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Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita in The Karate Kid (1984)

Randee Heller: Lucille LaRusso

The Karate Kid

Randee Heller credited as playing...

Lucille LaRusso

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Quotes5

  • Lucille Larusso: Look at those palm trees. Damn! You know what that means?
  • Daniel: Yeah. Watch out for falling coconuts.
  • Lucille Larusso: [singing] California, here we come. California... oh, what's the matter, Daniel? Don't you like my singing?
  • Daniel: I don't like the song, Ma.
  • Daniel: [throwing his bicycle into a dumpster after being beaten up] This damn bike! I hate this bike. I hate this frickin' bike! Stupid bike.
  • Lucille Larusso: Daniel! What's the matter? Why did you throw your bike away?
  • Daniel: Because I felt like it.
  • Lucille Larusso: Please look at me when I'm talking to you.
  • [sees Daniel's bruised face]
  • Lucille Larusso: Oh my god!
  • Daniel: Mom.
  • Lucille Larusso: Can you tell me what's going on and don't tell me about another bike accident?
  • Daniel: What do you want to hear mom?
  • Lucille Larusso: I want to hear the truth!
  • Daniel: No you don't want to hear the truth. All you want to hear about is how great it is. Well it may be great for you but it SUCKS for me! I hate this place! I HATE IT! I just want to go home. Why can't we just go home?
  • Lucille Larusso: Listen to me. I cannot help you unless you talk to me
  • Daniel: I gotta take karate. That's it.
  • Lucille Larusso: You took karate!
  • Daniel: No, not at the Y. At a good school.
  • Lucille Larusso: But fighting doesn't solve anything Daniel.
  • Daniel: Yeah well neither does palm trees mom.
  • Lucille Larusso: That's not fair!
  • Daniel: Like it was fair coming over here without asking me how I felt about it. Right, that was real fair.
  • Lucille Larusso: You're right. I should've asked.
  • Daniel: Well I just want to go home. That's it. I don't understand the rules here and I just want to go home.
  • Lucille Larusso: Let's clean you up and maybe we can figure the rules out together. What about your bike?
  • Daniel: It's safer taking a bus.
  • [they arrive at their new home]
  • Lucille Larusso: This is it. This is the end of the line.
  • Daniel: You're telling me.
  • Lucille Larusso: [DELETED SCENE: At their apartment, Daniel's mom is reading the fine print on the All-Valley Tournament application] ... This says I won't hold anybody responsible if you're injured. Are you NUTS?
  • Daniel: Mom, I've gotta do this.
  • Lucille Larusso: Do WHAT? Get KILLED?
  • Daniel: Nobody gets hurt, Ma.
  • Lucille Larusso: Then why do I have to sign anything?
  • [She crumples the application and throws it away]
  • Lucille Larusso: Good night, Daniel.
  • [after she retires, Daniel rescues the application and un-crumples it. Then he signs his mother's name to it]

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