The Sopranos (TV Series)
The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti (1999)
Edie Falco: Carmela Soprano
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Quotes
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[after hearing bad news, Tony and Carmela need to relocate hidden money, guns and...]
Tony Soprano : All right. You'd better give me your jewelry.
[Carmela sighs with chagrin]
Tony Soprano : Hey, they know we can't produce receipts. You want 'em stealing this stuff from us?
[after Carmela removes her necklace, Tony points to her diamond ring and Carmela balks]
Tony Soprano : Come on.
Carmela Soprano : I'm not giving you my engagement ring. This isn't stolen!
[beat, then frown]
Carmela Soprano : Is it?
Tony Soprano : No!
[beat]
Tony Soprano : What do you think I am?
[Carmela sighs again]
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Larry Boy Barese : Oh, Mama Livia. Come sta, darling?
Livia Soprano : Listen to him with that 'my darling'. I am nobody's darling.
Larry Boy Barese : [to Tony] This one here, she never disappoints, I tell ya that.
Livia Soprano : Are you still seeing your other women, Lorenzo?
Carmela Soprano : [pulls her away] Come on, Ma. Let's mingle.
Tony Soprano : Sorry. The older she gets the worse she gets.
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Tony Soprano : [while having Chinese food for dinner after the FBI searched their home earlier in the day] I know the Feds are doing their job but it pisses me off the way they act
Carmela Soprano : that one guy Harris wasn't so bad
Tony Soprano : trust me, he was the biggest snake out of all of them: it's all part of his little act and that guy who broke the bowl, he did it on purpose
Carmela Soprano : Oh, I don't think so, he was just a klutz
Tony Soprano : What was his last name, Grizzo, Grasso, what?
Carmela Soprano : [reminding him] Grasso
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Why?
Tony Soprano : Why? Because he has a vowel at the end of his last name, Grasso, that's why. I mean what's he think? His gonna make it to the top by arresting his own people?
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : [to his mother] Pass the Moo shu
Tony Soprano : he'll see, he'll learn
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : We have a vowel
Tony Soprano : [attempting not to curse at the dinner table] F-in right and you be proud of it. Jesus Christ, you think there never was a Michelangelo, the way they treat people
Carmela Soprano : [to AJ] Did you know an Italian invented the telephone?
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Alexander Graham Bell was Italian?
Tony Soprano : [to Carmela] you, see? see what I'm takin about?
Tony Soprano : [raises his voice to AJ, irritated] Antonio Meucci invented it and he got robbed: everybody knows that!
Meadow Soprano : Who invented the mafia?
Tony Soprano : [caught off guard by her question] What?
Meadow Soprano : The Cosa Nostra, who invented that?
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Who cares?
Meadow Soprano : Wasn't it Salvatore Lucania, better known as Charles Lucky Luciano, who organized the Five Families: Lucchese, Gambino, Bonanno, Profaci
Tony Soprano : [becoming irritated] is there something you wanna say to me?
Meadow Soprano : I just like history like you, dad
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Can you just shut the fuck up about it?
Carmela Soprano : [chastising him for cursing] Hey!
Tony Soprano : [chastising him for cursing] Hey!
Carmela Soprano : AJ, did you know John Cabot was Italian?
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : No
Meadow Soprano : [to her mother, referring to AJ] Like he knows who that is?
Carmela Soprano : Famous discoverer of Canada
Tony Soprano : The Bank of America, ever heard of it? One of the biggest banks in the world, started by an Italian
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : The first American Saint was Italian, Mother Cabrini
Carmela Soprano : That's right
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : Is it true that the Chinese invented spaghetti?
Tony Soprano : Now think about it, why would people who eat with sticks invent something you need a fork to eat with? And here's something else I bet you didn't know: more Italians fought for this country in World War Two than any other ethnic group, and they wouldn't tell you about Sacco and Vanzetti either
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : The two anti-Christ that got the electric chair in Massachusetts?
Meadow Soprano : [correcting him] Anarchists
Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr. : [to his mother] Isn't anti-Christ?
Carmela Soprano : They were two innocent men who got the chair because they were Italian
Meadow Soprano : [to AJ] How could there be two anti-Christ? There was only one Christ