# Help me find this sopranos quote **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 17, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445 "2017-03-17T22:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445/1 "2017-03-17T22:40:06Z")
I think it was Tony and a Russian stripper. She said something about how Americans think everyone’s life has a happy ending, in Russia they view life as a tragedy. Does anyone know the quote or episode? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445/2 "2017-03-17T23:40:13Z")
I think you’re thinking of THE STRONG, SILENT TYPE, where the line is _“That’s the trouble with you Americans: you expect nothing bad ever to happen, when the rest of the world expect only bad to happen – and they are not disappointed.”_ (Tony’s reply, of course, is _“Well, that’s a fuckin’ grim outlook.”_) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Lebodnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Mr.Lebodnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Lebodnik)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445/3 "2017-03-18T01:41:18Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I think you’re thinking of THE STRONG, SILENT TYPE, where the line is _“That’s the trouble with you Americans: you expect nothing bad ever to happen, when the rest of the world expect only bad to happen – and they are not disappointed.”_ > > (Tony’s reply, of course, is _“Well, that’s a fuckin’ grim outlook.”_) Yeah I think you’re right. But I think the character saying wasn’t a stripper, though. I believe that was the one legged Russian “nurse” that Tony slept with. I could be wrong though, as it’s been quite a while since I last watched The Sopranos. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445/4 "2017-03-18T01:49:33Z")
> [@Mr.Lebodnik](#): > > But I think the character saying wasn’t a stripper, though. I believe that was the one legged Russian “nurse” that Tony slept with. That would’ve been Svetlana Kirilenko, the one-legged nurse who was the cousin of Tony’s regular mistress Irina Peltsin, who _was_ a former stripper. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445/5 "2017-03-18T01:57:58Z")
> [@Mr.Lebodnik](#): > > Yeah I think you’re right. But I think the character saying wasn’t a stripper, though. I believe that was the one legged Russian “nurse” that Tony slept with. Well, yeah. **Wesley Clark** is a smart guy, and so would’ve found the line in short order if he’d been correct about it getting delivered by a stripper – and so I shrugged away the assumptions, and a googleable quote obligingly popped up. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445/6 "2017-03-18T16:11:46Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I think you’re thinking of THE STRONG, SILENT TYPE, where the line is _“That’s the trouble with you Americans: you expect nothing bad ever to happen, when the rest of the world expect only bad to happen – and they are not disappointed.”_ > > (Tony’s reply, of course, is _“Well, that’s a fuckin’ grim outlook.”_) Yup that sounds right. The fact that I was misremembering the quote and who said it is why I couldn’t find it. At least I got the show right, 1 out of 3. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-sopranos-quote/782445/7 "2017-03-18T16:27:56Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > That would’ve been Svetlana Kirilenko, the one-legged nurse who was the cousin of Tony’s regular mistress Irina Peltsin, who _was_ a former stripper. Right. [Svetlana](http://sopranos.wikia.com/wiki/Svetlana_Kirilenko) was one of my favorite characters on _The Sopranos_, especially in her getting the best of Janice when Janice stole her prosthetic leg. She was tougher than most of the mobsters.