Heavy Traffic (1973)

Terri Haven: Ida Corleone

Quotes 

• Ida : [drunk]  Oh, my God. I haven't seen these pictures in so long... oh, how terrific! Look at that. There's cousin Harry, and Larry... and Rosella! We never were sure about her. Oh, and she married the Ice Man, yeh. Mama always said nothing would ever happen with her, with her pimples and her bad nose and eyes... And there's Mama! Oh, how gorgeous she was.

  [a photo of a young girl appears] 

  Ida : And who is this beauty? Oh my God... it's me.

• [Angie comes home to find Ida praying] 

  Angie : Hey, I thought you'd be sleepin'. Hey, Ida, what are you doin' up?

  Ida : Praying for the dead.

  Angie : Who died?

  Ida : Someone close...

  Angie : Anyone I know?

  Ida : YOU die!

  [knocks him out with a frying pan] 

  Ida : Twenty three years of suffering! So go marry an Italian. Stays out all night with some dumb whore. Catholics don't get divorced! Big deal. I died the day I married a goy! Now it's your turn Angie! Roast in Hell!

  [starts shoving his head into the oven] 

  Ida : I got one left over!

  [shoves him inside and turns on the gas] 

  Ida : Go meet your marries and Josephs!

• Ida : I died the day I married a goy!