George Chakiris Quotes

Anita ], my heart's devotion,Let it sink back in the ocean.Always the hurricanes blowing,Always the population growingAnd the money owing,And the sunlight streamingAnd the natives steaming.I like the island of Manhattan,Smoke on your pipe and put that in!

Girls I like to be in America,OK by me in America,Everything free in America!

Bernardo For a small fee in America.

Anita Buying on credit is so nice.

Bernardo One look at us and they charge twice.

Schrank You hoodlums don't own these streets. And I've had all the rough-house I can put up with around here. You want to kill each other? Kill each other, but you ain't gonna do it on my beat. Are there any questions?

Bernardo Yes, sir. Would you mind translating that into Spanish?

Schrank Get your friends out of here, Bernardo - and stay out - please.

Bernardo Okay, Sharks. Vamonos.

Schrank Boy, as if this neighborhood wasn't crummy enough. Now look, fellas. Fellas? Look, let's be reasonable, huh? If I don't get a little law and order around here, I get busted down to a traffic corner. And your friend don't like traffic corners. So that means you're gonna start makin nice with the PRs from now on. I said nice - GET IT! Cause if you don't, and I catch any of ya doing any more brawlin in my territory, I'm gonna personally beat the living crud out of each and every one of yas and see that you go to the can and rot there. Say goodbye to the nice boys, Krupke.

Krupke Goodbye boys.

Bernardo Now I will not say these things to spoil your evening or to hear myself talk. I am here longer than you, Maria...Someday, when you're an old married woman with five children, then you can tell me what to do. Right now, it's the other way around. Now go to bed.

Anita He's the old married woman. You know, she has a mother. Also a father.

Bernardo They do not know this country any better than she does.

Anita And you do not know it at all. Girls here are free to have fun. She is in America now.

Bernardo Puerto Rico is in America now.

Anita Sometimes I don't know which is thicker. Your skull or your accent.