Rain Man Quotes

Charlie : I'll tell you a story about my father, that car in the garage, was off limits to me. He said it was a classic, it demands respect. One day, I'm a sophomore in high school, I bring home a report card, it's almost all A's so I go to the old man, ask him if I can take the car out as sort of a victory drive. He says no. So I stole the keys and snuck it out.
Susanna : You took the car with no permission? Why?
Charlie : Because I deserved it! Nothing I did was ever good enough for this guy. Don't you understand, We're on Columbia Parkway, four kids, and we get pulled over.
Susanna : Accident? What is pulled over?
Charlie : You know, siren, police. Can I finish? Okay so we're taken to jail. The other kids' fathers bail them out, mine left me there for two days.
Susanna : He left you in prison for two days? Were you scared?
Charlie : Yeah.

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Susanna : You have his money.
Charlie : HIS money? That man was my father too, what about my fuckin' half? Where's my fuckin' half? I'm entitled to that money, Goddammit!

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Raymond : Definitely not.
Susanna : But we an watch TV here, we're allowed. [ Turns on Wheel of Fortune ]
Raymond : Wheel Of Fortune. Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.

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Lenny : Charlie, where the hell have you been? I've been waiting by this phone for 3 hours man.
Charlie : Take it easy, I was just buying some clothes.
Lenny : Charlie we are in serious trouble. Serious trouble and you're buying clothes.
Charlie : What trouble?
Lenny : The cars. The cars are gone, the buyers want their deposits back, they all do. That's eighty thou, Charlie.
Charlie : $80,000. I don't have it.
Lenny : You gotta pay these people or we're out of business! What am I gonna tell them?
Charlie : I don't know. [ Storms about the desert then yells ]
Charlie : SON OF A BITCH! SON OF A BITCH!

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[ Charlie is pulling Raymond's books off the shelves, leaving Raymond nervous ]
Charlie : You read The Twelth Night?
Raymond : I don't know. V-E-R-N.
Charlie : You read Macbeth?
Raymond : Yes.
Charlie : So you read all these stories and you don't know if you read the book?

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Charlie : He's not crazy, he's not retarded but he's here.
Dr. Bruner : He's an autistic savant. People like him used to be called idiot savants. There's certain deficiencies, certain abilities that impairs him.
Charlie : So he's retarded.
Dr. Bruner : Autistic. There's certain routines, rituals that he follows.
Charlie : Rituals, I like that.
Dr. Bruner : The way he eats, sleeps, walks, talks, uses the bathroom. It's all he has to protect himself. Any break from this routine leaves him terrified.

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Raymond : 12: 30 is lunch.
Charlie : What do you want?
Raymond : Wednesday is fish sticks. Green lime jello for dessert.
Charlie : You want another apple juice?
Raymond : No, orange soda. Uh oh, it's 12: 31.

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[ after Ray spills a box of toothpicks on the floor ]
Raymond : 82, 82, 82.
Charlie : 82 what?
Raymond : Toothpicks.
Charlie : There's a lot more than 82 toothpicks, Ray.
Raymond : 246 total.
Charlie : How many?
Sally Dibbs : 250.
Charlie : Pretty close.
Sally Dibbs : There's four left in the box.

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Charlie : Now casinos have house rules: they don't like to lose. So you never show that you're counting cards. That is *the* cardinal sin, Ray.
Raymond : Counting cards is bad.
Charlie : Yes.
Raymond : I like to drive slow on the driveway.
Charlie : If you get this right, Ray, you can drive anywhere you want as slow as you want.

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Charlie : Rain Man.
Raymond : Yeah?
Charlie : Let's play some cards!
Raymond : Yeah.

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Charlie : Does Raymond know how much money he's inherited?
Dr. Bruner : No, he doesn't understand the concept of money.
Charlie : He doesn't understand the concept of money? He just inherited $3,000,000 and he doesn't understand the concept of money? Wow, good work, Dad. I'm getting fucking poetic here.

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[ Raymond is about to go back to Walbrook on a train. He and Charlie are saying goodbye ]
Raymond : Very shiny train.
Charlie : Yeah, sure is.

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Charlie : When I was a little kid and I got scared, the Rain Man would come and sing to me.
Susanna : Rain what?
Charlie : Oh you know, one of those imaginary childhood friends.
Susanna : What happened to him?
Charlie : Nothing, I just grew up.
Susanna : Not so much.

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Charlie : I'm going to see you in 2 weeks now how many days is that before we'll be together?
Raymond : 14 days from today, today's Wednesday.
Charlie : Hours?
Raymond : 336 hours.
Charlie : Mystifying
Raymond : Course that's 20,160 minutes. 1,290,600, six hundred seconds.

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Charlie : What's it going to be Ray? What's it going to be?
Raymond : This is a very dangerous highway.
Charlie : How am I going to get to LA?
Raymond : Course driving your car on this interstate is very dangerous.
Charlie : You want to get off the highway will that make you happy?
Raymond : Yeah.
Charlie : Yeah, well you gotta GET IN THE CAR SO THAT WE CAN GET OFF THE HIGHWAY!
Raymond : Course in 1986 46,400 male drivers were definitely involved in fatal accidents.

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[ first lines ]
Charlie : [ on telephone ] Now it's five and a half weeks and I'm still sitting on four Lamborghinis that can't meet spot emissions standards. Now, how many times you wash out with EPA?
Lenny : [ on a separate line ] Uh, yes sir, they're finally, uh, clearing EPA; uh, just one or two more days.
Charlie : Three times? You're really on a roll here, my friend; four cars, three times each - that's zip for twelve. What are you, a... mechanic, or a NASA engineer? Now listen, now, I told you I've never dealt with these Lamborghinis before, and yet you assured me that you can deliver these cars within that time frame. Don't, don't tell me that, 'cause I - I'm not even listening.

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[ after doctors left to make final decision about Raymond ]
Charlie : [ to Raymond ] It's okay, Ray. It's over. No more questions. You don't have to answer anymore questions.

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Charlie : [ on phone with Raymond's place ] Dr. Bruner, it's Charlie Babbitt.
Dr. Bruner : Where are you, son?
Charlie : That's not important. What matters is who I'm with.
Dr. Bruner : You have to bring him back, Mr. Babbitt. Do you understand me?
Charlie : Certainly. No problem. That will be $1.5 million please. I'll take it in cash, check, or a transfer.
Dr. Bruner : Why are you doing this?
Charlie : I'm not greedy. I just want my half.

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