The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Danny Aiello: Monk

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• Cecilia : You never pay attention to me any more. So I thought, if we could go to the movies tonight, you know, you could forget your troubles a little.

  Monk : Forget my troubles. Cecilia, you like sitting through that junk, okay? I'm gonna shoot crap, okay? Go to the movie by yourself.

• Monk : All right, go ahead. Just see how far you get. Go on, go on. You won't last. You'll see how it is in the real world. Go on. You'll come back. You're just bluff. You're all phony. You'll be back. It may take a week, it may take an hour, but you'll be back.

• Cecilia : I hear there's some jobs opening up over at the ice factory.

  Monk : No, there was nothin'. I was there.

  Cecilia : Yeah?

  Monk : Yeah. I was there. Right.

  Cecilia : Harriet Rufus says all you guys do all day is just pitch pennies and make passes at the girls who walk by.

  Monk : Harriet Rufus is a douche bag.

• Cecilia : You don't love me.

  Monk : Baby, come on.

  Cecilia : You don't. You treat me bad and you beat up on me.

  Monk : Look, I hit you when you get out of line. I never just hit you, I warn you first. And then if you don't shape up, you get whacked.

• Cecilia : You wanna go to the movies tonight? There's an early show.

  Monk : I can't. I can't.

  Cecilia : How come?

  Monk : The guys are comin' over tonight.

  Cecilia : Again?

  Monk : What, you don't like it?

  Cecilia : Well, all you do is drink and play dice and I wind up getting smacked.

  Monk : I gotta get even, don't I?

• Monk : I know I treat you rough. It's my way. It doesn't mean I don't feel for you.