Paolo Maltese Quotes in The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

Mae Jenkins: [Looking indifferently at the leaning tower of Pisa] So it leans. So a lot of things lean.

Paolo Maltese: [Turning to Mae] You ever heard of Galileo, maybe?

Mae Jenkins: Sure I have heard of Galileo.

Paolo Maltese: [Turning to Joey] She ever heard of Galileo?

Joey Friedlander: Nah...

Paolo Maltese: Five-six hundred years ago, this Galileo dropped two stones off that tower, one big one, and one little one.

Mae Jenkins: So?

Paolo Maltese: So he proved the law of gravity or somethin'. I don't know.

Mae Jenkins: And brained a couple of citizens, maybe. Big deal.

Paolo Maltese: [Pointing at the Cathedral of Pisa with pride] Look at it.

Mae Jenkins: What is it?

Paolo Maltese: The Cathedral. That is the most beautiful and the most famous cathedral in the whole world.

Mae Jenkins: Yeah, it's got too many pillars.

Paolo Maltese: Too many pillars...

Mae Jenkins: Yeah.

Paolo Maltese: Listen to me. That is the most beautiful and the most famous cathedral in the whole WORLD.

Mae Jenkins: It's got too many pillars!

Paolo Maltese: It was built in 1050!

Mae Jenkins: Yeah, so in 1050 they put in too many pillars!

Paolo Maltese: [Turning toward the Baptistery] This over here is the Baptistery. From all over the world...

Mae Jenkins: Oh well.

[and walks away]

Paolo Maltese: [Catches up with her, exasperated] Listen. THAT is the Baptistery. From all over the world people are coming here everyday just to look at it.

Mae Jenkins: Well, I guess they just must like baptisteries.

[Walks away]

Paolo Maltese: [Turning to Joey] Without exception, Joey, without challenge from anyone anywhere, this is the most stupidest, the most unfeelingest, the most uncooperative broad in the whole planet.

Paolo Maltese: And this is the girl, my fidanzata, that I am bringing home to meet my folks. Of all the women in the whole world that I can choose from to be my wife, who do I choose? An ignorant slob of a hatcheck girl who thinks Pisa - Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, Joey - is a stopping-off place between hamburger joints.