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A Better Tomorrow Quotes

"Brothers by blood. Enemies by chance. Killers by nature."

R 1986 · 1h 35m
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9 quotes
Desire for Change and Self-Respect
Mark Lee That's enough!!! I don't need your pity!!...You don't owe me anything! I would never force my own friends to do something they wouldn't do! I have my own principles! I just don't want to live like this anymore!!...Do you think I like to beg!?...I've been in bad shape for three years, waiting for this opportunity! This is my only chance, not to prove that I'm the best, but to simply take back what I have lost!!!...Look at yourself. Look at what you've become!!...Back then, people rejected you! Now, you can't even take two steps without someone following you!!! Have you ever fought for a chance? You never have. Never!!!...I don't want to be like you...
Confrontation and Courage in Crisis
Mark Lee Kid, don't point the gun at my head! If you have the guts, shoot me dead! Shoot me...shoot me!
Blood Ties and Unlikely Rivalries
Taglines Brothers by blood. Enemies by chance. Killers by nature.
The Beginning of a New Era
Taglines The movie that began it all.........
Business or Nonsense in Conversation
Tse-Kit Sung What did Shing talk to you about?
Ho Tse Sung Bullshit.
Tse-Kit Sung Don't play with me. You weren't in there for a drink. Were you talking business or bullshit?
Ho Tse Sung Just bullshit.
Tse-Kit Sung What are the shipments?
Ho Tse Sung I don't know.
Tse-Kit Sung When is the arrival? Where?
Ho Tse Sung I don't know.
Tse-Kit Sung ...How can you be the Big Boss if you don't know anything!?
Ho Tse Sung Kit...
Tse-Kit Sung Don't ever call me Kit again! Call me "Officer!
Ho Tse Sung Officer... I haven't been the Big Boss for a long time.
Tse-Kit Sung Where do you work?
[writes on his notepad]
Ho Tse Sung United Taxi Company.
Tse-Kit Sung Legit work... Robbing people with a cab? Huh? Where do you live?
Ho Tse Sung United Taxi Company.
Tse-Kit Sung So someone decides to shelter criminals like you?
A Path to Redemption and Understanding
Sung Tse-Ho Kit, you're right. We live in separate worlds apart. Your world is the right one...I may have taken the wrong path, but I am willing to make things right again, even if it's not too late.
Control and Destiny in Human Experience
Ho Tse Sung Do you believe there's a God?
Mark Gor Yes. I'm a God. A god can be human. Anyone who controls their own destiny can be a god.
Ho Tse Sung Sometimes, there are things you can't control.
Mark Gor You win some, you lose some.
The Harsh Lessons of Gangster Life
Mark Gor You think learning will help you? Don't think reading gangster books will make you the boss. Have you ever had a gun pointed at your head? You haven't. Twelve years ago... It's been twelve years, right? For the first time, I went with Ho to bring goods to Indonesia. The boss there treated us to dinner in the night club. I said something wrong to displease the boss. Next thing I knew, there were two guns pointed at my head. I was forced to drink a bottle of whiskey. I was so scared, I pissed my pants! Fortunately, Ho was there and drank the whole bottle of whiskey for me. But guess what, it got even worse after that. Now there's four guns were pointed at my head! You know they made me drink? Piss. Drinking piss in a night club! You want learning? That's learning!...And that's how we got through our first job.
Ho Tse Sung That's all in the past. Forget about it.
Mark Gor No! I...I have never cried before; that was the first time I cried. I swore right then that I'd never let anyone point a gun at my head again!
Conflicted Loyalties and a Father's Legacy
Sung Tse-Kit Father was killed because of him! Why should you force me to accept him now!? He has no one to blame but himself!! I'm a cop, he's a criminal...in the eyes of the law, we are traveling on separate paths...