Least that was the handle that his loving parents gave him. But he never had much use for it himself.
8 seconds sound clip from the The Big Lebowski movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:00:48 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- See them tumbling down, pledging their love to the ground.
- Way out West there was this fella. Fella I wanna tell you about.
- Fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.
- This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
- Now Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
- But then again, maybe that's why I found the place so darned interesting.
- They call Los Angeles the City of Angels. I didn't find it to be that, exactly.
[...]
The Big Lebowski Sound Clip
Actors: Jeff Bridges (Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski), John Goodman (Walter Sobchak), Julianne Moore (Maude Lebowski)
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