The Sopranos (TV Series)

Full Leather Jacket (2000)

Edie Falco: Carmela Soprano

Quotes 

• Carmela Soprano : [during family dinner, to Tony]  while you were sleeping, we found out Hunter Scangarelo got into Reed College

  Meadow Soprano : [to her mother, irritated]  can't you be happy for Hunter? Reed was her first choice: she'd die if she didn't get in. Why do you always think everything has something to do with me?

  A.J. Soprano : because you didn't get in anywhere

  Carmela Soprano : [after chastising AJ for insulting his sister]  nobody has heard anything for months: Hunter took early acceptance so she found out early, what that means is she could only apply to that one college. Your sister, on the other hand, gave herself a lot of options such as Bowdoin, Holy Cross, Georgetown...

  Meadow Soprano : you know Georgetown is a total reach for me

  Carmela Soprano : oh, please they'd be crazy not to want you

  Meadow Soprano : if I can in there, I can probably get into Berkeley?

  Tony Soprano : over my dead body

  Meadow Soprano : there are more Nobel Prize winners in the San Francisco Bay area than any other area on the planet

  Tony Soprano : Nobel Prize for what? Packing Fudge? Look, you know you can go anywhere you want to go to college but I'll tell you where I'm not gonna pay for, and that's Berkeley

  A.J. Soprano : I want to go to Harvard or West Point

  Tony Soprano : well, you might get to see them on television but that's about it: you wanna go to college like those, you gotta crack the books

• Carmela Soprano : [referring to their daughter's main choice on where to go to college]  What is this obsession with Berkley? What? Is she trying to get away from us?

  Tony Soprano : Absolutely: that's her job

  Carmela Soprano : Go ahead, laugh. What are you gonna do if she gets into Berkley and not into Notre Dame and Georgetown?

  Tony Soprano : She's in the National Honor Society for Christ's sake

  Carmela Soprano : Don't be naïve, please? How do you think Hunter Scangarelo got into Reed College? Her uncle. That's how, him and his wife are graduates

  Tony Soprano : That little freak show isn't gonna get into college anyway

  Carmela Soprano : Second Baby Boom: grades, great SAT scores, it's not enough anymore, it's all who you know and how many buildings you give

  Tony Soprano : What'd you want me to do, huh?

• Carmela Soprano : [over the phone]  hi, how are you?

  Jeanie Cusamano : listen, I spoke to my sister about the letter of recommendation for Meadow and she's sorry, she just can't do it... I'm sorry

  Carmela Soprano : she can't? Why not?

  Jeanie Cusamano : well because she already wrote a letter for someone else: a wonderful Dominican from the housing projects, with a 5.2 average and a crack addict mother with Cerebral palsy

  Carmela Soprano : so, what does that mean? She can't send two?

  Jeanie Cusamano : did you think about asking one of the priests at the church? A letter from Father Intintola would "probably" mean more I bet? Especially at Georgetown. I gotta go, bye, good luck

• Carmela Soprano : [surprising her in her backyard]  Jeanie, hi, you're putting your roses to bed huh?

  Jeanie Cusamano : Carmela, hi

  Carmela Soprano : I haven't seen you in spinning class lately and I went by and couple times and ran your bell couple times but you weren't home either

  Jeanie Cusamano : really?

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to Jeanie's identical twin sister]  The other day I'm at the Willow Brook mall and I see you going on the down escalator and I'm yelling "Jeanie, Jeanie," and that's when I realized it was your sister: didn't she go to Georgetown?

  Jeanie Cusamano : [listing her sister's credentials with the university]  Georgetown Law, Georgetown Law Review, Regional Secretary of the Georgetown Alumni Association of Short Hill

  Carmela Soprano : Because you know my Meadow applied to Georgetown? And I am hoping and praying to Jesus that she gets in, she keeps talking about Berkley

  Jeanie Cusamano : College already huh? They get big so fast

  Jeanie Cusamano : [after looking at her watch]  Oh God, is that the time?

  Carmela Soprano : I need to ask you a favor. I was wondering if you would ask your sister to write Meadow a letter of recommendation? Is that too forward?

  Jeanie Cusamano : Well, she doesn't really know Meadow

  Carmela Soprano : but you do and you can give her Meadow's transcripts, which are excellent by the way: her paper on the melting icecaps made me cry, it was so poignant. It was published in the Daily Caduceus

  Jeanie Cusamano : My sister... she's so busy

  Carmela Soprano : Really? Is there's any way you can find yourself to help me out here?

  Jeanie Cusamano : I'll ask