Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Robert L. Talbot: I`m like this goose; I know when I`ve laid an egg.
Lisa Helena Fellini: When they answer, ask for him.
Sandy: Oh, you think I should?
Lisa Helena Fellini: Of course! It`s like fighting a war. If you retreat and the enemy doesn`t follow you, you`ve got turn around and attack. What good is winning the battle if you lose the war?
[speaks Italian into the phone]
Lisa Helena Fellini: Why be miserable with someone you don`t love? Better to be miserable with someone you do love!
Robert L. Talbot: I just wanna get out of here. If there`s a plane, train, bus, or a jackass leaving this country: get me on it!
Robert L. Talbot: We never spoke of marriage! We were Happy!
Maurice Clavell: A martini for breakfast?
Robert L. Talbot: It`s great for the morning after, especially if there hasn`t been a night before.
Robert L. Talbot: We never even talked about the future!
Lisa Helena Fellini: Women don`t want talk, they go by intuition. And I`ve learned one thing: A woman`s intuition is a man`s best friend!
Lisa Helena Fellini: You`re wealthy, good looking, intelligent, charming. I-I should`ve known better than to get mixed with-with someone like that!
Robert L. Talbot: It`s gone!
Lisa Helena Fellini: What?
Robert L. Talbot: There`s a body missing. It`s the one body I don`t wanna have missing.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Where`s the telephone?
Anna: I put him in the dish. Don`t let him out. While he`s in there, you`re safe.
Lisa Helena Fellini: I am safe whether he is in or out!
Lisa Helena Fellini: Robert?
Robert L. Talbot: Mhm?
Lisa Helena Fellini: When you get to the terrace, would you do me a favour?
Robert L. Talbot: Sure.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Jump off.
Sandy: Love is one product you don`t sell by giving away free samples.
Sandy: When you go shopping in a market, you don`t buy anything that`s been handled too much.
Robert L. Talbot: Thank you, you`ve reaffirmed my lack of confidence in my fellow man.
Robert L. Talbot: Someone has to look after those girls.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Think that they`re parents` responsibility.
Robert L. Talbot: You know the trouble with the American parent? They have a new gimmick. Keep your kids off the streets, send them to Europe.
Robert L. Talbot: I can`t understand it.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Ah! That`s another thing. If you loved me, you`d have learned my language! But no, I had to do it. The weeks I spent studying... Learning to speak this... Fluid English.
Robert L. Talbot: Not "fluid." Fluent!
Lisa Helena Fellini: Big shock! Knows all the words!
Lisa Helena Fellini: Robert! How could you do this? Hm?
Robert L. Talbot: I was only following their golden rule: do unto others before they do it to you!
Tony: It`s a medically proven fact that to put said subject to sleep at this point, it`s only necessary to introduce into his system several drops of Monotomic dicarbon hydroxide.
Larry: But what`s that?
Tony: Booze.
Robert L. Talbot: The bedroom is like a wedding gown; it`s bad luck to let the fella see you in it before you marry him.
Lisa Helena Fellini: They are normal, healthy boys and normal, healthy girls, no?
Robert L. Talbot: That can lead to a normal, unhealthy situation.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Robert! You have a moral streak.
Robert L. Talbot: You know me better than that.
Robert L. Talbot: Mr Clavell!
Maurice Clavell: Sir?
Robert L. Talbot: You are to go with them and you are not to let those girls out of your sight.
Maurice Clavell: Sir, I can`t ride a motor scooter.
Robert L. Talbot: Then learn.
Maurice Clavell: I have no sense of balance. I was the only child that ever had to be strapped to his tricycle.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Really they`re very nice American boys.
Robert L. Talbot: So was the Dalton gang.
Lisa Helena Fellini: You know the boys are very hurt; they think you don`t like them.
Robert L. Talbot: The boys are right.
Patricia: The Driver had nice blue eyes.
Sandy: They`re brown and keep away from them.
Robert L. Talbot: You wouldn`t think a cork this small could lay out a woman that big.
Sandy: It must have been a terrible war.
Robert L. Talbot: They usually are.
Sandy: Yes well I`d like to talk to you about it sometime.
Robert L. Talbot: About what?
Sandy: The war.
Robert L. Talbot: The *war*?
Sandy: I have a feeling I can help.
Robert L. Talbot: I doubt it. It`s over.
Spencer: I can tell you I`ve had some problems: those sisters of mine. Well, I had the deuce of a job persuading them that it was the accepted thing nowadays for an Englishman to marry a foreigner.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Here in Italy, I am not the foreigner; you and your sisters are the foreigners.
Lisa Helena Fellini: Anna, do u know what it means to be happy?
Anna: Yes, of course.
Lisa Helena Fellini: I mean really happy.
Anna: But that kind of happy only gets u in trouble.
Anna: Love is like an empty bottle of champagne: you don`t refill it, you get a new bottle.
Robert L. Talbot: Lisa, you aren`t making any sense!
Lisa Helena Fellini: I don`t *have* to make sense! I`m *Italian*!
Robert L. Talbot: I want that villa put up for *sale*! And if you can`t *sell* it, *burn* it! I`ve *had* it with this country!
Maurice Clavell: Sir, this is not time to be burning your villas behind you. She loves you. She wants to marry you!
Robert L. Talbot: Yeah, she has a funny way of *showing* it!
Maurice Clavell: Italian women are emotional. Sh- sh... she been hurt. She wants time to think.
Robert L. Talbot: Well, I wanna go back to America... where people get married *without* thinking!
Robert L. Talbot: Lisa, believe me, *no* love affair can survive if the either part starts to *think*!
Robert L. Talbot: I can go to *jail* for what can happen to those girls!
Lisa Helena Fellini: What can happen to them? There are four boys and six girls. That add up to ten, and there`s a safety in numbers.
Robert L. Talbot: There`s more than mathematics and adding. Those boys look *quite capable* of dividing and multiplying!
Robert L. Talbot: [speaking to Lisa] Teenagers are like the H bomb. When they go off, it`s better to observe them from a distance.
Robert L. Talbot: [looking at his villa] Isn`t that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: I beg your pardon?
Robert L. Talbot: I said, isn`t that a new color?
Maurice Clavell: [chuckles] Houses are like women; The older they get, the more paint they need.
Robert L. Talbot: Man is the only animal *clever* enough to build the Empire State Building, and *stupid* enough to *jump off* it!
Tony: Where do you live?
Sandy: [broken English] Saus-a-lito.
Tony: And where is that near?
Sandy: [turns, looks at him] San Fran-sis-co.
Tony: I am very stu-pid. But I`m loads of fun.
Trivia
The movie was filmed mostly on location and due to weather conditions it took almost 12 months to shoot.
Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee met and fell in love while filming this movie and shortly afterward got married.
The first movie to be shown on transcontinental and intercontinental flights. Walter Slezak hand-delivered the film to the plane for the inaugural in-flight-movie flight.
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