After the Fox (1966)

Peter Sellers: Aldo Vanucci

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Quotes 

• Aldo Vanucci : Aagghh! If only I could steal enough to become an honest man!

• Aldo Vanucci : Because I am a small crook, I go to prison. It's only the big crooks that go free. Is that justice?

• Gina Romantica : [about Tony Powell in watching one of his movies]  He's a good kisser.

  Aldo Vanucci : Do you know how many good kissers are starving in Italy?

• Aldo Vanucci : I'll get you a new stove, with push buttons!

  Mama Vanucci : [breaking down in tears after the statement]  I don't want buttons! I want *grandchildren*!

  Aldo Vanucci : You hear that Gina, your Mama wants grandchildren!

  Gina Vanucci : You're a crook. Steal her some!

  Aldo Vanucci : Mama, look the other way. I'm going to kill Gina.

• Aldo Vanucci : [the stolen gold is delayed and Fabrizi has to shoot some of his 'neo-realist' film]  We are ready for the next shot, only in this scene instead of doing *nothing*, we do *something*.

  Tony Powell : [exasperated]  What?

  Aldo Vanucci : Running, running.

  Tony Powell : What are we running from?

  Aldo Vanucci : From yourselves. Uh, you get the symbolic meaning?

  [Tony shakes his head 'no'] 

  Aldo Vanucci : Aah! No matter how fast you run, you can never run away from yourselves!

  Tony Powell : Aahh! Beautiful!

• Aldo Vanucci : [as Fabrizi, explaining the concept of his movie]  Tony plays 'The Fox'...

  Tony Powell : [interrupting]  An animal picture!

  Aldo Vanucci : No, "The Fox", a master criminal with an ingenious plan to smuggle gold into Italy, and - a surprise ending!

  Harry Granoff : What's the ingenious plan?

  Aldo Vanucci : *That* is the surprise ending.

  Tony Powell : I love it! When do we start shooting?

• Aldo Vanucci : [to the police chief]  In films either you have got a face or you don't got a face. You have got a face.

• Aldo Vanucci : [to Police Chief after townsfolk boo him]  We should have a talk in your office before they kill you.

• Aldo Vanucci : [to Tony and Gina]  When I give you the signal, do nothing, absolutely nothing.

• Bikini Girl : [Okra's sister comes to see Aldo, who doesn't know she is Okra's sister]  He doesn't let me talk to anyone. I haven't used a telephone in six years. If he knew I was here, he would kill me.

  Aldo Vanucci : That swine.

• Aldo Vanucci : Sister?

  Aldo Vanucci : [grabbing the girl hiding in the closet he thought he was seducing away from him]  She's your *sister*? Here, slattern, go home with your brother, and pray!

• Aldo Vanucci : [introducing himself after making a grand entrance into the room]  Federico Fabrizi!

  Harry Granoff : I'm sorry, I don't speak Italian.

• Harry Granoff : [to Aldo, who he thinks is movie director Federico Fabrizi, for his client, actor Tony Powell]  What about a contact?

  Aldo Vanucci : [excitedly]  Contract?

  Aldo Vanucci : [after grabbing Powell and kissing him on the cheek]  There is my contract.

  Harry Granoff : Do I get a copy for my lawyer?

• Aldo Vanucci : If I cannot trust you, you are to stay in your room until you are 21 years old.

  Gina Vanucci : I go where I want and when I want! Can you say the same, fugitive?

  Aldo Vanucci : Now just you listen to me, you, you - you delinquent.

  Gina Vanucci : Sneak!

  Aldo Vanucci : Harlot!

  Gina Vanucci : Coward!

  Aldo Vanucci : Tramp! Starlet!

• Aldo Vanucci : Take this soap and wash those lips off your face.

• Gina Vanucci : Oh, that was a real producer and he was going to give me a part in his film. And he had a contract in his pocket.

  Aldo Vanucci : And a fountain pen in his hotel room.

• Aldo Vanucci : As an international film director, I asked for *fake* gold. Some crook used real gold instead. I suspect - I suspect hanky-panky.

• Police Chief : Good morning!

  Aldo Vanucci : Ooh! A good, strong "Good Morning"! Oooh!

  Aldo Vanucci : [as he passionately throws papers in the air]  Oooh! Sorry, we artists must give vent to our emotions. And I have just vented... Good morning.

  Police Chief : [into the mirror in an actorly fashion after Aldo leaves]  Good morning!

• Police Chief : [holding a cigar box open for Aldo]  Have a cigar.

  Aldo Vanucci : Oh, I couldn't take your last one.

  Police Chief : Thank you.

• Aldo Vanucci : That's it. I've got it. I've got a plan! I've got a plan! Ha! Come, come. Ha, I've got a plan!

• Aldo Vanucci : Don't touch my mamma's chicken!

• Aldo Vanucci : There has been a change in the plans. The Fox is out of the tree.

• Aldo Vanucci : They're insane. They're insane! Is this what you want? To have the clothes torn off your back?

  Gina Vanucci : Yes!

• Aldo Vanucci : Harry, this is Fred Okra, my coproducer. He invented Okrascope.

• Aldo Vanucci : If you're in the movies they give you milllons of dollars. Women tear your clothes off. Pollce protect you wherever you go.