Steven Keats Quotes

Jackie Brown This life's hard man, but it's harder if you're stupid!

Jackie Brown And keep this mind. I've got more than five machine guns, and the rest are gonna be pointed at you.

Jackie Brown You can't trace these guns, I guarantee that.

Eddie Fingers Coyle You better, or neither of us will be able to shake hands.

Eddie Fingers Coyle All right, nothing. I wished I had a nickel for every name I got that was all right.

Eddie Fingers Coyle Look at that. You know what that is?

Jackie Brown Your hand.

Eddie Fingers Coyle I hope you look closer at those guns than you did at that hand. Look at your own goddamn hand.

Jackie Brown Yeah?

Eddie Fingers Coyle Count your fuckin knuckles.

Jackie Brown All of em?

Eddie Fingers Coyle Count as many as you want. As many as you got, I got four more. You know how I got those? I bought some stuff from a man. I knew his name. The stuff was traced. The guy I bought it for, he's at MCI Walpole for fifteen to twenty-five. Still in there. But he had some friends. I got an extra set of knuckles. They put your hand in a drawer then somebody kicks the drawer shut. Hurt like a bastard.

Jackie Brown Jesus.

Eddie Fingers Coyle What makes it hurt worse, what makes it hurt more is knowing what's going to happen to you, you know? There you are, they just come up to you and say, "Look. You made somebody mad. You made a big mistake and now there's somebody doing time for it. There's nothing personal in it, you understand, but it just has to be done. Now get your hand out there." You think about not doing it, you know. When I was a kid in Sunday school, this nun, she used to say, "Stick your hand out." I stick my hand out. Whap! She'd knock me across the knuckles with a steel-edge ruler. So one day I says, when she told me, "Stick your hand out," I says, "No." She whapped me right across the face with the ruler. Same thing. They put your hand in a drawer, somebody kicks the drawer shut. Ever hear bones breaking? Just like a man snapping a shingle. Hurts like a bastard.

Eddie Fingers Coyle One of the first things I learned is never to ask a man why he's in a hurry. All you got to know is I told the man that he could depend on me because you told me I could depend on you. Now one of us is gonna have a big fat problem. Another thing I learned. If anybody's gonna have a problem, you're gonna be the one.

Jackie Brown You finished?

Eddie Fingers Coyle No, I am not finished. Look, I'm gettin old, you hear? I spent most of my life hanging around crummy joints with a buncha punks drinkin the beer, eatin the hash and the hot dogs and watchin the other people go off to Florida while I'm sweatin out how I'm gonna pay the plumber. I done time and I stood up but I can't take no more chances. Next time, it's gonna be me goin to Florida. And listen: you're still a kid. And you come out, you go around, you say "look, I'm a man, you can take what I say and it happens, I go through". Well, you're learning something too, my friend, and I advise you to learn it right now: when you say that, when you get me out there all by myself on what you say, you better be right there in back of me. Because when you say "it happens", it's gonna fuckin happen. If it don't, you've got your thing caught in the zipper.

Jackie Brown Now just--

Eddie Fingers Coyle Now I don't want any talk from you and any shit from you. I want ten guns. I want em tomorrow night. I'll be right there with the money, same place where we were before. I'll be there with the money, you'll be there with those goddamn guns. Because if you ain't, I'll be lookin for you, and I'll find you, too. Because I ain't the only one that's gonna be lookin for you. And we know how to find people.