The Great Beauty (2013)

Carlo Verdone: Romano

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• Romano : I spent all my summers making plans for September. Not any longer. Now I spend the summer remembering the good intentions which vanished. In part because of laziness, in part because of carelessness. What's wrong with feeling nostalgic? It's the only distraction for those who've no faith in the future. Without rain August is coming to an end, and September isn't arriving. And I'm so ordinary. But there's no need to worry. It's alright, it's okay.

• Romano : What about you and Orietta?

  Jep Gambardella : Who's Orietta?

  Romano : Don't you know? She was at your house. A real beauty.

  Jep Gambardella : At my age, a real beauty isn't enough.

• Jep Gambardella : Are you going out with that gloomy girl you're always with?

  Romano : I wish. I've tried it on 7,000 times. I've never even had a kiss, not one!

  Jep Gambardella : She's a bitch.

  Romano : No, she's not. She's complicated.

  Jep Gambardella : She's a bitch. Trust me, you're too kind. I can tell her type from a mile off, I don't even need to meet them.

• Romano : Unfortunately in this country, in order to be taken seriously, you have to take yourself seriously.

• Romano : Has something happened?

  Jep Gambardella : No. No. Why?

  Romano : You want to write again after all these years, something's happened.

  Jep Gambardella : Something always happens in Rome. Nothing's happened.