The Rose Tattoo (1955)

Marisa Pavan: Rosa Delle Rose

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Quotes 

• Rosa Delle Rose : Who is that boy with Pauline Hunter?

  Violetta : That's her brother, Jack. I think he's a dream of a dream.

• Rosa Delle Rose : She did not shake hands with the devil! She has rheumatism.

• Serafina Delle Rose : You don't study no civics tonight.

  Rosa Delle Rose : "Don't study no civics." Why do you talk like you just came over in steerage? This isn't Sicily, Mother, and you are not a baroness. You do sewing. Daddy - Daddy hauled bananas.

• Rosa Delle Rose : She wants me to be like her, a freak of the neighborhood. The way she is!

• Rosa Delle Rose : Come here. I want to teach you a little Italian word. The word is bacio.

• Rosa Delle Rose : Just think. A week ago Friday I didn't know boys existed. Did you know girls existed before the dance?

  Seaman Jack Hunter : I knew they existed.

  Rosa Delle Rose : Do you remember what you said to me on the dance floor? "Honey, you are dancing too close."

  Seaman Jack Hunter : Well, it was hot in the gym, and the floor was crowded.

  Rosa Delle Rose : When my girlfriend was teaching me how to dance, I asked her, "How do you know which way the boy is going to move?" And she said, "You've got to feel how the boy's going to move with your body." I said, "How do you feel with your body?" And she said, "By pressing up close."

• Rosa Delle Rose : You said to me, "Gee, you're beautiful." I said, "Excuse me," and I ran to the ladies' room. Do you know why? To look at myself in the mirror. For the first time in my life, I felt I was beautiful. You made me feel beautiful when you said I was.

  Seaman Jack Hunter : You are beautiful, Rosa.

• Serafina Delle Rose : Who are you? What are you?

  Rosa Delle Rose : Mama, I just introduced him. His name is Jack Hunter.

  Serafina Delle Rose : Hunter?

  Seaman Jack Hunter : Yes, ma'am, Hunter. Jack Hunter.

  Serafina Delle Rose : What are you hunting, Jack?

  Rosa Delle Rose : Mama. Mama.

  Serafina Delle Rose : What all of them are hunting. To have a good time, and the devils cares who pays for it. I'm sick of men, and I'm sick of women.

• Rosa Delle Rose : You dream. I am not a dreamer. I am not satisfied with dreams.

• Rosa Delle Rose : I want to give you my heart to keep forever and ever and ever.

  Seaman Jack Hunter : In all my born days, I never felt nothing so sweet as the feel of your warm little body in my arms.

• Alvaro Mangiacavallo : [Serafina starts hitting Alvaro]  I didn't know what I was doing! I got all twisted around in the house. Signorina, young lady, I thought you was your Mama.

  Serafina Delle Rose : "Your Mama"? Oh, please!

  Rosa Delle Rose : Mama. Mama, stop!

  Serafina Delle Rose : Sporcaccione!

  Rosa Delle Rose : Mama!

  Alvaro Mangiacavallo : Baronessa, please! Don't!

  Serafina Delle Rose : Don't "Baronessa" me.

• Rosa Delle Rose : The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!