Joey LaMotta Quotes in Raging Bull (1980)

Jake La Motta: Did you fuck my wife?

Joey LaMotta: What?

Jake La Motta: Did you fuck my wife?

Joey LaMotta: [pauses] How do you ask me that? I'm your brother and you ask me that? Where do you get you're balls big enough to ask me that?

Jake La Motta: You're very smart, Joey. You're giving me a lot of answers, but you ain't giving me the right answer. I'm gonna ask you again: did you or did you not?

Joey LaMotta: I'm not gonna answer that. It's stupid. It's a sick question and you're a sick fuck and I'm not that sick that I'm gonna answer it. I'm leaving, If Nora calls tell her I went home. I'm not staying in this nuthouse with you. You're a sick bastard, I feel sorry for you, I really do. You know what you should do? Try a little more fucking and a little less eating, so you won't have problems upstairs in the bedroom and you pick on me and everybody else. You understand me, you fucking wacko? You're cracking up! Fucking screw ball ya!

Joey LaMotta: If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win.

Joey LaMotta: What are ya thinkin' about? Ya keep lookin'. Where the fuck you going? You're dead! You're married! You're a married man, it's all over. Leave the young girls for me.

Jake La Motta: Don't give me that look, Joey. I gotta accept your answer, you know? But If I hear anything, I swear on our mother I'm gonna kill somebody. I'm gonna kill somebody, Joey.

Joey LaMotta: [angrily] Well go ahead and kill if you're a tough guy, go kill people! Kill Vicki, kill Salvy, kill Tommy Como, kill me while you're at it, what do I care? You kill yourself, the way you eat! Ya fat fuck, look at you!

Jake La Motta: What do you mean - I don't understand, kill you?

Joey LaMotta: Me! Kill me, start here! Do me a fuckin' favour! Cause you're driving me crazy! You're a killer, you're a big shot, just kill. You're a killer.

Joey LaMotta: Who is this? Sal, is that you. I can hear you breathing you fuck. You listening, your mother sucks fucking big fucking elephant dicks, you got that?

Jake La Motta: Come on, hit me. Harder. Harder.

Joey LaMotta: What the fuck do you want? That's hard. What are you trying to prove?

Jake La Motta: Did Salvy fuck Vickie?

Joey LaMotta: What?

Jake La Motta: Did Salvy fuck Vickie?

Joey LaMotta: Jack. Jack, don't start your shit. I mean it, don't start.

[Just after Sugar Ray Robinson won an early fight (before joining the army)]

Joey LaMotta: They robbed you. They're miserable because their mothers take it up their fucking ass.

Joey LaMotta: Hey Jack, I just explained the whole thing to you didn't I. It was between me and Salvy. If it had anything to do with Vicki I would've told you about it.

Jake La Motta: That's not what I heard Joey.

Joey LaMotta: What do you mean that's not what you heard?

Jake La Motta: That's not what I heard.

Joey LaMotta: What did you hear?

Jake La Motta: I heard some things.

Joey LaMotta: You heard about me and Salvy.

Jake La Motta: I heard things Joey.

Joey LaMotta: Yeah you heard that I cracked Salvy all around. What did you hear?

Jake La Motta: I heard things Joey. I heard things.

Joey LaMotta: What things you heard?

Jake La Motta: I heard some things.

Joey LaMotta: [over the phone, when no one answers, not realizing it's Jake calling] Your mother sucks giant elephant dicks!

Joey LaMotta: She ain't the kind of girl you just fuck and forget about, this girl.

Jake La Motta: Joey, how many times I gotta tell ya? Why're you always cursin' when I'm talkin' to you? Don't do it around me. Do it around your friends.

Joey LaMotta: She's a, the kind of girl you bang and forget about - she's not like that. You gotta spend time with her, get involved, you know...

Jake La Motta: D'you bang her?

Joey LaMotta: No.

Jake La Motta: Tell me the truth.

Joey LaMotta: I just told you the truth. I tell you the truth the first time. You don't have to ask me again. I never do that. I always tell you the truth. If I did it, you would know. I took her out a couple of times.

Jake La Motta: You went out with her and you didn't try to fuck her?

Joey LaMotta: I try to fuck anything.

Jake La Motta: She says he's pretty.

Joey LaMotta: Yeah, well, you make him ugly.

Joey LaMotta: They only gave him that fuckin' decision because he's goin' in the Army next week. That's the only reason.

Jake La Motta: I knocked him down. I don't know what else I gotta do. I don't know what I gotta do...

Joey LaMotta: You won and they robbed ya! They're miserable because their mothers take it up the fuckin' ass! That's why.

Jake La Motta: I've done a lot of bad things, Joey. Maybe it's comin' back to me. Who knows? I'm a jinx maybe. Who the hell knows?

Jake La Motta: Look at that. Look how they make me look. Like a bum, like a mammalucco.

Joey LaMotta: A what?

Jake La Motta: Like the mammalucco of the year.