Joey Popchik Quotes in Movie Movie (1978)

Joey Popchik: When a man says what's right, what's good, what's real, and what's true, then his mouth is ten feet tall.

Joey Popchik: You know what they charge for an eye? An arm and a leg.

Joey Popchik: [Telling Troubles where to drop him off] Mine's the next slum.

Joey Popchik: Funny, isn't it? How many times your guts can get a slap in the face.

Joey Popchik: With the woman that you love at your side to stand behind you, a man can move mountains with his bare heart.

Joey Popchik: It was the late great Gloves Malloy who said how hard it is to say what there are no words for.

Joey Popchik: Gentlemen of the jury, the state cries out that the murder of Gloves Malloy be avenged. It cries so loud that I finished law school as fast as I could so that poetic justice could be served and so that I personally could prosecute the man responsible, Vince Marlowe.

Joey Popchik: Can I walk you home?

Betsy McGuire: New York's a free country.

Joey Popchik: Fightin's for suckers. I'm goin' to night school to be a lawyer. These hands are for readin' books.

Joey Popchik: I'm fightin' in the Garden tomorrow night.

Gloves Malloy: I heard it in the papers.

Joey Popchik: We cannot bring Gloves Malloy's death back to life.

Vince Marlow: The thing of it is...

[Chuckles]

Vince Marlow: I don't keep that kind of cash around.

Joey Popchik: You got it, and I want it!

Vince Marlow: That's right. I got it and you want it and you'll get it when I give it! Got it?

Gloves Malloy: Why don'rt we go in?

Joey Popchik: Age before beauty.

Gloves Malloy: After you.