Art Long Quotes in Tough Enough (1983)

Caroline Long: You were boxing. Why?

Art Long: "Why?" For five thousand bucks: that's why. I won.

Caroline Long: You won five thousand dollars?

Art Long: No, no, no, no, no. I GET five thousand bucks if I win tomorrow night. See; preliminaries were tonight, and the finals are tomorrow night.

Caroline Long: So what'd you get tonight?

Art Long: A black eye.

Gert Long: What's wrong?

Art Long: "What's wrong?" What? Can't a son come visit his parents without something being wrong?

Gert Long: Not usually. What's the matter?

Art Long: [Laughs shyly & turns away]

Gert Long: BILL! Bill! Art & Caroline have had a fight!

Bill Long: They'll work it out.

Art Long: No, we haven't had a fight!

Bill Long: See there? They've already worked it out.

Bill Long: Did you get a look at that big meat-headed sonofabitch?

Art Long: What'd they say he was? Albanian?

Bill Long: I know one thing: he's some kind of goddamned foreigner, and there ain't but one way to whip 'em.

Art Long: What's that?

Bill Long: Kick him right square in the nuts, and then tell him his mother's whore.

Art Long: Thanks a lot, Dad. Will you just shut up, please?

Bill Long: I'm just tryin' to help you, Son. You're the one that's gotta go in there and fight this big dumb sonofabitch. Look at him. Probably some kind of a goddamned... Communist savage.