Prizzi's Honor (1985)

Anjelica Huston: Maerose Prizzi

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• [Charlie is telling Maerose about Irene] 

  Charley Partanna : I met her in a church. It just happened. I knew she was the woman for me. She'd organized the scam in Vegas. I go looking for the bad guy and it turns out to be my woman, can you imagine this? Not only that - Pop tells me she's the piece man for the Nettabino contract. Just the same, I love her, Mae... I love her.

  Maerose Prizzi : Well...

  Charley Partanna : How can I live with this? I gotta do something about it. I gotta straighten it out.

  Maerose Prizzi : Then do.

  Charley Partanna : Do what? Do I ice her? Do I marry her? Which one of these?

  Maerose Prizzi : Marry her, Charley. Just because she's a thief and a hitter doesn't mean she's not a good woman in all the other departments. If she was some kind of fashion model, well it wouldn't last more than thirty days. But you and she is in the same line of business. You are lucky you found each other, you know that, Charley?

  Charley Partanna : Yeah, I guess.

  Maerose Prizzi : She's an American! She had a chance to make a buck so she grabbed it. Marry her, Charley. Then at least I'll be able to get something out of it... I'll be able to go back in the family.

  Charley Partanna : Yeah.

• Maerose Prizzi : So let's do it.

  Charley Partanna : With all the lights on?

  Maerose Prizzi : Yeah. Right here. On the Oriental. With all the lights on.

• Dominic Prizzi : Jeez Mae, you look awful. My beautiful daughter's turned into an old woman. Charlie Partanna did this to you. He had a chance to be godfather of the Prizzi family and he had no use for you.

  Maerose Prizzi : Oh, he had a use for me pop. He came to my place in New York the night before he left to marry the woman in California, and he forced himself on me. He did it to me.

  Dominic Prizzi : He did it to you.

  Maerose Prizzi : Yeah, poppa. He screwed me three times, maybe four, I can't remember.

  Dominic Prizzi : You wash out your filthy mouth, you hear? How can you say such things to your own father? He done that to you? Charlie? You sure?

  Maerose Prizzi : Am I sure? Poppa you should see the size of him! You should.

  Dominic Prizzi : Shut up! How can you say such things to your father? Where's your honor?

  Maerose Prizzi : Are you kidding poppa? I have no honor any more.

• Charley Partanna : We've wasted a lot of time, Maerose.

  Maerose Prizzi : [sarcastic]  4 years? Why didn't you wait until I was 50?

  Charley Partanna : You could have been a fat tub of lard when you were 50.

• Maerose Prizzi : [tearing up]  Goddamn!

  Charley Partanna : What's the matter, Mae?

  Maerose Prizzi : I should of known to stay away.

  Charley Partanna : What happened?

  Maerose Prizzi : I went to say hello to my father. He called me a whore.

  Charley Partanna : [comforting her]  Aw, Maerose, I'm sorry. Listen, Mae, what you gotta do is forget about your father. Forget about the alignment. They never gonna take you back anyways, so screw 'em. They don't deserve you. Especially that fucking Dominic. Mae, you're still beautiful. Why don't you find yourself someone that has nothing to do with the families, you know? Settle down, have a couple of kids, a life. Practice your meatballs.

  Maerose Prizzi : [sarcastically]  Sure, Charlie. Thanks a hell of a lot. You're a big help!

  [Charlie looks bewildered as Maerose brushes past him] 

• Charley Partanna : So, ah, how's the decoratin' business?

  Maerose Prizzi : Oh, it's just great, Charlie! We're always busy. Everything is Art Deco now.

  Charley Partanna : Art who?

  Maerose Prizzi : Charlie, Art Deco! You know, after Art Nouveau. It's a style, it's not a person. You know, it's like all that Erte' stuff.