The Easy Life (1962)
Vittorio Gassman: Bruno Cortona
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Quotes
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Bruno Cortona : [Picks up a photo from Roberto's desk] Who's this fatty?
Roberto Mariani : My mother.
Bruno Cortona : Wow! Beautiful woman.
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Zia Enrica : You live in Rome. What's Sophia Loren's like?
Bruno Cortona : To me, she's like Etruscan tombs and Mount Fumaiolo. I'll explain some other time.
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Bruno Cortona : Put this one on. Its Modugno. Poetry doesn't do much for me. I like music. This song's really great. Mystical. Really gets you thinking. Ah, music. I really like Modugno. This song really drives me crazy. It seems so simple, but it's got everything - - loneliness, inability to communicate, and that stuff that's all the rage now - - alienation, like in Antonioni's films. Did you see "L'eclisse"?
Roberto Mariani : Yes
Bruno Cortona : I fell asleep. Had a nice nap. Great director, Antonioni. I saw him in his Flaminia Zagato once. I couldn't stop gawking.
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Bruno Cortona : So you don't smoke?
Roberto Mariani : No.
Bruno Cortona : Careful. That can be bad for you.
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Bruno Cortona : [singing] I took her down to the river thinking she was a maiden, but she had a husband.
[Speaking]
Bruno Cortona : I know that one by heart. I played it all the way to Rome. What's it called again? "The Unfaithful Wife." By that Spaniard who's sort of that way -...
[tugs on his ear]
Roberto Mariani : Garcia Lorca
Roberto Mariani : Ah, you have that record too?
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Bruno Cortona : I like nothing more than driving. It relaxes me. I'll go anywhere as long as I'm driving.
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Bruno Cortona : Nice, eh? I kid around but I really enjoy talking to nuns. If anyone shows a little interest, it's a big deal for them, and thy tell the other sisters. Those nuns are all right.
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Bruno Cortona : What beautiful raven-black hair, ma'am! Spanish blood?
Zia Enrica : My mother was from Barcelona.
Bruno Cortona : I was right! Granny must have fooled around with a bullfighter.
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Bruno Cortona : And here's Occiofino, always neat and attentive like a good housewife.
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Bruno Cortona : Bravo. That's how I like to see you. I like it when you laugh. Robe', leave all that sad stuff behind.
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Bruno Cortona : You know what the best age is? I'll tell you. The age you are, day by day. Until you croak, of course.
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Bruno Cortona : Jerks! I wasn't supposed to pass 'em? They wanna put a Fiat 600 up against a Lancia Aurelia Sport!
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Bruno Cortona : What do you think? Not bad, eh? Should have seen her a few years ago.
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Bruno Cortona : One day she dumped me. Maybe we just didn't click. I think she was a little jealous. It wasn't another woman. It was my Cisitalia. She said I loved that car more than her.
Roberto Mariani : And did you?
Bruno Cortona : A little. That thing had some pickup.
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Bruno Cortona : You got a cigarette?
Roberto Mariani : No. I don't smoke.
Bruno Cortona : That's not good.
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Bruno Cortona : [Driving in his convertible] Robe', look behind you. See 'em?
Roberto Mariani : Who?
Bruno Cortona : Those two chicks. I'll get the 'em to pass so I can follow 'em.
[as they pass]
Bruno Cortona : Hi, cuties!
[to Roberto]
Bruno Cortona : Deutschland! Those German chicks are easy!
Roberto Mariani : You speak German?
Bruno Cortona : No, I just fake it.
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Bruno Cortona : The food is great here. Do we let those two go?
Roberto Mariani : Whatever you like. I'm not hungry.
Bruno Cortona : Spoken like a man. The food here stinks anyway: donkey hooves and fig wine. Where'd those Germans go? Let's chase 'em.
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Bruno Cortona : A crossroads!
Roberto Mariani : They vanished. Which way could they have gone?
Bruno Cortona : Let me smell.
[sniffs]
Bruno Cortona : That way. I'm a regular truffle hound when it comes to women.
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Roberto Mariani : How can I commit to a girl right now? I have to finish my studies, find a job, and then...
Bruno Cortona : So? Meanwhile you go out, you sleep together. It could be over in a month. Why do you have to commit? This isn't the Middle Ages!
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Roberto Mariani : We had another chance to talk once, but something awkward happened. On Via Salaria, where those women, you know -...
Bruno Cortona : Sure do! There's a brunette with a streak of white hair: Aida, 3,000 lire.
Roberto Mariani : I'd just stopped - - that is, they stopped me. I was explaining I had no money when guess who walks by.
Bruno Cortona : Who walks by?
Roberto Mariani : Valeria, with her sister.
Bruno Cortona : So? What happened? And then?
Roberto Mariani : "And then?" She saw me!
Bruno Cortona : It bugs you 'cause now she knows you're broke. Is that all? I was expecting some big deal. I'd understand if it turned out Valeria and her sister were hookers too.
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Roberto Mariani : He was always hugging me.
Bruno Cortona : I believe it. I've never seen a country queen before.
Roberto Mariani : What?
Bruno Cortona : Don't tell me you didn't know? It's obvious. Why you think they call him Occhiofino?
Roberto Mariani : It's just a nickname.
Bruno Cortona : A nickname? Occhiofino - - finocchio - faggot - .
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Bruno Cortona : Maybe I shouldn't have gone along to see your relatives.
Roberto Mariani : What are you talking about? It's just that we all have distorted memories of our youth. You know why we always say it was a wonderful time? We don't really remember what it was like.
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Bruno Cortona : Another minute in that morgue and I'd have exploded. Let's go. Live in the country? You gotta be crazy.
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Moglie del commendatore : My husband's right. You're not to be trusted.
Bruno Cortona : He said that about me?
Moglie del commendatore : Yes, but he was talking about business. It keeps him awake at night.
Bruno Cortona : And what were you talking about?
Moglie del commendatore : The way you dance. You squeeze a girl tighter than a girdle.
Bruno Cortona : Forgive me. I didn't mean it.
Moglie del commendatore : Oh, I wasn't criticizing. Quite the contrary.
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Bruno Cortona : If you hold me too tight, I'll get excited.
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Moglie del commendatore : [Dancing close together] Oh, la, la!
Bruno Cortona : We aim to please.
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Bruno Cortona : What beautiful tiger teeth!
Moglie del commendatore : No one's ever told me that before.
Bruno Cortona : What a firm, beautiful body. You've got tiger teeth - and a nice -...
Moglie del commendatore : Dirty man!
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Bruno Cortona : This is crazy! You'd never find a couple like that even in India!
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Bruno Cortona : You know, if I had a brother, I'd like him to be like you.
Roberto Mariani : Well, tonight we'd be fighting.
Bruno Cortona : You know that Jewish saying? My grandma used to use it. "Love for a woman is fickle as the moon. Brotherly love is steady as the stars." Nice, huh?
Roberto Mariani : What about Cain?
Bruno Cortona : What's Cain got to do with it? He was a criminal.