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Description of Eddie Carbone
"A husky, slightly overweight longshoreman"
Trust - Eddie Carbone
"The less you trust, the less you be sorry"
About Catherine's outfit - Eddie Carbone (2)
"Katie, you're walking wavy! I don't like the looks they give you! ... Their heads are turning like windmills"
"What's the high heels for, Garbo?"
About Rodolpho - Eddie Carbone (2)
"The guy ain't right"
“But if I could cook, if I could sing, if I could make dresses, I wouldn’t be on the water front.”
"He's like a chorus girl or sump'm."
"It ain't so free here either, Rodolfo, like you think."
About Catherine - Eddie Carbone
"I guess I just never figured... that you would ever grow up."
"With your hair that way you look like a Madonna, you know that?"
"Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away."
About Catherine & Rodolpho's relationship - Eddie Carbone
“Katie…if you wasn’t an orphan, wouldn’t he ask your father’s permission before he run around with you like this?”
“You’re getting to be a big girl now, you gotta keep yourself more, you can’t be so friendly, kid.”
Respect - Eddie
"[Rodolpho] ain't got my name, hes just a punk. Marcos got my name"
"I want my respect"
Eddie and Catherine's relationship - Beatrice
"You want something else Eddie and you can never have her!"
"If it was a prince came here for you it would be no different."
Sex - Beatrice
"When can I be a wife again, Eddie?"
To Catherine - Beatrice
(When Catherine complains Eddie treats her like a baby) "Because you still think you're a baby"
"You think I'm jealous of you honey?"
"You're not a baby anymore"
To Beatrice - Eddie
"You didn't used to jump me all the time … It's a shootin' gallery in here and I'm the pigeon"
"Didn't you hear what I told you? You walk out that door to that wedding you ain't comin' back here, Beatrice."
About Rodolpho & Catherine - Eddie
"When I think of that guy layin' his hands on her I could - I mean it's eatin' me out, Mr. Alfieri, because I struggled for that girl."
"You mean to tell me that there's no law that a guy which he ain't right can go to work and marry a girl and - ?"
"and he takes and puts his filthy hands on her like a ******* thief!"
To Marco - Eddie
"I betcha there's plenty surprises sometimes when those guys get back there, heh?"
To Alfieri - Eddie
"I don't like it! The way you talk to me and the way you look at me. This is my house. And she is my niece and I'm responsible for her."
To Eddie - Beatrice
"Well, you kept her a baby, you wouldn't let her go out. I told you a hundred times."
To Eddie - Catherine
“I wish there was one guy you couldn’t tell me things about”
"Here! I'll light it for you!"
"I'm afraid of Eddie here."
"He comes when nobody's lookin' and poisons decent people. In the garbage he belongs!"
"Eddie, I'm not gonna be a baby any more! You -"
"I think I have to get out of here, Eddie."
To Rodolpho - Catherine
"You wanna dance, Rodolfo?"
"He's practically blond!"
"I mean I know him [Eddie] and now I'm supposed to turn around and make a stranger out of him?"
"I'm not a baby, I know a lot more than people think I know."
"Teach me. I don't know anything, teach me, Rodolfo, hold me."
To Beatrice - Catherine
“He still thinks I’m a baby.”
“If I was a wife I would make a man happy instead of goin’ at him all the time.”
About/To Catherine - Rodolpho
"You think I would carry on my back the rest of my life a woman I didn't love just to be an American?"
"But I will not let her out of my hands because I love her so much, is that right for me to do?"
About America/ Italy - Rodolfo
“Me, I want to be an American. And then I want to back to Italy when I am rich, and I will buy a motorcycle.”
“Once I am a citizen … I would start to be something wonderful here!”
"I want to be an American so I can work, that is the only wonder here - work!"
"Imagine! She said they were poor!"
To Eddie - Rodolfo
"But I can't stay in the house all the time, Eddie."
About Italy - Marco
"They eat the sunshine."
About Eddie - Marco
"That one! He killed my children! That one stole the food from my children!"
"Animal! You go on your knees to me!"
Justice - Marco
"The law? All the law is not in a book."
"There is no law for that? Where is the law for that?"
About Catherine and Rodolfo - Alfieri
"Because there's nothing illegal about a girl falling in love with an immigrant."
About Catherine and Eddie - Alfieri
"There's too much. You know? There's too much, and it goes where it mustn't."
"She can't marry you, can she?"
"Morally and legally you have no rights, you cannot stop it; she is a free agent."
To Marco - Alfieri
"Yes. In a book. there is no other law."
"This is not God, Marco. You hear? Only God makes justice."
Alfieri quotes
"We settle for half and I like it better."