Armand Assante Quotes

John Hawks I'm gonna tell you right now!! You cut my head off before you cut these trees!!

Sanchez You're a dreamer.

Columbus Tell me, what do you see?

Sanchez I see rooftops, I see palaces, I see towers, I see spires that reach... to the sky! I see civilization!

Columbus All of them built by people like me.

Columbus No matter how long you live, Sanchez, there is something that will never change between us. I did it. You didn't.

John Hawks The environment is us. And it's being mangled. And I'm gonna make something very clear to you. My people are violently ill. They're beginning to lose their faculties. They stagger and they fall, and this has nothing to do with alcohol, as these villagers claim. My people are fishermen; their lives are clean.

Queen Isabella I. I have looked for a reason why I should allow you to go back and although I've tried I couldn't find one. Help me find one.

Columbus All my life I have dreamt of reaching the continent. I thought my dreams grandiose. But reality was beyond my expectations. Far beyond. And now I want to explore that land before I die.

Queen Isabella I. I allow you to undertake another voyage. But without your brothers. Nor for you to return to Santo Domingo or any other colonies. The New World is a disaster.

Columbus And the old one an achievement?

Queen Isabella I. I know. I shouldn't tolerate his impertinence.

Sanchez Then why?

Queen Isabella I. Because he is not afraid of me.

Det. Luis Valentin Your ass was grassed man and he went in there, with lead pipe, and he saved your ass... And now you're gonna deny him over his dead body? Man, Cobarde!

Bobby Texador Cobarde?

Det. Luis Valentin Yeah! You fucking coward! Tony loved you like a brother, man. He worked for you since...

Bobby Texador You know, we knew you was a punk then but you're being a punk now. Yeah, detective, come on, you couldn't find a fucking Jew in Rockaway. You know, you got a badge and a gun but you're still a punk so shut the fuck up.