159 quotes found
"[to Jimmy Chitwood] You know, in the ten years that I coached, I never met anybody who wanted to win as badly as I did. I'd do anything I had to do to increase my advantage. Anybody who tried to block the pursuit of that advantage, I'd just push 'em out of the way. Didn't matter who they were, or what they were doing. But that was then. You have special talent, a gift. Not the school's, not the townspeople, not the team's, not Myra Fleener's, not mine. It's yours, to do with what you choose. Because that's what I believe, I can tell you this: I don't care if you play on the team or not."
"I would hope you would support who we are. Not, who we are not. These six individuals have made a choice to work, a choice to sacrifice, to put themselves on the line 23 nights for the next 4 months, to represent you, this high school. That kind of commitment and effort deserves and demands your respect. This is your team."
"Five players on the floor functioning as one single unit: team, team, team - no one more important than the other."
"Stick with your man. Think of him as chewing gum. By the end of the game, I want you to know what flavor he is."
"There's a, uhm, tradition in tournament play to not talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you. I'm sure going to the State finals is beyond your wildest dreams, so let's just keep it right there. Forget about the crowds, the size of the school, their fancy uniforms, and remember what got you here. Focus on the fundamentals that we've gone over time and time again. And most important, don't get caught up thinking about winning or losing this game. If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game. In my book, we're gonna be winners! OK?!"
"[to Coach Dale] Sun don't shine on the same dog's ass every day, but, mister you ain't seen a ray of light since you got here."
"Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale"
"Barbara Hershey - Myra Fleener"
"Dennis Hopper - Shooter"
"Sheb Wooley - Cletus"
"Fern Persons - Opal Fleener"
"Chelcie Ross - George"
"Robert Swan - Rollin"
"Michael O'Guinne - Rooster"
"Brad Boyle - Whit Butcher"
"Steve Hollar - Rade Butcher"
"Brad Long - Buddy Walker"
"David Neidorf - Everett Flatch"
"Kent Poole - Merle Webb"
"Wade Schenck - Ollie McClellan"
"Scott Summers - Strap Purl"
"Maris Valainis - Jimmy Chitwood"
"Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and...I am not Him."
"Well, you know what my dad always said, Having dreams is what makes life tolerable."
"Let me tell it to you as clean as I can. We have 95 players here so accomplished as athletes in high school, we gave them full scholarships to the best football program in the country. NCAA regulations allow us to dress just 60 for home games. Which means at least 35 scholarship players are gonna be watching the games from the stands. So, if any of you has any fantasies about running out of that stadium tunnel with your gold helmet shining in the sun, you'd best leave them right here. Of you 15 dreamers out there, maybe we'll keep one or two. My job is to basically beat the shit out of you for the next five days. Our first teams are gonna pound on you like you're their worst enemies. Your greatest value to us is, we don't care whether you get hurt. Like what you hear so far? Anybody want to run home to Mama? Joe, they're all yours."
"When people say dreams don't come true, tell them about Rudy."
"Sometimes a winner is a dreamer who just won't quit."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, It's the size of the fight in the dog...."
"Sean Astin - Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger"
"Jon Favreau - D-Bob"
"Ned Beatty - Daniel Ruettiger, Sr."
"Charles S. Dutton - Fortune"
"Jason Miller - Ara Parseghian"
"Scott Benjaminson - Frank Ruettiger"
"Lili Taylor - Sherry"
"Robert Prosky - Father John Cavanaugh"
"Vince Vaughn - Jamie O'Hare"
"Chelcie Ross - Dan Devine"
"Steve Hely - Ed Silver"
"Christopher Reed - Pete"
"[reading his essay] "What I want for Christmas. What I want is a Red Ryder BB gun with a compass in the stock... and this thing which tells time." Wow, that's great. "I think that everybody should have a Red Ryder BB gun. They're very good for Christmas. I don't think that a football's a very good Christmas present.""
"[after cracking a secret code, reading it] Be sure...to...drink...your...Ovaltine. Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!"
"[as an adult, narrating] Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man."
"Schwartz: Hey, smart ass. I asked my old man about sticking your tongue to a flagpole in the winter, and he says that it'll freeze right to the pole, just like I told ya."
"Scut Farkus: [to Ralphie] Listen, jerk! When I tell you to come, you better come! [Ralphie starts quivering] What? Are you gonna cry now? Come on, crybaby, cry for me! Come on! CRY, HA HA!!! [begins mock crying and laughing]"
"A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas..."
"Peace, Harmony, Comfort, And Joy... Maybe Next Year."
"'Tis Better To Give Than To Receive."
"The Parker Family"
"Scott Schwartz – Flick"
"R.D. Robb – Schwartz"
"Yano Anaya – Grover Dill"
"Zack Ward – Scut Farcus"
"Tedde Moore – Miss Shields"
"Jean Shepherd – Narrator (Ralphie as an adult)"
"Bob Clark – Swede (uncredited)"
"John Wong – Chinese Father"
"Johan Sebastian Wong – Waiter #1"
"Fred Lee – Waiter #2"
"Rocco Bellusici – Waiter #3"
"Now I'm going to tell you something I've kept to myself for years. None of you ever knew George Gipp. He was long before your time, but you all know what a tradition he is at Notre Dame. And the last thing he said to me, "Rock," he said, "sometime when the team is up against it and the breaks are beating the boys, tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, Rock," he said, "but I'll know about it and I'll be happy.""
"We haven't got any use for gamblers around here. You've done your best to ruin baseball, and horse racing, and this is one game that's clean and is gonna stay clean."
"Rock, someday when the team's up against it, and the breaks are beating the boys, ask 'em to go in there with all they've got and win just one for the Gipper. I don't know where I'll be then, but I'll know about it. I'll be happy."
"Who can say for certain what a man was really born to be? That's God's will. Someday Knute will find his right place in the world, and when he does, whether it be science or not, I have a feeling it will be the one he was meant to do."
"Newsreel Announcer: [Newsreel film of Notre Dame using the backfield shift] What is this new miracle that Rockne has wrought? This bolt of Irish lightning, that strikes from all sides with such blinding speed and fury! A 'shift' they call it. Yes, but Heisman at Georgia Tech also has a shift, so has Tad Jones at Yale. But theirs are simple tunes compared to Rockne's symphony! For this shift is music, the music of a master's hand! Knute Rockne, whose ingenious brain perfected the forward pass, has brought a great new thrill to football and its millions of followers!"
"A Lot Of The Things That Made America Great Came From This Man!"
"HE TAUGHT HIS TEAMS THE WAY TO WIN...AND AMERICA THE WAY TO LIVE!"
"Pat O'Brien - Knute Rockne"
"Gale Page - Bonnie Skiles Rockne"
"Ronald Reagan - George Gipp"
"Donald Crisp - Father John Cavanaugh"
"Albert Bassermann - Father Julius Nieuwland"
"John Litel - Committee Chairman"
"Henry O'Neill - Doctor"
"Owen Davis Jr. - Gus Dorais"
"John Qualen - Lars Knutson Rockne"
"Dorothy Tree - Martha Rockne"
"Johnny Sheffield - Knute, age 7"
"Howard Jones - Himself"
"Glenn "Pop" Warner - Himself"
"Alonzo Stagg - Himself"
"William "Bill" Spaulding - Himself"
"Kane Richmond - Elmer Layden"
"William Marshall - Don Miller"
"William Byrne - Jim Crowley"
"Nick Lukats - Harry Stuhldreher"
"No, I don't feel lucky to be alive! I feel lucky I'm not dead. There's a difference."
"[to Dave] What's the matter? What are you cryin' for? I think you lost your wallet or something. I didn't want you to be this miserable. A little bit's all I asked for."
"I was proud of my work. And the buildings went up. When they were finished the damnedest thing happened. It was like the buildings were too good for us. Nobody told us that. It just felt uncomfortable, that's all."
"I was sure I was going to get that scholarship. My dad of course was sure I wasn't. When I didn't, he was real understanding, you know. He loves to do that. He loves to be understanding when I fail."
"You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. Still think so, too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette 'cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. You know what really gets me, though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town, and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot-shot kid, new star of the college team. Every year, it's gonna be a new one. Every year it's never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike. Twenty year-old Mike. Thirty year-old Mike. Old, mean old man Mike. These college kids out here - they're never gonna get old or out of shape 'cause new ones come along every year. And they're gonna keep calling us 'Cutters'. To them, it's just a dirty word. To me, it's just somethin' else I never got a chance to be."
"Somewhere between growing up and settling down..."
"The movie that tells you exactly what you can do with your high school diploma!"
"Dennis Christopher - Dave Stoller"
"Dennis Quaid - Mike"
"Daniel Stern - Cyril"
"Jackie Earle Haley - Moocher"
"Barbara Barrie - Evelyn Stoller"
"Paul Dooley - Raymond Stoller"
"Robyn Douglass - Katherine"
"Hart Bochner - Rod"
"Amy Wright - Nancy"
"P. J. Soles - Suzy"
"Any film about speed, just trying to capture what it looks like on screen is a challenge. Especially in a car race, as multiple cars are going 200mph, but when you put a camera alongside them, things actually slow down. You have to have relative things going by, and there are lots of tricks you have to learn to create that sensation of speed. And then, on top of that, there's a snail hopping around, and the scale issues that come out of that. That was very complex to figure out, but it's probably what makes the film."
"Ryan Reynolds — Theo Turbo"
"Paul Giamatti — Chet Turbo"
"Michael Peña — Tito Lopez"
"Luis Guzmán — Angelo Lopez"
"Samuel L. Jackson — Whiplash"
"Bill Hader — Guy Gagné"
"Snoop Dogg — Smoove Move"
"Maya Rudolph — Burn"
"Ben Schwartz — SkidMark"
"Richard Jenkins — Bobby"
"Ken Jeong — Kim-Ly"
"Michelle Rodriguez — Paz"
"Michael Patrick Bell — White Shadow"
"Kurtwood Smith — The Indianapolis 500 C.E.O."
"Paul Dooley — Carl the Foreman"
"Lloyd Sherr — Spanish DJ"
"Dee Bradley Baker & Frank Welker (vocal effects) — Crows"
"Will Power — Himself"
"James Ryan — Takao Noguchi"
"Michael Wallis — Stuart Fornaroli"
"Every time I think I've hit rock bottom, someone hands me a shovel."
"You won't get away with this."
"Well, unless of course we die first."
"My bone, my bone."
"[Upon spotting Prop Boy] Uh-oh."
"[Upon entering the Muncie Hotel for the first time] Wow."
"I-I-it's showtime!"
"Step away from the patch."
"[about Arlene] Uh-oh."
"There's no time for that now."
"I was once ran over by a milk truck, that's the first time when the drinks were ever on me!"
"Who are those guys?"
"[Shecky's first lines when he steps into the Toon World] Look out, Comic World! Here I come."
"What? Oh, you want cute, lady? I'll give you cute."
"I love you, Garfield. Don't you ever leave me again."
"No you're not, we have a strip to do, lady."
"Frank Welker as Garfield, Hardy, Keith, Prop Boy, Two Headed Guy and Goth Boy."
"Audrey Wasilewski as Arlene, Zelda, Betty and Ashley."
"Gregg Berger as Odie, Shecky and Hale."
"Jason Marsden as Nermal."
"Wally Wingert as Jon Arbuckle and Mike."
"Neil Ross as Wally and Charles."
"Fred Tatasciore as Billy Bear, Waldo and Eric."
"Jennifer Darling as Bonita, Rusty and Unnamed Mother."
"Stephen Stanton as Randy Rabbit, Bobby and Unnamed Father."
"Greg Eagles as Eli."
"Pat Fraley as Sid and Delivery Gnome."
"Rajia Baroudi as Sheila and Concertina Lady."
"Harold Perrineau as Husband."
"David Mitchie as Tape Holder."
"Egg. Come on! Ah, there it was our old house on Cleveland Street. It looked."
"Peter Billingsley – Ralphie Parker"
"Erinn Hayes – Sandy Parker"
"River Drosche – Mark Parker"
"Julianna Layne – Julie Parker"