Nico Liersch credited as playing...
Rudy Steiner
- [from trailer]
- Rudy Steiner: You're stealing books? Why?
- Liesel Meminger: When life robs you, sometimes you have to rob it back.
- Rudy Steiner: Are you coming?
- Liesel Meminger: Where are you going to?
- Rudy Steiner: Isn't it obvious? I'm running away.
- Liesel Meminger: Have you thought this through?
- Rudy Steiner: Ya. I don't want to die. There - all thought through.
- Rudy Steiner: I miss my dad. I don't even know if he's alive.
- [Rudy pauses]
- Rudy Steiner: I'm not ready. I want to grow up before I die.
- Liesel Meminger: So did my brother.
- Rudy Steiner: I'm sorry.
- [he pauses again]
- Rudy Steiner: I didn't ask for this.
- Liesel Meminger: Who would?
- Rudy Steiner: I hate Hitler.
- Liesel Meminger: Me too.
- [Rudy looks at her, seemingly surprised, but satisfied. Liesel stands up and shouts out to the woods]
- Liesel Meminger: I hate Hitler!
- Rudy Steiner: [stands up as well] I hate Hitler!
- Rudy Steiner, Liesel Meminger: I hate Hitler!
- Liesel Meminger: Hitler is a monkey's ass!
- Rudy Steiner: Stick you, Hitler!
- [they laugh, and then they gradually become more serious]
- Liesel Meminger: You're all I've got, Rudy.
- Rudy Steiner: Let's go home.
- Liesel Meminger: Franz Deutscher doesn't sound very smart.
- Rudy Steiner: He's the dumbest kid in school. But he shaves.
- Rosa Hubermann: What makes you think that you are good enough for my daughter?
- Rudy Steiner: I'm almost twelve?
- Liesel Meminger: Rudy, where are you going to stay?
- Rudy Steiner: "You"? What about "we"?
- Liesel Meminger: I didn't think you were this serious.
- Rudy Steiner: What do you call this?
- [holds out his small bag]
- Rudy Steiner: Packed lunch?
- Liesel Meminger: Is there anything in there besides your soccer ball?