“La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life)” quotes
(1960)
Federico Fellini
directed this movie
in 1960
Title La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life)
Original title La dolce vita
Year 1960
Director Federico Fellini
Genre Drama, Comedy
Original title La dolce vita
Year 1960
Director Federico Fellini
Genre Drama, Comedy
Plot – Marcello writes about mundane topics for a magazine. His career has lead him to adopt the same lifestyle of the people he writes about, so he has many relationships despite he lives with Emma. At a party, he realizes the moral level of the mundane environment is quite low, so he spends his time with Steiner, an intellectual with a happy family. Marcello hopes his life with Emma could be as beautiful as his one, but after a while Steiner has a crisis and commits suicide after having killed his two children. Marcello is horrified and throws himself into his mundane job.
All actors – Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Magali Noël, Lex Barker, Annibale Ninchi, Walter Santesso, Jacques Sernas, Riccardo Garrone, Valeria Ciangottini, Nadia Gray, Alain Cuny, Ida Galli, Audrey McDonald, Polidor, Enrico Glori, , Giuseppe Addobbati, Conte Brunoro Serego Aligheri, Federika André, Armando Annuale, Joan Antequera, Juan Antequero, Gianni Baghino, Nadia Balabine, Ignazio Balsamo, Remo Benedetti, Laura Betti, Leonardo Botta, Ida Bracci Dorati, Ferdinando Brofferio, Giovanna Busetti, Massimo Busetti, Tito Buzzo, Daniela Calvino, Tony Campanino, Fabrizio Capucci, Donato Castellaneta, Adriano Celentano, Enzo Cerusico, Elisabetta Cini, Giulio Citti, Nani Colombo, Mario Conocchia, Francesco Consalvo, Tiziano Cortini, Decimo Cristiani, Mario De Grenet, Andrea De Pino, Adele De Rossi, Donatella Della Nora, Christine Denise, Katherine Denise, Carlo Di Maggio, François Dieudonné, Alain Dijon, Count Ivenda Dobrzensky, Enzo Doria, Mino Doro, Donatella Esparmer, Paolo Fadda, Umberto Felici, Oretta Fiume, Rina Franchetti, Giacomo Gabrielli, Franco Giacobini, Angela Giavalisco, Romolo Giordani, Giulio Girola, Christine Graefeck, Lily Granado, Libero Grandi, Maurizio Guelfi, Gloria Hendy, April Hennessy, Nina Hohenlohe, Antonio Jacono, Gloria Jones, Carlo Kechler, Else Knorr, Paolo Labia, John Francis Lane, Sondra Lee, Marianne Leibl, Guglielmo Leoncini, Giuliana Lojodice, Renée Longarini, Francisco Lori, Francesco Luzi, Mario Mallarno, Renato Mambor, Vittorio Manfrino, Maria Marigliano, Carlo Mariotti, Gino Marturano, Maria Mazzanti, Harriet Medin, Marta Melocco, Nello Meniconi, Alex Messoyedoff, Gianfranco Mingozzi, Lucia Modigliani, Adriana Moneta, Maite Morand, Carlo Musto, Aurelio Nardi, Nico, Desmond O'Grady, Liana Orfei, Umberto Orsini, Contessa Cristina Paolozzi, Giulio Paradisi, Ada Passari, Franca Pasut, Loretta Pepi, Paola Petrini, Cesarino Miceli Picardi, Princess Doris Pignatelli, Alberto Plebani, Oliviero Prunas, Giovanni Querrel, Giulio Questi, Concetta Ragusa, Loretta Ramaciotti, Leonida Repaci, Alfredo Rizzo, Rosemary Rennel Rodd, Giancarlo Romani, Franco Rossellini, Prince Eugenio Ruspoli di Poggio Suasa, Margherita Russo, Anna Maria Salerno, Anna Salvatore, Archie Savage, Leopoldo Savona, Lisa Schneider, Maria Pia Serafini, Noel Sheldon, Isabella Soldani, Letizia Spadini, Giò Stajano, Gino Talamo, Sandra Tesi, Henry Thody, Tomás Torres, Iris Tree, Vando Tress, Gondrano Trucchi, Teresa Tsao, Winie Vagliani, Leontine Van Strein, Aldo Vasco, Lucia Vasilicò, Maria Teresa Vianello, Sandy von Normand, Antoinette Weynen, Angela Wilson, Vadim Wolkonsky, Maria Teresa Wolodimeroff, Italo Zingarelli
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“- Paparazzo: What do you think you like most in life?
- Sylvia: I like lots of things. But there are three things I like most. Love, love and love.”“Stay free, available, like me. Never get married. Never choose. Even in love, it's better to be chosen.”
“A man who agrees to live like this is a finished man, he's nothing but a worm! I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love! I don't want it, I have no use for it! This isn't love, it's brutalization!”
“By 1965 there'll be total depravity. How squalid everything will be.”
“Don't be like me. Salvation doesn't lie within four walls. I'm too serious to be a dilettante and too much a dabbler to be a professional. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.”
“You are everything... everything! You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home.”
“We must get beyond passions, like a great work of art. In such miraculous harmony. We should love each other outside of time... detached.”
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