Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Lamberto Maggiorani: Antonio

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• Antonio Ricci : "There's a cure for everything except death."

• Antonio Ricci : "Why should I kill myself worrying when I'll end up just as dead?"

• Antonio Ricci : I've been cursed since the day I was born.

• Antonio Ricci : You live and you suffer.

• Antonio Ricci : [At a restaurant, he and his son notice a nearby table occupied by an apparently well-off family who are eating quite well]  To eat like that, you'd have to earn at least a million a month.

• Antonio Ricci : Forget everything. We'll get drunk!

• Antonio Ricci : Your mother and her prayers can't help us.

• Antonio Ricci : It's always the same! I might as well go and jump in the river.

• La Santona : What have they stolen?

  Antonio Ricci : My bike.

  La Santona : What can I say? I can only tell you what I see. Listen: you'll find it straight away or not at all. Understand? You'll find it straight away or not at all. Keep your eyes open.

  Antonio Ricci : Where, straight away?

  La Santona : How should I know? Go and try to understand what I said. You'll find it straight away or not at all.

• Employment Officer : Hey, Ricci, remember your bike! You have to have a bike.

  Antonio Ricci : A bike? I have and I haven't. I can't get my hands on it right now. Perhaps in a few days time.

  Employment Officer : You need one straight away or they won't take you on.

  Antonio Ricci : I can do it on foot for the first few days.

  Employment Officer : If you haven't got a bike, you'll have to let someone else take it.

• Employment Officer : Have you got a bike or haven't you?

  Antonio Ricci : I've got one. I've got one.

  Employment Officer : Remember if you haven't got a bike, there's nothing doing, right?

  Antonio Ricci : Think I'm going to wait another two years? I'll be there with a bike.

• Antonio Ricci : Baiocchi. You've got to help me. I've got to get my bike back.

  Baiocco : Easier said than done.

• Antonio : It's pointless. These's nothing doing. It always rains on Sundays.

• Maria : You shouldn't have pawned your bike!

  Antonio Ricci : And how were you supposed to eat?

• Antonio Ricci : [to Bruno]  Do you fancy a pizza? Come on, then! Come on, let's go! What the hell. We might as well go out in style. What's the point in worrying about it all?

• Antonio Ricci : Don't you want anything to drink? If your mother were to see you! But we're going to do what we want!