A character in Rudy (1993)

Fortune quotes from Rudy (1993)

Charles S. Dutton

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Fortune

You're five feet nothin'. 100 and nothin'. And you got hardly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you're also gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.

Fortune
[Rudy sneaks into Notre Dame Stadium]

Hey kid! You're not supposed to be here!

Rudy

Hey this place is really something else huh? Someday I'm gonna come out of that tunnel and I'm gonna run onto this field.

Fortune

Well it ain't gonna be this day...

Rudy

I'm here to play football for the Irish!

Fortune

Coach Parseghian know about it?

Rudy

No... not yet.

Fortune

Well maybe you best tell him first...

Fortune

Hey, hey, hey what are you doing here don't you have practice?

Rudy

Not anymore. I quit.

Fortune

Oh, well since when are you the quitting kind?

Rudy

I don't know I just don't see the point anymore.

Fortune

So you didn't make the dress list, there are greater tragedies in the world.

Rudy

I wanted to run out of that tunnel for my dad to prove to everyone that I worked...

Fortune

PROVE WHAT?

Rudy

That I was somebody.

Fortune

Oh you are so full of crap. You're 5 feet nothin', a 100 and nothin', and you got hardly a speck of athletic ability. And you hung in with the best college football team in the land for two years. And you're also gonna walk outta here with a degree from the University of Notre Dame. In this lifetime, you don't have to prove nothin' to nobody - except yourself. And after what you've gone through, if you haven't done that by now, it ain't gonna never happen. Now go on back.

Rudy

I'm sorry I never got you to see your first game in here.

Fortune

Hell I've seen too many games in this stadium.

Rudy

I thought you said you never saw a game...

Fortune

I've never seen a game from the stands.

Rudy

You were a player?

Fortune

I rode the bench for two years. Thought I wasn't bein' played because of my color. I got filled up with a lotta attitude. So I quit. Still not a week goes by I don't regret it. And I guarantee a week won't go by in your life you won't regret walkin' out, letting them get the best of ya. You hear me clear enough?

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