The Sopranos (TV Series)

He Is Risen (2001)

Lorraine Bracco: Dr. Jennifer Melfi

Quotes 

• Tony Soprano : Its 3am, I'm wide awake

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Something specific?

  Tony Soprano : It's a "management" problem, it's a situation with an underling, now it's partly my fault. But he have never done what he did

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : What was it? Could you tell me that?

  Tony Soprano : Caused an early "retirement" for somebody else, I think he thought he was more important, he fucked up. Now ordinarily I'd just you know, just put him "out to pasture". But his a very valuable piece of man power

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Is it complicated by a personal relationship?

  Tony Soprano : [Intentionally changing the subject]  I've been reading that book you were telling me about The Art of War by Sun Tzu

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [Nods] 

  Tony Soprano : I mean here's this guy, a Chinese general wrote this thing twenty four hundred years ago and most of it still applies today, bought the enemy's power, force him to reveal himself

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [Interrupts him]  I have to ask, are you in any sort of danger?

  Tony Soprano : No, can I go on? Most of the guys I know read Prince Machiavelli and I had Carmela get the Cliffs Notes once and his ok, but this book is much better about strategy

  Tony Soprano : [Intentionally changing the subject]  Listen I wanted to ask you about that woman that was here today, the Mercedes sales lady

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I'm very sorry about the confusion

  Tony Soprano : What does someone like that need a shrink for?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I can't talk about another patient

  Tony Soprano : It just makes you wonder that's all

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [during her therapy session]  The woman is fifty years old: sometimes I just want to scream in her face "Quit whining, no wonder he left you." Her supervisor looks at her cross-eyed and I get a call at three o'clock in the morning, she wants to talk about her father laughed at her when she fell off her bicycle when she was seven

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : Does she call your emergency number?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [irritated]  No, that's not the point: these fucking interruptions. I was raped

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : When you have feelings of your own, who was listening?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : That's right damn it. I have to sit there and take care of these people hour after hour with all their problems and some of them are very real and very serious and I'm sorry I care, I really do but it's hard sometimes. I just wanna say "I hurt too"

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : Good, I'm sure, that's why your here

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [sighs]  I'm sorry

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : No need to be sorry. You've been through such trauma, it takes tremendous strength of will and inner resource to "soldier" on you to do your work

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Thank you, I try, I really do. It's just... hard sometimes

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : And patient Soprano, how's all that?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : He offered to escort me to my car, I almost fell in his arms crying