Rocky III (1982)

Burt Young: Paulie

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Quotes 

• Apollo Creed : Can he swim?

  Paulie : With a name like "Rock"!

• Rocky Balboa : Nobody owes nobody nothin'. You owe yourself.

  Paulie : You're wrong! Friends owe!

  Rocky Balboa : Friends don't owe! They do because the wanna do.

  Paulie : Shut your freakin' mouth. You been keepin' me down!

  Rocky Balboa : Down? You know, you're like a crazy brother to me, Paulie, you really are. So I'm gonna tell ya something and I want you to listen because I really mean this. You ain't down. And you ain't even a loser. You're just a jealous, lazy bum.

  Paulie : Alright, I'm gonna break your freakin' mouth up! I'm gonna break your freakin' mouth up!

  [Paulie throws punches at Rocky and Rocky blocks them] 

  Paulie : [exhausted]  Can I have a job?

  Rocky Balboa : All you had to do was ask.

  [starts walking toward Rocky's car] 

  Rocky Balboa : Hey, you know, you punch pretty good.

  Paulie : Really?

  Rocky Balboa : Absolutely.

  Paulie : [looking at Rocky's car]  This new?

  Rocky Balboa : Yeah.

  Paulie : Cost a lot?

  Rocky Balboa : Yeah, a few bucks.

  Paulie : Got an extra one?

• Paulie : [referring to African-Americans]  I don't like these people.

  Rocky Balboa : You don't like em'? Well maybe they don't like you either Paulie.

  Paulie : [in awe]  What'd I ever do to them?

  Rocky Balboa : [looks at Adrian]  And they call ME "Punchy".

• Apollo Creed : [during the rematch with Lang]  He's gettin' killed out there!

  Paulie : No, no, no! He ain't gettin' killed; he's gettin' mad!

• Paulie : [Thunderlips is walking to the ring]  Why are they carrying him?

  Mickey : He's walking.

• Rocky Jr. : [Rocky as he reads the story about Goldilocks to his son]  Then what happened to Goldilocks?

  Rocky Balboa : Happened to her? I'm not exactly sure.

  Paulie : Busted for trespassing and got 30 days in the cooler.

  Rocky Balboa : Oh, that's real nice, Paulie.

• Paulie : Don't listen to it, Rocky.

  Apollo Creed : No, do listen to it Rock. Because when it's over, everybody's gonna owe you an engraved apology. And you're gonna owe me a favor.

  Rocky Balboa : What favor?

  Apollo Creed : When it's over Rock.

• Paulie : [leaving the police station]  You wann hear I owe ya? You I owe nothin'!

  Rocky Balboa : No you don't owe me nothin'.

  Paulie : So, what do you want I should do? My sister ain't here?

  Rocky Balboa : She's home.

  Paulie : You know, me and her used to be tight before you come in. I raise her she don't come down.

  Rocky Balboa : She don't know about this.

  Paulie : You can just up and go to hell, you know that?

  Rocky Balboa : Hey, watch your mouth, Paulie.

  Paulie : What? You gonna whack me? I don't sweat you. I don't sweat you!

  Rocky Balboa : Come on, Paulie, why don't you screw your head on right.

  Paulie : My head? You're freakin' head's the one's on wrong.

  Rocky Balboa : Me? What'd I do?

  Paulie : You? Nothin'! You get your face all fixed up. Handsome. Nice clothes. What'd you do for Paulie, anything? This! You give me a lousy, stinkin' ex-lax watch. There!

  [throws his watch on the ground] 

  Rocky Balboa : [going to pick up watch]  Hey, Paulie, come on.

  Paulie : [kicks watch away]  No, no, no leave it down there! It never kept good time anyway. You know, you forget when you were a punk and those guys used to laugh at you because you were so jive? Who used to whack them bums out, huh?

  Rocky Balboa : They laughed at both of us.

  Paulie : Nobody laughed at me. Who was it got you your first woman, huh? Me! Paulie! I was responsible!

  Rocky Balboa : She was pregnant.

  Paulie : So what, you wasn't no prize either. You know I give you, I give you. You buy a new house, right? You move Mick in with you, right? Did you ask me? Is there somethin' the matter with me? I got feelings you, know.

  [points to his heart] 

  Paulie : This ain't cardboard.

  Rocky Balboa : Hey, everybody's got 'em, Paulie.

  Paulie : To hell with everybody.

  Rocky Balboa : No, maybe it's to hell with you.

  Paulie : I don't think I want to listen to this crap.

  Rocky Balboa : Come on, you act like everybody owes you a livin'.

  Paulie : Shut your mouth.

• LeRoy Neiman : [announcing the wrestling match]  Now entering the ring, a man who calls himself the ultimate male, World Wrestling Champion, Thunderlips!

  Rocky Balboa : [looking at Thunderlips]  Wow, he's awful big. Hey, Mick, how much do you think he eats?

  Mickey : About 202 pounds.

  LeRoy Neiman : Weighing in at 202 pounds...

  Mickey : [Mickey smiles and looks at Rocky] 

  Paulie : Hey, Rock; you better call Bob Hope.

• Bartender : [Paulie is leaving the bar, disgruntled by Rocky's success]  Don't forget to give Rocky my best.

  Paulie : I've been coming here years. Why don't you give me, Paulie, your best once?

  [leaves bar] 

  Paulie : .

• Paulie : [after Thunderlips slams Rocky to the canvas]  Rocko, remember the neighborhood!

• Paulie : [Arriving in Apollo's old L.A. gym filled with African-American boxers]  We gotta leave. I've got a reputation.

  Rocky Balboa : What do you mean reputation?

  Paulie : You heard. I don't like these people.

  Rocky Balboa : Maybe they don't like you either Paulie

• Paulie : He IS the ring!