Vincent Gardenia credited as playing...
Cosmo Castorini
- [Loretta accepts to marry Ronny instead of Ronny's brother Johnny, her ex-fiancé, in front of her family. Loretta's grandfather, the Old Man, starts to cry]
- Cosmo Castorini: What's the matter, Pop?
- Old Man: [crying] I'm confused!
- Cosmo Castorini: You'll have your eyes opened for you, my friend.
- Johnny: I have my eyes open.
- Cosmo Castorini: Oh yeah? Well, stick around. Don't go on any long trips.
- Johnny: I don't know what you mean.
- Cosmo Castorini: I know you don't. That's the point. I'll say no more.
- Johnny: You haven't said anything!
- Cosmo Castorini: And that's all I'm saying.
- Rose: Have I been a good wife?
- Cosmo Castorini: Yeah.
- Rose: I want you to stop seeing her.
- [Cosmo rises, slams the table once, and sits down again]
- Cosmo Castorini: Okay.
- Rose: [pauses] And go to confession.
- Rose: I just want you to know no matter what you do, you're gonna die, just like everybody else.
- Cosmo Castorini: Thank you, Rose.
- [Loretta announces she's going to marry Johnny Camareri]
- Cosmo Castorini: I don't like him.
- Rose: You're not going to marry him, Cosmo. Do you love him, Loretta?
- Loretta Castorini: No.
- Rose: Good.
- [She looks at Cosmo]
- Rose: When you love them they drive you crazy because they know they can.
- Cosmo Castorini: A man understands one day that his life is built on nothing, and that's a bad, crazy day.
- Rose: Your life is not built on nothing! Ti amo.
- Loretta Castorini: What am I going to tell him?
- Cosmo Castorini: Tell him the truth. They find out anyway.
- Loretta Castorini: I'm getting married.
- Cosmo Castorini: Again?
- Loretta Castorini: Yeah.
- Cosmo Castorini: You did this once before, it didn't work out.
- Loretta Castorini: The guy died!
- Cosmo Castorini: It looks stupid. It's a pinky ring. It's a man's ring!
- Loretta Castorini: It's temporary!
- Cosmo Castorini: Everything is temporary! That don't excuse nothin'!
- [Cosmo is trying to wake up his wife Rose]
- Cosmo Castorini: Rose. Rose. Rose! Rose!
- [She wakes up]
- Rose: Who's dead?
- Cosmo Castorini: There are three kinds of pipe. There's what you have, which is garbage - and you can see where that's gotten you. There's bronze, which is pretty good, unless something goes wrong. And something always goes wrong. Then, there's copper, which is the only pipe I use. It costs money. It costs money because it saves money.
- Rose: [after Cosmo arrives home late] Where you been?
- Cosmo Castorini: I don't know where I've been, and I don't know where I'm going.
