Cinema Paradiso Quotes

Cinema Paradiso is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Cinema Paradiso stopped airing in 1970.

It features Franco Cristaldi, and Giovanna Romagnoli as producer, Ennio Morricone, and Andrea Morricone in charge of musical score, and Blasco Giurato as head of cinematography.

Cinema Paradiso is recorded in Italian and originally aired in Italy. Each episode of Cinema Paradiso is 155 minutes long. Cinema Paradiso is distributed by Miramax (US).

The cast includes: Philippe Noiret as Alfredo, Salvatore Cascio as Salvatore, and Agnese Nano as Elena Mendola - Adult, Director's cut only.

Cinema Paradiso Quotes

Philippe Noiret as Alfredo

• (Philippe Noiret) "Living here day by day, you think it's the center of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave: a year, two years. When you come back, everything's changed. The thread's broken. What you came to find isn't there. What was yours is gone. You have to go away for a long time -- many years -- before you can come back and find your people. The land where you were born. But now, no. It's not possible. Right now you're blinder than I am."
• (Salvatore Cascio) "Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Eh?"
• (Philippe Noiret) "No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it's all me. Life isn't like in the movies. Life -- is much harder."

• (Philippe Noiret) "Get out of here. Go back to Rome. You're young and the world is yours. I'm old. I don't want to hear you talk anymore. I want to hear others talking about you. Don't come back. Don't think about us. Don't look back. Don't write. Don't give in to nostalgia. Forget us all. If you do and you come back, don't come see me. I won't let you in my house. Understand?"
• (Salvatore Cascio) "Thank you. For everything you've done for me."
• (Philippe Noiret) "Whatever you end up doing, love it. The way you loved the projection booth when you were a little squirt."

• (Philippe Noiret) "I choose my friends for their looks, my enemies for their intelligence"

• (Philippe Noiret) "And the next time be careful how you talk. Not to take credit away from the Lord, but if I had created the world, in all modesty, certain things would have come out better. But unfortunately such was not the case."

• (Philippe Noiret) "Out of the fire of love come ashes. Even the greatest love eventually fizzles out."

• (Philippe Noiret) "Progress always comes late."

• (Philippe Noiret) "Once upon a time, a king gave a feast. And there came the most beautiful princesses of the realm. Now, a soldier, who was standing guard, saw the king's daughter go by. She was the most beautiful one, and he immediately fell in love with her. But what could a poor soldier do when it came to the daughter of the king? Well, finally, one day, he managed to meet her, and he told her that he could no longer live without her. The princess was so impressed by his strong feelings that she said to the soldier: "If you can wait 100 days and 100 nights under my balcony, then at the end of it, I shall be yours." Damn. The soldier immediately went there and waited one day. And two days. And ten. And then twenty. And every evening, the princess looked out of her window, but he never moved. During rain, during wind, during snow, he was always there. The bird shat on his head, and the bees stung him, but he didn't budge. After ninety nights, he had become all dried up, all white, and the tears streamed from his eyes. He couldn't hold them back. He no longer had the strength to sleep. All that time, the princess watched him. And on the 99th night, the soldier stood up, took his chair, and went away."
• (Salvatore Cascio) "-- In one more night, the princess would have been his. But she also could not possibly have kept her promise. And it would have been terrible. He would have died. This way, however, at least for 99 days, he was living under the illusion that she was there, waiting for him."

Agnese Nano as Elena Mendola - Adult, Director's cut only

• (Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult) "Elena, perhaps in the future we could --"
• (Agnese Nano) "No, Salvaotre, there is no future. There is only the past. Even last night's encounter was just a dream. A wonderful dream. When we were young, we never did it. Do you remember? Now that it has happened, I can't imagine a better ending."
• (Salvatore 'Toto' Di Vita - Adult) "I'll never agree with you. Never."

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