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The Basketball Diaries (film) Quotes

The Basketball Diaries (film) is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . The Basketball Diaries stopped airing in 1970.

It features Liz Heller as producer, Graeme Revell in charge of musical score, and David Phillips (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

The Basketball Diaries (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Basketball Diaries (film) is 104 minutes long. The Basketball Diaries (film) is distributed by New Line Cinema.

The cast includes: Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim, Mark Wahlberg as Mickey, Roy Cooper as Father McNulty, Juliette Lewis as Diane Moody, Bruno Kirby as Swifty, and James Madio as Pedro.

The Basketball Diaries (film) Quotes

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim

  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I felt dazed, like I just came out of a 4 hour movie I didn't understand."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I just wanna be pure, I just wanna be pure."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies -- so we can dance."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I was just gonna sniff a bag but one guy says if you're gonna sniff you might as well pop it and another guys says if you gonna pop it you might as well mainline."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "When I was young, about eight or so, I tried making friends with God by inviting Him to my house to watch the World Series. He never showed."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Know this. There's different types of users of junk. You got your rich dilettante square-ass who dabbles now and then and always has enough money to run off to the Riviera if he feels he's f***ing around to the danger point. Street junkies hate these pricks, but they're always suckers, and their money makes them tolerable. Then you got your upper-middle-class Westchester preppies -- same as the others, basically. What they're good for is opening their mommy and daddy's eyes to this social virus and putting pressure on the government to do something about it. Then there's us street kids. Start f***ing around very young, 13 or so. We think we all got it under control and won't get strung out. This rarely works. I'm living proof. But in the end, you just got to see the junk as another 9-to-5 gig. The hours are just a bit more inclined to shadows."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Don't worry, Swifty, I won't rat you out."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "And in the next life, Father, I'm gonna have the paddle."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Just my own naked self and the stars breathing down, it's beautiful."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "You gotta have presence on the court. Presence like a cheetah rather than a chimp. Sure, they both got it, but Chimpy gotta jump his nuts around to get it. The shy cheetah moves with total nonchalance, stickin' it to them in his sexy, slow strut. Me? I play like a cheetah."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "-- did I ever tell you about the first time I did heroin?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "And in the next life, father, I'M gonna have the PADDLE."
  • (Reggie Porter) "Hey white boy. Are you ready for your beatin'?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Don't let your mouth get you into something your ass can't handle."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Time sure flies when you're young and jerking off."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Gee whiz, ma, we oughtta have these heart to heart talks more often, they're good for us."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "First, it's a Saturday night thing when you feel cool like a gangster or a rockstar- just something to kill the boredom, you know? They call it a chippie, a small habit. It feels so good, you start doing it on Tuesdays -- then Thursdays -- then it's got you. Every wise ass punk on the block says it won't happen to them, but it does."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I saw this girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Too bad, Father. I was just beginning to enjoy it."
  • (Roy Cooper) "We can do it again tomorrow if you like, Mr. Carroll."

Bruno Kirby as Swifty

  • (Bruno Kirby) "All right. Fine. Tell them whatever you want. Nobody's gonna believe a druggie like you, anyway."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "What?"
  • (Bruno Kirby) "You think we're stupid? You think we don't know what you've been doin'?"

Roy Cooper as Father McNulty

  • (Roy Cooper) "Wake up, Mr. Carroll, it's later than you think."

Mark Wahlberg as Mickey

  • (Mark Wahlberg) "s*** happens alright? s*** f***ing happens -- christ."
  • (Mark Wahlberg) "I'll tell you what, if our school was this nice I would go there more than once a week."

Juliette Lewis as Diane Moody

  • (Juliette Lewis) "Who's the whore now?"

James Madio as Pedro

  • (James Madio) "Yo, you think that'll keep him out of Heaven?"
  • (Mark Wahlberg) "What are you, kidding me? Jesus Christ himself would of laughed at that, it was hillarious."

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