Raging Bull (1980)

Joe Pesci: Joey

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• Joey LaMotta : If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose.

• Jake La Motta : Did you fuck my wife?

  Joey LaMotta : What?

  Jake La Motta : Did you fuck my wife?

  Joey LaMotta : [pauses]  How could you ask me a question like that? How could you ask me? I'm your brother. You asked me that? Where do you get you're balls big enough to ask me that?

  Jake La Motta : Just tell me.

  Joey LaMotta : I'm not answering you. I'm not gonna answer that. It's stupid.

  Jake La Motta : You're very smart, Joey. You're givin' me all these answers, but you ain't givin' me the right answer. I'm gonna ask you again: did you or did you not?

  Joey LaMotta : I'm not gonna answer. It's a sick question and you're a sick fuck and I'm not that sick that I'm gonna answer it. I'm not telling you anything. I'm gonna leave. If Lenore calls, tell her I went home. I'm not stayin' in this nuthouse with you. You're a sick bastard, I feel sorry for you, I really do. You know what you should do? Try a little more fuckin' and a little less eatin'. And you won't have troubles upstairs in your bedroom and you won't pick it out on me and everybody else. You understand, you fuckin' wacko? You're crackin' up! Fuckin' screw ball, you!

• Joey LaMotta : Who is this? Sal, is that you. I can hear you breathing you fuck. You listening, your mother sucks fucking big fucking elephant dicks, you got that?

• Joey LaMotta : Hey Jack, I just explained the whole thing to you didn't I. It was between me and Salvy. If it had anything to do with Vicki I would've told you about it.

  Jake La Motta : That's not what I heard Joey.

  Joey LaMotta : What do you mean that's not what you heard?

  Jake La Motta : That's not what I heard.

  Joey LaMotta : What did you hear?

  Jake La Motta : I heard some things.

  Joey LaMotta : You heard about me and Salvy.

  Jake La Motta : I heard things Joey.

  Joey LaMotta : Yeah you heard that I cracked Salvy all around. What did you hear?

  Jake La Motta : I heard things Joey. I heard things.

  Joey LaMotta : What things you heard?

  Jake La Motta : I heard some things.

• Jake La Motta : Don't give me that look, Joey. I gotta accept your answer, you know? But If I hear anything, I swear on our mother I'm gonna kill somebody. I'm gonna kill somebody, Joey.

  Joey LaMotta : [angrily]  Well go ahead and kill if you're a tough guy, go kill people! Kill Vicki, kill Salvy, kill Tommy Como, kill me while you're at it, what do I care? You kill yourself, the way you eat! Ya fat fuck, look at you!

  Jake La Motta : What do you mean - I don't understand, kill you?

  Joey LaMotta : Me! Kill me, start here! Do me a fuckin' favour! Cause you're driving me crazy! You're a killer, you're a big shot, just kill. You're a killer.

• Joey LaMotta : What are ya thinkin' about? Ya keep lookin'. Where the fuck you going? You're dead! You're married! You're a married man, it's all over. Leave the young girls for me.

• Joey LaMotta : [over the phone, when no one answers, not realizing it's Jake calling]  Your mother sucks giant elephant dicks!

• Joey LaMotta : You want me to hit you?

  Jake La Motta : I want you to hit me with everything you got. I want you to fuckin' lay me out. Go ahead.

  Joey LaMotta : You sure?

  Jake La Motta : Yeah. Go ahead.

  [Joey hits Jake] 

  Jake La Motta : Harder!

  [Joey hits Jake again] 

  Jake La Motta : You throw a punch like you're takin' it up the ass. Come on.

  [Joey hits Jake again] 

  Jake La Motta : Harder.

  [again] 

  Jake La Motta : Harder. Harder.

  Joey LaMotta : That's hard! What the fuck? What do you want?

• [Just after Sugar Ray Robinson won an early fight (before joining the army)] 

  Joey LaMotta : They robbed you. They're miserable because their mothers take it up their fucking ass.

• Jake La Motta : Did Salvy fuck Vickie?

  Joey LaMotta : What?

  Jake La Motta : Did Salvy fuck Vickie?

  Joey LaMotta : Jack. Jack, don't start your shit. I mean it, don't start.

• Joey LaMotta : She ain't the kind of girl you just fuck and forget about, this girl.

  Jake La Motta : Joey, how many times I gotta tell ya? Why're you always cursin' when I'm talkin' to you? Don't do it around me. Do it around your friends.

  Joey LaMotta : She's a, the kind of girl you bang and forget about - she's not like that. You gotta spend time with her, get involved, you know...

  Jake La Motta : D'you bang her?

  Joey LaMotta : No.

  Jake La Motta : Tell me the truth.

  Joey LaMotta : I just told you the truth. I tell you the truth the first time. You don't have to ask me again. I never do that. I always tell you the truth. If I did it, you would know. I took her out a couple of times.

  Jake La Motta : You went out with her and you didn't try to fuck her?

  Joey LaMotta : I try to fuck anything.

• Joey LaMotta : They only gave him that fuckin' decision because he's goin' in the Army next week. That's the only reason.

  Jake La Motta : I knocked him down. I don't know what else I gotta do. I don't know what I gotta do...

  Joey LaMotta : You won and they robbed ya! They're miserable because their mothers take it up the fuckin' ass! That's why.

  Jake La Motta : I've done a lot of bad things, Joey. Maybe it's comin' back to me. Who knows? I'm a jinx maybe. Who the hell knows?

• Jake La Motta : She says he's pretty.

  Joey LaMotta : Yeah, well, you make him ugly.

• Jake La Motta : Look at that. Look how they make me look. Like a bum, like a mammalucco.

  Joey LaMotta : A what?

  Jake La Motta : Like the mammalucco of the year.

• Joey LaMotta : You think it's easy? Why don't you talk to him. You know what to say. Tell him.

  Salvy Batts : You know I can't talk to him.

  Joey LaMotta : Why can't you talk to him?

  Salvy Batts : Because he don't like me.

  Joey LaMotta : Yeah, nobody likes you. You ought to be used to that.

• Jake La Motta : You know what's botherin' me? My hands.

  Joey LaMotta : Your hands?

  Jake La Motta : I got these small hands. I got little girl hands.

  Joey LaMotta : I got 'em too. What's the difference?

  Jake La Motta : You know what that means? No matter how big I get, no matter how I fight, no matter what I do, I ain't never gonna fight Joe Louis.

  Joey LaMotta : Yeah, that's right. He's a heavyweight. You're a middleweight. We know that.

  Jake La Motta : I ain't never gonna get a chance to fight the best there is. You know somethin'? I'm better than them. I ain't never gonna get a chance.

• Salvy Batts : You know he's got to be with Tommy to fight in New York to get a title shot. I mean, he'll wind up punch-drunk, your brother.

  Joey LaMotta : I know.

  Salvy Batts : You know? You got to make him understand it's best thing for everybody involved.

  Joey LaMotta : I said I know.

  Salvy Batts : You know? But, you got to make him know.

• Tommy Como : Why does he make it so hard on himself? For Christ sake, he comes to me, I'd make it easier for him. The man's got a head of rock.

  Joey LaMotta : You know, it's hard to explain, Tommy. Jack respects you. I mean, he don't say hello to anybody. You, he talks to. He likes you. Its just that when he gets somethin' on his mind, you know, he's got a hard head. He likes to do things his own way. I mean, Jesus Christ could come off the cross sometime, he don't give a fuck. He's gonna do what he wants to do. He wants to make it on his own, you know. He thinks he can make it on his own.

• Vicki LaMotta : I feel like I'm a prisoner. I can't walk. I look at somebody the wrong way, I get smacked.

  Joey LaMotta : You think you're right or somethin' the way you're yellin'? Well, you're wrong!

  Vicki LaMotta : I am right.

  Joey LaMotta : No, you're wrong.

  Vicki LaMotta : Look, I am right. I'm tired of havin' to turn around and have both yous up my ass all the time.

• Joey LaMotta : [to his young son]  If I see you put your hands in that plate one more time, I'm going to stab you with this knife. You hear me? I told you, keep your hands outta the plate! Christ!