Sleepers Quotes

Sleepers is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . Sleepers completed its run in 1970.

It features Barry Levinson, and Steve Golin as producer, John Williams in charge of musical score, and Michael Ballhaus as head of cinematography.

Sleepers is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Sleepers is 147 minutes long. Sleepers is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The cast includes: Kevin Bacon as Nokes, Ron Eldard as John, Brad Pitt as Michael, Minnie Driver as Carol, Billy Crudup as Tommy, Robert De Niro as Father Bobby, Brad Renfro as Young Michael, Vittorio Gassman as King Benny, Eugene Byrd as Rizzo, Kevin Bacon as Sean Nokes, and Dustin Hoffman as Danny Snyder.

Sleepers Quotes

Billy Crudup as Tommy

• (Billy Crudup) "Did that hurt, Nokes?"

• (Billy Crudup) "This is amazing."
• (John Reilly) "Hello. It's been a long time."
• (Kevin Bacon) "Who the f*** are you guys?"
• (Kevin Bacon) "Hey, who the f*** asked you to sit down?"
• (Billy Crudup) "I thought you'd be happy to see us -- I guess I was wrong."
• (Ron Eldard) "You know, after all that training, after all that time you put in, just guarding someone else's money -- that seems like a waste."
• (Kevin Bacon) "I'm asking you one more time who the f*** you are."
• (Ron Eldard) "Why don't you take your time it will come to you."
• (Ron Eldard) "I can see how you might forget. We were just something for you and your friends to play with."
• (Billy Crudup) "It's not that easy for us to forget -- you gave us so much more to remember."

Kevin Bacon as Nokes

• (Kevin Bacon) "What the f*** is that hangin' around your neck? Take it off."
• (Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra) "It's Mary, you know, the mother of God."
• (Kevin Bacon) "I don't give a f*** whose mother it is. Take it off."

• (Kevin Bacon) "What do you want?"
• (Ron Eldard) "What I've always wanted. To watch you die."

• (Kevin Bacon) "You know your time here hasn't taught you s***. You're still the same f***ing clowns you were the day you walked in here."

• (Kevin Bacon) "It's a tragedy, I tell ya. I don't understand you, boys. I don't think you know what it means to have rules. You gotta have rules and you gotta have discipline. Now I don't know what it was like in your homes and your homelifes, but in my house with my father, there were rules. And if you didn't follow the rules, there was hell to pay. You had rules and you had discipline. Sometimes it wasn't nice, but boy, we learned. We sure did learn."
• (Kevin Bacon) "Yeah, right around there to the right. There ya go. Come on now. I mean, it's a simple thing really. You got rules and you got discipline. That's the beginning of the story and that's the end of the story. Do we understand each other?"

• (Kevin Bacon) "So you Hell's Kitchen's Boys get any lunch?"
• (Brad Renfro) "I got to smell it."
• (Kevin Bacon) "You got to smell it, that's good"
• (Kevin Bacon) ", Hey, Hey, Hey, where you going?"
• (Brad Renfro) "You said to get lunch."
• (Kevin Bacon) "Oh, you boys don't need to get back in line to get lunch 'cause there's plenty to eat right where you're standing"
• (Kevin Bacon) ", YOU CAN SMELL IT."
• (Brad Renfro) "I'm not hungry."
• (Kevin Bacon) "Well I don't give a f*** if you're hungry or not. You eat because I'm telling to eat."
• (Brad Renfro) "I'm still not hungry."
• (Brad Renfro) "Uh, Ooh."
• (Kevin Bacon) "I'll tell you when you're hungry or not, now eat."
• (Kevin Bacon) "Excuse me, what the f*** are you looking at? GET THE f*** DOWN ON YOUR god**** KNEES AND FINISH YOUR god**** LUNCH."

• (Kevin Bacon) "So what do you want?"
• (John Reilly) "What I've always wanted. Is to watch you die."

Dustin Hoffman as Danny Snyder

• (Dustin Hoffman) "I can't do this now. You gotta know that. It's been a long time for me. I mean -ah- you need somebody younger, ya know, somebody like I used to be."
• (Vittorio Gassman) "younger is not better. Doesn't have experience, doesn't know his way around the courthouse."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "Hey, I'm lucky I can find the courthouse. I had only four cases last year-you know how many I won? None, that's how many, none. In two of them, uh, I, a, I think the jury blamed me personnally."
• (Vittorio Gassman) "They must have been innocent. It is tough to get an innocent man off a rap."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "I wasn't even planning on going to court with this one. I was just gonna plea it down the best I could and walk away. I wasn't, I wasn't planning on taking this to trial."
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Well your plans have been changed."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "Well I'm afraid I'll make a mistake and -- say the wrong thing and, ya know, uh, uh, make a wrong turn somewhere. You don't want to take that risk."
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Life is a risk."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "I'm sorry?"
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Life is risk."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "Life is a risk."
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Um-huh."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "A-huh.I haven't been in here before. What do you need me to do?"
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Listen. You're going to be given the answers and the questions. All you have to do is read. You can read can't you?"
• (Dustin Hoffman) "It's, it's, is it in English?"
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Just don't drift, don't drink, and don't lose."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "What if I do lose?"
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Then you'll go down for the dirt nap."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "Never heard that expression before -- dirt nap. I'm not cut out for this anymore. I mean a guys gets hit by a bus, ya know, and sues. I like that. Some lady slips in a supermarket, I'm with her, a guy --"
• (Vittorio Gassman) "The discussion's over."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "I'm an alcoholic. This is a murder case. This isn't for me."
• (Vittorio Gassman) "It was once. Before you let the drink lead. Be sober by tomorrow and don't look so worried, Snyder. You have nothing to lose, just like the rest of us."
• (Dustin Hoffman) "I don't want to be a burden to you, but, I do, you know, aside, or along with my alcohol problem, I have a slight drug problem, I mean nothing big, just --"
• (Vittorio Gassman) "Go away."

Robert De Niro as Father Bobby

• (Robert De Niro) "And you won't need a doctor when I'm done, you'll need a priest; to pray over your body."
• (Robert De Niro) "See you in church."

• (Robert De Niro) "It was the Sistine Chapel he painted."
• (John Reilly) "Sixteenth Chapel?"
• (Robert De Niro) "Sistine Chapel."
• (John Reilly) "Who painted the other fifteen?"

• (Robert De Niro) "What about the life that was taken, Shakes? What's that worth?"
• (Lorenzo) "To me? Nothing."

• (Robert De Niro) "This is one of my favorites."
• (Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra) "What is?"
• (Robert De Niro) ""Whatever you do to the least of brethren, you do to me"."

• (Robert De Niro) "Listen, I got a story I want to tell you."
• (Young Tommy Marcano) "It ain't the one about the lepers, is it? Cause that one gave me nightmares."

Brad Pitt as Michael

• (Lorenzo) "Mike, are you sure you wanna go this way? I mean we buried this a long time ago."
• (Brad Pitt) "You still sleep with the light on?"

• (Brad Pitt) "I just wish I could shut my eyes, and not see the places I've been."

• (Brad Pitt) "Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge. Now it's time for all of us to get a taste."

• (Brad Pitt) "Do you still sleep with the lights on?"

• (Brad Pitt) "You read the Count of Monte Cristo lately?"
• (Lorenzo) "I dunno, 10 years ago"
• (Brad Pitt) "I read a little bit every night. I read words like revenge, sweet, lasting revenge."

Vittorio Gassman as King Benny

• (Vittorio Gassman) "Father Bobby would have made a good hit-man. It's a shame we lost him to the other side."

• (Lorenzo) "I didn't know you like pigeons so much."
• (Vittorio Gassman) "I like anything that don't talk."

Minnie Driver as Carol

• (Minnie Driver) "Don't you guys have to go kill somebody?"
• (Ron Eldard) "No, We've always got time for a song."

• (Lorenzo) "Do you love him?"
• (Minnie Driver) "I don't think about it, Shakes. If I did, I'd say yes."

Ron Eldard as John

• (Ron Eldard) "One down, Shakes, one down."
• (Lorenzo) "One what?"
• (Billy Crudup) "One Sean Nokes."

Eugene Byrd as Rizzo

• (Eugene Byrd) "Why is Saturday any different?"
• (Brad Renfro) "cause on Saturday we can hit back, look they don't f*** with you like they do with us, but they f*** with you in another way, you're just an animal to them."
• (Eugene Byrd) "I don't give a f***"
• (Brad Renfro) "Yeah you do, and beating them on Saturday won't make a difference."
• (Eugene Byrd) "Then why, white boy, why?"
• (Brad Renfro) "To make them feel what we feel, just for a couple of hours."

Brad Renfro as Young Michael

• (Brad Renfro) "We can eat hot dogs, or we can eat air. Choose --"
• (Young Tommy Marcano) "Air is probably safer, Mike --"

• (Unnamed) "They killed him?"
• (Brad Renfro) "They took turns beating him -- until there was nothing left of that kid to beat."

• (Brad Renfro) "What do you want?"
• (Kevin Bacon) "A blowjob. Down on your knees."

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