Jennifer Melfi Quotes
Tony Soprano: And missin' sessions, unfortunately, is part o' my condition.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What do you know about your condition? You miss appointments because you don't give a s**t, about commitments, about what I do, about the body of work that's gone into building up this science. Go ahead, tell me again I sound like your wife.
Tony Soprano: Well, if the shoe fits.
Tony Soprano: You know what? This is bulls**t.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What?
Tony Soprano: I haven't been able ta tell anybody this, but I'm f**kin' relieved.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Really?
Tony Soprano: He was a tremendous drag on my emotions... on my thoughts about the future. I mean, ta begin with...every mornin' I wake up thinkin' "is today the day that one o' my best friends is gonna dime me ta the FBI." And a weak f**kin' snivelin', lyin' drug addict? That's the worst kind o' bet. The biggest blunder o' my career is now gone. And I don't have ta be confronted by that fact no more. And as a relative, a friend, someone you can count on..
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I see.
Tony Soprano: Let me tell you somethin', I murdered friends before, even relatives. My cousin Tony...my best friend, Puss'... but this...
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I know this is difficult. But I'm very glad we're having this discussion.
Tony Soprano: Really? Really? 'Cause I gotta be honest, I think it f**kin' sucks!
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What does?
Tony Soprano: Therapy! This! I hate this f**king s**t!
Tony Soprano: Let me tell ya...if Carmela let me kick AJ's ass like my father kicked my ass, he might have grown up with some balls.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Like you.
Tony Soprano: Yeah, like me!
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: He might have also grown up taking out his anger at his father's brutality towards him on others. He might have grown up with a desperate need to dominate and control. Anthony, we've been dancing around this for years...how you live. What is it you want from your life?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You weren't sexually threatened?
Tony Soprano: Oh, Jesus Christ. Will you make up your f**kin' sick mind? First it's my mother, now I wanna f**k my sister?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: It's normal, not sick. That she functioned as the focus of your early sexual feelings. In fact, it was probably mutual.
Tony Soprano: Oh, Jesus Christ!
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: You two have never really gotten along.
Tony Soprano: Well not never. She was my older sister. I thought she was pretty cool. She gave it back to my mother. Let me tell you... that was some heroic s**t.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Because she defended you...
Tony Soprano: Please... it was every man for himself.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: It makes Bob seem weak? Your sister too? These are acts of kindness.
Tony Soprano: Janice only does "acts of Janice". Trust me.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Sociologists say that twenty six is in fact the new twenty one.
Tony Soprano: And the new twenty six is what? I'm forty six, so that means I'm what, thirty five?
Tony Soprano: My dad... would've kicked my lazy ass out o' the house.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Really...
Tony Soprano: It's the choppin' off o' the guys finger, right? I never should've told you 'cause that's all you fixate on with him.
Tony Soprano: He's a fa-ag!
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: And?
Tony Soprano: Now what am I supposed ta do?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: About what?
Tony Soprano: I know what. They're born that way, right? It's not their fault. Frankly, I think they go about in pity for themselves.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: I don't think they see it as a fault.
