The Sopranos (TV Series)

Second Opinion (2001)

Edie Falco: Carmela Soprano

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Quotes 

• Dr. Krakower : Have you ever read Crime and Punishment? Dostoyevksy?

  [Carmela shakes her head 'no'] 

  Dr. Krakower : It's not an easy read. It's about guilt and redemption. I think your husband ought to turn himself and read this book in his jail cell and meditate on his crimes every day for seven years, so that he might be redeemed.

  Carmela Soprano : I would have to get a lawyer, find an apartment, arrange for child support...

  Dr. Krakower : You, you're not listening. I'm not charging you because I won't take blood money, and you can't, either. One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told.

  Carmela Soprano : I see.

• Carmela Soprano : He's a good man. He's a good father.

  Dr. Krakower : You tell me he's a depressed criminal, prone to anger, serially unfaithful. Is that your definition of a good man?... You must trust your initial impulse and consider leaving him. You'll never be able to feel good about yourself. You'll never be able to quell the feelings of guilt and shame that you talked about, so long as you're his accomplice.

  Carmela Soprano : You're wrong about the accomplice part, though.

  Dr. Krakower : You sure?

  Carmela Soprano : All I did was make sure he's got clean clothes in his closet and dinner on his table.

  Dr. Krakower : So "enable" would be a more accurate job description for what you do than "accomplice". My apologies... Take only the children - what's left of them - and go.

  Carmela Soprano : My priest said I should work with him, help him to become a better man.

  Dr. Krakower : How's that going?

• Carmela Soprano : I thought psychiatrists weren't supposed to be judgmental.

  Dr. Krakower : Many patients want to be excused for their current predicament because of events that occured in their childhood. That's what psychiatry has become in America. Visit any shopping mall or ethnic pride parade, and witness the results.

• Carmela Soprano : The real reason I stopped by to see you was to make sure you've recovered from this Noah thing. I'm worried it'll affect your grades.

  Meadow Soprano : You call losing a wonderful man because of Dad a thing?

  Carmela Soprano : Is that really what happened? Because you certainly kept seeing him long after that business with your father.

  Meadow Soprano : Look, don't drag me into whatever bullshit accommodational pretense you've got worked out with Daddy.

  Carmela Soprano : What was that, last night's reading assignment?

• Carmela Soprano : What we say in here, stays in here, right?

  Dr. Krakower : By ethical code, and by law.

  Carmela Soprano : His crimes... they are, organized crime.

  Dr. Krakower : The Mafia!

  Carmela Soprano : Oh Jesus.

  [wipes tears from her eyes] 

  Carmela Soprano : So what? So what? He betrays me every week with these whores!

  Dr. Krakower : Probably the least of his misdeeds.

  [Carmela gets up to leave] 

  Dr. Krakower : You can leave now, or you can stay and hear what I have to say.

  Carmela Soprano : You're gonna charge me all the same.

  Dr. Krakower : I won't take your money.

  Carmela Soprano : That's a new one.

• Carmela Soprano : I think you should pay him, Tony

  Tony Soprano : No fucking way!

  Carmela Soprano : What, your daughter's future isn't worth 50,000 dollars?

  Tony Soprano : [refusing to donate money to Meadow's university]  That's not it. That motherfucker's full of shit. He's shaking me down

  Carmela Soprano : No, he's not

  Tony Soprano : Oh, yeah? Who knows more about extortion, me or you?

• Carmela Soprano : [when he arrives late for dinner]  you could've called, now everything's cold

  Tony Soprano : [jokingly]  well... that's why they invented microwaves: for inconsiderate husbands

  Carmela Soprano : since we're alone, it'd be nice to have dinner together

  Tony Soprano : don't bust my chops, I got enough on my mind

  Tony Soprano : [while eating]  this is fuckin delicious, really, is this the new macaroni?

  Carmela Soprano : right

  Tony Soprano : the hell with heating it up: it's good like this

  Carmela Soprano : I'm glad something brings you joy

  Tony Soprano : you're amazing with your cooking

  Carmela Soprano : I'm having lunch with our daughter's dean tomorrow, I gather you won't be joining me?

  Tony Soprano : I told you: all he wants is our money

  Carmela Soprano : Fine, don't come

  Tony Soprano : [referring to paying the tuition]  We already "shelled out" forty grand a year to those people

  Carmela Soprano : it's well spent, she's really learning. She's out on her own and if she passes us by...

  Tony Soprano : [interrupts her]  "if"? She did that when she was fourteen

  Carmela Soprano : isn't that what you want for your kids?

  Tony Soprano : [jokingly]  no, I want them to be backwards and ignorant and sit around with their thumb up their ass and I'm gonna make sure of that by not going to lunch with some asshole who's trying to shake me down

  Carmela Soprano : fine, don't go. Guess who I ran into at the supermarket today?

  Carmela Soprano : [when he shrugs]  Angie Bonpensiero

  Tony Soprano : really? How's she doing?

  Carmela Soprano : her dog is sick

  Tony Soprano : what? That fluffy, French coco piece of shit? What's wrong with her?

  Carmela Soprano : osteoporosis: Angie needs money for an operation

  Tony Soprano : well, take it up with Pussy. If she ever finds the fat fuck, wherever the Feds put him, I'd look in Arizona, stake out all the TGI Fridays, he loves their wings: he left Angie holding the "bag" which is not right and those FBI, "family value" loving cocksuckers, how could they let him go without his wife?

  Carmela Soprano : into the program?

  Tony Soprano : [sternly]  yeah, that's right, he ratted us out: me and you. And that's where he is, and I don't want to hear about him ever again or his ungrateful cunt wife

  Carmela Soprano : [surprised he described her that way]  his what wife?

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [seeing Carmela for a session without Tony]  You sounded tense on the phone

  Carmela Soprano : I just wanted to make sure it was ok if I came alone? I mean Tony couldn't make it. I love the artwork you have here: the country scenes

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : thank you

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to the nude statue in the waiting area]  That statue is not my favorite

  Carmela Soprano : [when Melfi doesn't respond]  Oh, come on, look, it's not like this when me and Tony are here together, you never give him the silent treatment

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Is that what you think? I'm giving you the silent treatment?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [when she doesn't respond]  Maybe you can tell me why you came today?

  Carmela Soprano : I'm worried about my husband: the mood swings. I thought... when his mother died maybe... but still half the time he doesn't even talk to me. You've seen him get like that, the day he stood here like a wall. I know he is your patient and I am only the patient's wife but you try living like that twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and see how you feel

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I see

  Carmela Soprano : Oh, you do? Well, for your information, I am not the only one: the fact is Tony isn't under the weather today, he just didn't feel like coming. Fuck that shit is what I think he said

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Usually when that happens when we touch on a nerve, he was distressed over this young man's death in the garbage compactor

  Carmela Soprano : He didn't say garbage compactor, did he?

  Carmela Soprano : [when Melfi doesn't respond, referring to they didn't realize Tony was lying to them on the cause of death of the young man when he first told them]  See?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : What is it you believe?

  Carmela Soprano : You know about his job, he reports to a strip club, who knows how he spends his days?

  Carmela Soprano : [after beginning to cry]  I'm sorry. I'm just frustrated, Tony's been out of sorts for so long. There is nothing I can do to help him

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I think coming to therapy with him has stirred up a lot of feelings in you that you would like to address with somebody?

  Carmela Soprano : Oh, please, I am just a little emotional today

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I would like to help you but as you pointed out your husband is my patient

  Carmela Soprano : I am not the one who needs mental help, I just needed to vent

• Tony Soprano : fifty grand? You gotta be kidding me?

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to her and Dean Ross]  we talked a lot about Meadow having the best possible university experience

  Tony Soprano : yeah, those Jew pricks are holding us hostage

  Carmela Soprano : his Italian

  Tony Soprano : Jews are better fooled

  Carmela Soprano : they know from Verbum, we're big "givers"

  Tony Soprano : we gave five grand a year, that's a long way from fifty

  Carmela Soprano : this is college: New York City, five thousand is like slap in face to these people

  Tony Soprano : well, then let them say no

  Tony Soprano : [after taking money out from his pocket and tosses it to her]  here's around five grand, pay them through your household account, so you can write them a check and that's it: not a penny more

• Carmela Soprano : [after he orders their drinks in his native language]  You speak Italian?

  Dean Ross : Second generation

  Carmela Soprano : [surprised]  Really? Ross?

  Dean Ross : [referring to his family's original surname]  Rosetti: a thousand years of a proud name undone with one stroke of a pen at Ellis Island

  Carmela Soprano : [smiles]  A Paisan

  Dean Ross : Not far from you either, New Brunswick

  Carmela Soprano : [surprised]  Get out

  Dean Ross : Any success I may have, I credit to the Jersey public schools: they were something in those days

  Carmela Soprano : And where did you go to college?

  Dean Ross : Rutgers

  Carmela Soprano : I went to Montclair State

  Dean Ross : Good school, what was your major?

  Carmela Soprano : Business Administration

  Dean Ross : [proposing a toast]  To Meadow Soprano: a valuable addition to the Columbia community

  Carmela Soprano : Really?

  Dean Ross : Absolutely. I don't know her personally but I've talked to her professors and they say she's attentive, inquiring, does all her work, and makes insightful contributions to class discussions

  Carmela Soprano : I am so glad to hear you say that and here I was worried about her adjusting

  Dean Ross : Let's not tell her though: we don't want her overconfident

  Carmela Soprano : It seems like she sleeps an awful lot

  Dean Ross : They all do

• Dean Ross : [while having lunch]  So do your children feel "boxed in" by the city?

  Dean Ross : We're out all the time. Lately, Felisha has us all kayaking in the Hudson

  Carmela Soprano : You all do it? Together?

  Dean Ross : Yeah, kids love it too: their already better at it than I am. More wine?

  Carmela Soprano : Why not?

  Dean Ross : Remember how I told you I spent about half my time involved in student affairs? Well... this is how I spend the other half

  Carmela Soprano : Taking parents to lunch?

  Dean Ross : "Development" fancy word for "fundraising"

  Dean Ross : [after taking out the brochure and showing it to her]  The new student center: we break ground next fall. See the large black marble right next to the entrance?

  Carmela Soprano : Yes

  Dean Ross : That's where the donor names will be inscribed

  Carmela Soprano : Everybody who donates will get their name up there?

  Dean Ross : The wall is reserved for people whose commitment begins at the fifty-thousand-dollar level

  Carmela Soprano : [surprised]  Fifty thousand?

  Dean Ross : It's what the gifting community thought you'd be comfortable with?

  Dean Ross : [when she doesn't respond]  Based on your past generosity to the Verbum Dei school

  Carmela Soprano : You know what we gave to Verbum Dei?

  Dean Ross : [before handing her a folder]  I'm half embarrassed to say it but it's my job to know. All the information including tax benefits is in here

  Carmela Soprano : Well, I will have to talk to my husband