Breaking Away (1979)
Dennis Quaid: Mike
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Quotes
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Mike : They're gonna keep callin' us "cutters." To them, it's just a dirty word. To me, it's just somethin' else I never got a chance to be.
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Cyril : You know what I'd like to be? A cartoon of some kind. You know, like when they get hit in the head with a frying pan or something, and their head looks like the frying pan, with the handle and everything? They they just go *booiing*
[shakes head]
Cyril : and their head comes back to normal? Wouldn't that be great?
Mike : How'd you get to be so stupid, Cyril?
Cyril : I don't know... I have a dumb heredity, I guess. What's your excuse, Michael?
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Cyril : When you're 16 they call it Sweet 16 and when you're 18 you get to drink and and vote and see dirty movies. What the hell do you get to do when you're 19?
Mike : You leave home.
Cyril : My Dad said that Jesus never went further than 50 miles from his home.
Mike : Well, look what happened to him.
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Mike : You know, I used to think I was a really great quarterback in high school. I still think so too. Can't even bring myself to light a cigarette, cause I keep thinkin' I gotta stay in shape. - You know what really gets me though? I mean, here I am, I gotta live in this stinkin' town and I gotta read in the newspapers about some hot shot kid - new star of the college team. Every year its gonna be a new one. And every year its never gonna be me. I'm just gonna be Mike. Twenty year old Mike. Thirty year old Mike. Old mean old man Mike.