Full of Life (1956)
Richard Conte: Nick Rocco
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Quotes
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Nick Rocco : Whatever happened to Dianetics and all that other nonsense?
Emily Rocco : It's not nonsense. It's why you need semantics. It helps you learn about the true meanings of things.
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Emily Rocco : Why do you have to sleep in here?
Nick Rocco : Hmm? Because you keep throwing me out.
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Nick Rocco : This house if full of life. Babies to be born, books to be written.
Emily Rocco : How many, Nick?
Nick Rocco : You give me the babies and I'll give you the books.
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Nick Rocco : It's coming out of me like a blowtorch.
Emily Rocco : Go on. Go on!
[Nick spanks Emily's behind]
Emily Rocco : Don't you ever dare do that again!
Nick Rocco : What? What did I do?
Emily Rocco : You know very well what you did and I don't like it and I want you never to do it again.
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Nick Rocco : Relax, Sweetheart. I know how you feel about cleanliness - and it's beautiful. But, we need the dust and the dirt too. It's what we're made of.
Emily Rocco : We're not made of broken gin bottles and beer cans and soggy tea bags.
Nick Rocco : I know, honey.
Emily Rocco : I like clean dirt, Nick. It's the dirty dirt I hate.
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Emily Rocco : I hope it's a boy.
Nick Rocco : That doesn't matter - whatever it is.
Emily Rocco : Oh, I hate girls. They're all right when they're little. They grow up to be treacherous.
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Nick Rocco : [in Papa passing out while telling a story] He never got to bandits.
Emily Rocco : What do you care? Make them up.
Nick Rocco : I can't. It's impossible.
Emily Rocco : Why? You're a writer. Invent them.
Nick Rocco : What do I know about Italian bandits?
Emily Rocco : What's there to know? They're like any other bandits, only they eat pizza.
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Father Gondolfo : Why don't you go to church anymore?
Nick Rocco : Well, I don't know. Lots of things. I've changed. My thinking has changed. The church never changes.
Father Gondolfo : Seems to me that should be one of it's great attractions.
Nick Rocco : The world has changed too, Father.
Father Gondolfo : Oh, we have atomic energy and the hydrogen bomb. But, mankind, the same.
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Nick Rocco : There's no birth control in the church.
Papa Vittorio Rocco : Birth control?
Nick Rocco : Well, we gotta draw the line some place.
Papa Vittorio Rocco : I don't like that kind of talk.
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Nick Rocco : I don't know. Whatever it is, I don't know what it is. At first I feel good about it - and then I feel like I'm being pushed and I don't like the feeling. It's no good, no good at all. It's - it's very hard, very hard.