Massimo Troisi credited as playing...
Mario Ruoppolo
- Mario Ruoppolo: If you make this much of a fuss about one poem, you're never going to win that Nobel Prize.
- Mario Ruoppolo: I'll only ask him to sign this book. That's all, so when I get paid I'll go to Naples and show all the girls that I'm a friend of Neruda, the poet of love.
- Postmaster: The poet of the people.
- Priest: Find yourselves a decent person who isn't a communist. If Neruda doesn't believe in God, why should God believe in Neruda? What sort of witness would he be?
- Mario Ruoppolo: God never said a communist can't be a witness at a wedding. I'm not getting married then.
- Beatrice Russo: You're more interested in Neruda as a witness than me as your wife.
- Mario Ruoppolo: My darling, Neruda's a Catholic. I know he's a Catholic.
- Priest: In Russia, communists eat babies. How can he be Catholic?
- Beatrice Russo: He doesn't look the type.
- Priest: Neruda has a pretty wife. He's getting on and he has no children. How do you explain that?
- Mario Ruoppolo: So according to you, Don Pablo ate his kids?
- Priest: Who knows?