Giosué Orefice Quotes in Life Is Beautiful (1997)

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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!

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is my story. This is the sacrifice my father made. This was his gift to me.

  • [first lines]

    Giosué Orefice: [narrating as an adult] This is a simple story... but not an easy one to tell.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Giosué Orefice: When can I see Mama?

    Guido: When the game's over.

  • 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.

  • Giosué Orefice: Look, they stopped the train to let Mom get on.

    Guido: Dora...

  • 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!

  • 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?

  • Giosué Orefice: Daddy, you scared me to death!

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