Home is home.
Catalog
Movie
Brooklyn
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Would I get married again? No, I want to be waiting outside the bathroom of my boarding house forever. Of course, I do. That's why I go to that wretched dance every week. I want to be waiting outside my own bathroom, while some bad-tempered fellow with hair growing out of his ears reads the newspape…
I hope that when I go through the pearly gates, the first sound I hear is you asking me for the bill in that lovely Irish brogue.
Try and remember that sometimes it's nice to meet people who don't know your auntie.
I'll tell you this much: I am going to ask Father Flood to preach a sermon on the dangers of giddiness. I now see that giddiness is the eighth deadly sin. A giddy girl is every bit as evil as a slothful man, and the noise she makes is a lot worse. Now, enough.
Laurenzio: You'll have to go to Ebbets Field if you want to see him in the summer. Ellis: They're that important to you? Tony: Put it this way, if our kids end up supporting the Yankees or the Giants, it would break my heart.
Miss McAdam: One of the things that ruins Christmas in America is the turkey. Oh, it tastes of sawdust. Madge Kehoe: So that's one cheese sandwich for Miss McAdam and extra turkey for everyone else!
[Preparing for a weekend at the beach] Diana's right, though, Ellis. You need to think carefully about your costume. It's the most Tony will ever have seen of you. You don't want to put him off.
You're the prettiest girl in County Wexford. You should be able to choose any man you want. And we're hoping that George Sheridan from the rugby club looks your way.
Diana: It's not politics to talk about eye operations. Madge Kehoe: It is if the eyes belong to a politician.
I'd forgotten what this town is like. What were you planning to do, Miss Kelly? Keep me away from Jim? Stop me from going back to America? Perhaps you didn't even know. Perhaps it was enough for you to know that you could ruin me. My name is Ellis Fiorello.
Ellis: I wish that I could stop feeling that I want to be an Irish girl in Ireland. Father Flood: Homesickness is like most sicknesses. It will pass.
Patty: There. That's better. Now you don't look like you've just come in from milking the cows. Ellis: Is that what I looked like? Patty: Just a bit. Nice clean cows. Let's go.
[instructing new immigrant] You have to think like an American. You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out—you might not even notice straight away, it'll be that…
You have to think like an American. You'll feel so homesick that you'll want to die, and there's nothing you can do about it apart from endure it. But you will, and it won't kill you. And one day the sun will come out - you might not even notice straight away, it'll be that faint. And then you'll ca…