Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)

Sophia Loren: Adelina Sbaratti, Anna Molteni, Mara

Photos 

Quotes 

• Adelina Sbaratti : Cigarettes! English, American, Swiss! Let's see if I can catch a customer. English, American, Swiss! Who smokes?

• Carmine Sbaratti : Mr Lawyer, help us! She can't go to jail!

  Adelina Sbaratti : What jail? I was fined for selling cigarettes. You know how long it takes to make 28,000 lire? Days, weeks even. I'm always out there, rain or shine. You know how long my husband's been out of work? Heh? Ever since he completed his military service! How can we get by? How will my child eat? Then some creep comes along and arrests you.

  Dr. Verace (segment "Adelina") : No, wait a minute. They can't arrest her.

  Carmine Sbaratti : What do you mean?

  Dr. Verace (segment "Adelina") : She's expecting!

• Adelina Sbaratti : Shoo, shoo! Come on now. Out you go! Get out of here! Here, buy yourselves a lollipop. Come on! Go! Go! Out, out!

• Carmine Sbaratti : You can't imagine what an urge I have. It's killing me! I can't wait for you to get out. I've finished the treatment.

  Adelina Sbaratti : Oh, shut up! That's just talk. When I needed actions, you ran off to Mama.

• Anna Molteni : Then the hairdresser's. Drop by Titti's. Then an hour at the gym. Then back to the hairdresser. Then stop by Titti's again.

• Anna Molteni : Renzo, I can't remember the color of your eyes right now. The darling, with that serious face. He's the best man I know. So generous, so free, so unassuming. The darling, with those incredible short socks.

• Anna Molteni : Were you surprised I called?

  Renzo : No, I was expecting it. I'd have called if you hadn't.

• Anna Molteni : You're right. I've lived like a puppet, deaf, blind, oblivious - to the rights of others. I realized it suddenly while I was dancing with you. I felt alive for the first time, in your arms.

• Anna Molteni : If you're worried about my husband, you can relax.

  Renzo : Sounds like it bothers you.

  Anna Molteni : Nobody likes living with an addict.

  Renzo : I didn't know.

  Anna Molteni : Yes, an addict. Not in the way you think, but it's worse. He's like a cog in the wheel: work, success, money. Money, success, work. He can't stop. And there's no room for anything else.

• Renzo : Anna, I like you a lot.

  Anna Molteni : But you don't think I'm sincere, do you?

  Renzo : I don't know. I don't know.

• Anna Molteni : Do you like traveling? So do I! The minute I can, I go far away from everything. I'm so tired of my world, the people I know. There's an oasis in Africa, near Marrakesh. It's divine! You live on sun and fruit, lots of fruit.

• Anna Molteni : Don't you get it? I like you precisely because you're different. Unlike those robots I know, busy making money all day. You write. You're intelligent. I never think about money, Renzo. I swear I don't.

  Renzo : Because you have it.

  Anna Molteni : What am I supposed to do? Throw it out the window?

  Renzo : Yes, throw it all away: money, cars, jewelry, those Cleopatra bracelets.

• Renzo : The fact is you have money in your veins.

  Anna Molteni : In me there's only emptiness, a profound emptiness.

• Renzo : Anna, if you hadn't called me this morning, who would you have called?

  Anna Molteni : Nobody. Nobody. I'm alone.

  Renzo : With all the people you know?

  Anna Molteni : With all the people I know.

• Anna Molteni : Renzo, help me. Let's go far away, to the sun. To Rome, Naples.

  Renzo : Yes, let's go.

  Anna Molteni : We'll arrive at night, in the lamplight. The still, silky water. We'll ride in a carriage and find a nice small, small place, just for us. The dark sky, full of stars. And music, lots of music in the air through the streets under our windows. Tomorrow we'll wake up late, as the sun creeps into the bed and over your eyes. You'll take me in your arms and caress me. You'll hold me so tight!

• Anna Molteni : You must have slammed on the brakes like a brute! These cars are delicate. They're jewels. Jewels! You slam on the brakes like it was a truck!

  Renzo : But I could've killed that kid!

  Anna Molteni : Who cares about that idiot?

• Giorgio Ferrario (segment "Anna") : Is your husband in Milan?

  Anna Molteni : No, he's in Stuttgart on EEC business. He'll be away for another week. Thank heavens, with this disaster.

• Augusto Rusconi : Darling, sweetheart! Girl of unending beauty! You're a garden of loveliness. Mara! Mara!

  Mara : Quiet! Keep your voice down!

  Augusto Rusconi : Mara, you're a garden of loveliness.

• Augusto Rusconi : Listen, Mara. Tonight you've got to wear this. I want to see you dressed in this, like a schoolgirl.

  Mara : Are you crazy? You're killing me.

  Augusto Rusconi : You can call me uncle. I'll call you my little niece.

  Mara : You're nuts, Bolognese. Do you get a kick out of that?

  Augusto Rusconi : I need a lot of tenderness, Mara. Next time, I'll wear short pants. You'll sing me a lullaby and I'll fall asleep in your arms.

• Mara : For me, priests should be like the moon: nobody really knows what they are.

  Umberto (segment "Mara") : They're men with a religious vocation.

  Mara : [laughs]  My nephew's vocation was beaten into him by his mother.

• Mara : But that granny will be crying tears of blood, you'll see.

  Augusto Rusconi : You must try to understand. Come here, come to Uncle.

  Mara : As if I felt like making love at a time like this!

  Augusto Rusconi : Come on, Mara. We'll go to bed and cuddle up together like good children. We won't even talk.

  Mara : I need to talk and let off steam.

  Augusto Rusconi : Okay, but in bed?

  Mara : I'm too mad. I'd be like a stone. Be honest, am I a scandal? Do I do it on the terrace?

  Augusto Rusconi : Fine by me! I'm willing to go out on the terrace! Like Nero looking over Rome.

• Augusto Rusconi : Let's run away together.

  Mara : Who's chasing us?

• Augusto Rusconi : Mara, last night I went to Piazza Navona. I sat on a bench and looked up at your window. There came a moment when I couldn't take it anymore. So, I went with a...

  Mara : A whore?

  Augusto Rusconi : Yes.

  Mara : Can't you miss even one day?

  Augusto Rusconi : Mara, I swear we didn't do anything. I suddenly felt something inside. And I shouted to her, "Get out of here!" Then she starts insulting me.

  Mara : She was right, the poor thing.

  Augusto Rusconi : But I paid her anyway! 5,000 lire!

• Augusto Rusconi : You're a vision. Just look at you. You know what I'd like? To see you in a fur coat, nude, in the sunshine.

  Mara : Are you nuts? In this heat?

  Augusto Rusconi : You really know how to kill the mood.

• Augusto Rusconi : Mara, please. It turns me off if you laugh. This is a serious, sacred thing. The best thing in the world.

  Mara : You're so cute.

• Mara : You know what I'll do? I'll take a vow, they always work for me. Listen, if Umberto goes back to the seminary, I'll go a week without. You know what?

  Grandmother Ferrario (segment "Mara") : Yes, that's very generous of you.

  Mara : A whole week. And when I say something, I mean it. I'll buy some candles and keep them lit day and night.

  Grandmother Ferrario (segment "Mara") : You'll go straight to heaven, ma'am.

  Mara : It's a sacrifice for me.

  Grandmother Ferrario (segment "Mara") : I can imagine.

  Mara : But I'll do it gladly. I'll lose about - 200,000 lire.

  Grandmother Ferrario (segment "Mara") : Goodness, you earn that much?

  Mara : I could make more.

• Mara : I fell for an officer once. His uniform really turned me on. But in civilian clothes, he seemed different. He looked like a plucked chicken.

• Mara : Why do you want to make me feel guilty? I never have before.

• Mara : The seminary is a secure life. Bread, a bed and you're outside of this wicked world. If I had another life, I'd be a nun.