Giosué Orefice Quotes in Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Giosué Orefice Quotes:
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Giosué Orefice: We won!
Dora: Yes, we won! It's true.
Giosué Orefice: We got a thousand points and we won the game! Daddy and me came in first and now we won the real tank! We won! We won!
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Giosué Orefice: I didn't like the train.
Guido: [to his son] Me, neither. We'll take the bus back, okay?
Guido: [to the Nazis] Did you hear that? We're taking the bus back!
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Giosué Orefice: [slowly reading signage on confectionery shopfront] "No Jews or dogs allowed".
[turning to Guido]
Giosué Orefice: Why aren't Jews or dogs allowed to go in?
Guido: They just don't want Jews or dogs to go in. Everybody does what they want to, Joshua.
[pointing at store ahead]
Guido: There's a hardware store there. They don't let Spanish people or horses into his store.
[pointing at another store]
Guido: Further ahead, there's a drugstore. Yesterday, I was with a Chinese friend who had a kangaroo. I said, "May we?" "No, we don't want any Chinese or kangaroos here." They don't like them. What can I tell you?
Giosué Orefice: We let everybody into our bookshop.
Guido: No. From now on, we'll write it too. Is there anybody you don't like?
Giosué Orefice: Spiders. What about you?
Guido: [mock-seriously] I don't like Visigoths. Starting tomorrow we'll write: "No spiders and Visigoths allowed." I'm sick and tired of these Visigoths.
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Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.
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[first lines]
Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is a simple story... but not an easy one to tell.
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Giosué Orefice: Daddy, I cannot find any of the other kids, and a lady came telling me to take a shower.
Guido: That's a good idea. You go take a shower.
Giosué Orefice: No!
Guido: Go take a shower!
Giosué Orefice: No!
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Giosué Orefice: [watching his father's uncle being sent to another barracks, which is the last time he will see him] Where is Uncle going?
Guido: Uh... oh, he's playing on a different team. Goodbye, Uncle!
Giosué Orefice: Goodbye, Uncle.
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Giosué Orefice: When can I see Mama?
Guido: When the game's over.
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Giosué Orefice: They make buttons and soap out of us.
Guido: Eh...
[momentarily lost for words]
Guido: What are you saying?
Giosué Orefice: They burn us all in the oven.
Guido: Who told you that?
Giosué Orefice: A man was crying. He said they make us into buttons and soap.
Guido: [laughs and gesticulates animatedly] You fell for that? Again? I thought you were a sharp boy... cunning, intelligent. Buttons and soap out of people? That'll be the day! You believed that? Hahaha! Just imagine. Tomorrow morning, I wash my hands with Bartolomeo... a good scrub. Then I'll button up with Francesco.
[pretends to button up concentration camp uniform, from which a button comes loose and falls to floor]
Guido: Darn it all!
[picks up button]
Guido: Look, I just lost Giorgio! Does this look like a person? Hahaha, come on! They were teasing you! And you fell for it! What else did they tell you?
Giosué Orefice: That we get cooked in the oven.
[continues solemnly as Guido starts laughing hysterically]
Giosué Orefice: They burn us up in the oven.
Guido: [laughing and clapping hands] You fell for that too! You just eat everything up! I've heard of a wood oven, but I've never seen a man oven before. Ah ha... "I'm made of wood!" "Take this lawyer... poomp!"
[pseudo-seriously]
Guido: "This lawyer doesn't burn. He's not dry enough.
[continues animatedly]
Guido: Look at that smoke!" Oh Joshua... buttons, soap, we get burned in the oven... Let's be serious now.
[simulates hopping]
Guido: I have a sack race with the bad guys tomorrow...
Giosué Orefice: [interrupting] That's enough. I want to go home.
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Giosué Orefice: Look, they stopped the train to let Mom get on.
Guido: Dora...
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Guido: [being shipped to a concentration camp] You've never ridden on a train, have you? They're fantastic! Everybody stands up, close together, and there are no seats!
Giosué Orefice: There aren't any seats?
Guido: Seats? On a train? It's obvious you've never ridden one before! No, everybody's packed in, standing up. Look at this line to get on! Hey, we've got tickets, save room for us!
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Guido: The prize is... the prize is...
Eliseo Orefice: A tank.
Guido: Yes! Yes, the prize is a tank.
Giosué Orefice: I already have one.
Guido: No, a real one.
Giosué Orefice: A real tank?
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Giosué Orefice: Daddy, you scared me to death!
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