Moonstruck (1987)

Olympia Dukakis: Rose Castorini

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Quotes 

• Rose : Do you love him, Loretta?

  Loretta Castorini : Ma, I love him awful.

  Rose : Oh, God, that's too bad.

• Rose : Old man, you give those dogs another piece of my food and I'm gonna kick you 'til you're dead!

• Rose : I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else.

  Cosmo Castorini : Thank you, Rose.

• Rose : Have I been a good wife?

  Cosmo Castorini : Yeah.

  Rose : I want you to stop seeing her.

  [Cosmo rises, slams the table once, and sits down again] 

  Cosmo Castorini : Okay.

  Rose : [pauses]  And go to confession.

• [Loretta announces she's going to marry Johnny Camareri] 

  Cosmo Castorini : I don't like him.

  Rose : You're not going to marry him, Cosmo. Do you love him, Loretta?

  Loretta Castorini : No.

  Rose : Good.

  [She looks at Cosmo] 

  Rose : When you love them they drive you crazy because they know they can.

• Rose : How's the mother?

  Loretta Castorini : She's dying. But I could still hear her big mouth.

• Cosmo Castorini : A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing, and that's a bad, crazy day.

  Rose : Your life is not built on nothing! Ti amo.

• Rose : No, I think the house is empty. I can't invite you in because I'm married. Because I know who I am.

• Cosmo Castorini : I have no money.

  Rose : You're as rich as Roosevelt. You're just cheap, Cosmo.

• [as Cosmo listens to "It Must Be Him" in the next room] 

  Rose : Now he's going to play that damn Vikki Carr record, and when he comes to bed he won't touch me.

• Rose : Would anyone like some oatmeal?

  Ronny Cammareri : Yes, Mrs. Castorini, I would LOVE some oatmeal.

  Loretta Castorini : No, we don't want any oatmeal!

• Rose Castorini : You... you got a love bite on your neck. He's coming back this morning, what's the matter with you? Your life's going down the toilet! Cover up that damn thing! Come on, put some makeup on it!

• Perry : We could go to my apartment. You could see how the other half lives.

  Rose : I'm too old for you.

  Perry : I'm too old for me; that's my predicament.

• Rose : Why do men chase women?

  Johnny : Well, there's a Bible story... God... God took a rib from Adam and made Eve. Now maybe men chase women to get the rib back. When God took the rib, he left a big hole there, where there used to be something. And the women have that. Now maybe, just maybe, a man isn't complete as a man without a woman.

  Rose : [frustrated]  But why would a man need more than one woman?

  Johnny : I don't know. Maybe because he fears death.

  [Rose looks up, eyes wide, suspicions confirmed] 

  Rose : That's it! That's the reason!

  Johnny : I don't know...

  Rose : No! That's it! Thank you! Thank you for answering my question!

• Rose : My mother has a saying. Do you want to hear it?

  Perry : Sure.

  Rose : Don't shit where you eat!

• [Cosmo is trying to wake up his wife Rose] 

  Cosmo Castorini : Rose. Rose. Rose! Rose!

  [She wakes up] 

  Rose : Who's dead?

• Rose : Nice to meet you.

  [lifts back Ronny's collar] 

  Rose : . Got a love bite on your neck. Your mother's recovered from death.

  Ronny Cammareri : Oh, great. We're not close, so I'm not really moved.

• Rose : [Speaking to Perry]  You're a little boy and you like to be bad.

• Rose : Are you drunk?

  Loretta Castorini : No. Are YOU drunk?

  Rose : No... but I have a hangover.

• Rose : [about the hickey and the doorbell is ringing]  Put some make up on!, Cover up the damn thing, your life is going down the toilet! Answer the damn door!

• Perry : Listen. You wanna know why I chase women? I find women charming. I teach these classes I've taught for a million years. The spontaneity went out of it for me a long time ago. I started off, I was excited about something and I wanted to share it. Now it's rote, it's the multiplication table. Except sometimes. Sometimes I'm droning along and I look up, and there's this fresh young beautiful face, and it's all new to her and I'm this great guy who's just brilliant and thinks out loud. And when that happens, when I look out among those chairs and look at a young woman's face, and see me there in her eyes, me the way I always wanted to be and maybe once was, then I ask her out on a date. It doesn't last. It can go for a few weeks or a couple of precious months, but then she catches on that I'm just a burnt out old gasbag and that she's as fresh and bright and full of promise as moonlight in a martini. And at that moment, she stands up and throws a glass of water in my face, or some action to that effect.

  Rose : What you don't know about women is a lot.

• Rose : [after Cosmo arrives home late]  Where you been?

  Cosmo Castorini : I don't know where I've been, and I don't know where I'm going.

• Rose : What you don't know about women... is a lot!