The Sopranos (TV Series)
D-Girl (2000)
Vincent Pastore: Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero
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Quotes
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Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : [instructing his son how to hit baseballs] Elbow up Matt, keep it straight
Matt Bonpensiero : [referring to his coach] He'll just have me "pull" more
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Fuck him, my son don't hit sacrifice flies
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : [to AJ] you're up next
A.J. Soprano : Nah, I just want to watch
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : You gotta snap out of this Anthony
Matt Bonpensiero : Come on AJ, it's fun
A.J. Soprano : Yeah, I just don't feel like it
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Sometimes you gotta do things you don't want to
A.J. Soprano : Why?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Because your parents said so and it's part of your tradition
A.J. Soprano : baseball's not part of my tradition
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : no, it ain't, your dad in high school was almost all county left field, but I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about your confirmation
A.J. Soprano : I don't want to get confirmed
Matt Bonpensiero : [while exiting the batting cage] Why not?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : It don't matter why not. If you're looking for a purpose in life, doing what's right is a purpose
A.J. Soprano : yeah, that's not what Nitch says
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : who?
Matt Bonpensiero : [correcting AJ's pronunciation of the surname of the German philosopher] Nietzsche. Let me tell you something: Nietzsche wound up talking to his horse and I know what you're going to tell me, Chaucer right? Well, Chaucer was a fuckin fraud. He copied off Husserl and Heidegger. Hey, you should start at the beginning: take a look at Kierkegaard
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Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : [while in AJ's room] We need to talk: you need to listen. You see your parents as these great big dictators, these disciplinarians but I know your dad since before he was younger than you
A.J. Soprano : yeah, what difference does that make?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Listen to me alright? You listening?
A.J. Soprano : yeah
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : I was sixteen years old and my kid sister Nucci, she had the Spinal Meningitis and she got to a point where she couldn't breathe
A.J. Soprano : She was real sick?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Yeah, and she was in the hospital and your father, he's the only one, he came with me every day: he sat by the bed, he looked at her drawings, he watched her for me when I had to use the john or get something to eat. I was down there in line for a hamburger when she passed away
A.J. Soprano : she died huh?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Yeah
A.J. Soprano : You know what really pisses me off about my dad? He did all these great things... then, before he was my dad. Now his just an asshole
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Hey, listen to me, your father would catch a bullet for you. Don't you ever forget that, his a stand-up guy"
A.J. Soprano : I don't know: not to me his not
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bonpensiero : Well, I do know and I know what kind of a man he is, don't ever forget it