Vestal Virgin:
This is chicory. Oh, sautéed with garlic and red pepper, it's to die!

Vestal Virgin:
That's what makes it good. A nice kind of bitter. Like the Romans: they act tough, but they're sweethearts.

Reporter:
Has it been washed?

Reporter:
I don't like smoking or drinking.

Marcello Mastroianni:
But how about women?

Reporter:
Oh, yes, a lot, but...

Federico Fellini:
But? But what?

Reporter:
Frankly, what I like best is jerking off.

Marcello Mastroianni:
Ah. Good solution. An exercise in concentration that stimulates fantasy, and I'd say it develops a novelist's turn of mind. My experiences, for example, were like installment novels - always new characters who introduced other ones: "Meet my sister. This is my cousin."