West Side Story (film) Quotes

West Side Story (film) is a television show that was first aired in 1970 . West Side Story completed its run in 1970.

It features Robert Wise as producer, Leonard Bernstein in charge of musical score, and Daniel L. Fapp as head of cinematography.

West Side Story (film) is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of West Side Story (film) is 152 minutes long. West Side Story (film) is distributed by United Artists.

The cast includes: Natalie Wood as Maria, Ned Glass as Doc, George Chakiris as Bernardo, Rita Moreno as Anita, Simon Oakland as Lieutenant Schrank, Richard Beymer as Tony, Bert Michaels as Snowboy, Tony Mordente as Action, Tucker Smith as Ice, David Winters as A-Rab, Russ Tamblyn as Riff, Tommy Abbott as Gee-tar, Robert Banas as Joyboy, Eliot Feld as Baby John, Yvonne as Consuelo, and Jay Norman as Pepe.

West Side Story (film) Quotes

Simon Oakland as Lieutenant Schrank

• (Simon Oakland) "Say goodbye to the nice boys, Krupke."
• (Officer Krupke) "Goodbye, boys."
• (Bert Michaels) ""Goodbye, boys.""
• (Tony Mordente) ""You hoodlums don't own the streets.""
• (Bert Michaels) ""Go play in the park.""
• (Tony Mordente) ""Keep off of the grass.""
• (Tucker Smith) ""Get outta the house.""
• (Tony Mordente) ""Keep off the block.""
• (David Winters) ""Get outta here.""
• (Tony Mordente) ""Keep off of the world." A gang that don't own the street is nothin'."
• (Russ Tamblyn) "WE DO OWN IT."

• (Simon Oakland) "At the gym last night, your brother got into a heavy argument because you danced with the wrong boy."
• (Natalie Wood) "Yes"
• (Simon Oakland) "Who was that boy?"
• (Natalie Wood) "Another from my country."
• (Simon Oakland) "And his name?"
• (Natalie Wood) "Jose."

• (Simon Oakland) "Do you mind?"
• (Ned Glass) "I have no mind. I am the village idiot."

Rita Moreno as Anita

• (Rita Moreno) "We came with our hearts open."
• (Yvonne) "With our arms open."
• (Jay Norman) "You came with your mouth open."

• (Rita Moreno) "Come in, come in. We won't bite you until we know you better."

• (Rita Moreno) "Bernardo was right, If one of you was lying in the street bleeding, I'd walk by and spit on you."

• (Rita Moreno) "You have your big important council. The council,"
• (Rita Moreno) "or me."
• (George Chakiris) "First one,"
• (George Chakiris) "then the other."
• (Rita Moreno) "Ah, I'm an American girl now, I don't wait."
• (George Chakiris) "Ah, back home women know their place."
• (Rita Moreno) "Back home little boys don't have war councils."
• (George Chakiris) "Ah, but they do here. You want me to be an American, don't you?"

Tony Mordente as Action

• (Tony Mordente) "What are we doin', poopin' around with dumb broads for?"
• (Graziella, Riff's Girl) "I and Velma ain't dumb. Are we, Velma?"
• (Velma, Ice's Girl) "No thank you."
• (Velma, Ice's Girl) "oo"
• (Velma, Ice's Girl) "Ooo-belee-oo."
• (Graziella, Riff's Girl) "And you can punctuate it --"
• (Velma, Ice's Girl) "Ooo."

• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Bernardo's girl wants to help?"
• (Tony Mordente) "Even a greaseball's got feelin's."
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "But she wants to help get Tony."
• (Rita Moreno) "NO."

• (Tony Mordente) "Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease."
• (Russ Tamblyn) "Hey. I got a social disease."

• (Glad Hand, Social Worker Leading Dance) "I want you all the form two circles. The boys on the outside and the girls on the inside."
• (Tony Mordente) "Where will you be?"

• (Tony Mordente) "What are we doin', poopin' around with dumb broads for?"
• (Graziella, Riff's Girl) "I and Velma ain't dumb."

• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Hey buddy boys."
• (Tony Mordente) "Ah, go wear a skirt."
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Listen --"
• (Tucker Smith) "The first thing we do is we start showin' around like we have nothin' to hide --"
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Listen."
• (David Winters) "Supposin' they ask us about the rumble?"
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Supposin' they ask you where's Tony and what party's lookin' for him? WITH A GUN."
• (Tucker Smith) "Hey, you know somethin'?"
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "I know I gotta go get a skirt."

Natalie Wood as Maria

• (Natalie Wood) "Te adoro, Antone."

• (Natalie Wood) "My brother is a silly watchdog."
• (George Chakiris) "Ah, my sister is a precious jewel."
• (Rita Moreno) "What am I, cut glass?"

• (Natalie Wood) "Make it not true, please make it not true."

• (Natalie Wood) "If Chino hurts him, if he touches him, I swear to you I'll --"
• (Rita Moreno) "You'll do what Tony did to Bernardo?"
• (Natalie Wood) "I love Tony."
• (Rita Moreno) "I know. I loved Benardo."

George Chakiris as Bernardo

• (Unnamed) "I like to be in America, OK by me in America, everything free in America --"
• (George Chakiris) "For a small fee in America."

• (George Chakiris) "Everywhere grime in America / Organised crime in America / Terrible time in America"
• (Rita Moreno) "You forget I'm in America"

• (George Chakiris) "I'd like to go back to San Juan."
• (Rita Moreno) "I know a boat you can get on."

Russ Tamblyn as Riff

• (Russ Tamblyn) "We gotta stand up to them Doc; it's important."
• (Ned Glass) "Fighting over a little piece of street is so important?"
• (Tony Mordente) "To us it is."
• (Ned Glass) "To hoodlums it is."
• (Tony Mordente) "Who're you callin' a hoodlum?"
• (Ned Glass) "War councils --"
• (Tony Mordente) "Don't start, Doc."
• (Ned Glass) "-- Rumbles --"
• (Tony Mordente) "D'you hear me, Doc?"
• (Ned Glass) "Why, when I was your age --"
• (Tony Mordente) "When you was my age? When my old man was my age, when my brother was my age -- You was never my age, none of ya. And the sooner you creeps get hip to that, the sooner you'll dig us."
• (Ned Glass) "I'll dig you an early grave, that's what I'll dig."

• (Russ Tamblyn) "Come on."
• (Russ Tamblyn) "Beat it."

• (Russ Tamblyn) "When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way. from you first cigarette your last dyin' days."

• (Russ Tamblyn) "Come on, Jets, round out. Not you, Anybodys, beat it."
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Ah, Riff, you gotta let me in the gang. Didn't you just see me, I was smash, I'm a killer, I wanna fight."
• (David Winters) "How else's she gonna get a guy to touch her?"
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "You dirty rat."

• (Russ Tamblyn) "Now I know Tony like I know me and I guarentee you can count him in"
• (Tony Mordente) "In, out, let's get crackin'"
• (Tommy Abbott) "Where you gonna find Bernardo?"
• (Russ Tamblyn) "He'll be at the dance tonight at the gym"
• (David Winters) "But the gym's neutral territory"
• (Russ Tamblyn) "A-rab, I'm gonna make nice with him. I'm only gonna challenge him."
• (Tucker Smith) "Great daddy-o."

• (Russ Tamblyn) "Four-and-a-half years I live wit' a buddy an' his family. I think I'm diggin' a guy's character -- Boy, I'm a victim of disappointment in you."
• (Richard Beymer) "End ya sufferin', little man. Why dontcha just pack up ya gear an' move out?"
• (Russ Tamblyn) "'Cause ya ma's hot fa me --"

• (Russ Tamblyn) "Boy, am I a victim of disappointment in you."

• (Russ Tamblyn) "Now move in and shake hands."
• (George Chakiris) "For what?"
• (Russ Tamblyn) "Well, that's the way it's done, buddy boy."
• (George Chakiris) "More gracious living. Everyone of you hates everyone of us, and we hate you right back."

David Winters as A-Rab

• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "I ain't never gonna get married. Too noisy."
• (David Winters) "You ain't never gonna get married. Too ugly."
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Pow."
• (David Winters) "Cracko Jacko. Down goes a teenage hoodlum."

• (David Winters) "Baby John, what are you doin' here?"
• (Eliot Feld) "Nothin'."
• (David Winters) "What are you doin' nothin' here for? Come on."
• (Eliot Feld) "I don't want the guys to see me A-Rab."
• (David Winters) "Why not?"
• (Eliot Feld) "I'm cryin'."
• (David Winters) "You are? What for?"
• (Eliot Feld) "I don't know. I just --"
• (David Winters) "Blow your nose."
• (Eliot Feld) "A-Rab?"
• (David Winters) "Yeah?"
• (Eliot Feld) "Did you get a look at their faces?"
• (David Winters) "Which faces?"
• (Eliot Feld) "You know, at the rumble. Riff and Bernardo."
• (David Winters) "Yeah. I wish it was yesterday."
• (Eliot Feld) "Me too. I'm scared."
• (David Winters) "Well cut it out. You hear me? Cut it out."
• (Eliot Feld) "A-Rab, what are we gonna do?"
• (David Winters) "We're gonna meet with the other guys and form up. Thats what we're gonna do. Come on, lets go."
• (Eliot Feld) "A-Rab, you got a hankerchief first?"
• (David Winters) "Whats wrong with you sleeve?"

• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "POW, POW."
• (David Winters) "Cracko jacko. Down goes a teenage hoodlum."
• (Eliot Feld) "Gee. Could a real zip gun make you do like that?"
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "You don't know what a zip gun would do? Man, you better wear diapers."
• (Eliot Feld) "Eh, go walk the streets like your sister."
• (Anybodys, Tomboy) "Listen jailbait, I licked you twice and I can do it again."

Eliot Feld as Baby John

• (Eliot Feld) "Hey -- you gotta handkerchief first?"
• (David Winters) "What's wrong with your sleeve?"

• (Officer Krupke) "You."
• (Eliot Feld) "Who, me sir?"
• (Officer Krupke) "Yeah, you. Didn't ya hear me?"
• (Eliot Feld) "Oh, yes sir. I got 20-20 hearing."
• (Officer Krupke) "Then why didn't ya answer me?"
• (David Winters) "His mother told him never to answer back to a cop."
• (Officer Krupke) "You little wise apple. You want me to run you in?"
• (David Winters) "Oh indeed not, sir."

Richard Beymer as Tony

• (Richard Beymer) "You heard; it's gonna be a fair fight."
• (Ned Glass) "And that's going to cure something?"
• (Richard Beymer) "From here on in, everythin's gonna be all right. I got a feelin'."
• (Ned Glass) "What have you been taking tonight?"
• (Richard Beymer) "A trip to the moon. And I'll tell ya a secret. It ain't a man that's up there, Doc. It's a girl, lady. Buenas noches, Senor."
• (Ned Glass) "Buenas noches? So that's why you made it a fair fight --"
• (Richard Beymer) "I'm gonna see her tomorrow an' I can't wait."
• (Ned Glass) "Tony -- things aren't tough enough?"
• (Richard Beymer) "Tough? Doc, I'm in love."
• (Ned Glass) "And you're not frightened?"
• (Richard Beymer) "Should I be?"
• (Ned Glass) "No. I'm frightened enough for the both of us."

• (Richard Beymer) "You're not thinking I'm someone else?"
• (Natalie Wood) "I know you are not."
• (Richard Beymer) "Or that we've met before?"
• (Natalie Wood) "I know we have not."
• (Richard Beymer) "I felt, I knew something never before was going to happen, had to happen. But this is so much more."
• (Natalie Wood) "My hands are cold."
• (Natalie Wood) "Yours too."
• (Natalie Wood) "So warm."
• (Richard Beymer) "So beautiful."
• (Natalie Wood) "Beautiful."
• (Richard Beymer) "It's so much to believe. You're not making a joke?"
• (Natalie Wood) "I have not yet learned how to joke that way. I think now I never will."

• (Richard Beymer) "Well end your suffering little man. Why don't you pack up your gear and clear out of here?"

• (Richard Beymer) "I- I didn't believe hard enough."
• (Natalie Wood) "Loving is enough."
• (Richard Beymer) "Not here. They won't let us be."
• (Natalie Wood) "Then we'll run away."
• (Richard Beymer) "Yeah, we can."
• (Natalie Wood) "Yes."
• (Richard Beymer) "We will --"
• (Natalie Wood) "Hold my hand and we are halfway there, hold my hand and I'll take you there. Somehow. Someday. Some --"

• (Richard Beymer) "You know what Maria and me are gonna do out in the country? We're gonna have kids, lots of 'em, and name them all after you-even the girls. That way when you come and visit --"
• (Ned Glass) "Wake up. Is this the only way to get to you? Fight like all you kids do?"

Ned Glass as Doc

• (Ned Glass) "I'll dig you an early grave, that's what I'll dig."
• (David Winters) "Dig, dig, dig --"

• (Ned Glass) "Why do you kids live like there's a war on?"

• (Ned Glass) "Why do you kill?"
• (Richard Beymer) "I told you how it happened, Maria understands, I thought you did too."

Tucker Smith as Ice

• (Tucker Smith) "Play it cool boy, real cool."

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