Mean Streets Quotes

Mean Streets is a television show that appeared on TV in 1970 . Mean Streets stopped airing in 1970.

It features Jonathan Taplin as producer, and Kent L. Wakeford as head of cinematography.

Mean Streets is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Mean Streets is 112 minutes long. Mean Streets is distributed by Warner Bros..

The cast includes: Harvey Keitel as Charlie, Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy, Richard Romanus as Michael Longo, Martin Scorsese as Jimmy, David Proval as Tony DeVienazo, and Cesare Danova as Giovanni Cappa.

Mean Streets Quotes

Richard Romanus as Michael Longo

• (Richard Romanus) "You don't have the guts to use that."
• (Robert De Niro) "I don't, huh? I don't have the guts? Come here, asshole. Come over here. I'll put this up your ass."

Harvey Keitel as Charlie

• (Harvey Keitel) "Look -- I'll give ya $20 to hold ya for now."
• (Richard Romanus) "What, are ya kidding? $20 doesn't pay the interest for 2 hours. Now, with a vig, it's almost $3000."
• (Harvey Keitel) "$3000? s***, you charge a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig? One day he's late with his payments."
• (Richard Romanus) "Whatta ya think I am, his father?"

• (Harvey Keitel) "It's all bulls*** except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't f*** around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart -- your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know -- the worst of the two is the spiritual."

• (Harvey Keitel) "What's the matter with you?"

• (Harvey Keitel) "Twenty dollars. Let's go da movies."

• (Harvey Keitel) "You know something? She is really good-lookin'. I gotta say that again. She is really good-lookin'. But she's black. You can see that real plain, right? Look, there isn't much of a difference anyway, is there. Well, is there?"

• (Harvey Keitel) "You know what the Queen said? If I had balls, I'd be King."

Robert De Niro as Johnny Boy

• (Robert De Niro) "I always wondered what happens when she comes. Does she have a fit?"

• (Robert De Niro) "You two-faced, dirty f***ing bastard. Don't you ever hit me again."

• (Robert De Niro) "What's the matter, you too good for this ten dollars? Huh? You too good for it? It's a good ten dollars. Know somethin' Mikey? You make me laugh. You know that?"

• (Robert De Niro) "Hey, why don't you lower the jukebox, I can't hear nothin'."
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "Hey, the girls like the music loud."
• (Robert De Niro) "Girls. You call those skanks girls?"
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "Hey, what's a matter with this kid, huh?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Hey, there ain't nothin' wrong with me my friend, I'm feelin' fine."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Keep your mouth shut."
• (Robert De Niro) "You tell me that in front of this asshole?"
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "Alright, alright, we're not gonna pay. We're not paying."
• (Martin Scorsese) "But why? Joey, we just said we were gonna have a drink."
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "We're not payin', because this guy, this guy's a f***in' mook."
• (Martin Scorsese) "But I didn't say nothin'."
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "And we don't pay mooks."
• (Martin Scorsese) "Mook? I'm a mook?"
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "Yeah"
• (Martin Scorsese) "What's a mook?"
• (Robert De Niro) "A mook, what's a mook?"
• (David Proval) "I don't know --"
• (Robert De Niro) "What's a mook?"
• (Martin Scorsese) "You can't call me a mook."
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "I can't?"
• (Martin Scorsese) "No --"
• (Joey 'Clams' Scala) "I'll give you mook."

• (Robert De Niro) "I f*** you right where you breathe."

• (Robert De Niro) "You see, I borrow money all over this neighborhood, left and right from every BODY, I never pay them back. So, I can't borrow no money from nobody no more, right? So, who would that leave me to borrow money from but you? I borrow money from you, because you're the only jerk-off around here who I can borrow money from without payin' back, right? You know, 'cause that's what you are, that's what I think of you: a jerk-off."

• (Robert De Niro) "Y'know Joey Clams --"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Yeah."
• (Robert De Niro) "-- Joey Scallops, yeah."
• (Harvey Keitel) "I know him too, yeah."
• (Robert De Niro) "-- yeah. No. No, Joey Scallops is Joey Clams."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Right."
• (Robert De Niro) "Right."
• (Harvey Keitel) "-- they're the same person."
• (Robert De Niro) "Yeah."
• (Harvey Keitel) "'ey."
• (Robert De Niro) "'ey --"

David Proval as Tony DeVienazo

• (David Proval) "Stay out of my place, I know your face."

Cesare Danova as Giovanni Cappa

• (Cesare Danova) "Honorable men go with honorable men."

• (Cesare Danova) "This Johnny Boy is like your mister Groppi -- a little crazy. It's nice you should help him out because of his family and our family but watch yourself -- Don't spoil anything. His whole family has problems -- his cousin, the girl who lives next door to you --"
• (Harvey Keitel) "Teresa."
• (Cesare Danova) "-- The one who's sick, right? In the head."
• (Harvey Keitel) "No, she's got epilepsy."
• (Cesare Danova) "Yeah. That's what I said, sick in the head."

• (Cesare Danova) "I learned this from Charley Lucky during the World War II."
• (Harvey Keitel) "Oh? What did he do?"
• (Cesare Danova) "What did he do? He was there, that's what he did."

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