Marcello Mastroianni Quotes

Guido Anselmi Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.

Marcello Rubini I'm wasting time. I won't manage anything anymore. Once I had ambitions, but maybe I'm losing everything. I forgot everything.

Marcello Rubini You are everything... everything! You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home.

Guido Anselmi Accept me as I am. Only then can we discover each other.

Marcello Rubini A man who agrees to live like this is a finished man, he's nothing but a worm! I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love! I don't want it, I have no use for it! This isn't love, it's brutalization!

Guido Anselmi All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be.

Guido Anselmi My Dears... Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Guido Anselmi I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest film. No lies whatsoever. I thought I had something so simple to say. Something useful to everybody. A film that could help bury forever all those dead things we carry within ourselves. Instead, I'm the one without the courage to bury anything at all. When did I go wrong? I really have nothing to say, but I want to say it all the same.

Andreas Flaxman Out! Out! Never come back!

Luigi Nocello You are worse than... than a judge, worse than a cop, worse than a policeman! You are worse than all of them!

Luigi Nocello Anarchist! Yes!

Guido Anselmi The truth is: I do not know... I seek... I have not yet found. Only with this in mind can I feel alive and look at you without shame.