Titta Quotes in Amarcord (1973)

Father Balosa: Do you commit impure acts? Do you touch yourself? Do you know Saint Louis weeps when you touch yourself?

Titta: [Speaking to himself] Let him cry. I'm not gonna tell you, because you'll only tell Dad. Don't tell me you don't touch yourself. How can you not, when you see the woman in the tobacco shop, as stacked as she is and she says... Export brand? And the math teacher who looks just like a lion? Mother of God! How can you avoid touching yourself when she looks at you that way?

Father Balosa: What do you covet?

Titta: My pal Bragger's got a raincoat with a lot of metal buckles like the one the detective has in the William Powell-Myrna Loy films.

Titta: I didn't know people kissed like that. Did you? With their tongues going in and out?

Father Balosa: I'll ask the questions here.

Titta: Bad luck doesn't exist. It is just an invention of losers and poors.

Titta: Shy people notice everything but they don't get noticed.

Titta: In the world there's a certain kind of cult, with men and women of all social classes, of all ages and of all religions. It is the insomniacs cult. I'm part of it. For ten years. Those who don't belong to the cult sometimes tend to say: "If you can't sleep, you can read, watch TV, study or do something else". That kind of phrase is deeply annoying to the members of the cult. And the reason is simple. Cause the insomniac has only one obsession: to sleep.

man at the bar: You are lying!

Titta: Truth is boring.

Titta: Life without fantasy may be a mortal show.

Titta: Dad?

Valerio: Dad is dead, but nobody told him.

Carlo: Do you know what scare me, doctor? To die of old age... I want to die in a daring way.

Titta: It needs courage to die in a daring way.

Titta: You stole my life. And I'm stealing your suitcase.

Nitto Lo Riccio: I see. But without the suitcase there's no life.

Titta: I know that.

Nitto Lo Riccio: You'll tell us where you put the suitcase.

Titta: No. I don't think so.

Nitto Lo Riccio: Do you know why? Because you're a good person. And because we're more intelligent than you.

Titta: That's true. I've never been very intelligent.