Little Caesar Quotes

Rico Bandello What does that bull want in here? I'll show him where he gets off... Who invited you here?

Sgt. Flaherty You're getting up in the world, aren't you, Rico?

Rico Bandello The downstairs is open to anybody, even cops, but the upstairs is private.

Sgt. Flaherty Thanks, but I like to keep my eye on you, Rico. You see, I'm your friend. I like to see a young fellow getting up in the world. That's all. So long.

Sgt. Flaherty You'd better give up, Rico. You haven't got a chance.

Rico Bandello You want me, you'll have to come and get me.

Sgt. Flaherty You'd better be a nice boy, Enrico, and come out.

Rico Bandello You heard me. If you want me, you'll have to come and get me.

Sgt. Flaherty I'll be with you in a minute... This is your last chance, Rico. Are you coming out or do you want to be carried out?

Sgt. Flaherty Well, Rico, it looks like you and I are going to take that little ride together.

Rico Bandello No, no, we ain't. I told you, little buzzard like you will never put any cuffs on me.

Sgt. Flaherty You should have come out when I told you to, Rico.

Rico Bandello Mother of Mercy! Is this the end of Rico?

Rico Bandello Underworld pays respects to Diamond Pete Montana.

Joe Massara Ah, what's that gotta do with the price of eggs?

Rico Bandello Plenty. Diamond Pete Montana. He doesn't have to waste his time on cheap gas stations. He's somebody. He's in the big town, doing things in a big way. And look at us, just a couple of nobodies, nothin'.

Joe Massara Is that what you want, Rico? A party like that for you? "Caesar Enrico Bandello. Honored by his friends.

Rico Bandello I could do all the things that fella does, and more, only I never got my chance. Why, what's there to be afraid of? And when I get in a tight spot, I shoot my way out of it. Why sure. Shoot first and argue afterwards. You know, this game ain't for guys that's soft!

Joe Massara Yeah, there's money in the big town, all right. And the women. Good times, something doing all the time. Exciting things, you know. The clothes I could wear. And then I'd quit, Rico. I'd go back to dancing, like I used to before I met you. I don't know. I ain't made for this sort of thing. Dancing. That's what I wanna do.

Rico Bandello Dancing? Women? And where do they get you? I don't want no dancing. I'm figuring on making other people dance. Oh, I ain't forgetting about the money. Money's okay, but it ain't everything. Be somebody. Look hard at a bunch of guys and know they'll do anything you tell them. Have your own way or nothing. Be somebody.

Joe Massara You'll get there, Rico.

Rico Bandello Yeah.

Joe Massara You'll show them.

Rico Bandello You know, this was our last stand in this burg. We're pulling out.

Joe Massara Where are we going?

Rico Bandello East. Where things break big.

Sgt. Flaherty So somebody finally put one in you.

Rico Bandello Yeah, but they just grazed me, though.

Sgt. Flaherty The old man will be glad to hear it. He takes such an interest in you.

Rico Bandello Are you telling me the cops couldn't get me no other way, so they hired a couple of gunmen?

Sgt. Flaherty If I wasn't on the force, I'd have done the job cheap.

Rico Bandello Did you ever stop to think what you'd look like with a lily in your hand?

Sgt. Flaherty No, I never did. I've been in this game a good many years, and I put the cuffs on a lot of mugs. Some day, you and I are gonna take a ride, Rico. And when we do, I'll have the cuffs on you too.

Rico Bandello No buzzard like you would ever put any cuffs on Rico.

Sgt. Flaherty I'm gonna get that swell-headed mug if it's the last thing I ever do.

Sam Vettori Well, everything come off all right? Tell me.

Rico Bandello Everything was all right. Only I had to take care of a guy.

Sam Vettori Who was it?

Rico Bandello McClure.

Sam Vettori McClure. You shot McClure. A million guys in this town, and you had to pick the crime commissioner. What did I tell you, Rico? Didn't I say to make it clean? Didn't I say no gunplay?

Rico Bandello Think I'm going to let a guy pull a gat on me? Any more of these cracks, and this is my last job.

Sam Vettori The head of the crime commission. The Big Boy can't do us no good this trip. They'll get us dead sure now. What am I gonna do?

Rico Bandello Why don't you go and give yourself up? You're slipping, Sam.

Sam Vettori And Tony, what about him? Where is he?

Otero Getting rid of the car. Tony got nervous. He's just like a big baby.

Sam Vettori What a fine pickle we're in. You and that rod of yours.

Rico Bandello Yeah, dancing's all right for a sideline. It gives you a swell front. But it ain't my idea of a man's game.

Joe Massara What's the difference Rico, as long as I ain't kickin', why should you kick?

Rico Bandello Who's kicking? Why should a young guy like you be wasting his time? And I kinda took pride in ya, Joe. Brought you into the gang, pushed you ahead, but now you're gettin to be a sissy.

Rico Bandello We started off together, didn't we? Well, we gotta keep going along together. Who else have I got to give a hang about? I need ya, Joe. I got the biggest chance of my life. The Big Boy just handed me the whole North Side, but it's too much for one man to handle alone. I need somebody, somebody to work in with me, a guy like you. Somebody I can trust.

Joe Massara It can't be me, Rico. I've quit.

Rico Bandello You didn't quit. Nobody ever quit me. You're still in my gang. Do you get that? (grabbing his lapel) I don't care how many fancy skirts you got hangin on to you. That Jane of yours can go hang. It's her that's made a softie out of you.

Joe Massara You lay off Olga...

Rico Bandello I ain't layin off of her. I'm after her. One of us is gonna lose and it ain't gonna be me. There's ways of stoppin that dame.

Joe Massara You're crazy! Leave her out of this.

Rico Bandello Aw, she's through. She's out of the way, that's what she is.

Joe Massara You're lying. You wouldn't dare.

Rico Bandello I wouldn't, wouldn't I? I'll show ya.

Joe Massara I love her. We're in love with one another. Doesn't that mean nothin to ya?

Rico Bandello Nothin'. Less than nothin'. Love! Soft stuff! When she's got you, you ain't no good for anything. We ain't out of this yet. Now we don't want no softies spilling things.

Joe Massara I ain't gonna spill anything if that's what you're scared of.

Rico Bandello You go back to that dame and it's suicide. Suicide for both of ya.

Joe Massara Once in the gang, you know the rest.

Olga Stassoff I don't want to know. Only maybe, maybe it could be different this time, if we try.

Joe Massara I've never seen a guy that could get away with it yet.

Rico Bandello Little Caesar has never been found. According to the statement of Thomas Flaherty of the homicide squad, Little Caesar, the once-swaggering braggart of the underworld, wilted in the face of real danger and showed the world his cowardice. Flaherty stated further that Little Caesar has contradicted his oft-repeated boast that he could dish it out and take it too. When a real crisis arose, Rico couldn't take it. Flaherty ended his interview by remarking: Me-te-or-ic was Rico's rise from the gutter. It was in-ev-i-ta-ble that he should return there. This is Rico speaking. Rico! R-I-C-O! Rico! Little Caesar, that's who! Listen, you crummy, flat-footed copper, I'll show you whether I've lost my nerve and my brains!

Rico Bandello Aaahhhh....all I need is a napkin over my arm!

Olga Stassoff Why, Joe...Joey.

Joe Massara What is it? What's the matter?

Olga Stassoff Nothing. It's all right. The joint's been held up, that's all.

Joe Massara Held up?

Olga Stassoff They...They shot McClure. Joe.

Joe Massara Now you know.

Olga Stassoff It was you.

Joe Massara No. No, it's a lie! I...

Olga Stassoff You shot McClure.

Joe Massara No, I didn't, I swear. It wasn't me that shot him. It was...I don't know who. But it's our hips for this job, all right.

Olga Stassoff Maybe... Maybe everything will be all right, Joey. Maybe he wasn't hurt badly. But you're through with that bunch. You don't belong, Joe. You're not that kind. You'll never go near them again.

Joe Massara Olga...you can't go back on the gang.

Joe Massara Say, what's the big idea of the rush anyway?

Rico Bandello It's a little job we need you for. A little job at the Bronze Peacock.

Joe Massara What do you mean? Are you trying to kid me or something? How can I take the chance? They're all my friends, they all know me.

Rico Bandello That's why, they'll never suspect you. Now, don't stall, Joe.

Joe Massara I ain't stalling. You gotta get me out of this, Rico. You gotta. I don't want to...Well, don't you see, I'm working steady now, and...Can't a guy ever say he's through?

Rico Bandello You're gonna be in on this, and you'll like it.

Rico Bandello Now, listen, Sam, Joe's all right. He's the best front man in the world. Why, he can go to a swell hotel and order a suite, a suite, and it's all right. Without Joe, we can't pull the job, and you know it.

Sam Vettori What's that paper?

Rico Bandello It's this layout I've been figuring out with Scabby.

Sam Vettori What, this nightclub job?

Rico Bandello Yeah.

Sam Vettori Well, let me see it. And until I say different, nobody's gonna plan for this mob but me. You get me?

Pete Montana Now, listen, boys. Watch this guy McClure, what's head of the new crime commission. He's putting the screws on, and make no mistake about him. Now, the Big Boy wants me to tell you guys to put the chains on your gorillas for the next few months. Because if any of them go too far, it'll be just too bad.

Sam Vettori I've never seen nobody the Big Boy couldn't get to. He can fix anything. That's why he's the Big Boy. This bird McClure will be pie for him. He'll twist him around his little finger.

Pete Montana Don't kid yourself. Nobody's squaring nothing with McClure. Not even the Big Boy. Small jobs, that's different. We could spring guys for them. But shooting? No, sir. It's guys like this torpedo of yours that cause all the trouble.

Sam Vettori Who, Rico? He's all right. He's a little quick on the trigger, but that's because he's new.

Pete Montana Yeah? Well, it's us that'll swing for him if he shoots at the wrong time.

Rico Bandello I've taken orders from you too long.

Sam Vettori You'll keep on taking orders too or you'll get out of here so fast...

Rico Bandello Maybe it won't be me that gets out.

Sam Vettori No? Well, maybe the boys have got something to say about that. What about it? So, that's it, huh?

Rico Bandello Yeah, that's it, all right. You can dish it out, but you're getting so you can't take it no more. You're through. Well?

Sam Vettori Well, the split's okay with me, Rico.

Rico Bandello How about you boys? No hard feelings, Sam? We gotta stick together. There's a rope around my neck right now, and they only hang you once. If anybody turns yellow and squeals, my gun's gonna speak its piece.

Rico Bandello You see, Otero. There's no use in being scared of any of these big guys. The bigger they come, the harder they fall. Yeah, I ain't doin so bad in this business so far.