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Kid, The
[They arrive at their new home.]
Lucille LaRusso:
This is it! This is the end of the line.
Daniel LaRusso: You're telling me.
Daniel
LaRusso: Hey - you ever get into fights when you were a kid?
Miyagi: Huh -
plenty.
Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, but it wasn't like the problem I have, right?
Miyagi: Why? Fighting fighting. Same same.
Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, but you
knew karate.
Miyagi: Someone always know more.
Daniel LaRusso: You mean
there were times when you were scared to fight?
Miyagi: Always scare. Miyagi
hate fighting.
Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, but you like karate.
Miyagi: So?
Daniel LaRusso: So, karate's fighting. You train to fight.
Miyagi: That
what you think?
Daniel LaRusso: [pondering] No.
Miyagi: Then why train?
Daniel LaRusso: [thinks] So I won't have to fight.
Miyagi: [laughs] Miyagi
have hope for you.
Miyagi:
Your friend, all karate student, eh?
Daniel LaRusso: Friend? Oh, yeah, those
guys.
Miyagi: Problem: attitude.
Daniel LaRusso: No the problem is, I'm
getting my ass kicked every other day, that's the problem!
Miyagi: Hai, because
boys have bad attitude. Karate for defense only.
Daniel LaRusso: That's not
what these guys are taught.
Miyagi: Hai -- can see. No such thing a bad student,
only bad teacher. Teacher say, student do.
Daniel LaRusso: Oh, great, that
solves everything for me. I'll just go down to the school and straighten it out
with the teacher, no problem.
Miyagi: Now use head for something other than
target.
[Miyagi
karate-chops the tops off three beer bottles]
Daniel LaRusso: How did you
do that? How did you do that?!
Miyagi: Don't know. First time.
Miyagi:
Now, ready?
Daniel LaRusso: I guess so.
Miyagi: [sighs] Daniel-san, must
talk. Man walk on road. Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk down
middle, sooner or later, get squished
[makes squish gesture]
Miyagi: just
like grape. Same here. You karate do "yes," or karate do "no."
You karate do "guess so,"
[makes squish gesture]
Miyagi: just
like grape. Understand?
Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, I understand.
Miyagi: Now,
ready?
Daniel LaRusso: Yeah, I'm ready.
Miyagi:
We make sacred pact. I promise teach karate to you, you promise learn. I say,
you do, no questions.
Daniel
LaRusso: Why didn't you tell me?
Miyagi: Tell what?
Daniel LaRusso: That
you knew karate.
Miyagi: You not ask.
Daniel LaRusso: Well, where'd you
learn it?
Miyagi: Father.
Daniel LaRusso: But I thought he was a fisherman.
Miyagi: In Okinawa, all Miyagi know two things: fish and karate.
Miyagi:
Karate come from China, sixteenth century, called te, "hand." Hundred
year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call *kara*-te, "empty hand."
Daniel LaRusso: I thought it came from Buddhist temples and stuff like that.
Miyagi: You too much TV.
Daniel
LaRusso: Oh, great, that solves everything for me. I'll just go down to the school
and straighten it out with the teacher, no problem.
Miyagi: Now use head for
something other than target.
Daniel LaRusso: Hey, I was just kidding about
that.
Miyagi: Why kidding?
Daniel LaRusso: Because I'd get killed if I
go down there.
Miyagi: Get killed anyway.
Daniel
LaRusso: Wouldn't a fly swatter be easier?
Miyagi: Man who catch fly with
chopstick accomplish anything.
Daniel LaRusso: Ever catch one?
Miyagi:
Not yet.
John
Kreese: Fear does not exist in this dojo, does it?!
Karate Student: No, Sensei!
John Kreese: Pain does not exist in this dojo, does it?!
Karate Student:
No, Sensei!
John Kreese: Defeat does not exist in this dojo, does it?!
Karate
Student: No, Sensei!
Daniel
LaRusso: This school sucks, man! Sucks!
Daniel
LaRusso: Hey, what kind of belt do you have?
Miyagi: Canvas. JC Penny. Three
ninety-eight.
Lucille
LaRusso: Palm trees, Damn! You know what that means?
Daniel LaRusso: Yea.
Watch out for falling coconuts.
Daniel
LaRusso: Hey, you got a name?
Ali Mills: Ali...with an I. Hey, what's your
name?
Daniel LaRusso: Daniel...with an L
Daniel
LaRusso: Could you teach me?
Miyagi: First learn standn learn fly. Nature
rule, Daniel San, not mine.
Daniel LaRusso: Where'd you learn it from?
Miyagi:
Father teach.
Daniel LaRusso: You musta had some father, Man.
Miyagi:
Oh yes.
[Some
drunks were drinking and setting their beer bottles on Mr. Miyagi's truck]
Miyagi:
Excuse me, please. Boy cold. Must leave. Kindly remove bottles.
Drunk: Kindry
do it yourself, Mr. Moto!
Daniel
LaRusso: I can't believe this. I cannot believe this.
Miyagi: What?
Daniel
LaRusso: What you just got me into in there.
Miyagi: Huh?
Daniel LaRusso:
You said you were going to make things better for me.
Miyagi: But I did.
Daniel
LaRusso: How?
Miyagi: How? Just saved you two months beating.
Daniel LaRusso:
Oh great now I really have something to look forward to.
Daniel
LaRusso: Hey where did these old cars come from?
Miyagi: Detroit.
Daniel
LaRusso: This damn bike! I hate this bike! I hate this frigging bike! Stupid bike!
Lucille LaRusso: Daniel! What's the matter? Why did you throw your bike away?
Daniel LaRusso: Because I felt like it!
John
Kreese: We do not train to be merciful here, mercy is for the weak. A man confronts
you in the street he is your enemy. An enemy deserves no mercy.