Jacob Rivetowski Quotes in Harry and Tonto (1974)

Harry: Did you see that?

Jacob Rivetowski: No.

Harry: Fellow almost ran me over.

Jacob Rivetowski: What kind of car?

Harry: I don't know... a big gray job.

Jacob Rivetowski: Capitalist bastard!

Jacob Rivetowski: You can't fight capitalism in the courts. You got to go to the streets. Man the barricades, plant the dynamite. Blow up the cesspool.

Harry: When did you last have a woman, Jacob?

Jacob Rivetowski: What?

Harry: When did you last sleep with a woman?

Jacob Rivetowski: Saturday night.

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Jacob Rivetowski: March.

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Jacob Rivetowski: 1951. Yeah, it was about ten o'clock at night.

Harry: Jacob, they want me to move.

Jacob Rivetowski: What?

Harry: I got a notice that they're tearing down my building. They're putting up a fancy parking lot.

Jacob Rivetowski: Capitalist bastards!

Harry: Did you ever have Annushka again?

Jacob Rivetowski: No, no... My father started slipping it to her regularly.

Harry: [chuckling] Polish logic!

Jacob Rivetowski: He was a capitalist bastard!

Jacob Rivetowski: We are in for a depression... that will make the 30's look like paradise. Maybe it's a good thing - the hard-hats and the phony liberals will kill each other.