All Quotes

"Norman Wooland - Group Captain"

"Michael Trubshawe - Weaver"

"Percy Herbert - Grogan"

"George Mikell - Sessler"

"Tutte Lemkow - Nicolai"

"Cleo Scouloudi - Bride"

"Christopher Rhodes - German Gunnery Officer"

"I hope you die! I hope you die soon! I'll be waiting for you to die!"

"I was lonely when I was young. Not in the way people usually mean. I was lonely for all the things I wasn't gonna get."

"Maybe it's easy for the dying to be honest. I'm sick of you, sick of this house, sick of my unhappy life with you. I'm sick of your brothers and their dirty tricks to make a dime. There must be better ways of getting rich than building sweatshops and pounding the bones of the town to make dividends for you to spend. You'll wreck the town, you and your brothers. You'll wreck the country, you and your kind, if they let you. But not me, I'll die my own way, and I'll do it without making the world worse. I leave that to you."

"I'll tell you what you could do if you went away, Zan: if you could find some place where they pay wages for talkin' silly, you could make a fortune"

"Bette Davis - Regina Hubbard Giddens"

"Herbert Marshall - Horace Giddens"

"Teresa Wright - Alexandra "Zannie" Giddens"

"Richard Carlson - David Hewitt"

"Dan Duryea - Leo Hubbard"

"Patricia Collinge - Birdie Hubbard"

"Charles Dingle - Ben Hubbard"

"Carl Benton Reid - Oscar Hubbard"

"Jessica Grayson - Addie"

"John Marriott - Cal"

"Russell Hicks - William Marshall"

"Lucien Littlefield - Manders"

"[Referring to the murder of two MSI militants in Padua, carried out by Paduan members of the BR] The action had nothing to do with what the BR were doing. We didn’t see the fascists as a real danger. I was very worried. There was a risk of distorting the image of the Red Brigades, reducing it to that of a group of rowdy thugs who gave orders to go and kill people at MSI headquarters."

"The Red Brigades cannot be considered a terrorist group. A terrorist is, in fact, someone who plants a bomb on a train, thereby terrorizing ordinary people."

"Good Red Brigades and bad Red Brigades? I never believed in that. I don’t condemn anyone, but I haven’t forgotten the notes the Red Brigades sent us from prison, calling for one murder a day. No one inside ever told us, “Guys, stay calm.” They told us, “It’s time for action; you have to get us out of here no matter what.”"

"Many Red Brigades members weren’t convinced by the choices the others were making. This forced them to push themselves beyond their limits. Some became extremely fragile and underwent a change that erupted at the moment of their arrest."

"Some claimed to belong to the BR without ever having carried out an action. The longest and most painful path—perhaps the most authentic one—is that of those who dissociated themselves before the law reducing sentences was passed."

"(About the relationship with the Italian Communist Party) It was a conflictual relationship because a minority faction of the Communist Party was, in some ways, sympathetic to us, while the majority faction—which we called the “Berlinguerian” faction—didn’t want to change the state all that much. That state, and its democratic rules, suited them just fine."

"You come out of a criminal trial with at least a nervous tic."

"The sense of gratification was strong because otherwise we would have given up immediately. For example, during the kidnapping of magistrate Sossi, television coverage focused not so much on us as individuals but on the actions we were carrying out. Clearly, this aspect undoubtedly gratified us, in the sense that it made us feel we were on the same level, on the same footing, as those who ruled the country. We were the "counter-power"."

"Waking up to our kids’ hugs, morning sun and cardio, good coffee, time with my husband, eating Japanese food, productive meetings, chikahan with friends, driving alone listening to podcasts, and ending the day taping for our show. The simplest joys mean the most. Could not have asked for a better day. So grateful!”"

"The ideology of the Red Brigades has its own history. [...] I can say that this kind of culture, which stems from the resistance, from the armed struggle against fascism and Nazism, was in some respects thought not to end as it actually did. It probably would not have turned into practical action had it not been for the historic rupture represented by 1968 and 1969. Those were years that called everything into question."

"Teach morals, respect and patience."

"We believed that the right wing was inextricably linked to sectors of the state and those in power. The famous discourse on the coup d’état strategy. In particular, these groups—Ordine Nero, Ordine Nuovo—were entirely instrumental to this project. To the project of the armed forces, in particular, who were seeking a solution, as they said at the time, à la grecque or à la chilena to the Italian crisis."

"There was no one backing us, at least not while I was part of the organization. Certainly, our actions suited someone’s interests. In those years, many people viewed an escalation of violence in Italy favorably."

"It may seem strange now, but for us, the beginning was quite playful—I use that word. A beginning without any bloodshed."

"The experience of the Red Brigades is exhausted and concluded, because a historical period has ended, because a political process has run its course. Likewise, there is nothing to throw overboard and nothing to forget, as seems to be very fashionable these days. :*Prospero Gallinari, from an interview with Radio Città Aperta; quoted in Gallinari su Moro: "Sono in pace con lui, eravamo in guerra", lettera43.it, 1994."

"The Red Brigades had shown themselves to be resolute and efficient, but theirs was not a victory. The decision to kill Moro created serious dissent within their ranks, while outside a deep sense of revulsion spread over what they had done. It is generally acknowledged that the crisis of Italian terrorism began with the killing of Moro. In hindsight, it therefore seems fair to acknowledge that the champions of intransigence were right: if Moro had been exchanged for one or more terrorists in prison, the Red Brigades would have appeared both invulnerable and willing to compromise, with the result that their appeal would almost certainly have grown. [...] After Moro’s death, Italian democracy not only defended itself but grew stronger."

"[About the members of the newly formed Red Brigades] They come from a left-wing background and lucidly pursue their own utopia through criminal acts; in this sense, they do not seem like provocateurs. As for others using their name for other actions, that may well be the case."

"I am convinced that the Red Brigades... our movement has run its course. But since I cannot think in terms of “winners and losers” but rather in terms of a struggle that brought about a transformation, I can say, for my part, that most of our expectations did not come to fruition... they were not successful. But the problem of a movement having run its course—and with it, the Red Brigades as well—did not happen overnight; it unfolded over the course of years. By the end of the 1980s, it became clear that, despite all our efforts, our attempts were producing only divisions and rifts; they were no longer yielding possible and viable answers at the level of movements that were transforming into a society that had itself transformed. And so this experience came to an end. We acknowledged this at a certain point—that much is true. I acknowledged it. I didn’t realize it in an instant; but at a certain point, together with other comrades, we acknowledged it and, responsibly, we told everyone: “Gentlemen, this experience... dear comrades, as far as our ability to assess it is concerned, has run its course and is unrepeatable.” We say this to our comrades, but we also say it to everyone else."

"The theory that the Red Brigades were manipulated from the outside is a theory dear to those who cannot bear the idea that events and initiatives took place in this country, that political projects were carried out outside the games of the Palace."

"The Red Brigades have been gone for years, our comrades are in prison, and yet we remain a thorn in the side. People either remain silent or try to exorcise us. And, worse still, there are those who try to muddy a story that was full of hopes, perhaps illusions, attempts, mistakes, pain, and death—but not filth."

"Dinah Ratner: I think you are the most annoying person I have ever met. I hate being with you, I hate looking at you... And if I had my way I would never - see you - again."

"Adam Sandler — Howard Ratner, a jeweler and gambling addict"

"LaKeith Stanfield — Demany, an intermediary who recruits clients for Howard"

"Julia Fox — Julia De Fiore, Howard's employee and mistress"

"Kevin Garnett — a fictionalized version of himself during his years with the Boston Celtics"

"Idina Menzel — Dinah Ratner, Howard's wife"

"Eric Bogosian — Arno Moradian, a loan shark married to Dinah's sister"