Giuseppe Quotes in Sahara (1943)

Giuseppe: But are my eyes blind that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac who has made of my country a concentration camp, who has made of my people slaves? Must I kiss the hand that beats me, lick the boot that kicks me, no! I rather spend my whole life living in this dirty hole than escape to fight again for things I do not believe against people I do not hate. As for your Hitler, it's because of a man like him that God - my God - created hell!

Giuseppe: Mussolini is not so clever like Hitler, he can dress his Italians up only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers, he cannot like Hitler, make them feel like that. He cannot, like Hitler, scrape from the conscience the knowledge that right is right and wrong is wrong, or dig holes in their heads to plant his own ten commandments: steal from thy neighbor, cheat thy neighbor, kill thy neighbor.

Capt. von Schletow: You dare to insult the Führer?

Giuseppe: That would take an artiste - I am but a mechanic.

Giuseppe: My wife, my wife and bambino, that's my baby.

Capt. Jason Halliday: It's a nice picture. You must be very proud of them. I'll see what I can do.

[Walks over to tank]

Capt. Jason Halliday: Sgt. I'd wish you'd change your mind. This man is a prisoner of war and, as such, he is entitled to certain rights. We've got to take him with us. We can't leave him here to die. If we ask the men I'm sure they'd agree.

Sgt. Joe Gunn: Mm-hum. They'd agree now. What about when they're starving to death and dyin' of thirst? It's why you put me in command. To look ahead.

Capt. Jason Halliday: But, this is a matter of a man's life.

Sgt. Joe Gunn: You're wrong Doctor. It's the matter of the lives of ten men. We've got a long ways to go and we need every crumb of food and every drop of water. I'm taking the Sudanese along because he's a pretty soldier and he's entitled a share with the rest of us. I'm NOT taking on a load of spaghetti. He's walked this far and he can walk back. That's the end of it.

Oscar: I am the Panama Canal, baby! From now one, everything flows through me!

[he picks up a fork and places it between the eyes of the hammerhead shark Giuseppe]

Giuseppe: What'd he do? What'd he do? I can't see it!

Don Lino: [hugging his son] Lenny? Is that you? You're alive? I thought I'd lost you... What're you wearing, huh? What is that?

[Lenny heaves a resigned sigh and sheds his disguise. The other sharks gape at him]

Luca: Hey, boss, it's Lenny - he was wearing a disguise so we wouldn't recognise him, but he's not wearing a disguise, so we DO recognise him!

Lenny: Hi, Pop...

Don Lino: Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Are you out of your MIND? Do you have any idea how this looks?

Giuseppe: This is the best sit-down I've ever been to!

Don Lino: What're you doing with this guy? He took out your own flesh and blood, Frankie!

Lenny: But Pop, just listen...

Don Lino: But nothing, you never take sides against the family, ever!

Oscar: Don, Lino, sir, listen, it's not his fault - this is between you and me!

Don Lino: What did I ever do to YOU? You took Frankie away, and you turned Lenny into a dolphin! I'm going to get you!

[He goes for Oscar]

Giuseppe: It's a terrible thing. Everyone loved Frankie. May whoever did this die a thousand deaths. May his stinking, maggot-covered corpse rot in the fiery depths of Hell.

Don Lino: Thank you for your kind thoughts, Guiseppe.

Bishop: It always troubled me, the Trinity. You know, Giuseppe, I could never really understand it. Does it trouble you?

Bishop: No. There are three persons in one God. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Three in one.

Bishop: Yes, but that's for a child. But a small comfort to a Bishop. You see, I'm a peasant, Giuseppe, just like you. A practical man, so I understand only what I feel, and what I see.

Giuseppe: Look, look. One blanket and one, two, three folds. Three folds in one blanket - three persons in one God, like the Trinity.

Bishop: Brother Giuseppe! I knew you'd be here someday.

Giuseppe: [overjoyed that the Bishop remembers him] Your Excellency.

Bishop: How are the lambs?

Giuseppe: Oh, they are sheep now, your Excellency.

Bishop: Oh yes, of course. Has it been that long? And the studies - they've been hard, eh?

Giuseppe: [sighs and nods] But mostly I miss the stables. That's where I really belong, I shouldn't be here.

Bishop: Let me be the judge of that, Giuseppe. There will be many lost sheep to care for.

Gobbo: Father Giuseppe! What are they doing to you?

Giuseppe: It's for my own good, little brother. Father Raspi is driving out the devil.

Gobbo: The devil? You? Oh, no, you're a saint. He's a saint!

Don Raspi: Take that blasphemous fool out of here.

Mother: They have thrown you out. They don't want you back because you are an idiot. You have been nothing but trouble since the day you got there - since the day you were born! What have you done this time? Tell me. Answer!

Mother: I broke a statue.

Mother: For breaking a little statue they throw you out like a dog?

Giuseppe: It wasn't little, it was big.

Father Giovanni: You have a whole year to prepare yourself, with the best instructors of the order.

Giuseppe: I'll miss the stables.

Father Giovanni: Gobbo will look after the animals.

Giuseppe: Father Giovanni, couldn't I stay...

Father Giovanni: No.

Giuseppe: in the stables?

Father Giovanni: No.

Giuseppe: I will work harder than...

Father Giovanni: No, Giuseppe.

Giuseppe: Just to stay...

Father Giovanni: Obedience, Giuseppe, is the first rule.

Brother Orlando: Recite the 14th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians.

Giuseppe: What man of you, having a thousand sheep, and losing one of them...

Brother Orlando: No, look again! I said Corinthians! There is more to scripture than the gospel of Saint Luke!

Giuseppe: But I like Saint Luke.

Brother Orlando: That's beside the point. You've got to know the entire bible. Now, the 14th chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians...

Brother Orlando: How I envy you.

Giuseppe: Next year you will be standing here, and I will be your alter boy.

Brother Orlando: I hope so!