Ghosts, Italian Style (1967)
Sophia Loren: Maria Gennari
Quotes
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Maria Gennari : Can a person love and not love at the same time?
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Alfredo Mariano : We'll go together to Pompeii and kneel before the Holy Madonna and pray.
Maria Gennari : You know how a pray like that would end, Alfredo.
Alfredo Mariano : What are you saying? For me, you'll always be my Madonna.
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Alfredo Mariano : Maria, you look - look so undernourished.
Maria Gennari : Me?
Alfredo Mariano : Yes, undernourished. I looked at you the other day. Yes, yes, here - in the neck and in the chest. You look so undernourished. You're not getting enough to eat - to nourish this - this beautiful body. So undernourished!
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Sayonara : He beats me and I love him just the same. We women *are* idiots.
Maria Gennari : Just poor idiots.
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Maria Gennari : My husband is just plain dirt. Not even worth throwing in the dustpan. And I'm worst. I know what he is and I don't even have the nerve to betray him.
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Sayonara : There's something I must tell, otherwise, you might never notice. I'm not as good a girl as I look.
Maria Gennari : These days, to be good, are not to be.
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Maria Gennari : Kiss me. Kiss me!
Alfredo Mariano : What? Kiss?
Maria Gennari : Yes. Yes!
Alfredo Mariano : Oh, my love! At last!
Maria Gennari : No! What are you doing? No!
Alfredo Mariano : My life! My love! My lust! My light!
Maria Gennari : Not now! Later. Not here.