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Millers Crossing

Millers Crossing quotes

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Eddie Dane
Johnny Caspar
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Tom Reagan




View Quote Verna: That's not why you came, either.
Tom: Tell me why I came.
Verna: [seductively] The oldest reason there is.
Tom: There are friendlier places to drink.
View Quote I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about - hell. Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talkin' about ethics.
View Quote Then I wondered "Why would Einstein want to talk to a gorilla?" So I grab the gorilla and I beat it out of him.
View Quote You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't.
View Quote It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin' on chance - and then you're back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.
View Quote Up is down, black is white.
View Quote Do you know who I am?
View Quote Verna: Shouldn't you be doing your job?
Tom': Intimidating helpless women is my job.
Verna: Then go find one, and intimidate her.
View Quote What is this, the high hat?
View Quote It's like I tell all of my boys. [Casper shoots Eddie Dane] Always put one in the brain!
View Quote Close your eyes ladies! I'm comin' in!
View Quote You double-cross once - where's it all end? An interesting ethical question.
View Quote You dumpin' Leo for the guy that put a bullet in your brother?
View Quote You don't hold elected office in this town. You run it because people think you do. They stop thinking it, you stop running it.
View Quote Verna: What're you chewin' over?
Tom: Dream I had once. I was walkin' in the woods, I don't know why. Wind came up and blew me hat off.
Verna: And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn't a hat anymore and it changed into something else, something wonderful.
Tom: Nah, it stayed a hat and no, I didn't chase it. Nothing more foolish than a man chasin' his hat.