You have no right to stop me!
Nancy Barbato SinatraI don't want to stop you. I want you to be the greatest singer there is. I just don't want to lose you.
Played by Gina Gershon
Sinatra · 27 quotes
3rd most-quoted character in Sinatra: in 5 of its 27 quotes
Most scenes with: Frank Sinatra (5)
Scenes with Nancy Barbato Sinatra 5
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[during a New Year's Eve party, Nancy suddenly notices a heart shaped bracelet on Marilyn Maxwell's wrist, the same one she had found earlier in Frank's car]
Nancy Barbato SinatraMarilyn, I couldn't help but notice your bracelet.
MMMarilyn Maxwell
Oh, it's my favourite thing.
Nancy Barbato SinatraWhere did you get it?
[nervously] Hey, come on. We're gonna miss the new year.
MMMarilyn Maxwell
[to Nancy] An old dear friend.
Nancy Barbato SinatraDid Frank give that to you?
[Marilyn tries to say something, but nervously looks at Frank]
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[angrily to Marilyn] I want you out of my house. Get out!
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[tearfully] Don't you see what's happening? I'm sitting here pretending like nothing's going on all the time. I'm doing just what my mother did, and I can't help it because I love you so much. [pause, Frank sits on the sofa] Maybe we should go away together. Just the two of us. No friends, no company. We'll send the kids to my parents house.
Nance, I got another picture.
Nancy Barbato SinatraWell, then when you come home at night, we could spend our nights together.
It shoots in New York.
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[pause, tearfully] We moved to Hollywood so you could be closer to your work, and now you're gonna shoot only in New York?!
Nance, it's such a good role.
Maybe I should get my own place.
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[holding baby Tina] I read that you two were an item. You still seeing her? [pause] Listen to me, get my information from the papers.
I guess it's over with her.
Nancy Barbato SinatraThen come home, Frank. You belong here with your family.
[pause, Frank walks over to the window, looks at his kids playing in the garden]
Then why don't I feel it?
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[pause] I think it would be better if you did get your own place.
[pause] I tried, Nance. I really tried.
Nancy Barbato SinatraDid you?
Longer than you know.
Nancy, don't you understand? It doesn't mean anything to me anymore. Nothing does.
Nancy Barbato SinatraNothing?
Except being with her [Ava].
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[tearfully] You son of a bitch. You come in here and you cry on my shoulder about her?
She's my whole life.
Nancy Barbato Sinatra[shouts] You're my whole life! And you're children's!
I have to let go.
Nancy Barbato SinatraI can't.
Nancy, why do you want to hold on to me if I don't want to be here?
Nancy Barbato SinatraBecause I love you. Frank, you've done this before and you've always come back.
Nancy, for God's sake. This is different.
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