Quotes

I'm Not Rappaport

Nat: It's the system. Two years old, you stand up. Seventy years later, you fall down again.

Nat: I was one person for the first eighty years. Why not a hundred for the next five?

Midge: You made it up. You made it all up.
Nat Moyer: Of course.
Midge: Conned your own kid.
Nat Moyer: Go back to sleep.
Midge: That's a sin!
Nat Moyer: I did it to save a life: mine.
Midge: You're not a nice guy. I'm ashamed I even sung a song with you.
Nat Moyer: You don't understand. Nursing homes were dancing in her head. Desperate measures were required.

Nat: Hey, Rappaport! I haven't seen you in ages. How have you been?
Midge: I'm not Rappaport.
Nat: Rappaport, what happened to you? You used to be a short fat guy, and now you're a tall skinny guy.
Midge: I'm not Rappaport.
Nat: Rappaport, you used to be a young guy with a beard, and now you're an old guy with a mustache.
Midge: I'm not Rappaport.
Nat: Rappaport, how has this happened? You used to be a cowardly little white guy, and now you're a big imposing black guy.
Midge: I'm not Rappaport.
Nat: And you changed your name, too!

Clara Gelber: Everybody else got a two wheeler when they turned ten, I got a paperback copy of Das Kapital.

Nat: One more word, and I'll make a citizen's arrest for crimes against the language.

Nat Moyer: All right, let's see now. We got three possibilities. We got, uh, exile in Great Neck, Devil's Island and kindergarten. All rejected. And now if you'll excuse me, I'm a very busy person.

Nat Moyer: The proper response to the outrages is still be to be outraged. To be outraged!
Clara Gelber: Forgive me, father! I'm not on the barricades anymore. I-I haven't been imprisoned for ten years, I'm obviously worthless. If you were talking to me in jail right now, you'd be overjoyed.
Nat Moyer: Not overjoyed. Pleased maybe.
Clara Gelber: [cracks up laughing] Why the hell I am I laughing?

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Top Gap

By what name was I'm Not Rappaport (1996) officially released in Canada in English?