The Sopranos (TV Series)

Big Girls Don't Cry (2000)

Jerry Adler: Hesh Rabkin

Quotes 

• Tony Soprano : This Russian fuck... friggin lucky I didn't get hauled in. I had to run like a bitch from my own leisure time "activities." Carmela would've known who I was on the boat with, ok that's nothing new but my kids?

  Hesh Rabkin : It happens ok?

  Tony Soprano : The fuck is wrong with me?

  Hesh Rabkin : Some kind of "complex"

  Tony Soprano : What kind?

  Hesh Rabkin : You know sleep always helps

  Tony Soprano : You want to go to sleep? Go ahead

• Tony Soprano : [Talking privately]  since I'm here, can I talk to you about something? It absolutely has to stay between us: things are going good. I'm permanently in charge, no trouble there and my family's healthy

  Hesh Rabkin : Uh huh

  Tony Soprano : So why the fuck am I ripping phones out of the wall in front of my kid? Screaming at my sister all the fuckin time when she's totally unimportant to me?

  Hesh Rabkin : You got a lot on your mind

  Tony Soprano : Because I'm the boss? See? That's the point: you never saw Carbo Lucky or Douglas MacArthur going around punchin fuckin walls

  Tony Soprano : [When he doesn't respond]  what if I told you I was seeing a shrink?

  Hesh Rabkin : I had an inkling

  Tony Soprano : Once in a while I get..."anxious", not just in general: no reason. It's like when I'm in my kitchen, all of a sudden I can't breathe alright? It's like I'm suffocating, I get to the point where I fuckin pass out

  Hesh Rabkin : I think your father had the same thing

  Tony Soprano : [Surprised]  my old man had anxiety attacks?

  Hesh Rabkin : Well, in those days we called it a "condition." It didn't happen that often: once or twice a year

  Tony Soprano : Holy shit

  Hesh Rabkin : He cracked his head once on a cigarette machine

  Tony Soprano : Did he go to a doctor?

  Hesh Rabkin : You're father? What're you kidding? It wouldn't have made any difference in those days, they didn't know how to treat that shit

  Tony Soprano : It's not much better now

  Hesh Rabkin : There's an article in the New York Times magazine, they got this machine, they can see images of the brain and how your brain responds to "fear"

  Tony Soprano : [Concerned]  "fear"

  Hesh Rabkin : See, if there's a person listening to a tape of parent criticizing them, I'm talking about an adult mind you, it "fears" them, it kicks right in: you can actually see it in an MRI

  Tony Soprano : I had this fuckin weird dream the other night, I was at the beach but I had a suit on, shoes too