different woman

answers. But I never heard in any of their voices that they really loved you. I would've known. All the same, I'd have liked to see you settled down in love with someone. But your life is there. Here there are only ghosts.

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Spaccafico: Hey, cheer up! I'll wait for you. Don't worry. The job'll still be here. I'll wait, you hear? Don't look so gloomy. Come on, now!

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Alfredo: This is no job for you. You're like a slave - and always by yourself. You see a film 100 times. You've nothing else to do. You talk to Greta Garbo and Tyrone Power like an idiot. You work like a dog. Even holidays - Easter, Christmas. You only get Good Friday off. And if they hadn't stuck Christ on a cross we'd even work then.
Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita -

Child: So why don't you change jobs?
Alfredo: Because I'm a nitwit. Who else around here could run a projector? Nobody. It takes an imbecile like me. I never had any luck.

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Salvatore: At a party, a lieutenant pinches this girl's ass. She turns around. It's the colonel's daughter. Terrified, the lieutenant says, "If your heart is as hard as what I just felt, I'm a dead man."

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[repeated line]
Village Idiot: It's my square. The square is mine.

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Spaccafico: This film is too highbrow for us. One day is more than enough. Load the reels for tomorrow.

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Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult: When did you close it down?
Spaccafico: Six years ago in May. Nobody came anymore. You know better than I, Mr. Di Vita - the economy, TV, videos. The old movie business is just a memory.