Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)

Pier Angeli: Norma

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• Rocky : You know, I been lucky. Somebody up there likes me.

  Norma : Somebody down here, too.

• Rocky : Oh, you're a Jewish girl, huh?

  Norma : Yes. Why? Does that make any difference?

  Rocky : No. You kiddin'?

• Norma : Thanks for walking me to the subway entrance.

  Rocky : Oh, yeah. Uh, take it easy, kid.

  Norma : Will you call me or something?

  Rocky : Oh, yeah. I mean, I suppose so. Look, I don't know. I mean, fighters ain't got much time for girls.

• Norma : [Angrily]  What do you do to feel important?

  Rocky : You wanna know? Come and see me fight sometime.

  Norma : I told you "no."

  Rocky : Well, that's what makes me feel important. I mean, you gotta be there. You got to hear them crowds screamin'. They're screamin' my name. And they're screamin' for me to kill off the other guy. They grab at me when I go up the aisle. That's what makes me feel important.

  Norma : I can't stand seeing people hurt, especially you. All that blood.

  Rocky : Well, look. At least you can come to the gym and see me train sometime. Just train.

  Norma : I won't have to see men hurting each other?

  Rocky : Scout's honor.

• Yolanda Barbella : [after hearing on the radio that Rocky loses a major middleweight champion fight]  Norma, he'll be all right.

  Norma : Sure he will. He's hard and tough. He can take anything. But I can't.

  Yolanda Barbella : He had to lose sometime.

  Norma : It isn't whether he loses or wins. All he has to do is step into that ring and I'd like to run and hide, knowing maybe they'll hurt him, cripple him.

  Ma Barbella : Did you ever tell this to Rocky? Did you ever ask him to stop fighting?

  Norma : It's his whole life, everything he's got.

  Ma Barbella : Then it's your whole life too. Don't ever make the mistake of forgetting that like I did.

  Norma : That's right. I didn't marry a man, did I? I married a middleweight.

• Norma : He has got a past, you know, and it's time he learned to live with it. And it's time you and I stopped looking the other way every time he gets mad at the world for the trouble he gets into. It was Rocky who broke the regulation -- not the Commissioner, not the District Attorney. To listen to him you'd think he was just an innocent bystander.

  Irving Cohen : Please, Norma. I thought you were gonna help us. I thought you wanted Rocky to win the fight.

  Norma : Alright. So what about all the fights after that one? What about me this time after he has to give up fighting?

  Irving Cohen : But, Norma...

  Norma : I'm his wife, not his manager. I'm gonna be living with him long after you've stopped worrying about his weight and his footwork and whether or not he's getting his sleep.

• Norma : The Judge won't wait there all day, Rocky.

  Rocky : You brung the license, huh?

  Norma : I have it right here in my bag.

  Rocky : I thought maybe you forgot it.

  Norma : No, I didn't forget it.

  Rocky : Hey, I ain't got enough dough to pay de Judge.

  Norma : I have.

  Rocky : Where'd you get it?

  Norma : I pawned my Star of David.

• Norma : I'll never like fighting! And I never will! It's all meanness and blood and ignorance.

  Rocky : All right! All right! Maybe it is all meanness and blood and ignorance. And maybe a lot of guys end up with their brains rattled. But, where else can a guy like me be somethin' - if it ain't in the fightin' business? Look, I never had nothin'. I mean nothin'! Till I gotta chance to make some clean in the ring. What's better, huh? Stealin', starvin', or fightin'? Oh, please, Norma, now you gotta understand this.

• Norma : It's not just this time, it's every movie we see. Every time anyone kisses anyone or says, "I love you," you moan and groan and squirm.

  Rocky : It's for the birds, I mean, this whole love business - guys tryin' to score with dames just to feel big.

• Irving Cohen : What am I gonna do with him?

  Norma : You're gonna take him to Chicago and get him back into shape. Then he's gonna take the title away from Tony Zale and show everybody who he is and what he is.

  Irving Cohen : It's Chicago. You heard him.

  Norma : It isn't Chicago! He's got no stomach for fighting anywhere. Don't you see, Irving? For three years, he sweated hard, the only way he knew, trying to become a member of what he calls the legit world. He thought he had made it. But, now he's convinced whatever he tried didn't work and can't work and what's the use of trying anymore if you're no good and never will be? But it did work, Irving, and it's got to work again! It's got to!