Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) - Quotes

Unexpected Journeys and New Beginnings

Taglines: The Only Thing More Surprising Than The Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her

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Embracing Opportunities in Life

Taglines: Life offers you a thousand chances ... all you have to do is take one.

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Realizing a Dream Through Conversation

Frances: What are you thinking?

Martini: What do I think?

Frances: Tell me.

Martini: I think you got your wish.

Frances: My wish?

Martini: On that day we looked for the snake, you said there wanted there to be a wedding here. And you said... you wanted there to be a family here.

Frances: You're right... I got my wish. I got everything I asked for.

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Questioning the Nature of True Love

Frances: What if this is it? The real thing?

Placido: [[fairy tales] What you speak of is only in ].

Frances: No, it's not!

Placido: And how do you know? From personal experience?

Frances: No. I looked, and I didn't find it. But that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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The Eerie Awareness of Italian Trees

Patti: There's something strange about these trees. It's like they know.

Frances: And they know that we know that they know.

Patti: They're creepy. Creepy Italian trees. Of course, the baby's going to like them cause it's going to be a creepy Italian baby who goes around saying things like Ciao mama and doing that weird backward hand wave thing. Life is strange.

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Embracing Risk in Life Decisions

Katherine: It's a nice little villa. Rather run down, but redeemable... Are you going to buy it?

Frances: The way my life is currently going, that would be a terrible idea.

Katherine: Mm, terrible idea... Don't you just love those?

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Traffic Lights and Their Meaning in Italy

Frances: Do traffic lights mean anythng around here?

Marcello: Yeah, sure. Green light — avanti, avanti. Yellow light — decoration.

Frances: What about red light?

Marcello: Just a suggestion.

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The Harsh Truths of Divorce and Love

Frances: Do you know the most surprising thing about divorce? It doesn't actually kill you. Like a bullet to the heart or a head-on car wreck. It should. When someone you've promised to cherish till death do you part says "I never loved you," it should kill you instantly. You shouldn't have to wake up day after day after that, trying to understand how in the world you didn't know. The light just never went on, you know. I must have known, of course, but I was too scared to see the truth. Then fear just makes you so stupid.

Martini: No, it's not stupid, Signora Mayes. L'amore e cieco.

Frances: Oh, love is blind. Yeah, we have that saying too.

Martini: Everybody has that saying because it's true everywhere.

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Inner Voice on a Tuscan Journey

Patti: Think of your inner voice.

Frances: Inner voice... "What the fuck am I doing on a gay tour of Tuscany?

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Struggling to Find Breath After Heartbreak

Patti: Jesus, Frances, how do you do it — how do you ever breathe again?

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Facing Life's Crossroads with Courage

Patti: You know when you come across one of those empty shell people, and you think "What the hell happened to you?" Well there came a time in each one of those lives where they are standing at a crossroads... someplace where they had to decide whether to turn left or right. This is no time to be a chicken-shit, Frances.

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The Peculiarity of Life

Patti: Life is strange.

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A Plea for Joy and Commitment

Martini: Signora, please stop being so sad. If you continue like this, I will be forced to make love to you. And I've never been unfaithful to my wife.

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The Importance of Childish Innocence

Katherine: No matter what happens, always keep your childish innocence. It's the most important thing.

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Regrets Hinder Present Joy and Growth

Katherine: Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.

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Cultural Surprises in Unexpected Places

Frances: The fact that I'm trying to speak Polish in Italy is one of the many surprises around here.

The Meaning of Giving Birth to Light

Frances: In Italian, the literal translation of "to give birth" — "dare alla luce" — is: "to give to the light".

Celebrating Community at Cortona's Market Day

Frances: It's market day in Cortona — the piazza is an on-going party — and everyone is invited.

Building for the Future: The Semmering Alps

Frances: Signora, between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.

The Meaning of Home and Possibility

Frances: What are four walls, anyway? They are what they contain. The house protects the dreamer. Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game. It's such a surprise.

Unexpected Ownership of a Villa

Frances: So I was now the owner of a villa whose lands it would take two oxen two days to plow. Owning neither an ox nor a plow, I'd have to take their word for that.

Embracing Self-Confidence and Joy

Frances: I still got it! I still got it! I still got it! — Thank God!

Frances's Offer on the House

Frances: I'd like to make an offer on the house. This is what I can pay, minus the work on the place, buckets, nails ... chocolate, and a rental car to drive off a cliff when this all turns out to have been a terrible mistake.

Reflections on Loneliness and Connection

Frances: Every day, I watch for the old man with the flowers, and I wonder, was he born here? Did he love someone here? Did he lose someone here? He doesn't seem as curious about me, but that's all right. These days, I'm something of a loner myself.