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This Boy's Life (1993) More at IMDbPro »

[to his new wife]
Dwight Hansen: 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?

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Dwight Hansen: Yeah, you pull that hot shot stuff around me, and I'll break every bone in your goddamn body. You understand me? Yeah, you're in for a change, mister, a whole 'nother ball game.

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Dwight Hansen: Well... You can want in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills first.

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[When coming home]
Dwight Hansen: Here I am, you lucky people!

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Dwight Hansen: Liar, whore, liar, whore and you know it!

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Dwight Hansen: Shut your pie hole!

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Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: Sometimes I had to blame somebody; she was the only one there.

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Caroline Wolff Hansen: What did he do?
Principal Shippy: He violated school property and he flouted the law.
Caroline Wolff Hansen: Can you say that in English, please?
Principal Shippy: He wrote obscene words on the wall.
Caroline Wolff Hansen: Did you do it?
Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: [shakes his head]
Caroline Wolff Hansen: He didn't do it.
Principal Shippy: He wrote obscene words on the wall.
Caroline Wolff Hansen: What obscene words?
Principal Shippy: "Fuck You."
Caroline Wolff Hansen: That's one obscene word.

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Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: I'm not going!
Dwight Hansen: The hell you say.

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Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: I'm staying home!
Dwight Hansen: You're gonna shit and fall back in it. That's all you're gonna do. Now get out here.

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Dwight Hansen: You look fine.
Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: I look like an idiot.
Dwight Hansen: You act like an idiot. You look fine.

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Dwight Hansen: This is nothing compared to what you're gonna get, dammit!

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Geiger Counter Vendor: Lady, you got more courage than you got common sense.

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Dwight Hansen: I know a thing or two about a thing or two!

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Silver Sister #1: Look, it's Elvis, Elvis and ... Elvis.
Terry Taylor: Does your face hurt? 'Cause it's killin' me.

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Dwight Hansen: 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!

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Dwight Hansen: 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!

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Dwight Hansen: [telling Toby to punch him] Now come on! Come on! Let's go, god damn it, let's start, you little fuckin' sissy, all your god damn fuckin' life, quitter, gonna be a god damned quitter, let's go, damn you! Don't go all shy and delicate on me, you're acting as sissy as little miss Arthur Gale, you know that? And you know what I'm gonna call you, I'm gonna call you little miss Jackie Wolff. Oh my yes, oh Jackie, oh my yes, little miss Jackie Wolff, little miss Jackie Wolff ... Is that what you want me to call you? Is that what you want the kids in school to call you? Come on, let's go, come on, let's do it. Oh, Jesus Christ, if you're gonna act like a ...
[Toby punches him]

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Caroline Wolff Hansen: [interrupting Toby and Dwight fighting] Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
Dwight Hansen: What's the matter, honey?
Caroline Wolff Hansen: I will not referee!

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Dwight Hansen: [beating Toby] Only me on this whole Earth to straighten you out, and I will do it, kill or cure. Kill or cure.

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Caroline Wolff Hansen: 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.

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Dwight Hansen: Why, I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I'm so scared, wo-o-o!

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Dwight Hansen: Hey, leopard. I said hey, leopard. I know you, leopard. I can see those spots that you can't change, leopard. Huh, leopard? Huh?

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Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: Mom, you can leave too, I'm leaving, you don't have to stay here for this shit.
Caroline Wolff Hansen: I don't, do I?
Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: No, you don't!
Caroline Wolff Hansen: I could leave with you right now, couldn't I?
Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: Yes, you could.
Caroline Wolff Hansen: I could walk right out that door, couldn't I?
Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: Yes!
Dwight Hansen: What?
Caroline Wolff Hansen: I'm leaving you, Dwight.

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Dwight Hansen: 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!

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[first lines]
Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: 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.

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[last lines]
Caroline Wolff Hansen: I love you.
Tobias 'Toby' Wolff: I know that, mom. I've always known that.
Bus driver: All aboard!

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