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This Boy's Life (film) Quotes

This Boy's Life (film) is a television show that first aired in 1970 . This Boy's Life stopped airing in 1970.

It features Fitch Cady as producer, Carter Burwell in charge of musical score, and David Watkin (cinematographer) as head of cinematography.

This Boy's Life (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of This Boy's Life (film) is 114 minutes long. This Boy's Life (film) is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Robert De Niro as Dwight Hansen, Leonardo DiCaprio as Tobias 'Toby' Wolff, Ellen Barkin as Caroline Wolff Hansen, Lee Wilkof as Principal Shippy, Carla Gugino as Norma, Eliza Dushku as Pearl, and Jonah Blechman as Arthur Gayle.

This Boy's Life (film) Quotes

Robert De Niro as Dwight Hansen

  • (Robert De Niro) "Only me on this whole Earth to straighten you out, and I will do it, kill or cure. Kill or cure."
  • (Robert De Niro) "You don't know it yet, but me and Concrete are in your blood. We'll make a man of you yet. In years to come you'll thank me. You'll remember me -- me and Concrete."
  • (Robert De Niro) "I don't believe that crap, you know, I believe there is such a thing as a bad boy, bad clear through. It's gonna be my job to set you straight. That's right, to kill or cure. Kill or cure."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Well -- You can want in one hand and s*** in the other, and see which one fills first."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Hey, leopard. I said hey, leopard. I know you, leopard. I can see those spots that you can't change, leopard. Huh, leopard? Huh?"
  • (Robert De Niro) "You left the cap off the toothpaste again."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Here I am, you lucky people."
  • (Robert De Niro) "You can get it doggy-style or you can get it laying on your side. Those are your only choices. This is my house and I get to say. Got it?"
  • (Robert De Niro) "You look fine."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I look like an idiot."
  • (Robert De Niro) "You act like an idiot. You look fine."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Every time I come home, I feel the top of the TV to see if its warm, and it always is."
  • (Robert De Niro) "A neighbor of mine says, "Looking for nice churches, come to Concrete. Looking for sin, go to hell.""
  • (Robert De Niro) "What about me? What about me? When is it ever Dwight's turn for some consideration? What about me? I'll tell you one thing: You'll remember me."
  • (Robert De Niro) "I trade an old piece of crap for a valuable hunting dog and all you can do is piss and moan. Make your own deals from now on."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Yeah, you pull that hot shot stuff around me, and I'll break every bone in your god**** body. You understand me? Yeah, you're in for a change, mister, a whole 'nother ball game."
  • (Robert De Niro) "This is nothing compared to what you're gonna get, dammit."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Why, I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I'm so scared, wo-o-o."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Hey look it's the Hot Shot that thinks he knows everything. Buddy, what you don't know would fill a book. Edsel's a piece of s*** car."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Shut your pie hole."

Leonardo DiCaprio as Tobias 'Toby' Wolff

  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "It was 1957. We were driving from Florida to Utah. After my mother was beaten up by her boyfriend, we got in the Nash and high-tailed it for the uranium fields. We were gonna get rich and change our luck, which hadn't been so hot since our family broke up five years back."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Mom, you can leave too, I'm leaving, you don't have to stay here for this s***."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I don't, do I?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "No, you don't."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I could leave with you right now, couldn't I?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Yes, you could."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I could walk right out that door, couldn't I?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Yes."
  • (Robert De Niro) "What?"
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I'm leaving you, Dwight."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "You can dream of a moment for years and still somehow miss it when it comes. You've got to reach through the flames and take it, or lose it forever. I took it. So did my mother. We never looked back."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "My application forms must've come today and he threw 'em away."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Hey, I thought I was helping him. Thought I save him some trouble, 'cause he got no chance of gettin' into some fancy prep school."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "You always got your nose pressed up against the big shop window, haven't ya, Dwight?"
  • (Robert De Niro) "What?"
  • (Ellen Barkin) "You're so afraid that someone else is gonna get something you never had. It's what make you mean. And you know something, Dwight? One of these days, all that meanness is gonna snap back and slap you right in the face."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Oh, I'm so scared. I'm so scared. I'm SO SCARED. Oh-oh-oh. This is all you gave me for dinner?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "It's not the shoes, is it? Or the candy, or anything else. It's me, Isn't? You just can't stand the fact that I exist."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Sometimes I had to blame somebody; she was the only one there."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Dwight said I had as much chance of passing the test as he had of farting his way through the star spangled banner."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I'm not going."
  • (Robert De Niro) "The hell you say."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I'm staying home."
  • (Robert De Niro) "You're gonna s*** and fall back in it. That's all you're gonna do. Now get out here."

Eliza Dushku as Pearl

  • (Eliza Dushku) "Hey, what are you doing home so; Oh, Toby got the scholarship. $2,300."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Hey, Leopard. I say "Hey, Leopard". I know you, leopard. I can see those spots that you can't change, leopard. Huh, leopard? Huh? Thinks he can go to some fancy prep school to fool everybody? Well, not a chance. Not a chance. I know a thing or two about a thing or two. I sure do. I sure do."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Who threw this away?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I did."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Who threw this away? You did? Why?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "'Cause it was empty."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Empty? That look empty to you?"
  • (Eliza Dushku) "Looks empty to me."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Yeah, it looks empty to me too."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Hey, Mr. Hotshot, is it empty? Huh? Is it empty?"
  • (Eliza Dushku) "Dad."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Now, now, now, is it empty?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Stop."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Now. Now, Mr. Big-Time-hotshot-Prep-School f***er. Is it empty? Is it empty? Huh?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "No."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Good. All right. Now clean it out. Clean it OUT. Now, was it empty? Huh? Was it empty?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Yes."

Ellen Barkin as Caroline Wolff Hansen

  • (Ellen Barkin) "Get away from him. Get away from him or I'll kill you. What's going on here?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I got this scholarship and he went nuts. He's crazy and I'm leaving."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Great. Go. Finally. About time. About time. Go."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Oh, no, no. Don't worry. I'm gone. Just give me my paper route money."
  • (Robert De Niro) "That money's "gone with the wind"."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "No."
  • (Robert De Niro) "That's right, I spent it all as you made it, for things that we needed. It's gone. Poof. Poof."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "You know something, Dwight? It's not so much that you been dissapointing. It's that you've been consistantly dissapointing."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Oh, fancy, fancy talk. Fancy talk for a whore. Fancy talk. Oh, yeah. I know a thing or two about a thing or two. I've got friends in this town and they tell me things. And I found out some guy down at that campaign headquarters, he found you a job in Washington, D.C. You're gonna run off with him aren't ya, Miss Whore? Aren't ya, Miss Whore?"
  • (Ellen Barkin) "You are pathetic."
  • (Robert De Niro) "Miss Whore. Liar. Liar, whore. Liar, whore. And you know it."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Mom, you can leave too. I'm leaving. You don't have to stay here for this s***."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I don't, do I?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "No, you don't."
  • (Robert De Niro) "You're a liar and a whore."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I could leave with you right now, could I?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Yes, you could."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I could walk right out that door, could I?"
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "Yes."
  • (Robert De Niro) "What?"
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I love you."
  • (Leonardo DiCaprio) "I know that, mom. I've always known that."
  • (Unnamed) "All aboard."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh."
  • (Robert De Niro) "What's the matter, honey?"
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I will not referee."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "What did he do?"
  • (Lee Wilkof) "He violated school property and he flouted the law."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "Can you say that in English, please?"
  • (Lee Wilkof) "He wrote obscene words on the wall."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "Did you do it?"
  • (Ellen Barkin) "He didn't do it."
  • (Lee Wilkof) "He wrote obscene words on the wall."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "What obscene words?"
  • (Lee Wilkof) ""f*** You.""
  • (Ellen Barkin) "That's one obscene word."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "You're so afraid that someone's gonna get something that you never had. It's what makes you mean. And you know something, Dwight? One of these days, all of that meanness is gonna snap back and slap you right in the face."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "You know something, Dwight, it's not so much that you've been disappointing. It's that you've been consistently disappointing."
  • (Ellen Barkin) "I don't have another get-up-and-go left in me. Do you understand that?"

Carla Gugino as Norma

  • (Carla Gugino) "Dad thinks he's some kind of big hunter."
  • (Eliza Dushku) "Well, he killed a deer once."
  • (Carla Gugino) "That was with the car, Pearl."

Jonah Blechman as Arthur Gayle

  • (Jonah Blechman) "I don't have a dad. I never did. I sprang full-blown from my mother's imagination."

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