(after Joe fails to impress anyone with his drumming skills)
I'm sorry, there's not gonna be any rock n roll tonight. This is all that's left! This is all that's left of the rolling thunder of America's heartbeat!
Joe F. Grotowski
Jerry O'Connell · 7 quotes
Ralph Roach
Billy West · 5 quotes
Walter Shit
Jim Turner · 5 quotes
Most scenes together: Joe F. Grotowski & Walter Shit (2)
Joe's Apartment quotes
(finding a cockroach on a half-eaten sandwich)
That is the biggest, greasiest bug I've ever seen. (The cockroach flies off and Joe shrugs before taking a bite out of the sandwich)
(thinking about a letter he wants to write)
Dear Mom, I arrived in New York, safe and sound. (a mugger jumps out from behind a bus, beats up Joe and takes some of his belongings) Dear Mom, I arrived in New York, safe and sound... (a second mugger a short distance away does the same thing) Dear Mom, I arrived in New York- (a third mugger does the same thing too) Dear Mom... (the last mugger holds a gun at Joe's head at gunpoint) please send money!
(trying to distract a cat with a comedy act)
Anyone here from New Jersey? What exit? Bada-bing!
(trying to find the address where he is assigned to collect urinal cakes)
East 161st Street and River Avenue? East 161st Street and River Avenue! (he finds it only to realize it's Yankee Stadium)
[comes out of the pocket of Joe's shirt holding a condom]
I think you'll be needing one of these, Joe! [Joe hastily pushes the roach and condom back down]
(After Joe unsuccessfully tries killing the roaches) (pointing a can of bug spray at Joe's face while he's tied down)
Any last words, Joe?
Don't kill me.
(Joe walks out of the apartment building wearing a suit for a job interview. Suddenly, a bucket of paint drops on top of him.)
Congratulate me! This is the first of my works to use paint. I call this piece "Instant Minority." I did the whole block!
But people are black, or white, or brown; NOBODY'S PURPLE!
Periwinkle! You're now the world's smallest minority.
Dammit, Walter, how'm I s'posed to get a job looking like this?
Know how to play the drums?
No.
Perfect! Want a job? (man in beanie runs in front of them, turns, and fires ten shots from a handgun) I'm doing a musical performance at Gusto House. You can sit in for my regular drummer: he's dead.
Uhh... sure... what? He's dead?
(chuckling)
Actually, it's a pretty funny story. You see, there's this crack dealer in our building, and so my drummer- (two cops run up and start firing down the street at the man in the beanie, drowning out Walter's story) slit his throat, you know, so badly that his own mom couldn't identify him at the morgue. (laughs) I'm going to miss that guy. So, is it a deal?
Well...
Excellent!
You see? There's really no way to get a rent-controlled apartment.
No way at all?
Well, I mean, only if it's like, your mom's apartment, and, y'know, she, like, croaks! (Mrs. Grotowski walks out of the apartment building) Oh, how ya doin', Mrs. Grotowski! (Mrs. Grotowski coughs up her keys, which land in Joe's hand)
Oh my God!
Joe! Mrs. Grotowski doesn't have any family. You pose as her son, take her apartment!
What?!? I... I couldn't...!
Your apartment? I believe we were here first. And we'll be here last too. We've gotta long-time lease on this planet.
[after saving Ralph's life from the cat]
Yeah? Well, stop following me to work already! For god's sake.
A rent-controlled apartment is one where the rent's been frozen since like the forties. But places like that are hard to find because no one ever leaves them. Unless their landlord's give them a little help.
Giving up?! What made roaches outlast the dinosaurs? Because roaches never give up! They can stomp us, they can pop us, but they'll never ever stop us! And one day, the Great H bomb's gonna drop, and we'll have the whole stinkin' planet to ourselves!
I need you to fill in for my drummer this Saturday. He's dead.