Full of Life (1956)
Judy Holliday: Emily 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 : [to Nick] I should think she'd have more sense of propriety. Doesn't she know you're gonna have a baby?
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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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Emily Rocco : Papa, look.
Papa Vittorio Rocco : Look what?
Emily Rocco : A liquor store. Come on, the drinks are on me.
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Emily Rocco : Appearances are very deceiving. For instance, who am I?
Papa Vittorio Rocco : You are Nick's wife.
Emily Rocco : Yes. But, I'm more than Nick's wife. I'm my mother's daughter. I'm my Uncle John's niece. I'm American. I'm female. A consumer. A doctor would say I'm a patient. The Bureau of Internal Revenue would say I'm a dependent. I'm a lot of things. More than just a wife.
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Emily Rocco : I can't become a Catholic because you want me to. It wouldn't be fair to me or to the church. You asked me a question before, you said, "You don't want God in your house?" I do. I - I want God in my house and I want him for my child. But, it took years to make me what I am today. Whatever that is and I can't change overnight.
Papa Vittorio Rocco : You don't like the Pope?
Emily Rocco : Sure, I like the Pope. I don't mean that. I mean, people can't change so quickly. It's not the way you change the brand of cigarettes that you smoke.
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Emily Rocco : It's you! It's what *you* want. What do you want?