John Turturro

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John Turturro
Birthday
February 28th, 1957
From
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Actor

John Turturro Highlights

The Cut - Orlando Bloom and John Turturro Scene
The Cut - Orlando Bloom as the fighter and John Turturro as coach
The Cut - Orlando Bloom and John Turturro in the Desert
Severance Season 1 - Monday's Video Short
Severance Season 2 - The Team in the Hallway
Severance Season 2 - John Turturro and Zach Cherry Intense Moment

John Turturro Biography

John Michael Turturro (born February 28, 1957) is an American-Italian actor, writer and filmmaker, known for his association with the independent film movement. He has appeared in over sixty feature films and has worked frequently with the Coen brothers, Adam Sandler and Spike Lee. He began his acting career on-screen in the early 1980s, and received early critical recognition with the independent film Five Corners (1987).

Turturro's mainstream breakthrough came with Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989) and the Coens' Miller's Crossing (1990) and Barton Fink (1991), for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His subsequent roles included Herb Stempel in Quiz Show (1994), Jesus Quintana in The Big Lebowski (1998) and The Jesus Rolls (2020), Pete Hogwallop in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), Seymour Simmons in the Transformers film series and is set to play Carmine Falcone in The Batman.

In 2016, in a lead role, he portrayed a lawyer in the HBO miniseries The Night Of and had a recurring role in the miniseries The Plot Against America in 2020. An Emmy Award winner, Turturro has also been nominated for four Screen Actors Guild Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and four Independent Spirit Awards. He directed Mac (1992), which won the Golden Camera Award at the Cannes Film Festival, Illuminata (1998), and Romance and Cigarettes (2005).

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Combat Perspectives and Competitive Tensions

Walter Sobchak: [talking to The Dude; [w:M16 rifle|M16; [w:M1 Abrams|Abrams fucking tank; [w:Viet Cong|Charlie] We're gonna see some tank battles. Fighting in desert is very different from fighting in canopy jungle. I mean, that was a foot-soldier's war whereas this thing here should, uh, you know, should be a piece of cake. I mean, I had an ] Jacko, not an ]. Me and ], eyeball to eyeball. That's fucking combat. The man in the black pajamas, Dude. Worthy fuckin adversary.
Donny: Who was in pajamas, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: Shut the fuck up, Donny. Whereas what we have here: Bunch of fig-eaters wearin towels on their head tryin to find reverse on a Soviet tank. This is not a worthy fuckin adversary..
Jesus Quintana: Hey! What's this "day of rest" shit?! What's this bullshit? I don't fuckin care! It don't matter to Jesus. But you're not foolin me, man. You might fool the fucks in the league office, but you don't fool Jesus. This bush-league psych out stuff. Laughable, man. Ha ha! I would have fucked you in the ass Saturday. I fuck you in the ass next Wednesday instead. Woo! You got a date Wednesday, baby!
Walter Sobchak: ...He's crackin'.
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Theories on a Kidnapping Scenario

The Dude: She probably kidnapped herself.
Walter Sobchak: Huh?
Donny: What do you mean, Dude?
The Dude: Rug peers did not do this. Look at it! A young trophy wife marries this guy for his money. she figures he isn't given her enough, you know. She owes money all over town.
Walter Sobchak: That fucking bitch.
The Dude: [[w:Vladimir Lenin|Lenin] It's all a goddamn fake, man! It's like ] said: You look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh, you know—
Donny: [[:w:I am the walrus|I am the walrus] ]"?
The Dude: You know what I'm trying to say?
Donny: I am the walrus.
Walter Sobchak: That fucking bitch
The Dude: Oh yeah!
Donny: I am the walrus.
Walter Sobchak: That's ex— Shut the fuck up, Donny! V.I. Lenin! Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Donny: What the fuck is he talking about?
Walter Sobchak: Fuckin exactly what happened to those— That makes me fuckin sick!
The Dude: Well, what do you care, Walter?
Walter Sobchak: Those rich fucks! This whole fuckin thing! I did not watch my buddies die face-down in the muck so this fuckin strumpet, this fuckin whore could waltz around town–
The Dude: Walter, Walter, I don't see any connection to Vietnam, man.
Walter Sobchak: Well there isn't a literal connection, Dude.
The Dude: Walter, face it. There isn't any connection. Your roll.
Walter Sobchak: Have it your way, but my point that—
The Dude: Your roll.
Walter Sobchak: My point is—
Jesus Quintana: Are you ready to be fucked, man? I see you rolled your way into the semis. Dios mio, man. Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up!
The Dude: Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.
Jesus Quintana: Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger til it goes "click".
The Dude: Jesus.
Jesus Quintana: You said it, man. Nobody fucks with The Jesus.
Walter Sobchak: Eight year olds, Dude.
Bunny: [on video] You must be here to fix the cable.
Maude Lebowski: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here.
The Dude: He fixes the cable?
Maude Lebowski: Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.

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