The Wild One (1953)
Marlon Brando: Johnny Strabler
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Quotes
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Johnny : [as Charlie and other townsmen beat him up] My old man used to hit harder than that.
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Johnny : On the weekends we go out and have a ball.
Kathie Bleeker : Well, what d'ya do? I mean, do you just ride around or do you go on some sort of a picnic or something?
Johnny : A picnic? Man, you are too square. I'm... I... I have to straighten you out. Now, listen, you don't go any one special place. That's cornball style. You just go.
[snaps fingers]
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Johnny : [opening narration] It begins here for me on this road. How the whole mess happened I don't know, but I know it couldn't happen again in a million years. Maybe I could of stopped it early, but once the trouble was on its way, I was just goin' with it. Mostly I remember the girl. I can't explain it - a sad chick like that, but somethin' changed in me. She got to me, but that's later anyway. This is where it begins for me right on this road.
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Kathie Bleeker : Where you going when you leave here?
[Johnny just shrugs]
Kathie Bleeker : Don't you know?
Johnny : Oh, man, we just gonna go...
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Kathie Bleeker : Why are you trying to be so rude?
Johnny : I don't like cops!
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Johnny : You think you're too good for me. Nobody's too good for me! Anybody thinks they're too good for me, I make sure I knock 'em over sometime. Right now, I could slap you around to show you how good you are and tomorrow, I'm someplace else and I don't even know you or nothing.
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Kathie Bleeker : It's crazy, isn't it? You're afraid of me. I don't know why, but I'm not afraid of you now. You're afraid of me.
Johnny : I'm afraid of you? Are you cracked?
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Johnny : Nobody tells me what to do. You keep needlin' me, if I want to, I'm gonna take this joint apart and you're not gonna know what hit you.
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Johnny : What are you someone that makes sandwiches or something?
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Johnny : No, man. That's nowhere.
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Johnny : Say, listen, what's happening later? What are you going to do later?
Kathie Bleeker : I work.
Johnny : You've got to goof off, don't you?
Kathie Bleeker : What?
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Kathie Bleeker : Do you want something?
Johnny : Yeah.
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Johnny : I don't make no deal with no cop.
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Johnny : Where's my gold? I'm going to blow this joint.
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Britches : Johnny, remember the night? The first time I went out scrambling with the Rebels? Remember? That was the first time I ever saw you. I haven't seen you since. We really got ourselves hung on the Christmas tree, didn't we? Boy, was I green. Was I *really* green. I thought I was *really* living it up. I had me a guy and we were *really* going to go. But we had a lot of yaks anyway, didn't we, Johnny? Well, say it. Can't you say something? Please, Johnny. I won't get on your back. I wouldn't do that. But we had a lot of yaks anyway, didn't we?
Johnny : What do you want me to do, send you some flowers?
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Kathie Bleeker : I wanted to touch you. I wanted to try, anyway.
Johnny : Try what?
Kathie Bleeker : I don't know. I wanted to make it the way I always thought it would be sometime - with somebody. The way I always thought it might be.
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Johnny : Where did you want this guy to take you? This guy that had a cup of coffee.
Kathie Bleeker : I don't know. Wherever he was going, I guess. I'm shaky.
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Johnny : Come on. Get on.