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Big Night (1996) More at IMDbPro »

Bob: Beautiful country, Italy.
Secondo: You ever been there?
Bob: No.
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Pascal: A guy works all day, he don't want to look at his plate and ask, "What the fuck is this?" He wants to look at his plate, see a steak, and say "I like steak!"
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Pascal: Bite your teeth into the ass of life.
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Secondo: You know everything has just become... too much.
Pascal: Hey, hey, fucking guy! What this is: "too much"? HEY! It is never "too much"; it is only "not enough"! Bite your teeth into the ass of life and drag it to you! HEY!
Secondo: [pause] That is why I come here to you, you know...
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Pascal: [greeting Secondo] Fucking Guy!
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Secondo: Sometimes the spaghetti likes to be alone.
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Primo: To eat good food is to be close to God.
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Pascal: Give people what they want, then later you can give them what you want.
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Pascal: I am a businessman. I am anything I need to be at any time.
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Primo: Give people time, they will learn.
Secondo: This is a restaurant! This is not a fucking school!
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Secondo: What's the matter with you, are you sick?
Primo: People should come just for the food.
Secondo: I know. Primo, I need your help here, okay? Louis Prima is coming! He's not just some guy, he's famous!
Primo: Famous? Is he good?
Secondo: He's great.
Primo: People should come just for the food.
Secondo: I know that.
Primo: People should come just for the food!
Secondo: I know that, I know. But they don't.
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Secondo: Primo, do you know why this night is happening?
Primo: No.
Secondo: Because it has to happen.
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Primo: This place is eating us alive!
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Pascal: God damn it, I should kill you! This is so fucking good I should kill you!
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Primo: Do you know what happens in that restaurant every night? RAPE! RAPE!... The rape of cuisine.
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Secondo: [Primo is refusing to honor a customer's ignorant request for a side order of spaghetti] Make it, make it, make it, make the pasta!
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Pascal: He's a great investment, you know, your brother. You too, of course.
Secondo: You will never have my brother. He live in a world above you. What he has, and what he is, is real. *You* are nothing.
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[first lines]
Primo: [offers a taste asking opinion in Italian]
Secondo: What?
Primo: More Salt?
Secondo: No.
[continues chopping]
Primo: Not too fine, eh? Sometimes you cut it too fine, then all you taste is the garlic!
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Woman in Restaurant: Monsieur, is this what I ordered?
Secondo: Yes, that is the Risotto. It is a special recipe that my brother and I bring from Italy. It's delicious, I promise.
Woman in Restaurant: It took so long, I thought you went back to Italy to get it.
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Secondo: In Italy you work hard, and there is nothing. But here, you work hard and...
[walks his fingers up the ladder]
Secondo: Right? I know.
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[last lines]
Secondo: Are you hungry?
Cristiano: [moves to do something about it]
Secondo: I'll do it.
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