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Sylvester Stallone and Talia Shire in Rocky (1976)

Talia Shire: Adrian

Rocky

Talia Shire credited as playing...

Adrian

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Quotes18

  • Rocky: I can't do it.
  • Adrian: What?
  • Rocky: I can't beat him.
  • Adrian: Apollo?
  • Rocky: Yeah. I been out there walkin' around, thinkin'. I mean, who am I kiddin'? I ain't even in the guy's league.
  • Adrian: What are we gonna do?
  • Rocky: I don't know.
  • Adrian: You worked so hard.
  • Rocky: Yeah, that don't matter. 'Cause I was nobody before.
  • Adrian: Don't say that.
  • Rocky: Ah come on, Adrian, it's true. I was nobody. But that don't matter either, you know? 'Cause I was thinkin', it really don't matter if I lose this fight. It really don't matter if this guy opens my head, either. 'Cause all I wanna do is go the distance. Nobody's ever gone the distance with Creed, and if I can go that distance, you see, and that bell rings and I'm still standin', I'm gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren't just another bum from the neighborhood.
  • Adrian: Why do you wanna fight?
  • Rocky: Because I can't sing or dance.
  • Adrian: It's Thanksgiving.
  • Rocky: Yeah, to you it's Thanksgiving; to me it's Thursday.
  • Adrian: Einstein flunked out of school, twice.
  • Paulie: Is that so?
  • Adrian: Yeah. Beethoven was deaf. Helen Keller was blind. I think Rocky's got a good chance.
  • [Last lines; Adrian snuck inside the ring]
  • Rocky: Adrian! Adrian!
  • Adrian: Rocky!
  • Rocky: Adrian!
  • Adrian: Rocky!
  • Rocky: Hey, where's your hat?
  • Adrian: I love you!
  • Rocky: I love you.
  • Adrian: [grabs and hugs Rocky] I love you!
  • Rocky: [out of breath] I love you. I love you.
  • Adrian: I love you!
  • Rocky: I love you. I love you.
  • Adrian: I love you!
  • [Paulie overhears Rocky and now he's angry and hurt]
  • Paulie: I don't want nothin' from you. I don't want nothin' from you. This ain't no charity case. Get outta my house.
  • Adrian: It's not just your house.
  • Paulie: [to Rocky] You ain't no friend no more. Get outta my house, I just says.
  • Adrian: Don't talk to him like that.
  • Paulie: Both of you get out of my house.
  • Rocky: Yo... It's cold outside, Paulie.
  • [drops his hat; getting angrier, Paulie grabs his bat]
  • Paulie: I don't want you messin' her, and I don't raise you to go with this scum bum! Yeah? Come on! You wanna hit on me? Come on! I'll break both your arms so they don't work for ya!
  • [Paulie smashed a lamp, then a dinner tray; Adrian screams]
  • Paulie: [screaming] That's right! I'm not good enough to meet with Gazzo...
  • [Paulie spits]
  • Paulie: ...that's what I think of Gazzo! Now you're a big-shot fighter on your way up, you don't even throw a crumb to your friend Paulie! When I go out and get your meat every morning! You forgot that! Then I even give you my sister, too!
  • Adrian: Only a pig would say that!
  • Paulie: I'm a pig? A pig gives you the best?
  • Paulie: [smashing a coffee set] You're such a loser! I don't get married because of you! You can't live by yourself! I put you two together! And you - don't you forget it! You owe me! You owe me!
  • Adrian: [freaking out] *What do I owe you*?
  • Paulie: [crying] You're supposed to be good to me.
  • Adrian: *What do I owe you, Paulie? What do I owe you*? I treat you good! I cook for you! I cleaned for you! I pick up your dirty clothes! I take care of ya, Paulie! I don't owe you nothin'! And you made me feel like a loser! *I'm not a loser*!
  • Adrian: [just before the big fight] I'll be here waiting for you.
  • Rocky: How 'bout I stay here and you fight?
  • Rocky: Hey... you know how I said that stuff on TV didn't bother me none?
  • Adrian: Yeah?
  • Rocky: It did.
  • [the 15th and final round of the fight has ended; reporters climb into the ring for interviews]
  • Fight Announcer: [interviewing Rocky] It was chaos. Rocky, you went the distance. You went the fifteen rounds. How do you feel?
  • Rocky: All right!
  • Fight Announcer: What were you thinking about when that buzzer sounded?
  • Rocky: [yelling] Adrian!
  • Fight Announcer: What were you thinking when the fifteenth...
  • Rocky: What? Adrian!
  • Adrian: [out in the crowd] Rocky? Rocky?
  • Jergens: [taking the microphone] Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention, please.
  • Adrian: Rocky? Rocky!
  • Jergens: Tonight, we have had the privilege of witnessing the greatest exhibition of guts and stamina in the history of the ring!
  • Rocky: Adrian!
  • Adrian: Rocky. Rocky!
  • Jergens: [reading the results] Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a split decision.
  • [Jergens continues; indistinct]
  • Rocky: *Adrian*!
  • Adrian: Rocky!
  • Jergens: ...for Creed!
  • [the crowd cheers]
  • Adrian: Is this you?
  • Rocky: Yeah, that's me when I was eight years old, that's the Italian Stallion when he was a baby.
  • Adrian: You want a roommate?
  • Rocky: Absolutely.
  • Paulie: You're busted!
  • Adrian: What?
  • Paulie: You're not a virgin!
  • [Adrian sobbing]
  • Paulie: You let him get into your pants! She's busted!
  • [Rocky grabs Paulie; screams, then sobs]
  • Paulie: [cries] I can't haul meat no more.
  • Rocky: [Rocky is trying to make out with Adrian on their first date] Will you do me a favor? Take off these glasses.
  • [Rocky takes off Adrian's frumpy glasses, revealing her beautiful eyes]
  • Rocky: Now take off this hat.
  • [Takes off her unattractive hat, revealing her dark, lovely hair. Adrian is beautiful and Rocky is appreciative]
  • Rocky: I always knew you was pretty...
  • Adrian: [Adrian looks at him, disbelieving] Stop teasing me.
  • Adrian: Paulie, it's Thanksgiving. I got a turkey in the oven.
  • Paulie: Oh... a turkey in the oven.
  • Paulie: [taking the turkey out of the oven] You want the bird?
  • Paulie: [throwing the turkey out the door] Go in the alley and eat the bird!
  • Adrian: [disgusted] Oh Paulie!
  • [Rocky and Adrian watching a Christmas movie in the house]
  • Adrian: And he called the reporters?
  • Rocky: Yeah. It threw my whole training schedule off.
  • Adrian: Don't be mad at him. He's just trying to help.
  • Rocky: Adrian, I ain't mad. It's just that, uh, when a reporter's around, I get out of joint 'cause they take cheap shots, and Paulie knows that. Paulie keeps askin' me for a job all the time, but he don't know nothin' about fighting.
  • Adrian: Are you gonna say anything to him?
  • Rocky: Well, what's to say? I just don't know what he wants from me.
  • Rocky: My father, he's a... My old man, he was never too smart. He says to me, "You weren't born with much of a brain, "so you better start using your body." So I become a fighter. You know what I mean? Why you laughing?
  • Adrian: My mother, she said the opposite thing.
  • Rocky: What did she say the opposite?
  • Adrian: She said, "You weren't born with much of a body, "so you better develop your brain."
  • [Adrian is trying to get to Rocky in the ring]
  • Rocky: Adrian!
  • Adrian: Rocky!
  • Rocky: Adrian!
  • Adrian: Rocky!
  • Rocky: Adrian.
  • Adrian: Rocky.
  • [last lines]
  • Adrian: I love you.
  • Rocky: I love you.

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