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Get Shorty (film) Quotes

Get Shorty (film) is a television program that debuted in 1970 . Get Shorty ended its run in 1970.

It features Danny DeVito as producer, John Lurie in charge of musical score, and Donald Peterman as head of cinematography.

Get Shorty (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Get Shorty (film) is 105 minutes long. Get Shorty (film) is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Dennis Farina as Ray "Bones" Barboni, John Travolta as Chili Palmer, Delroy Lindo as Bo Catlett, James Gandolfini as Bear, Gene Hackman as Harry Zimm, Dennis Farina as Ray Bones, Danny DeVito as Martin, Rene Russo as Karen Flores, David Paymer as Leo, Jacob Vargas as Yayo Portillo, Jon Gries as Ronnie Wingate, Renee Props as Nicky, Rene Russo as Karen, Danny DeVito as Martin Weir, Bette Midler as Doris, Miguel Sandoval as Mr. Escobar, Martin Ferrero as Tommy Carlo, and Linda Hart as Fay Devoe.

Get Shorty (film) Quotes

John Travolta as Chili Palmer

  • (John Travolta) "Hey, Bones, that's quite a scar you got on your head. Why don't you have these guys fit you for a rug, cover it up for you?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "You two geezers take your game to the park."
  • (Bodyguard) "This man is the man, you understand what I'm saying, motherf***er? He's Mister Bones. And you speak to Mister Bones from now on."
  • (John Travolta) "Come on, you can do better than him, can't you?"
  • (Bodyguard) "Not these days. Not unless you speak Spanish."
  • (John Travolta) "I'm not gonna say any more than I have to, if that."
  • (John Travolta) "Martin, look at me."
  • (Danny DeVito) "I'm looking at you."
  • (John Travolta) "No, I want you to look at me the way I'm looking at you. Put it in your eyes, 'You're mine, asshole,' without saying it."
  • (Danny DeVito) "Like this?"
  • (John Travolta) "What you're telling me, you're tired? You wanna go to bed?"
  • (Danny DeVito) "Wait. How about this?"
  • (John Travolta) "Now you're squinting like you need glasses."
  • (Danny DeVito) "Well, what are you getting --"
  • (John Travolta) "Look at me. What I'm thinking is, 'You're mine. I f***in' own you.' But what I'm not doing is feeling anything about it one way or the other. You understand? You're not a person to me, you're a name in my collection book, a guy owes me money, that's all."
  • (John Travolta) "Whoah."
  • (Rene Russo) "He's -- he's good."
  • (John Travolta) "You nailed it."
  • (Danny DeVito) "That's what I think of you, asshole. Nothing."
  • (John Travolta) "That's why you're Martin Weir."
  • (John Travolta) "Now I've been shot at three times before. Twice on purpose and once by accident. And I'm still here. And I'm gonna be here for as long as I want to be."
  • (John Travolta) "You can't make a Martin Weir into a Mel Gibson. Where do you want to go? You want to go to Dan Tana's?"
  • (John Travolta) "I'm the guy who's telling you the way it is."
  • (John Travolta) "That's Martin Weir. He's the one who played the mob guy-turned snitch in "Cyclone.""
  • (Gene Hackman) "One of his best parts."
  • (John Travolta) "No, his best part was when he played the crippled gay guy who climbed Mt. Whitney."
  • (Gene Hackman) ""Ride the Clouds." Good picture."
  • (John Travolta) "Harry Zimm."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Jesus Christ."
  • (John Travolta) "How you doing? I'm Chili Palmer."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Jesus, if I have a heart attack, I hope you know what to do."
  • (John Travolta) "Bear, look at me. You tell your boss I don't ever want to see him again. And that means he's got to be nowhere near me, Karen, or Harry. You understand?"
  • (John Travolta) "Okay, get up. What are you hanging around that guy for, anyway? I mean, you were in the movies, right? You were a stuntman. What's he ever done that he can talk about? You okay?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "Not too bad."
  • (John Travolta) "How about when you fell down the stairs?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "Pulled my quadriceps."
  • (John Travolta) "So how many movies you been in, anyway?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "About sixty."
  • (John Travolta) "No s***. What were some of them?"
  • (John Travolta) "You had a bad day, huh?"
  • (Rene Russo) "I spent all day crawling out of a grave. The director said that I was incapable of reaching the emotional core of the character."
  • (John Travolta) "What? Well, obviously he didn't see you in "Bride of the Mutant.""
  • (Rene Russo) "You saw that one?"
  • (John Travolta) "When you turn to the alien mother, and you tell her that her time on earth is finished, Joan Crawford, on her best day, wishes that she had, in her day, the emotion and the intensity that you brought to that scene."
  • (John Travolta) "If you're gonna set somebody up, it's gotta be a surprise, you got that?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "You spotted them, huh?"
  • (John Travolta) "What, did you see that work in some movie you got beat up in?"
  • (John Travolta) "I can't believe the way you do business out here. I can't believe how f***ed-up your organization is."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "I tell you what. How about I count to three, and I organize your f***ing brain all over the wall back there. How 'bout that?"
  • (John Travolta) "How do you think that happened?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "Beats the s*** out of me."
  • (John Travolta) "Look, I didn't come down to sunny Florida to freeze my ass. You follow me? You get the coat back or you give me the three seventy-nine dollars my ex-wife paid for it at Alexander's."
  • (John Travolta) "I got an idea for a movie."
  • (John Travolta) "I never thought you'd be this dumb leaving three hundred grand in a bag in the closet under an extra blanket but I guess you are"
  • (David Paymer) "I didn't know where to put it where would you?"
  • (John Travolta) "How about a bank?"
  • (David Paymer) "They'd report it to the IRS"
  • (John Travolta) "You don't open an account you put it in a safety deposit box dip it in whenever you want"
  • (David Paymer) "How did you know I was here?"
  • (John Travolta) "I'll give you another tip, next time you write to your wife don't use hotel stationary"
  • (David Paymer) "It was Faye wasn't it? She told you about the money? Did she tell you my whole life history too?"
  • (John Travolta) "I'm here to save your ass"
  • (David Paymer) "How? By taking my money?"
  • (John Travolta) "No, you get to keep the money you won today that's yours"
  • (David Paymer) "It's all mine"
  • (John Travolta) "I don't know how you got this far, your so f***ing dumb but your through and I'm going to explain why and I hope you're not so dumb you won't understand, Ray Bones is the man your dealing with now when Bones finds out what you did his going to take everything including the sporty little hat you got on your head and most likely he'll shoot you so you won't tell on him but I'm not going to do that I'm not going to hurt you now you got three hundred and ten thousand in the bag I'm going to take the three hundred grand you scammed from the airlines and the ten that's left over I'm going to borrow from you and pay back at another time"
  • (David Paymer) "Wait, your taking all my money but borrowing part of it?"
  • (John Travolta) "At eighteen percent and don't ask another question I'm leaving now"
  • (David Paymer) "What's this eighteen percent s***? You want to borrow ten the vig is three bills a week that's fifteen for the vig plus the ten that's twenty five big ones you go the whole year buddy, you hear me?"
  • (John Travolta) "What is that?"
  • (Rental Car Attendant) "It's an Oldsmobile Silhouette."
  • (John Travolta) "I ordered a Cadillac."
  • (Rental Car Attendant) "Oh, well, you got the Cadillac of minivans."
  • (John Travolta) "How did you get in here?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "It was easy. I told 'em I was you, I acted real stupid and they believed me."
  • (John Travolta) "It's about a dry cleaner who owes a shylock fifteen thousand dollars and his three weeks over on the vig, the dry cleaner, let's call him "Leo" his scared and doesn't know any better so he leaves town and gets on a plane but the plane sits there and doesn't move so they announce over the PA system that there's some kind of mechanical problem and be delayed for an hour but they tell all the passengers to remain in their seats in case they can get it fixed sooner so the guy's nervous and in no shape to sit there and sweat it out so he gets off the plane and goes into the cocktail lounge and starts drinking one drink after another and he's still in the lounge when the plane crashes during takeoff, he couldn't believe his luck because if he stayed on the plane he'd be dead, now that everyone thinks his dead he wouldn't have to pay back the fifteen thousand dollars or what he owes on the vig, since Leo's name was on the passenger's list they bring his wife out to the airport where they're going through personal effects whatever wasn't burned up they tell the wife to look for only things she would know about, she returns home and the people from the airline come out to see her and they tell her how sorry they are and how their plane exploded they offer a settlement: an amount he would've earned if he operated the dry cleaners for the rest of his life"
  • (Rene Russo) "How much is the wife offered?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Three hundred thousand dollars, so she takes it "money in the hand" and he gets his wife to cash the check and he leaves for Las Vegas he was supposed to call her to come out but she never hears from him because his gambling so much and his hot, turning the three hundred grand up to half a million dollars but its driving the guy nuts because his winning and he can't tell anybody who he is"
  • (John Travolta) "You know, Welles didn't even want to do this movie. But he had some studio contract he couldn't get out of. Sometimes you do your best work when you got a gun to your head."
  • (John Travolta) "Martin, look at me."
  • (Danny DeVito) "I'm looking at you"
  • (John Travolta) "No, look at me the way I'm looking at you."
  • (John Travolta) "So you make movies, huh?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "I produce feature motion pictures. No T.V."

Delroy Lindo as Bo Catlett

  • (Delroy Lindo) "Now, be looking. The man over to your right in the blue wool shirt?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "The other way. Derecho. That's a federal officer, most likely DEA. He moves his leg, you look for the bulge. You savvy bulge?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Good, that's his backup piece."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Hey. Try and do it without looking at him, if you can."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "You think we watch any of your movies, Harry? I've seen better film on teeth."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "You understand, I knew Harry was lying, saying this wasn't any good, but holding on it, man, you'd have to break his fingers to get it away from him."
  • (John Travolta) "That's funny, because I was just thinking what I'd have to break of yours to get it away from you."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Now I'm explaining to you what I'm doing here, in case you thought I came to rob the place, rip off any of this dusty old s*** that the man has."
  • (John Travolta) "I wouldn't make you out to be a burglar, not in that outfit."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "I'm gonna get up, soon as I'm gone, you get up and move over to this same seat I'm in. You feel something under your ass, that's a key to a locker where your half-million is, along with some product we're returning. Powder's been stepped on so many times it's baby food."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "You get the money?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "No. What's this?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Plan B."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Mr. Escobar, maybe your nephew panicked and took off."
  • (Miguel Sandoval) "Why are you talking to me this bulls***? I think maybe I have Ramón and César staple your tongue to your chin. What do you think?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "I think you speak very good English, Mr. Escobar."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Yayo. You gonna smoke, then you get the hell off my six-hundred-dollars-a-yard carpet. Now, I told you where the money is, all you have to do is go and get it."
  • (Jacob Vargas) "No. No, I tell you something. I go to the airport, man, I open that locker and they bust me? I tell them I come to get something for you. That's all I know."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "That's all you know, huh?"
  • (Jacob Vargas) "That's all I know."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Wait a minute here, Yayo, I'll be back directly."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Keep an eye on Yahoo for me."
  • (Jacob Vargas) "That's the way you get things done."
  • (Jacob Vargas) "What the f*** you gonna do with that?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "I'm taking you out, Yahoo."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "What is the point of living in L.A. if you're not in the movie business?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "It says here you're getting Martin Weir for the part of Lovejoy?"
  • (John Travolta) "That's right, we're getting Martin."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Come on, how you gonna do that?"
  • (John Travolta) "I'm gonna take a gun, I'm gonna put it to his head, and say, "sign the f***ing papers, Martin, or you're dead." That's it."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "I wonder, would that work?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "I'd like to introduce my associate, The Bear. Movie stuntman, champion bodybuilder. Throws out things I don't want."
  • (James Gandolfini) "I think you ought to turn around and head back to Miami."
  • (John Travolta) "So you're a stuntman, huh?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "Yeah."
  • (John Travolta) "You any good?"
  • (James Gandolfini) "Am I any good?"
  • (John Travolta) "That's not bad for a guy his size."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "You broke into my house, and I have a witness to it."
  • (John Travolta) "What?"
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Only this time it ain't no John Wayne and Dean Martin shooting bad guys in "El Dorado.""
  • (John Travolta) "That was "Rio Bravo." Robert Mitchum played the drunk in "El Dorado." Dean Martin played the drunk in "Rio Bravo." Basically, it was the same part. Now John Wayne, he did the same in both. He played John Wayne."
  • (Delroy Lindo) "Man, I can't wait for you to be dead."

Dennis Farina as Ray "Bones" Barboni

  • (Dennis Farina) "f***."
  • (Dennis Farina) "f***, f***, f***, f***, f***, f***, f***, f***."
  • (Dennis Farina) "You must be one of those quick-draw artists, the way you've got your gun down on your belt like that."
  • (Jon Gries) "Whatta you got there, a Wop 9? f***in' Fiat of guns, always jammin' on you at the wrong time."
  • (Dennis Farina) "I'm from Miami-f***in'-Beach and you wanna show me the ocean, huh? And what about sun, does it ever shine around here, or is this smog around all the time?"
  • (Limo Driver With Sign) "They say the smog is the reason we have such beautiful sunsets."
  • (Dennis Farina) "That's what they say, huh? What a bunch of f***in bulls***."
  • (Limo Driver With Sign) "Mr. Barbone? Welcome to L.A., I'm Bobby, your driver. I hope you had a pleasant flight."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Yeah well, I hope you drive better than you f***ing spell, jack-off. My name is Barboni, not Barbone, okay."
  • (Dennis Farina) "I want us to be friends, Faye. And we all know that friends don't hit each other -- unless they have to."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Somebody call 9-f***ing-1-1-1. Somebody call 9-f***ing-1-1-1. Somebody call 9-f***ing-1-1-1."
  • (Dennis Farina) "You got a miss Leo Devoe is six weeks over on the vig"
  • (John Travolta) "His dead"
  • (Dennis Farina) "How'd you know his dead? Did he tell you?"
  • (John Travolta) "Yeah he told me he was dead"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Personally?"
  • (John Travolta) "Yeah he personally told me he got killed in that jet crash a month ago"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Maybe he took out flight insurance, go check with his wife"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Have you spoken to Mr. Palmer since your husband blew up?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Don't you know you you're the dumbest f*** I ever met my whole life? You should've told me about Leo Devoe as soon as you found out about him because his a customer of mine he belongs to me well what do we have here? A locker key? But where's the locker? now I wonder what this could be"
  • (John Travolta) "Check the bag at the airport"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Which terminal?"
  • (John Travolta) "Southern"
  • (Dennis Farina) "You found Leo? You found him and took the poor bastard's money and put it in a locker at the airport all ready to go, why haven't you left?"
  • (John Travolta) "I like it out here"
  • (Dennis Farina) "I've been thinking there's really no reason why you and I shouldn't get along forget all the other stuff that happened before I don't even remember how this mess started you took a swing at me for some f***ing reason I say f*** it, I say you owe me money, I say f*** that, I say you owe me the juice on the money I say f*** that too I say "live and let die" but this locket key is strictly between you and I, you say nothing to nobody about this, understood?"
  • (John Travolta) "Whatever you say"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Then it's all settled I'll see you around"
  • (Dennis Farina) "The f***in' airport."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Where's Chili Palmer, where's Leo DeVoe -- where's my f***in' money?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Let me explain something to you. Momo is dead. Which means that everything he had now belongs to Jimmy Cap, including you. Which also means, that when I speak, I speak for Jimmy. E.g., from now on, you start showing me the proper f***ing respect."
  • (John Travolta) ""E.g." means "for example". What I think you want to say is "I.e."."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Bulls***. That's short for "ergo"."
  • (John Travolta) "Ask your man."
  • (Bodyguard) "To the best of my knowledge, "e.g." means "for example"."
  • (Dennis Farina) "E.g., i.e., f*** you. The point is this: is that, When I say "jump", you say "OK", okay?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Don't you puke on my shoes Harry."

Rene Russo as Karen Flores

  • (Rene Russo) "I think you could be an actor. I know you're acting sometimes but you don't show it."
  • (John Travolta) "You thought I was faking?"
  • (Rene Russo) "Anyway, what about your story? You thought of a title yet?"
  • (John Travolta) "How about "Get Shorty"?"
  • (Rene Russo) "Yesterday you were a loan shark."
  • (John Travolta) "Yeah, but I was never into it and especially that bulls*** about having respect. Forget about it, it's bad enough treating these guys like their your heroes, you know, smiling those stupid comments, they think are so funny."
  • (Rene Russo) "You think the movie business is any different?"
  • (Rene Russo) "I know I'm better than what I've been doing all these years, walking around in f***-me pumps and a tank-top, waiting until it was time to scream."
  • (John Travolta) "Yeah, but what a scream."
  • (Rene Russo) "Oh yeah, it's a real talent. Look, all I'm saying is, what I wouldn't give for the chance to say one really great line. You know, like in that great Bette Davis movie where she says, "I'd kiss you -- ""
  • (John Travolta) ""But I just washed my hair.""
  • (Rene Russo) "Weren't you scared back there?"
  • (John Travolta) "You bet."
  • (Rene Russo) "You don't act like it."
  • (John Travolta) "Well, I was scared then, but I'm not scared now. How long do you want me to be scared?"
  • (Rene Russo) "Harry's dreaming of a forty million dollar production he'll never get off the ground, with a star he'll never sign with or without my help."
  • (Rene Russo) ""I'll think about it" means nothing in L.A --"
  • (Rene Russo) "I think you could be an actor."
  • (John Travolta) "Well, I could see myself in the parts that Robert De Niro plays. Or maybe even, an Al Pacino movie, you know, playing a real hard-on. But I couldn't see myself in those movies where three grown-up guys get left with a baby, and so they act like three grown-up assholes, acting all cute --"
  • (Rene Russo) "Chili, Chili, look at me."

Renee Props as Nicky

  • (Renee Props) "How's Momo these days anyway?"
  • (John Travolta) "Dead."
  • (Renee Props) "Chili's a gangster, ran a club I used to play at for another gangster back in Miami."

Jon Gries as Ronnie Wingate

  • (Jon Gries) "Excuse me bro', but who the f*** are you?"
  • (John Travolta) "I'm the one tellin' you how it is --"

Miguel Sandoval as Mr. Escobar

(We don't have any quotes for this character)

David Paymer as Leo

  • (David Paymer) "But you won't know where I am. I mean, I don't even know where I'll be."
  • (John Travolta) "I'll find you, Leo. You leave a trail like a f***ing caterpillar."
  • (David Paymer) "But how will you find me? You don't know where I'll be -- I don't know where I'll be."
  • (John Travolta) "I'll find you, Leo, you leave a trail like a f***in' caterpillar."

Danny DeVito as Martin

  • (Danny DeVito) "You know it might help you to take another look at "Cyclone", the way a visual fabric is maintained while the metaphor plays on different levels."
  • (John Travolta) "Ahhh --"
  • (Danny DeVito) "I'm really glad you rejected me ten years ago when I auditioned for the part of Eddie Solomon, the pedophile clown in "Birthday Boy". If I'd have gotten that part, I might have been typecast."
  • (Danny DeVito) "And I'm wondering: how did it all slip away?"
  • (Rene Russo) "Well, it didn't slip away, Martin. You did, when you went off to f*** Nicky at my birthday party."
  • (Danny DeVito) "Yeah, that was a good party."

Martin Ferrero as Tommy Carlo

  • (Martin Ferrero) "It's f***ing cold outside."

Gene Hackman as Harry Zimm

  • (Gene Hackman) "Have we met? I don't recall."
  • (John Travolta) "We just did. I told you, my name is Chili Palmer."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Doris, I don't know how I feel about this."
  • (Bette Midler) "You seem to feel fine about it."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I mean, morally, you know. Murray was a friend."
  • (Bette Midler) "Murray's dead."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Does this mean that you're gonna reconsider our deal on "Mr. Lovejoy"?"
  • (Bette Midler) "No, but now that you mention it I did talk to a gorgeous young executive at Paramount the other day, who just happened to get his hands on the script."
  • (Gene Hackman) "What did he say?"
  • (Bette Midler) "He said that if Martin's interested, I can get half a million for it. Easy. Oh, don't worry, Harry. I'm still gonna give you 'till Friday."
  • (Gene Hackman) "How honorable of you."
  • (Bette Midler) "Harry, you want me to go, just say so."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Ahhh, what the hell."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Who is it?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Hi, I'm the dips*** who has never been out of Miami."
  • (Gene Hackman) "The guy's been in town two days, and already he thinks he's David O. f***ing Selznick."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I said I'd think about it. In this town, what does that mean? Nothing."
  • (John Travolta) "Well, that's the difference between you and me, Harry. I say what I mean. I want Martin Weir? I go out and get Martin Weir. I don't f*** around with this bulls*** with the trainer's shrink."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Who is it?"
  • (Bette Midler) "Me."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Oh, f***."
  • (Bette Midler) "I heard that."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Hello Doris."
  • (Bette Midler) "Harry Zimm. You look like a wet kiss."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Wrap. It's a wrap. Come back tomorrow. f***."
  • (Bette Midler) "Harry, what are you doing? You should have gone into overtime to get that shot. This is only the second day, and were already two weeks behind. And do me a favor, alright, Harry. Next time --"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Ray, look at me."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Why don't you take a look at this?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "He's got a major star interested and would I produce it?"
  • (John Travolta) "Which star?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Two time Academy Award nominee Martin Weir."
  • (Gene Hackman) "A blockbuster but quality. No mutants or maniacs. This is gonna be my "Driving Miss Daisy"."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Ray Barboni?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Who is this?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Are you the guy they called Ray Bones?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "It depends. Who is this?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "I'm the one telling you the way it is, okay, asshole? That's who I am. Now you want your three hundred grand or don't you?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "What three hundred grand?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "The three hundred grand a guy named Leo Devoe scammed off an airline. The three hundred grand Chili Palmer now has in his possession."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Hello. Are you there?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Yeah, I'm here. I just don't like the anonymous crap. It means your either chickens*** or not for real."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Well, trust me, I'm very for real."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Okay, so who are you?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "I work for Harry Zimm, all right?"
  • (Dennis Farina) "Who?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Harry Zimm. The man happens to be a major Hollywood player."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Never heard of him."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Maybe that's because you've never been out've f***in' Miami, dips***. Maybe it's time you got on a plane, flew out to L.A. and took a meeting with Mr. Zimm."
  • (Dennis Farina) "So, what, this Zimm guy asking for some kinda finders fee, that what we're talking about here?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Hey, Zimm doesn't ask for dick. Zimm tells you the way it is -- or else."
  • (Dennis Farina) "Or else what?"
  • (Gene Hackman) "Or else use your f***ing imagination."
  • (Gene Hackman) "I once asked this literary agent, uh, what kind of writing paid the best -- he said, "Ransom notes.""
  • (Gene Hackman) "I guess in your line of work, there's times you gotta get rough, huh? In case one of your customers don't pay."
  • (John Travolta) "They always pay."
  • (Gene Hackman) "You pack a gun?"
  • (John Travolta) "Not really."

Bette Midler as Doris

  • (Bette Midler) "Hi, Karen, it's Doris. Listen doll, you might want to come by and visit Harry. He's in the Emergency Room."
  • (Bette Midler) "Well, aren't you gonna offer me whatever it is you taste like?"
  • (Bette Midler) "My favorite color. Putty."
  • (Gene Hackman) "What do you want, Doris?"
  • (Bette Midler) "I miss Murray, Harry."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Yeah, I miss him, too. Hell of a good writer, you know. I should know, I discovered him. Made him what he was."
  • (Bette Midler) "What he was, was a hack. He couldn't get a job writing for anybody but you. I'm being honest. He was a lousy writer, but he was a good husband. I just didn't know until it was too late."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Yeah, well, twenty/twenty hindsight and all that. You know what they say."
  • (Bette Midler) "I hate being alone. The house is so quiet, so lonely. It needs a man's touch."
  • (Gene Hackman) "Nice necklace, Doris."
  • (Bette Midler) "What can I tell you? I stopped by his office to see if he wanted to take me to Le Dome for dinner, when I see Harry and some other man lying on the floor."
  • (Bette Midler) "Goodnight, Todd. Goodnight Lewis."
  • (John Travolta) "Oh, man. Oh, Jesus."
  • (Rene Russo) "Harry, my God."
  • (Bette Midler) "Harry, my God."
  • (Bette Midler) "He can't talk. He's full of Demorol."
  • (John Travolta) "What happened?"
  • (Bette Midler) "Well, according to Todd, Sergeant Randall, a man named Ronnie came by Harry's office to collect on a debt. He got rough and Harry shot him."

Linda Hart as Fay Devoe

  • (Linda Hart) "Oh, my Leo. My Leo."

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