Moonstruck Movie Quotes
Ronny Cammareri
Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and *die*. The storybooks are *bullshit*. Now I want you to come upstairs with me and *get* in my bed!
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Rose
Do you love him, Loretta?
Loretta Castorini
Ma, I love him awful.
Rose
Oh, God, that's too bad.
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Ronny Cammareri
I'm in love with you.
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Ronny Cammareri
You're gonna marry my brother? Why you wanna sell your life short? Playing it safe is just about the most dangerous thing a woman like you could do. You waited for the right man the first time, why didn't you wait for the right man again?
Loretta Castorini
He didn't come!
Ronny Cammareri
I'm here!
Loretta Castorini
You're late!
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Rose
Old man, you give those dogs another piece of my food and I'm gonna kick you 'til you're dead!
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[Loretta accepts to marry Ronny instead of Ronny's brother Johnny, her ex-fiancé, in front of her family. Loretta's grandfather, the Old Man, starts to cry]
Cosmo Castorini
What's the matter, Pop?
Old Man
[crying]
I'm confused!
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Johnny
In time you will see that this is the best thing.
Loretta Castorini
In time you'll drop dead and I'll come to your funeral in a red dress!
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Ronny Cammareri
I ain't no freakin' monument to justice! I lost my hand! I lost my bride! Johnny has his hand! Johnny has his bride! You want me to take my heartache, put it away, and forget?
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Loretta Castorini
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been two months since my last confession.
Priest
What sins have you to confess?
Loretta Castorini
Twice I took the name of the Lord in vain, once I slept with the brother of my fiancé, and once I bounced a check at the liquor store, but that was really an accident.
Priest
Then it's not a sin. But... what was that second thing you said, Loretta?
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Ronny Cammareri
Everything seems like nothing to me now, 'cause I want you in my bed. I don't care if I burn in hell. I don't care if you burn in hell. The past and the future is a joke to me now. I see that they're nothing. I see they ain't here. The only thing that's here is you - and me.
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Cosmo Castorini
You'll have your eyes opened for you, my friend.
Johnny
I have my eyes open.
Cosmo Castorini
Oh yeah? Well, stick around. Don't go on any long trips.
Johnny
I don't know what you mean.
Cosmo Castorini
I know you don't. That's the point. I'll say no more.
Johnny
You haven't said anything!
Cosmo Castorini
And that's all I'm saying.
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Ronny Cammareri
You ruined my life.
Loretta Castorini
That's impossible! It was ruined when I got here! *You* ruined *my* life!
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Rose
I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else.
Cosmo Castorini
Thank you, Rose.
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Old Crone
You have someone on that plane?
Loretta Castorini
Yeah, my fiancé.
Old Crone
[angry]
I put a curse on that plane. My sister is on that plane. I put a curse on that plane that it's gonna explode, burn on fire and fall into the sea. Fifty years ago, she stole a man from me. S'aprese il mio uomo! Today she tells me that she never loved him, that she took him to be strong on me. Now she's going back to Sicily. Ritorna in Sicilia! I cursed her that the green Atlantic water should swallow her up!
Loretta Castorini
I don't believe in curses.
Old Crone
[shrugging]
Eh, neither do I.
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Rose
Have I been a good wife?
Cosmo Castorini
Yeah.
Rose
I want you to stop seeing her.
[Cosmo rises, slams the table once, and sits down again]
Cosmo Castorini
Okay.
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Ronny Cammareri
A bride without a head!
Loretta Castorini
A wolf without a foot!
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Ronny Cammareri
Awful?
Loretta Castorini
Beautiful... sad. She died!
Ronny Cammareri
Yes.
Loretta Castorini
I was surprised... You know, I didn't really think she was gonna die. I knew she was sick.
Ronny Cammareri
She had TB.
Loretta Castorini
I know! I mean, she was coughing her brains out, and still she had to keep singing!
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Old Man
[uncomfortable silence at kitchen table]
Someone, tell a joke...
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[Loretta announces she's going to marry Johnny Camareri]
Cosmo Castorini
I don't like him.
Rose
You're not going to marry him, Cosmo. Do you love him, Loretta?
Rose
Good.
[She looks at Cosmo]
Rose
When you love them they drive you crazy because they know they can.
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Rose
Why do men chase women?
Johnny
Well, there's a Bible story... God... God took a rib from Adam and made Eve. Now maybe men chase women to get the rib back. When God took the rib, he left a big hole there, where there used to be something. And the women have that. Now maybe, just maybe, a man isn't complete as a man without a woman.
Johnny
I don't know. Maybe because he fears death.
[Rose looks up, eyes wide, suspicions confirmed]
Rose
That's it! That's the reason!
Johnny
I don't know...
Rose
No! That's it! Thank you! Thank you for answering my question!
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Loretta Castorini
You ruined my life!
Ronny Cammareri
No, I didn't.
Loretta Castorini
Oh, yes, you did! Oh, yes, you did! Y'know, you got them bad eyes, like a gypsy, and I don't know why I didn't see it yesterday. Bad luck! That's what it is. Is that all I'm ever gonna have? I should have taken a rock and killed myself years ago!
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Old Man
La bella luna! The moon brings the woman to the man. Capisci?
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Ronny Cammareri
Chrissy, over on the wall, bring me the big knife. I want to cut my throat.
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Rose Castorini
You... you got a love bite on your neck. He's coming back this morning, what's the matter with you? Your life's going down the toilet! Cover up that damn thing! Come on, put some makeup on it!
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Rose
How's the mother?
Loretta Castorini
She's dying. But I could still hear her big mouth.
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Cosmo Castorini
A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing, and that's a bad, crazy day.
Rose
Your life is not built on nothing! Ti amo.
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Ronny Cammareri
This was painted by Marc Chagall. And, as you can see, he was a very great artist.
Loretta Castorini
It's kind of little gaudy, don't you think?
Ronny Cammareri
Well, he was havin' some fun.
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Rose
No, I think the house is empty. I can't invite you in because I'm married. Because I know who I am.
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Rose
Nice to meet you.
[lifts back Ronny's collar]
Rose
. Got a love bite on your neck. Your mother's recovered from death.
Ronny Cammareri
Oh, great. We're not close, so I'm not really moved.
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Cosmo Castorini
I have no money.
Rose
You're as rich as Roosevelt. You're just cheap, Cosmo.
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Loretta Castorini
What am I going to tell him?
Cosmo Castorini
Tell him the truth. They find out anyway.
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Rose
Would anyone like some oatmeal?
Ronny Cammareri
Yes, Mrs. Castorini, I would LOVE some oatmeal.
Loretta Castorini
No, we don't want any oatmeal!
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Chrissy
This is the most tormented man I have ever known. I'm in love with this man, but he doesn't know that, 'cause I never told him, 'cause he could never love anybody since he lost his hand and his girl.
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Loretta Castorini
What are you doing?
Loretta Castorini
Where are you taking me?
Ronny Cammareri
To the bed.
Loretta Castorini
Oh, God. I don't care. I don't care. Take me to the bed.
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Cosmo Castorini
I can't sleep any more. It's too much like death.
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Ronny Cammareri
Aw, Johnny, you're 42 years old and she's still runnin' your life!
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[as Cosmo listens to "It Must Be Him" in the next room]
Rose
Now he's going to play that damn Vikki Carr record, and when he comes to bed he won't touch me.
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Loretta Castorini
I'm getting married.
Cosmo Castorini
Again?
Loretta Castorini
Yeah.
Cosmo Castorini
You did this once before, it didn't work out.
Loretta Castorini
The guy died!
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Perry
Pardon me, folks. That was just a very attractive mental patient.
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Ronny Cammareri
I looked the wrong way and I lost my hand. He could make you look the wrong way and you could lose your whole head!
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Cosmo Castorini
It looks stupid. It's a pinky ring. It's a man's ring!
Loretta Castorini
It's temporary!
Cosmo Castorini
Everything is temporary! That don't excuse nothin'!
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Perry
We could go to my apartment. You could see how the other half lives.
Rose
I'm too old for you.
Perry
I'm too old for me; that's my predicament.
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Ronny Cammareri
What?
Loretta Castorini
Last night never happened, you hear me? I'm gonna marry him anyway and last night never happened, and you and I are gonna take this to our coffins!
Ronny Cammareri
I can't do that.
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Ronny Cammareri
I have a feeling this is going to be just delicious.
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[Johnny, at his mother's deathbed, telephones his fiancee Loretta]
Loretta Castorini
Did you tell her we're getting married?
Johnny
I'm waiting... I'm waiting for a moment when she is peaceful.
Loretta Castorini
Well, don't wait until she's dead.
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[Cosmo is trying to wake up his wife Rose]
Cosmo Castorini
Rose. Rose. Rose! Rose!
[She wakes up]
Rose
Who's dead?
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Cosmo Castorini
There are three kinds of pipe. There's what you have, which is garbage - and you can see where that's gotten you. There's bronze, which is pretty good, unless something goes wrong. And something always goes wrong. Then, there's copper, which is the only pipe I use. It costs money. It costs money because it saves money.
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Rose
[about the hickey and the doorbell is ringing]
Put some make up on!, Cover up the damn thing, your life is going down the toilet! Answer the damn door!
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Ronny Cammareri
They say bread is life. And I bake bread, bread, *bread*. And I sweat and shovel this stinkin' dough in and out of this hot hole in the wall, and I should be *so* happy! Huh, sweetie?
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Perry
Now, Patricia, please don't leave!
Patricia
So what do you think I am, some sort of talking dog?
Perry
I was just making a point about the way you said... the way you stated your aspirations.
Patricia
Yeah? Well, you can kiss my aspirations, Professor!
Perry
"Kiss my aspirations"? Oh, very clever! Yeah, the height of cleverness! Waiter!
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Loretta Castorini
[on the phone with Johnny]
Call me after you tell her... and uh, don't stand directly under the sun - you got a hat, use your hat.
Johnny
Ok, I got my hat, all right.
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Johnny
[Bobo shows up with the dessert cart]
Would you like some dessert?
Johnny
Will you marry me?
Loretta Castorini
Bobo, take the cart away.
Bobo
Veddy good, miss.
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Cosmo Castorini
Birds fly to the stars - I guess...
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Mona
You have such a head for knowing!
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Ronny Cammareri
You look beautiful!
Loretta Castorini
I had it done.
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Ronny Cammareri
Is it just a matter of time before a man opens his eyes and gives up his one dream of happiness?
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Perry
Listen. You wanna know why I chase women? I find women charming. I teach these classes I've taught for a million years. The spontaneity went out of it for me a long time ago. I started off, I was excited about something and I wanted to share it. Now it's rote, it's the multiplication table. Except sometimes. Sometimes I'm droning along and I look up, and there's this fresh young beautiful face, and it's all new to her and I'm this great guy who's just brilliant and thinks out loud. And when that happens, when I look out among those chairs and look at a young woman's face, and see me there in her eyes, me the way I always wanted to be and maybe once was, then I ask her out on a date. It doesn't last. It can go for a few weeks or a couple of precious months, but then she catches on that I'm just a burnt out old gasbag and that she's as fresh and bright and full of promise as moonlight in a martini. And at that moment, she stands up and throws a glass of water in my face, or some action to that effect.
Rose
What you don't know about women is a lot.
Perry
[beat]
That's not what *I* hear.
[Rose chuckles.]
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Loretta Castorini
You're mad at him. Take it out on me. Take your revenge out on me. Leave nothing left for him to marry. Leave nothing but the skin over my bones.
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Johnny
She ate a meal that could choke a pig!
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Rose
What you don't know about women... is a lot!
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Cosmo Castorini
I don't know where I've been, and I don't know where I'm going.
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Loretta Castorini
[to Johnny] You really are stupid, you know that. I was raised that a girl gets married young. I didn't get married till I was twenty-eight. I met a man. I loved him. I married him. He wanted to have a baby right away, I said no. Then he got hit by a bus! No man, no baby, no nothing! I did not know that man was a gift I could not keep! I didn't know. You tell me a story and you think you know what it means, but I see what the true story is and you can't! She didn't leave you! You can't see what you are. I can see everything. You are a wolf!
Ronny Cammareri
[pointed] I'm a wolf?
Loretta Castorini
The big part of has no words and it's a wolf. This woman was a trap for you. She caught you and you could not get away! So you *chewed off your foot*! That was the price you had to pay to be free! Johnny had nothing to do with it - You did what you had to do. Between you and me, and I know I am right, I don't care what you say. And now you're afraid because you found out the big part of you is a wolf who had the courage to bite off its own hand to save itself from the trap of wrong love. That's why there's no woman in your life since that wrong woman. You are scared to death what the wolf would do if you make the same mistake again!
Ronny Cammareri
[angry] What are you doing?
Loretta Castorini
I'm telling you your life!
Ronny Cammareri
Stop it!
Ronny Cammareri
Why are you marrying Johnny? He's a fool!
Loretta Castorini
Because I have no luck!
Ronny Cammareri
[stands up; snarling] *He* made me look the wrong way and I cut off my hand! He could make *YOU* look the wrong way, and you cut off your whole head!
Loretta Castorini
[angrily] I am looking where *I* should to become a bride!
Ronny Cammareri
A bride without a head!
Loretta Castorini
A wolf without a foot!
[In a heated moment of passion, Ronny knocks over the table. He stares at her. He grabs her and pulls her into a passionate kiss.]
Loretta Castorini
[pulls away] Wait! Wait, wait!
[She stares at Ronny, and then kisses him passionately]
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Raymond Cappomagi
[Raymond is in bed and sees a giant and beautiful full moon through the bedroom window] Rita. Rita!
Rita Cappomagi
[sleepily] What?
Raymond Cappomagi
Look! It's Cosmo's moon!
Rita Cappomagi
WHat are you talking about? Cosmo doesn't own the moon!
Raymond Cappomagi
I mean the moon I was talking about at dinner.
[walks over to the window and looks out]
Raymond Cappomagi
Is he down there? No.
Rita Cappomagi
Is who down there?
Raymond Cappomagi
Cosmo.
Rita Cappomagi
What would he be doing down there?
Raymond Cappomagi
I don't know.
Rita Cappomagi
[smiles; admiring her husband in the moonlight] You know, in this light, and with that expression on your face, you look about twenty five years old.
Raymond Cappomagi
[Raymond smiles, meek and flattered. He then walks back to the bed. Rita laughs as Raymond climbs into bed and they make love]
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Old Man
[to his son, Cosmo, about his granddaughter, Loretta] I am old. The Old are not wanted, and what they say has no weight. But, my son, I must speak. You should pay for the wedding for your only daughter. You are breaking your house through pride.
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