Joe Mantegna Quotes

Veeko I worked at Burger King three years. This is worse than that.

Eddie Don't blame me. We'd be resting easy if Butterfingers here hadn't lost the kid.

Norby I lost the kid? I lost the kid?! Oh, well, that's news to me.

Eddie Who putted himself to sleep reading the kid's nursery story?!

Norby Who left the window open?!

Veeko That was me.

Eddie You idiots are why we don't got the kid. As far as I'm concerned, you can drop out and I'll keep the five million myself. Frankly, you don't deserve a penny!

Veeko You'd stiff us?

Norby Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Don't get hot, Eddie. Don't get hot. We're all just tired from getting torn apart.

Eddie Oh, like I like to fall off buildings and jump in ditches! That's the breaks. We're dealing with a baby. Babies are obviously more dangerous than we thought.

Norby It don't figure, Eddie. They're so small.

Eddie When I boxed, the guys I most feared were those who feared nothing. Babies are like that, they ain't afraid of nothing. Baby tracks.

Bobby Gold You sorry fucking sack of shit. You shot my partner.

Robert Randolph Yeah, man, and you could have paid me back if you would have brought your gun. That was your mistake, man.

Tim Sullivan What is this?

Bobby Gold That's the strap the guy tore off my holster.

Tim Sullivan Well, go get it fixed, will ya? Go take a cooling walk- somethin'.

Bobby Gold You mad at me?

Tim Sullivan Yeah, I'm mad at you! I'm not gonna invite you to my birthday party! You dumb kike. Go get your holster fixed.

Bobby Gold Detective Gold. Tim! She- the old lady. She gonna give him up? She gonna give him up? You got her? You worked her around. Fantastic! Oh, fuck me! Why do I always miss it? She said what? Oh, yeah, I'm the linchpin. Big deal. Oh, man. Was it sweet? I would have been there. I'm stuck here with my- my Jews. You should see this fuckin room. No, fuckin bullshit. Bunch of high-strung fuckin bullshit. They pay so much taxes- Fuck em. Yo! She did? Fan-fuckin'-tastic! What? Oh, some bullshit. Somebody's taking shots at em- hey, fuck em. Don't tell me. Don't send the old lady work down there and tell me how you're so surprised. Fuck em and the taxes they pay. You tell me. Ten more bucks a week they're makin', lettin her work down there? Hey, not my people, baby. Fuck em. There's so much anti-Semitism the last 4,000 years we must be doin somethin to bring it about. I'll see you at the house half an hour. Yo, Tim. See you then.

Eddie Norby! Veeko!

Veeko Hey! We're down here!

Norby Hey, Ed! We better go before I dry!

Veeko Ed, can you see the baby from up there? Just hang on and we'll come on up. I got an idea.

Bobby Gold Man's got no call to question my loyalty.

Tim Sullivan How's your head?

Bobby Gold He had no fuckin call to get racial on me.

Tim Sullivan So he called you one, you called him one. We get to the gym...

Bobby Gold Sonofabitch is gonna go.

Tim Sullivan Yeah, I feel it too.

Bobby Gold Piece'a cake.

Tim Sullivan Either piece'a cake or a slice'a life, you notice that?

Bobby Gold Yeah, I've remarked that, ain't that the truth?

Tim Sullivan That is the truth.

Bobby Gold We could've brought the sonofabitch with a knock onna door.

Tim Sullivan Well let's go bring him in then.

Bobby Gold That's right.

Tim Sullivan Garner summa them kudos n all that they got.

Bobby Gold That's right. FBI, man...

Tim Sullivan That's right.

Bobby Gold FBI could fuck up a baked potato.

Tim Sullivan F-B-I, couldn't find ] inna bowl of rice. Know what's needed here?

Bobby Gold What, Sully?

Tim Sullivan Police work.

Bobby Gold Yeah. Summa that police work that people talk about.

Norby Hey, Eddie, you sure you don't wanna go check to see if they left the money?

Eddie Oh, that's a good idea. We get the living hell tore out of us by a baby! Three fully grown men versus fifteen pounds of pink flesh with a mouth. Now, what chance have we got of strolling into that alley and coming out with anything less than one and forty years in prison?

Veeko No way.

Eddie No, thank you! This is a hexed situation. We walk away while we're still ahead.

Veeko We took a licking and kept on ticking.

Eddie We'll go back to banks. Dealing with grownups, I don't want no kiddy stuff.

Norby We did all right with banks.

Veeko Or a convenience store once in a while, keeps things interesting.

Eddie You know, I tell you one thing I learned from all this, I ain't never gonna have any kids of my own.

Norby Yeah, seeing as you burnt down the only tree in your forest, I wouldn't worry about it.

Eddie Why don't you shut up? I don't wanna ever hear another word about that rotten, snake-bit baby.

Michael Corleone You all know Joey Zasa. He is, I admit, an important man. His picture is on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. He gets the Esquire Magazine award for the best dressed gangster. The newspapers praise him because he hires the blacks into his family, which shows he has a good heart. Who knows, maybe someday he will make all of you popular.

Joey Zasa It's true, I make more of a bella figura. That is my nature. But I also want to make a move into legitimate enterprises. I also want a pin from the Pope. Sure, I take the blacks and the Spanish into my family, because that's America.

Michael And you guarantee that they don't deal the drugs in those neighborhoods?

Joey I don't guarantee that. I guarantee that I'll kill anyone who does.

Don Altobello Let me talk to him.

Michael Who can refuse Don Altobello?

Don Altobello Joey...

Joey No! I say to all of you that I have been treated this day with no respect! I've made you all money. And I asked for little. Good. You won't give, I'll take! As for Don Corleone, he has made it very clear today that he is my enemy! You must choose between us.

Bobby Gold What happened to the job?

Tim Sullivan Mm.

Bobby Gold Fuckin politics, man, nuthin but politics. Motherfucker called me a kike...

Tim Sullivan I heard im.

Bobby Gold Job's changed. It ain't the same job.

Tim Sullivan Job's the same...

Bobby Gold Yeah?

Tim Sullivan People dyin', people killin em. How's your head? Sonofabitch whopped you a good one.

Bobby Gold Yeah.

Tim Sullivan We get to the gym... that sonofabitch whopped you mean, you're gi'in a, bump on there. Here, uh... put the, put the meat on it, from my lunch. Put the meat on it.

Bobby Gold You're kiddin'...

Tim Sullivan Nah, it's... draw it. Really.

Bobby Gold Hey what dont'chu know?

Tim Sullivan Innit?

Bobby Gold You are one smart Indian.

Tony Gardella Tom Dale. Big star. He's in New York filming an adaptation of a sequel of a remake.

Veeko Hey, Eddie, maybe he went down a rabbit hole.

Eddie We're serious about our work. You wanna make jokes? Join the circus.

Cop 1 Have you guys seen a baby around here?

Eddie The park is full of...babies.

Cop 2 Yeah, well, there's been a kidnapping.

Norby Well, that's a crying shame. It's amazing what people will do for money.

Veeko Yeah, for five million...

Eddie If we see anything... Excuse me. If we see anything, we'll be sure to notify...

Cop 2 He's got a bad heart.

Eddie Excuse me. The police. Thank you.

Tony Gardella He's very arty, pretentious, one of those assholes who shoots all his films in black and white.