The Sopranos (TV Series)

The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti (1999)

Edie Falco: Carmela Soprano

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• [after hearing bad news, Tony and Carmela need to relocate hidden money, guns and...] 

  Tony Soprano : All right. You'd better give me your jewelry.

  [Carmela sighs with chagrin] 

  Tony Soprano : Hey, they know we can't produce receipts. You want 'em stealing this stuff from us?

  [after Carmela removes her necklace, Tony points to her diamond ring and Carmela balks] 

  Tony Soprano : Come on.

  Carmela Soprano : I'm not giving you my engagement ring. This isn't stolen!

  [beat, then frown] 

  Carmela Soprano : Is it?

  Tony Soprano : No!

  [beat] 

  Tony Soprano : What do you think I am?

  [Carmela sighs again] 

• Larry Boy Barese : Oh, Mama Livia. Come sta, darling?

  Livia Soprano : Listen to him with that 'my darling'. I am nobody's darling.

  Larry Boy Barese : [to Tony]  This one here, she never disappoints, I tell ya that.

  Livia Soprano : Are you still seeing your other women, Lorenzo?

  Carmela Soprano : [pulls her away]  Come on, Ma. Let's mingle.

  Tony Soprano : Sorry. The older she gets the worse she gets.

• Tony Soprano : [while having Chinese food for dinner after the FBI searched their home earlier in the day]  I know the Feds are doing their job but it pisses me off the way they act

  Carmela Soprano : that one guy Harris wasn't so bad

  Tony Soprano : trust me, he was the biggest snake out of all of them: it's all part of his little act and that guy who broke the bowl, he did it on purpose

  Carmela Soprano : Oh, I don't think so, he was just a klutz

  Tony Soprano : What was his last name, Grizzo, Grasso, what?

  Carmela Soprano : [reminding him]  Grasso

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Why?

  Tony Soprano : Why? Because he has a vowel at the end of his last name, Grasso, that's why. I mean what's he think? His gonna make it to the top by arresting his own people?

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : [to his mother]  Pass the Moo shu

  Tony Soprano : he'll see, he'll learn

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : We have a vowel

  Tony Soprano : [attempting not to curse at the dinner table]  F-in right and you be proud of it. Jesus Christ, you think there never was a Michelangelo, the way they treat people

  Carmela Soprano : [to AJ]  Did you know an Italian invented the telephone?

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Alexander Graham Bell was Italian?

  Tony Soprano : [to Carmela]  you, see? see what I'm takin about?

  Tony Soprano : [raises his voice to AJ, irritated]  Antonio Meucci invented it and he got robbed: everybody knows that!

  Meadow Soprano : Who invented the mafia?

  Tony Soprano : [caught off guard by her question]  What?

  Meadow Soprano : The Cosa Nostra, who invented that?

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Who cares?

  Meadow Soprano : Wasn't it Salvatore Lucania, better known as Charles Lucky Luciano, who organized the Five Families: Lucchese, Gambino, Bonanno, Profaci

  Tony Soprano : [becoming irritated]  is there something you wanna say to me?

  Meadow Soprano : I just like history like you, dad

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Can you just shut the fuck up about it?

  Carmela Soprano : [chastising him for cursing]  Hey!

  Tony Soprano : [chastising him for cursing]  Hey!

  Carmela Soprano : AJ, did you know John Cabot was Italian?

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : No

  Meadow Soprano : [to her mother, referring to AJ]  Like he knows who that is?

  Carmela Soprano : Famous discoverer of Canada

  Tony Soprano : The Bank of America, ever heard of it? One of the biggest banks in the world, started by an Italian

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : The first American Saint was Italian, Mother Cabrini

  Carmela Soprano : That's right

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Is it true that the Chinese invented spaghetti?

  Tony Soprano : Now think about it, why would people who eat with sticks invent something you need a fork to eat with? And here's something else I bet you didn't know: more Italians fought for this country in World War Two than any other ethnic group, and they wouldn't tell you about Sacco and Vanzetti either

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : The two anti-Christ that got the electric chair in Massachusetts?

  Meadow Soprano : [correcting him]  Anarchists

  Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : [to his mother]  Isn't anti-Christ?

  Carmela Soprano : They were two innocent men who got the chair because they were Italian

  Meadow Soprano : [to AJ]  How could there be two anti-Christ? There was only one Christ