Assault on a Queen (1966)

Virna Lisi: Rosa Lucchesi

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• Mark Brittain : Do you always look this good in the morning?

  Rosa Lucchesi : You will have time to compare; there will be thousands of mornings.

• Rosa Lucchesi : If you're so difficult now, Mr. Brittain, how can we ever become friends?

• Rosa Lucchesi : I want my life to be whipped cream and silk sheets. And without problems.

• Rosa Lucchesi : I wouldn't steal from those who couldn't afford to lose.

  Mark Brittain : How do you like this? A blonde Italian Robin Hood.

• Vic Rossiter : Just so we don't misunderstand each other, Brittain. We don't share everything alike. What was owned before, that's not in the pot.

  Rosa Lucchesi : So we don't have any misunderstandings - nobody owns me. You have a few prerogatives, Victor, but that's a gift from me to you. I can revoke the license anytime.

• Rosa Lucchesi : Ever been a masseur?

  Mark Brittain : No, but I could kick myself.

• Mark Brittain : Where'd you learn to swim so good, diving for coins in the Bay of Naples?

  Rosa Lucchesi : I do everything with perfection, Mr. Brittain: swimming, dancing, fundraising, almost everything. And you?

  Mark Brittain : I play a little gin. I catch a little fish. If I catch a lot of fish, I get splendidly stoned. It's a living.

• Rosa Lucchesi : Make allowances, Mark. He had a hard beginning: the slums until 14 years old, then a reformatory. That would explain his angers, wouldn't it?

  Mark Brittain : I'll try to set aside an hour a day to extend my sympathy. How many hours a day will you devote? How many hours at night?

  Rosa Lucchesi : I don't like that, Mark. There was a time when Victor Rossiter appealed to me - when he filled a need. I make no excuses, Mark.

  Mark Brittain : I didn't ask for any.

• Rosa Lucchesi : It's not more wrong now than before. I didn't hear you say no.

  Mark Brittain : That's because maybe you weren't listening. Come to think of it, I wasn't talking.

  Rosa Lucchesi : What held you?

  Mark Brittain : What held me? A blue-eyed, long legged Italian with hooks. That's what held me.

• Mark Brittain : Rosa, you know what to do with the ballast tanks?

  Rosa Lucchesi : Yes, I do.