“- Ann Carrington: What's that sound?
- Lillian - the Housekeeper: It's the waves. Angry waves. Day after day, night after night, they beat with savage fury against the black rocks below. For twenty years they've been calling... calling to someone who never answers.”
Carole Landis - Ann Carrington
Rafaela Ottiano - Lillian - the Housekeeper

“Mussolini is not so clever like Hitler, he can dress his Italians up only to look like thieves, cheats, murderers. He cannot, like Hitler, make them feel like that.”

J. Carrol Naish - Giuseppe

“If only I was born Italian... all the best Yankees are Italian. My mother makes spaghetti with ketchup, what chance do I have?”

Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“The sea is vast, he could be anywhere.”

Naseeruddin Shah - Captain Nemo

“- Fern: Are you Jewish?
- Lorena: No, I'm Italian.
- Fern: Same thing.”
Jessica Walter - Fern
Vera Farmiga - Lorena