Andy GarciaQuotes

Margaret Strauss: Is it really good to smoke so much?

Gray Baker: No. That's why I started rolling my own. Figured it will slow me down.

Margaret Strauss: Has it?

Gray Baker: No. I just roll them faster.

Margaret Strauss: So, any new tidbits from the press?

Gray Baker: Zero. To tell you the truth, I miss the war.

Margaret Strauss: Well, what an odd thing to say.

Gray Baker: Doesn't seem to be much news anymore — all this back-to-normal stuff. The world's getting boring again.

Gray Baker: Why are you helping me?

Cozy Carlisle: I don't know. You smell good.

Gray Baker: Aren't you afraid of dying?

Roman Strauss: To die is different than what anyone supposes, and luckier.

Gray Baker: Is that a line from your opera?

Roman Strauss: [[Leaves of Grass#Song of Myself (1855; 1881)|Walt Whitman] It's ]. I can't take credit for everything, Mr. Baker.

Gray Baker: You really believe that you're lucky to die?

Roman Strauss: What I believe, Mr Baker, is that this is all far from over.

Gray Baker: I can talk baseball to a man and pay a stupid compliment to a woman. What else is there?

Michael Green: [Alice tries to interrupt] Come on, let's be real. You're clean. You stay hopeless and confused. Keep polishing those skills. And I'll take the heat. Because I got some needs of my own. When I touch my wife, I like it better if her skin doesn't crawl. My wife hurts. I need to be able to say "What's wrong, honey? Something I can do?" And I love you. So fuck me.

Raymond Avila: [after catching Dennis in his home] Get off my bed.

Dennis Peck: [about shooting Amy Wallace] Sorry about the dyke, Raymond. Cute little ass.

Dennis Peck: [spitting blood; draws a knife and slowly gets back up] You're so fucking easy, Raymond. Like a big baby with buttons all over. I push the buttons. I'm gonna miss my children. I'm gonna miss them.

Raymond Avila: Put the knife down.

Dennis Peck: [to Kathleen] You think he was aiming for my leg? That's good. That's very good, Raymond.

Raymond Avila: I'm taking you in.

Dennis Peck: [gets up; runs for Raymond with the knife, Raymond shoots Dennis twice, killing him] Fuck you. You're so correct. You do not feel because YOU do not have children. You do not know what it's like. Everything changes when you have children. You don't think about yourself anymore. You think about nothing but them. You'd go around the world for them, you SELFISH YUPPIE!

Amy Wallace: [conferring in private after Raymond offered immunity to Van Stretch] You are not authorized to make this deal. It's a violation even to offer it!

Raymond Avila: Look at him. He wants to talk. If Peck were clean, there'd be nothing to talk about.

Amy Wallace: I am the senior partner. Your mistakes go on my file! Either you retract the offer to Van or I will!

Amy Wallace: All right. How about this then? Why don't you and Dennis Peck both pull them out and I'll decide which one's bigger!

Amy Wallace: [about Dennis Peck] You're fucking him, aren't you?

Penny Stretch: Get out of my house.

Raymond Avila: I hope you got off, Pen.

Penny Stretch: GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!

Dennis Peck: [about Avila's wife] She's very pretty too. A little skinny for my taste, but they say the skinny ones give good head so...

Dennis Peck: Okay, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to fuck her for a while and teach her how to come.

Raymond Avila: Get up!

Dennis Peck: Then that way, she can show you what she likes!

Dennis Peck: [coughing blood] They said you're a pretty good boxer, Raymond. You're pretty fucking good. Not bad!

Raymond Avila: [throws a handkerchief at Peck] Clean yourself up!

Dennis Peck: Give my best to Kathleen!

Jaime Escalante: I'm Jaime Escalante. I'm the A.P. Calculus teacher from Garfield High.

Dr. Pearson: I'm Dr. Pearson and this is Dr. Ramirez.

Jaime Escalante: I feel, uh, I have a right to know why you think my students cheated.

Dr. Pearson: Mr. Escalante, I'm sorry you drove all the way out here...but we're not at liberty to discuss the controversy with you.

Jaime Escalante: I would just like to see the test, that's all.

Dr. Ramirez: Mr. Escalante, I understand what you're going through here...but I repeat, the problem is between the E.T.S. and the students.

Jaime Escalante: I would just like to see what kind of mistakes were made. Once again, I'm their teacher. I know my kids.

Dr. Pearson: Mr. Escalante, have a seat.

Jaime Escalante: No no, thank you.

Dr. Pearson: There were some...unorthodox, even illogical, computations for students of this caliber. Mistakes in simple math.

Jaime Escalante: Maybe they all made the same mistakes because they all have the same teacher teaching them the same program. I taught them step by step, all the same way.

Dr. Pearson: Look, your students averaged fewer than four wrong on the multiple choice...where other schools average, what, 14 to 18 incorrect answers? And we found out that most of your kids finished the test with time to spare.

Jaime Escalante: They should be rewarded, not punished.

Dr. Ramirez: [looks away] Mr. Escalante, the Educational Testing Service...does not act capriciously. Every major university in the United States subscribes to our service.

Jaime Escalante: I would just like to see the proof of wrongdoing. I would like to see the tests.

Dr. Ramirez: [looks away] Let me reiterate, there has been no proof of wrongdoing here, only a suspicion of cheating.

Jaime Escalante: [[w:Presumption of innocence|one is innocent until proven guilty; [w:Presumption of guilt|not the other way around] In this country ], ].

Dr. Pearson: If you are so confident of your students abilities, why not encourage them to retest?

Jaime Escalante: Why should I?

Dr. Pearson: If they don't, everyone will assume they cheated.

Jaime Escalante: Everyone will assume they cheated if they do. I want to see the test, please!

Dr. Ramirez: We're going around in circles here. Mr. Escalante, we are psychometricians, thorough to the point of boring. We're not out to get anybody.

Jaime Escalante: Not so fast. If this was a simple situation of two students cheating, that's one thing. But by making a blanket accusation, you're saying that there was a conspiracy. Every conspiracy has a leader. Who better qualify to be the leader than the teacher?

Dr. Ramirez: Mr. Escalante, nobody is accusing you here of anything.

Jaime Escalante: Not only me...the school, the parents, the entire community.

Dr. Ramirez: Scores this high, I guarantee you, will be questioned regardless of the school.

Jaime Escalante: Yes, but if this was Beverly Hills High School they wouldn't have sent you two to investigate.

Dr. Ramirez: [beat, looks away; points to Escalante] Mr. Escalante, I hope you're not insinuating that we haven't earned our position here. Cause no one has given me a damn thing. I suggest... you're letting your emotions get the best of you.

Jaime Escalante: If no one has given you a damn thing, you should not be taking it away from my kids!

Dr. Ramirez: [raising his voice; composes himself] The identity— of the students were concealed until it was determined that irregularities existed.

Jaime Escalante: Those scores would have never been questioned if my kids did not have Spanish surnames and come from barrio schools! You know that!

Dr. Ramirez: [beat, looks away] All right. We've been patiently explaining our position and listening to your complaints, but now...our conversation is over.

Jaime Escalante: There's something going on here that nobody is talking about! And you know what that is!

Dr. Ramirez: [beat, looks at Escalante] No one has the right to accuse me of racism. NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO ACCUSE ME OF RACISM!

Jaime Escalante: I KNOW WELL HOW TO SPELL DISCRIMINATION! I thought this was over a long time ago. Are you doing it this to my kids?

Dr. Pearson: [looks away, composed; looks at Escalante] There are two kinds of racism, Mr. Escalante: Singling out a group because they're members of a minority, and not singling out a group because they're members of a minority.

Jaime Escalante: My kids could teach you a thing or two, Johnny!

Dr. Pearson: I'm gonna call security if you can't control yourself, Escalante.

Jaime Escalante: Go for it! You didn't show me the test! You didn't prove anything! My kids didn't do anything! I'm gonna prove you guys wrong.

Dr. Ramirez: I hope you do, because it's not between you and me.

Jaime Escalante: Maybe not. But if I catch you on the street, I'm gonna kick the shit out of you.

Angel Guzman: We're busted, why don't we just admit it?

Dr. Ramirez: How'd you do it?

Angel Guzman: I got the test ahead of time. I passed it out to all the others.

Dr. Pearson: How did you get the test?

Angel Guzman: [pause] The mailman I strangled him and his body's decomposing in my locker.

Marsh: [''After Marsh is revealed to be Ocelot and Christmas destroys his helicopter with a rocket launcher''] You're like genital warts! Always showing up where you're not wanted and refusing to go away!

Christmas: You got something I need, Marsh. I'm coming down to get it.

Marsh: [''Throws the kill switch into the ocean''; ''Marsh's men open fire on the Expendables''] I guess you figured out that this device right here is the only thing preventing World War III, a conflict that, while devastating for many, it'll be insanely, insanely, INSANELY profitable for somebody, and that somebody is gonna be me! And the Expendables WILL TAKE ALL THE BLAME! So, enjoy the show! Kill them all!

Terry Benedict: [to Rusty Ryan; car explodes] I was asked to show some restraint. Otherwise, you would have gone out to your favorite car with all the 17 you own and as soon as you turn on the ignition-- You got two weeks.

Terry Benedict: [about Danny] Where is he, Tess? Where is... Mr. Diaz?

Mary Corleone: I'll always love you.

Vincent Mancini: Love somebody else.

Vincent Mancini: I am your son. Command me in all things.

Michael Corleone: Give up my daughter. It's the price you pay for the life you choose.

Vincent: Done.

Michael: Nephew, from this moment, call yourself Vincent Corleone.

Vincent Mancini: Don Lucchesi, you are a man of finance and politics. These things I don't understand.

Don Lucchesi: You understand guns?

Vincent: Yes.

Don Lucchesi: Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Michael Corleone: [after learning of Zasa's assassination] Don't ever again give that kind of order. Not while I'm alive. You understand?

Vincent Mancini: Uncle Mike, it had to be done. You were too sick to make a decision. I got the go-ahead from Neri. I got the go-ahead from Connie.

Michael: Connie.

Vincent: It was the right thing to do.

Michael: It was the wrong thing to do. I command this family, right or wrong. It was not what I WANTED! Understand?

Vincent: Yes.

Al Neri: Yes.

Connie Corleone-Rizzi: Yes!

Michael: [in his room] Vincent, help me to my bed. I want to talk to you alone. Your father, my brother...he and I. Opposites. But I never doubted his love. He would do anything for me. But his temper. It was too much. Clouded his judgement. I don't want to see the same thing happen to you.

Vincent Mancini: [in a helicopter] I'd like to take Joey Zasa up in one of these and drop him.

Michael Corleone: Joey Zasa is nothing. He's a small-time enforcer. He bluffs, he threatens, but nothing. You can see him coming a mile away.

Vincent: We should kill him before he kills...

Michael: No! Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Michael Corleone: Joe Zasa would never pull something like this without backing. He doesn't have the wit for that helicopter attack. He doesn't even have the ambition to wipe out the whole Commission. Certainly not the balls.

Vincent Mancini: I say we hit back and take Zasa out!

Michael: [leaning to Vincent; to Vincent, Connie and Neri] Never let anyone know what you're thinking. All right, let's get a ... let's get a message to Joey Zasa. I respect what he's done. The new overthrows the old, it's natural.

Vincent: How can you do business with this guy?

Michael: I'm a businessman, first and foremost. I want no conflict with anyone.

Vincent: Well, you can tell him from me that he can live or he can die.

Michael: Vincent, WILL YOU SHUT UP?!

Michael Corleone: You had a gun. They only had a knife. You could have talked them into surrendering. Turned them over to the police.

Vincent Mancini: Hey, Uncle Mike, Zasa sent these guys I was just sending him a message that's all.

Michael: Now he has to send you a message back.

Vincent: Joey Zasa's gonna send me a message? Joey Zasa's gonna send me a message?

Connie Corleone-Rizzi: Michael, he did the right thing. He got Zasa's name.

Michael: What's Joey Zasa got to do this this? Joey Zasa's a patso. Joey Zasa. Alright, you are what you are. It's in your nature. From now on you stick close to me. You don't go anywhere, you don't do anything, you don't talk to anyone without checking with me first, understand?

Vincent: Yeah.

Michael: I've got problems with the commission, young man!

Vincent: Yeah, I know.

Michael: You don't make them any easier.

Vincent: I know.

Michael: Alright, go on. Get out of here.

Connie: Michael.

Michael: Yes.

Connie: Now they'll fear you.

Michael: Maybe they should fear you.

Vincent Mancini: You like to gamble? Why don't we go to Atlantic City? My town. I'll show you how to gamble.

Grace Hamilton: Yeah, but I like to win. How will I know what numbers to pick?

Vincent: Do I look like a guy who's gonna lose?