The Sopranos (TV Series)

I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano (1999)

James Gandolfini: Tony Soprano

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• Tony Soprano : [putting his hands around his mother's throat while she's sedated]  Ma. I know what you did, Ma. Your only son. Your middle child.

  EMT : Look she can't answer you, her speech side has been affected.

  Tony Soprano : Yeah, my ass! I heard the tapes, Ma. The fucking FBI tapes, don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about!

  EMT : Sir!

  Tony Soprano : George Clooney, don't get in the fucking middle of this!

  Ms. Giaculo : Alonzo, call security!

  Tony Soprano : [to Livia]  Uncle June is in jail now. And I got one more little last detail I gotta take care of!

  Ms. Giaculo : Mr. Soprano!

  Tony Soprano : I gotta tell ya, I don't die that fucking easy, Ma! I'm gonna live a nice long happy life, which is more than I can say for you!

  EMT : Alright that's enough!

  Tony Soprano : Yeah?

  [Tony knocks the man to the floor and Livia is wheeled off] 

  Ms. Giaculo : Keep her moving, keep her moving!

  Tony Soprano : I try and do the right thing by you and you try and have me WHACKED?

  Ms. Giaculo : She can't understand you!

  Tony Soprano : [being restrained]  SHE'S SMILING! LOOK AT THE LOOK ON HER FACE! Look at the look on her face! She's smiling! Look at her face! She's got a fucking smile on her face!

• [Tony urges Dr. Melfi to get out of town for a while] 

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I have patients who are suicidal!

  Tony Soprano : Well they're not gonna feel any better about their life if you get clipped.

• Tony Soprano : Uncle Junior and I, we had our problems with the Business. But I never should have razzed him about eating pussy. This whole war could have been averted. Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this.

• Tony Soprano : I didn't touch your place, Artie. I swear on my mother.

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : It's been a long odyssey with your mother, hasn't it?

  Tony Soprano : Oh, these last 500 years just seemed to race by.

• Meadow Soprano : Dad, give it up. We're not gonna make it to aunt patty's. Dad, hello. We're not gonna make it to aunt patty's.

  Tony Soprano : Why did i buy a goddamn off road vehicle?

  A.J. Soprano : To waste petrochemical resources?

• Tony Soprano : Okay. I need to tell you something and I want you to hear it from me, not from some asshole on the street. About four, five months ago I started seeing a psychiatrist. I was passing out, and they couldn't find nothing. She's been helping me with that... Okay, c'mon, give it to me. Give it to my face. C'mon.

  Silvio Dante : Well, I'm sure you did it with complete discretion. And speaking for Pussy, if he's still alive, I'm sure he would agree.

  Tony Soprano : Business was not discussed, no names were mentioned. Junior knows. He's decided to use it against me. Ask now. 'Cause we're not discussing this again.

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : It's not the worst thing I ever heard. I was seeing a therapist myself about a year ago. I had some issues. Enough said. I learned some coping skills.

  Silvio Dante : Look, this thing of ours, the way it's going, it'd be better if we could admit to each other these painful, stressful times. But it'll never fucking happen.

  Tony Soprano : What about you? You got a problem with this?

  Christopher Moltisanti : It's like marriage counseling?

  Tony Soprano : Yeah. Like that. Sort of, yeah.

• [Tony describes a dream he had about Jean Cusamano] 

  Tony Soprano : I'm doing her doggy-style, and I finish, you know. And her big ass is... look, we don't have time for this shit.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : It's interesting that you would say a big ass, 'cause Jean is quite slender.

  Tony Soprano : We've got bigger things to talk about than Jean Cusamano's ass.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Like feelings of worthlessness sparked by your mother's plot to have you killed?

• Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Mingia, T. I'm sorry. Your own uncle.

  Tony Soprano : Let's do it right. Act normal. Plan things out. Make no mistakes.

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : If I'm your uncle, I got to finish what I started. He could strike first.

  Christopher Moltisanti : And, this time, he won't use Boyz II Men.

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Isn't it interesting how this memory loss cropped up right after you failed to be killed in the carjacking? You think it was a carjacking?

  Tony Soprano : Of course not, but I got an idea who was behind it. Enough said. You don't want to go there.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Maybe you don't want to go there.

  Tony Soprano : What are you talking about?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Well, let's track it. Right around the time of the shooting, you were having hallucinations of that Isabella figure. The protective, loving mother. Your subconscience was shouting something at you. On the day before the shooting, you said to me that she kept going on yet again about news stories of mothers throwing their babies out of windows.

  Tony Soprano : Why don't we put our fuckin' cards on the table here. What do you think, my mother tried to have me whacked 'cuz I put her in a nursing home?

• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I say what your mother has, at the very least, is what we call borderline personality disorder.

  Tony Soprano : A borderline personality disorder ?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Let me read to you from the DSM-IV okay? Definitions of the condition? "A pattern of unstable relationships . Affective instability , It means intense anxiety, a joylessness. These people's internal phobias are the only things that exist to them. The real world, real people are peripheral. These people have no love or compassion. Borderline personalities are very good at splitting behavior, creating bitterness and conflict between others in their circle."