Mafioso (1962)
Alberto Sordi: Antonio Badalamenti
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Quotes
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Marta : [seeing a dead person in a bed surrounded by people eating] Look!
Antonio Badalamenti : It's nothing. A man died. It's an old custom. His friends are throwing a party for him.
Antonio Badalamenti : [to one of the mourners with a plate of food] Cumbari. How'd he die?
Man at wake : [matter-of-factly] Two bullets.
Antonio Badalamenti : [with urgency to the driver] Right. Let's go!
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Antonio Badalamenti : Why do you say Sicily's uncivilized? It's very civilized and we have to live up to that.
Nino's father : No, we have to act like men - and that snake was right - you are a woman!
Antonio Badalamenti : No, Papa! Please don't say that!
Nino's father : [contemptuously] Fuck off!
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Don Liborio : [passing a street vendor] Now, a nice cap for the gentleman. What color do you want... black or checked?
Antonio Badalamenti : Black.
Don Liborio : Want to try it on?
[Nino looks at himself in a mirror.]
Don Liborio : Now you're really one of us.
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Antonio Badalamenti : [looking ahead on the ferry] Look over there!
[enthusiastically]
Antonio Badalamenti : Sicily! Island of the sun and Cyclops! The inspiration to all the poets!
[noticing his wife's lack of enthusiasm]
Antonio Badalamenti : What's the matter, Marta?
Marta : [wistfully] Nothing. I was just watching Italy fade away.
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Antonio Badalamenti : I may live in Milan, but I'm still Sicilian.
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Antonio Badalamenti : Remember when I said there were four hares. I bagged two of them. But if I'd had a Winch... a Winchester, I'd have bagged them all.
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Antonio Badalamenti : [Having arrived at his family home in Sicily, greeting his various relatives] Dear Catella! Have you cooked me spaghetti with sardines?
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Antonio Badalamenti : [At lunch table, asking about Rosalia's engagement] To whom?
Nino's father : Domenico Licasi... for more than two years.
Antonio Badalamenti : I didn't know.
Nino's father : It's not official.
Antonio Badalamenti : What does he do?
Nino's father : He sits.
Marta : [Unfamiliar with the term "sit"] Office worker?
Antonio Badalamenti : Unemployed. That's how we put it here.
Nino's father : If they marry, I'll have another mouth to feed.
Rosalia : [In protest] Domenico wouldn't accept! He's a worker!... but unlucky.
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Antonio Badalamenti : [At the lunch table, asking about old acquaintances] - How's Ignacio?
Nino's father : He left.
Antonio Badalamenti : And Ciccio?
Nino's father : Emigrated.
Antonio Badalamenti : And Alfio?
Nino's father : [Answers in local dialect] "in jail"
Antonio Badalamenti : In jail?
Nino's father : Crime of honor.
Antonio Badalamenti : And Filo?
Antonio Badalamenti : [Everybody at table suddenly becomes uncomfortably silent] Dead?
Nino's father : Went astray
Marta : [Turning to Uncle Turi] What's that mean?
Uncle Turi : Betrayed his friends.
Nino's father : Goes around on a motorbike, agitating among the farm laborers.
Antonio Badalamenti : And Tota? And Nicola? And Jano?
Nino's father : All sitting. You were lucky, even though you deserved it. Don't forget that.
Antonio Badalamenti : I won't... And after lunch, I'm going to see Don Vincenzo. I've a favor to do for an important businessman - an American from Calamo.
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Antonio Badalamenti : [Nino's wife has succeeded in removing noticeable mustache hair from Rosalia's upper lip] Rosalia, come. Let me look at you! You're like porcelain. Smooth. White. Take my advice. Marry before your mustache grows again!
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Antonio Badalamenti : [Don Vincenzo has helped settle a land purchase dispute for Nino's father. Nino is overwhelmed with gratitude] Blessed Don Vincenzo, may you live a thousand years in our gratitude!
Don Vincenzo : It's a small thing. We should all help each other.
Antonio Badalamenti : If you need me one day, just say the word. Your word is my command.
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Antonio Badalamenti : Don Vincenzo, what is it I'm doing?
Don Vincenzo : What are you doing? Something very important. But if you wish... you can say no. Do you say no?
Antonio Badalamenti : Do I say no?... I say yes.