Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful

Giosué Orefice: Look, they stopped the train to let Mom get on.
Guido: Dora...

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Life Is Beautiful

[after arriving in the deserted concentration camp in a tank, trying to speak to an Italian boy in English]
U.S. Tank Soldier: You have no idea what I'm saying, do you?

Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful

Guido: The prize is... the prize is...
Eliseo Orefice: A tank.
Guido: Yes! Yes, the prize is a tank.
Giosué Orefice: I already have one.
Guido: No, a real one.
Giosué Orefice: A real tank?

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Life Is Beautiful

Guido: You can lose all your points for any one of three things. One: If you cry. Two: If you ask to see your mother. Three: If you're hungry and ask for a snack! Forget it!

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Life Is Beautiful

Guido: [being shipped to a concentration camp] You've never ridden on a train, have you? They're fantastic! Everybody stands up, close together, and there are no seats!
Giosué Orefice: There aren't any seats?
Guido: Seats? On a train? It's obvious you've never ridden one before! No, everybody's packed in, standing up. Look at this

line to get on! Hey, we've got tickets, save room for us!

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Life Is Beautiful

Dr. Lessing: [softly reciting riddle at Nazi concentration camp officers' mess] Fat, fat, ugly, ugly, all yellow in reality. If you ask me what I am, I reply "Quark quark quark".
[looks around surreptitiously]
Dr. Lessing: Walking along, I go "Por-por". Who am I? Tell me true.
Guido: [looks at Doctor Lessing in stunned

silence]
Dr. Lessing: [smiles] Hmphh... a duckling, no?
Guido: [nods silently, still flabbergasted]
Dr. Lessing: Is it not a duckling?
[angrily]
Dr. Lessing: It's not! A veterinarian friend of mine sent it to me from Vienna. I can't send him mine, until I solve this one. I thought: Duck-billed

platypus. But it doesn't go "Quark quark quark quark". A duck-billed platypus goes...
[pulls at corners of mouth with fingers, making a blowing sound]
Dr. Lessing: "Ffrrr ffrrr-ffrrr ffrrr-ffrrr". Duck-billed platypus...
[steps forward and whispers into Guido's ear]
Dr. Lessing: I translated it into Italian for you last night. Well,

what do you say? Everything points to a duckling!
[assumes tragic tone and expression]
Dr. Lessing: Help me, Guido. For heaven's sake, help me. I can't even sleep.
[turns to side counter, talking to self]
Dr. Lessing: Fat, fat... ugly, ugly... that's me... quark quark quark... It's the duckling!
[wails and thumps side counter in

frustration]
Guido: [slowly and silently walks away, crestfallen at Doctor Lessing's callous, comic-tragic behavior]

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Life Is Beautiful

Dora: At least they don't make the children and old people work.
Female Prisoner: They don't make them work because they kill them! One day, you will hear a lady calling, "Kids, come take a shower," then they gas them!

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Life Is Beautiful

Guido: Dr. Lessing!
Dr. Lessing: Hello!
[notices the flowers]
Dr. Lessing: What are the flowers for?
Guido: [thinks fast] Ah... for your departure!
[hands him the flowers]
Dr. Lessing: Thank you!

Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful

Giosué Orefice: Daddy, you scared me to death!

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Life Is Beautiful

Dr. Lessing: I have something important to tell you. Wait for my signal.

Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful

Guido: Good morning, Princess! Last night, I dreamt about you all night! We were going to the movies. You were wearing that pink suit that I really like. You're all I think about, Princess. I always think about you. And now...
Giosué Orefice: Mommy! Pop wheels me in the wheelbarrow, but he doesn't know how to drive! We laugh like crazy! We're in the lead!

How many points do we have today?