Lucille Larusso Quotes in The Karate Kid (1984)

Daniel: [throwing his bicycle into a dumpster after being beaten up] This damn bike! I hate this bike. I hate this frickin' bike! Stupid bike.

Lucille Larusso: Daniel! What's the matter? Why did you throw your bike away?

Daniel: Because I felt like it.

Lucille Larusso: Please look at me when I'm talking to you.

[sees Daniel's bruised face]

Lucille Larusso: Oh my god!

Daniel: Mom.

Lucille Larusso: Can you tell me what's going on and don't tell me about another bike accident?

Daniel: What do you want to hear mom?

Lucille Larusso: I want to hear the truth!

Daniel: No you don't want to hear the truth. All you want to hear about is how great it is. Well it may be great for you but it SUCKS for me! I hate this place! I HATE IT! I just want to go home. Why can't we just go home?

Lucille Larusso: Listen to me. I cannot help you unless you talk to me

Daniel: I gotta take karate. That's it.

Lucille Larusso: You took karate!

Daniel: No, not at the Y. At a good school.

Lucille Larusso: But fighting doesn't solve anything Daniel.

Daniel: Yeah well neither does palm trees mom.

Lucille Larusso: That's not fair!

Daniel: Like it was fair coming over here without asking me how I felt about it. Right, that was real fair.

Lucille Larusso: You're right. I should've asked.

Daniel: Well I just want to go home. That's it. I don't understand the rules here and I just want to go home.

Lucille Larusso: Let's clean you up and maybe we can figure the rules out together. What about your bike?

Daniel: It's safer taking a bus.

Lucille Larusso: [singing] California, here we come. California... oh, what's the matter, Daniel? Don't you like my singing?

Daniel: I don't like the song, Ma.

[they arrive at their new home]

Lucille Larusso: This is it. This is the end of the line.

Daniel: You're telling me.

Lucille Larusso: Look at those palm trees. Damn! You know what that means?

Daniel: Yeah. Watch out for falling coconuts.

Lucille Larusso: [DELETED SCENE: At their apartment, Daniel's mom is reading the fine print on the All-Valley Tournament application] ... This says I won't hold anybody responsible if you're injured. Are you NUTS?

Daniel: Mom, I've gotta do this.

Lucille Larusso: Do WHAT? Get KILLED?

Daniel: Nobody gets hurt, Ma.

Lucille Larusso: Then why do I have to sign anything?

[She crumples the application and throws it away]

Lucille Larusso: Good night, Daniel.

[after she retires, Daniel rescues the application and un-crumples it. Then he signs his mother's name to it]