“Breaking Away” quotes
(1979)
Title Breaking Away
Year 1979
Director Peter Yates
Genre Drama, Comedy, Sport
Year 1979
Director Peter Yates
Genre Drama, Comedy, Sport
Plot – Bloomington, a university town in Indiana. Four friends have just finished high school. Now Dave - called Bike because of his unbridled passion for cycling- Mike, Gary and "Small" cannot aspire to go to university because of their social background, so they spend their days swimming, flirting with girls and riding their bikes. Besides, Dave has another passion as he's fond of whatever is Italian. He talks with an Italian accent, his favorite music is the opera, he calls his cat Fellini and he pretends to be an Italian and noble guy with Kathryn. As Dave aspires to race against Italian guys, he finally has an opportunity, but the Italian cyclists play dirty during the contest. This is not Dave's only disappointment as Kathryn has discovered he's not Italian. Dave loses so all his interests, but his father makes him change his mind. Bike and his friends sign up for another contest and win and finally Dave decides to continue his studies despite his social background because he doesn't lose interest in foreign people too.
All actors – Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley, Robyn Douglass, Hart Bochner, Amy Wright, Peter Maloney, John Ashton, Lisa Shure
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“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. And 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.”
“- Dave: Everybody cheats. I just didn't know.
- Dad: Well, now you know.”“- Nancy: You know what?
- Moocher: No, what?
- Nancy: I'm leaving home, that's what.
- Moocher: What? Where are you going?
- Nancy: About 5 blocks south.”“- Cyril: When you're 16 they call it Sweet 16 and when you're 18 you get to drink and vote and see dirty movies. What the hell do you get to do when you're 19?
- Mike: You leave home.
- Cyril: My Dad said that Jesus never went further than 50 miles from his home.
- Mike: Well, look what happened to him.”“- Katherine: I liked you better before. What happened to your cornicello? Now you look like everybody else.
- Dave: I am everybody else.”“- Dave: Italians are poor, but they're happy.
- Mike: Yeah? Maybe in Italy.”“- Mike: The only thing I'm afraid of is wastin' the rest of my life with you guys!
- Cyril: I thought that was the whole plan. That we were going to waste the rest of our lives together.”“- Dave: Did you know that fly in Italian is 'mosca'?
- Dad: Did you know in English it's 'pest'?”“- Moocher: Mike, the time comes when we just all have to go our own ways, you know.
- Mike: You're a real adult, aren't ya. B-town boy grows up.”“- Dave: Moocher, you're Catholic, right?
- Moocher: Yeah.
- Dave: Did you ever go to confession?
- Moocher: Twice.
- Dave: Did it make you feel better?
- Moocher: Once.”“- Dad: If you eat so much, Moocher, how come you're so damned small?
- Moocher: It's my metabolism. I eat 3 times a day and my metabolism eats 5 times a day.”“- Dave: You can come and live with me when it's sold. In Italy, everybody lives together.
- Moocher: Since you won that Italian bike, man, you've been acting weird. You're really getting to think you're Italian, aren't you?
- Cyril: I wouldn't mind thinking I was somebody myself.”“- Cyril: Are you really gonna shave your legs?
- Dave: Certo! All the Italians do it.
- Mike: Some country. The women don't shave theirs.”
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