Rumble Fish (1983)

Share this quote on facebook If you're going to lead people, you have to have somewhere to go.

Share this quote on facebook California's like a beautiful, wild... beautiful, wild girl on heroin... who's high as a kite, thinkin' she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying even if you show her the marks.

Share this quote on facebook Blind terror in a fight can easily pass for courage.

Share this quote on facebook You know, if there were gangs around like in the old days, I'd be running things, not you. You'd be second lieutenant. You might have gotten by for a while on the Motorcycle Boy's rep, but you have to be smart to run things. You ain't got your brother's brains. It's nothing personal, Rusty James. But nobody would follow you into a fight because you'd get people killed - and nobody wants to be killed.

Share this quote on facebook Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. You see when you're young, you're a kid, you got time, you got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years, a couple of years there... it doesn't matter. You know. The older you get you say, "Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty-five summers left." Think about it. Thirty-five summers.!!!!!

Share this quote on facebook Steve: I don't know why someone hasn't taken a rifle and blown your head off.
The Motorcycle Boy: Even the most primitive of societies have an innate respect of the insane.

Share this quote on facebook Patterson: You think you'll understand him?
Rusty: Yeah, but what I don't understand is why you hate him so much?
Patterson: I hate him because you kids think he's an idol but he isn't. He is anything else but he is no hero!

Share this quote on facebook Father: Every now and then, a person comes along, has a different view of the world than does the usual person. It doesn't make them crazy. I mean... an acute perception, man... that doesn't, that doesn't make you crazy.
Rusty: Could you talk normal?
Father: However sometimes... it can drive you crazy, acute perception.
Rusty: I wish you'd talk normal 'cause I don't understand half the garbage you're saying. You know? You know what I mean?
Father: No, your mother... is not crazy. And neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother crazy. He's merely miscast in a play. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river... with the ability to be able to do anything that he wants to do and findin' nothin' that he wants to do. I mean nothing.

Share this quote on facebook Rusty: How can you tell if someone is crazy?
Benny: Can't always... Depends on how many think he's crazy.

Share this quote on facebook Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down.

Share this quote on facebook The Motorcycle Boy's Never Coming Back

Share this quote on facebook No leader can survive becoming a legend.