The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

George C. Scott: Paolo Maltese

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• Mae Jenkins : [Looking indifferently at the leaning tower of Pisa]  So it leans. So a lot of things lean.

  Paolo Maltese : [Turning to Mae]  You ever heard of Galileo, maybe?

  Mae Jenkins : Sure I have heard of Galileo.

  Paolo Maltese : [Turning to Joey]  She ever heard of Galileo?

  Joey Friedlander : Nah...

  Paolo Maltese : Five-six hundred years ago, this Galileo dropped two stones off that tower, one big one, and one little one.

  Mae Jenkins : So?

  Paolo Maltese : So he proved the law of gravity or somethin'. I don't know.

  Mae Jenkins : And brained a couple of citizens, maybe. Big deal.

• Paolo Maltese : [Pointing at the Cathedral of Pisa with pride]  Look at it.

  Mae Jenkins : What is it?

  Paolo Maltese : The Cathedral. That is the most beautiful and the most famous cathedral in the whole world.

  Mae Jenkins : Yeah, it's got too many pillars.

  Paolo Maltese : Too many pillars...

  Mae Jenkins : Yeah.

  Paolo Maltese : Listen to me. That is the most beautiful and the most famous cathedral in the whole WORLD.

  Mae Jenkins : It's got too many pillars!

  Paolo Maltese : It was built in 1050!

  Mae Jenkins : Yeah, so in 1050 they put in too many pillars!

• Paolo Maltese : And this is the girl, my fidanzata, that I am bringing home to meet my folks. Of all the women in the whole world that I can choose from to be my wife, who do I choose? An ignorant slob of a hatcheck girl who thinks Pisa - Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, Joey - is a stopping-off place between hamburger joints.

• Paolo Maltese : [Turning toward the Baptistery]  This over here is the Baptistery. From all over the world...

  Mae Jenkins : Oh well.

  [and walks away] 

  Paolo Maltese : [Catches up with her, exasperated]  Listen. THAT is the Baptistery. From all over the world people are coming here everyday just to look at it.

  Mae Jenkins : Well, I guess they just must like baptisteries.

  [Walks away] 

  Paolo Maltese : [Turning to Joey]  Without exception, Joey, without challenge from anyone anywhere, this is the most stupidest, the most unfeelingest, the most uncooperative broad in the whole planet.