- Justin Young: [Tallying up the amount of money they've collectively sent to Mrs. Campbell over the years] You averaged eighty-five a month, you, a hundred and fifteen, me, a hundred a forty... which, over twenty years, compounded at six percent interest, would come to a hundred and ninety seven thousand dollars.
- Walter Braddock: [incredulous] A hundred and ninety seven *thousand*?... We paid more war damages than Germany!
- Rosa: The name Campbell, where did you get that?
- Carla Campbell: From the soup.
- Rosa: You named yourself a soup?
- Carla Campbell: I had to. The only other American name I knew was Coca Cola. I couldn't call myself Mrs. Coca Cola.
- Lauren Young: [arriving at the Rome airport] Don't look now, but I've just had my bottom pinched.
- Justin Young: Welcome to sunny Italy!
- Lauren Young: Do I acknowledge it in some way?
- Justin Young: Just, turn the other cheek.
- Lauren Young: Thanks for remembering it's still there.
- Carla Campbell: Every day, more and more soldiers came to the American air base. Soon there was no more room, so they had to put them in the houses of people. In every house, two or three men. But my house was very small. Just room for one man. So, they sent the one man. The sergeant, Walter Braddock, so sweet, a little boy.
- Carla Campbell: He was an officer. It was like magic. He would bring me eggs, chocolate and soup. Oh, how I love that American soup.
- Carla Campbell: They came into my life, they went out of my life. And three weeks later I found I was going to have a baby...
- Pete: Sarge hasn't changed much has he - still a million laughs?
- Fritzie Braddock: Oh, yeah. He's a regular Mardi Gras all year round.
- Justin Young: Always got that bayonet fixed, haven't you?
- Lauren Young: It's never stopped you from slipping past the sentry, has it?
- Carla Campbell: So I wrote to each one and told them my condition. And each one wrote back the same thing, "Don't you worry, sweetheart baby. I'll take care of you!" And they did. They sent me a check each month ever since.
- Rosa: Ever since? For twenty years, you received a check every month?
- Carla Campbell: For twenty years, I received three checks every month.
- Rosa: And you still don't know the father of your child?
- Carla Campbell: Of course I know him. I just don't know who he is.
- Carla Campbell: I had my baby in Florence, and when I came back, I was wearing widow's clothes. And I was mourning for my dear dead rich American husband.
- Rosa: Captain Soup?
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Carla Campbell: Carla Solmi, "the alley cat," they used to call me... the women of the town... To those people I'm going to tell I've got a child with no husband and could be any one of three fathers? No, I don't tell them anything.
- Carla Campbell: Let those fat cows go jump in a sewer and float around.
- Rosa: Calm yourself.
- Carla Campbell: I'm a lady now. As good as everybody.
- Rosa: What did this one want?
- Carla Campbell: The same as before, except with two rooms, two baths and a shower.
- Carla Campbell: Because there was no brave captain. There was no captain at all.
- Vittorio: Then what was he?
- Carla Campbell: One lieutenant, one sergeant and a corporal.
- Vittorio: Why drive through the treacherous mountains in the dark? Get a good night's sleep, in your own bed. And in the morning, when you're fresh, then you can go off and heal your scars. It's been five weeks.
- Carla Campbell: He didn't go three years to school, and suddenly he's a writer. He's a journalist. Who appointed you to conduct the correspondence with my daughter?
- Vittorio: Somebody had to write. After all, she has no father.
- Carla Campbell: Huh. The one thing she's not short of is fathers.
- Walter Braddock: Oh, honey. Why is it we can't say more than six words without having a beef, huh? After all, what'd I ask ya to do, huh? Take my laundry down to the river and pound it with rocks? All I want for you is to go to the beauty parlor so you look very special.
- Walter Braddock: Oh, honey. Somewhere in Mexico, there's a little bald-headed lady walking around. I want 'em to love your hair, not hers.
- Priest: And now we say welcome to the 293rd squadron. Welcome home. Yes, this is your home. Your second home. For though you lived here only a short while, for many of you and for all of us, it was a lifetime. And when you went back to America, we really did not feel that you had gone, because so many of you had left a little something of yourselves behind.
- Gia Campbell: It's strange. Momma, I can't find one American who's even heard of poppa.
- Carla Campbell: How soon they forget.
- Vittorio: [as he watches Walter dance with Gia, and bends over to Carla at her table] This is one of them?
- Carla Campbell: Mm hmm.
- Vittorio: [chuckling] Hmh, hmh, hmh.
- Vittorio: [as Phil dances with Gia] Him too?
- Carla Campbell: Mm hmm.
- Vittorio: [lowering his head to hide his laughter] Hmh, hmh, hmh, hmh.
- Vittorio: [as Justin begins dancing with Gia] The third one?
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Vittorio: Handsome man.
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Vittorio: He's well built.
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Vittorio: He's a fairy.
- Shirley Newman: [taking the microphone onto the dance floor] Uh, attenzione! Uh, attenzione! Uh, uh, ladies and gentlemen, may I have our attention, please?
- Youngest Newman boy: Is mommy gonna sing?
- Phil Newman: Who knows?
- Phil Newman: How would you like every time you walked down the street to be reminded of your dead husband?
- Shirley Newman: How would I know? You never gave me a chance to find out, God forbid.
- Phil Newman: You know me by now. I don't ask for much. When I wake up in the morning and just find my glasses, that's enough happiness for one day.
- Walter Braddock: Hey! What kind of an electric toothbrush is this, huh? It hit me right in the eye!
- Fritzie Braddock: It's a water pick. I bought it at the airport in New York. It sprays the gums.
- Walter Braddock: It's a lucky thing I'm not blind. Every new gadget that comes out, you got to buy it.
- Fritzie Braddock: What are you, some kind of a nut Jekyll and Hyde? One minute you're a puppy dog, the next minute you're an animal.
- Fritzie Braddock: Whadda we do in the morning?
- Walter Braddock: I can't.
- Fritzie Braddock: You can't what?
- Walter Braddock: Whatever it is, I can't. I've got a meeting.
- Fritzie Braddock: All right. Then I won't either.
- Walter Braddock: You won't what?
- Fritzie Braddock: Whatever it is you can't, I won't.
- Walter Braddock: Well, then don't.
- Fritzie Braddock: I won't.
- Walter Braddock: Okay! Anything you say. Just let's have a good time.
- Fritzie Braddock: All right, let's have a good time.
- Walter Braddock: Okay!
- Carla Campbell: [after listening to Gia's phone discussion in French] And Brazil? You mentioned Brazil.
- Gia Campbell: I didn't think you understood French.
- Carla Campbell: Brazil is the only French word I know.
- Justin Young: Look at this place. How'd you manage all this on only a hundred and forty dollars a month?
- Carla Campbell: Well, I uh, I sometimes, I make sandals for the tourists.
- Carla Campbell: Oh, Justin, Justin. How many years I've been holding this inside.
- Justin Young: Darling, no scratching. It's very hard to explain.
- Carla Campbell: Oh, I missed you.
- Justin Young: B... b... biting isn't too good either, you know.
- Carla Campbell: Oh, Mrs. Braddock, I hope you will understand. I am very superstitious. Would you mind going out the back door?
- Fritzie Braddock: The back; door?
- Carla Campbell: Yes, I know it sounds silly, but we have a custom. When an unexpected guest goes out the same door he came in, it's bad luck.
- Fritzie Braddock: Oh, I never heard that.
- Carla Campbell: It's Italian. Crazy, huh?
- Phil Newman: Look, Carla, don't upset the apple cart. Honey, there's nothing in the world I wouldn't do for you. But, how - how - how would this look back home? I'm a Scout Master.
- Phil Newman: Honey, listen, one of us has to be strong.
- Carla Campbell: I'm just a woman.
- Phil Newman: Now, I'll be strong enough for the both of us.
- Phil Newman: Carla, give me up. I'm no good for you. Oh, Carla look, I've got to go now.
- Carla Campbell: Maybe it's better.
- Phil Newman: Promise me one thing.
- Carla Campbell: Yes.
- Phil Newman: Promise you'll try to forget me. I mean, on a physical level.
- Carla Campbell: You think that's easy?
- Phil Newman: Oh, you'll make it. Crazy kid. Coraggio. Coraggio.
- Shirley Newman: When I think of the thing that the three of you have done...
- Phil Newman: Stop it, honey. You're making... The three of us?
- Shirley Newman: Don't worry. I saw the other two names at the express office. The same thing, month after month, year after year, a check for Mrs. Campbell. How you all must have loved that boy. You know, and I didn't even know that you knew Braddock and Young.
- Shirley Newman: What's the matter with you, ya look sick?
- Phil Newman: No, no, it's just that when someone finds out something they weren't supposed to know about, it's a...
- Vittorio: Didn't I tell you?
- Carla Campbell: That's all I need now. Someone to tell me how he told me.
- Carla Campbell: I am only thinking of her.
- Vittorio: Oh, no, I know what you are thinking of. What you are always thinking of.
- Carla Campbell: I told you. Be careful.
- Vittorio: The fine Mrs. Campbell, eh? The buona sera Mrs. Campbell. That people should think you are something you know you are not. But I tell you, even the lowest peasant, the worst woman of the street would not put a child like Gia in jail. Not even for a minute to cover up a lie like this.
- Carla Campbell: You will get out of my house.
- Vittorio: Gladly.
- Carla Campbell: You will never again touch my grapes, my sheets or my truck.
- Vittorio: Delighted.
- Carla Campbell: You're fired.
- Vittorio: The sweetest words I ever heard.