Prizzi's Honor Quotes

Charley Partanna Pop? Charley. I'm in L.A., and that ain't all. I'm gonna get married.

Angelo Pop Partanna Ah, the same woman, the contractor?

Charley Partanna Yeah. She's Polish, but the family will get used to that gradually.

Angelo Pop Partanna Yeah, every time she walks in a room, all the rest of the women in the family are gonna have to shut up. But I know how you feel about it, Charley. I won't try to stop nature. Good luck, son.

Charley Partanna Thanks, pop.

Angelo Pop Partanna Say listen, the Don wants you here for a big meeting tomorrow night.

Charley Partanna Jesus, Pop, what about my honeymoon?

Angelo Pop Partanna Well, you'll have it in Brooklyn!

Charley Partanna Aw, shit.

Maerose Prizzi So let's do it.

Charley Partanna With all the lights on?

Maerose Prizzi Yeah. Right here. On the Oriental. With all the lights on.

Don Corrado Prizzi Charley, you swore an oath of blood, my blood and yours, that you would always put the family before anything else in your life. We are calling on you to keep that sacred oath.

Charley Partanna Irene is my family. She's my wife.

Angelo Pop Partanna Charley, she is a woman you have known only for a few weeks. She is your wife. We are your life.

Charley Partanna I met her in a church. It just happened. I knew she was the woman for me. She'd organized the scam in Vegas. I go looking for the bad guy and it turns out to be my woman, can you imagine this? Not only that - Pop tells me she's the piece man for the Nettabino contract. Just the same, I love her, Mae... I love her.

Maerose Prizzi Well...

Charley Partanna How can I live with this? I gotta do something about it. I gotta straighten it out.

Maerose Prizzi Then do.

Charley Partanna Do what? Do I ice her? Do I marry her? Which one of these?

Maerose Prizzi Marry her, Charley. Just because she's a thief and a hitter doesn't mean she's not a good woman in all the other departments. If she was some kind of fashion model, well it wouldn't last more than thirty days. But you and she is in the same line of business. You are lucky you found each other, you know that, Charley?

Charley Partanna Yeah, I guess.

Maerose Prizzi She's an American! She had a chance to make a buck so she grabbed it. Marry her, Charley. Then at least I'll be able to get something out of it... I'll be able to go back in the family.

Charley Partanna Yeah.

Irene Walker I can't get over it. What kinda creep wouldn't catch a baby? If it was real it coulda been crippled for life.

Charley Partanna He wasn't paid to bodyguard the baby.

Eduardo Prizzi Dominic put out a contract on me...

Dominic Prizzi He's a fuckin liar!

Eduardo Prizzi You wanna hear the letter? Then listen, don't talk. There's about a 130 million dollars here, maybe more. We gotta renegotiate before we get it back. Just shut up and listen. Go on, sit down. Go on. "Dominic will say it's a lot of bullshit. But it so happens he hired my own wife and he gave her a down payment of 50 thousand dollars and my wife is sittin here next to me and she's laughin like hell. I personally think the Don found Dominic on a doorstep because Dominic is fifty times too dumb to be a Prizzi!

Irene Walker Charley, I've been doin three to four hits a year for the past couple of years, most at full pay.

Charley Partanna That many?

Irene Walker Well, it's not many when you consider the size of the population.

Charley Partanna Marxie Heller so fuckin smart, how come he's so fuckin dead?