Accattone (1961)

Franco Bevilacqua: Franco

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• Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi : What's hunger? A vice - its all in the mind. If they hadn't got used to eating as children... did your lousy father fill you with the vice of eating?

  Franco : Do you remember when we stole from a blind man to get food.

  Pio : And do you remember when we stole your father's false teeth

• Franco : Tell me your last wishes, what sort of funeral procession?

  Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi : Friends follow the hearse, first one to weep buys the drinks.

  Franco : What inscription on the tombstone?

  Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi : Try it and See!

• Franco : In love! Are you telling me fairytales. If you told me he was starving I'd believe it but in love!

• Franco : Don't you know you can't swim after a meal, you die. The change from hot to cold stops your digestion.

  Vittorio "Accattone" Cataldi : I've lost all my money but I've still got a ring to bet. Scared to bet?

  Franco : I'll take you on, I want to kill you off.

• Franco : Accattone you owe me 1000 lire, pay up before you kill yourself.

• Franco : Is there a saint who protects the hungry? If you're there, help us.

• Franco : Hurry up with the pasta or we'll look like the guys at the Nuremberg trial.