Rocco and His Brothers (1960)

Alain Delon: Rocco Parondi

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Quotes 

• Nadia : What can I do?

  Rocco Parondi : Have faith and have no fear. Great faith.

  Nadia : Faith in what?

  Rocco Parondi : I don't know - in everything.

  Nadia : In you?

  Rocco Parondi : Yes. In me too.

• Rocco Parondi : There's no hope now!

• Rosaria Parondi : [to Vincenzo]  What were you thinking bringing her in? We don't know her, she could even be a whore.

  Vincenzo Parondi : She's beautiful.

  Rosaria Parondi : Beautiful? She's a bland girl with goose bumps. Learn how to look at women, use your eyes.

  Rocco Parondi : She had goose bumps because she was cold.

  Rosaria Parondi : No, she's got that milk-and-water northern skin!

• Ciro Parondi : Are you okay, Rocco?

  Rocco Parondi : Winning came easy, Ciro, because I wasn't fighting him, I was fighting someone who aroused hatred in me, this hatred that's been lurking inside without my knowing. It's a bad feeling. You can't imagine how bad.

  Ciro Parondi : How's that possible, Rocco? There's nothing bad in you. Come on, Rocco, cheer up! You're a champ. A real champion!

• Rocco Parondi : If only we had never left home. But it is our destiny, yours and mine and Simone's.

  Ciro Parondi : Imagine all the misery had we remained there.

  Rocco Parondi : But we'd still be close.

• Rocco Parondi : I don't believe in earthly justice. It's not our job to judge him, but to help him. Let's help him!

• Rocco Parondi : Well, I'd like to make a toast to the day, which is still far away, when I can go home. And if I won't be able to, I hope one of us will be able to return to our land. Maybe you, Luca.

  Luca Parondi : I'd go back with you.

  Rocco Parondi : Remember, Luca, ours is the land of olive trees, of moon sickness, and of rainbows. Do you remember, Vincenzo? Before starting to build, the head mason throws a brick at the shadow of the first person who happened by.

  Luca Parondi : Why?

  Rocco Parondi : As a token of sacrifice, so that the house may be built solidly.

• Rocco Parondi : Don't curse! It serves no purpose. We're no longer in God's grace. We're our own enemies. We've all become enemies. Why curse? We have erred and must pay for our faults.

• Nadia : Recognize this?

  [Rocco opens up the handkerchief and see's his boss' brooch] 

  Nadia : Simone says he bought it, I say he stole it. And I don't care who from. I've got enough of my own troubles, I can't take risks. Understand?

  Rocco Parondi : No.

  Nadia : You don't understand? Great.

  Rocco Parondi : Why steal?

  Nadia : To be able to sleep with me. Guess I'm worth it. You don't believe it?

• Rocco Parondi : I'm lost in the city. I was neither born nor raised in one. Not only me, but my brothers and my friends. Some get used to city life and enjoy the city the way city folk do. Not me.

• Rocco Parondi : This is for you, but get out of Milan for a while.

  [hands Simone 100,000 lira] 

  Rocco Parondi : You have no job to lose anyway. Besides, any place is the same to you. But stay out of this house!

  Simone Parondi : Did the "Court of Brothers" decide that?