Tony Montana You can send me here, there, this, that, it don't matter. There's nothing you can do to me that Castro has not already done.
Played by Al Pacino 
Scarface (1983) · 69 quotes
Scarface (1983) · 69 quotes
Most-quoted character in Scarface (1983): in 52 of its 69 quotes
Most scenes with: Frank Lopez (3), Immigration Officer #1 (3), Elvira (2)
Okay, here's the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education......but that's okay. I know the street, and I'm making all the right connections. With the right woman, there's no stopping me. I could go right to the top. Anyway......what I got to tell you is this: I like you. I liked you the first time I laid eyes on you.
More lines from Tony Montana
37 quotes Tony Montana Tony Montana I'm Tony Montana, a political prisoner from Cuba, and I want my ****in' human right, now. Just like the President Jimmy Carter, says.
Tony Montana Orders? You giving me orders? Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. You got that? Balls. [to Frank]
Tony Montana This is paradise, I'm tellin' ya. This town is like a great big pussy just waitin' to get ****.
Tony Montana Why don't you try sticking your head up your ass? See if it fits.
Tony Montana **** the **** Diaz Brothers!
Tony Montana Chi-Chi, get the yayo.
Tony Montana Do you know what a "Chaza" is, Frank? It's a pig that don't fly straight. Neither do you, Frank.
Tony Montana No, I won't shoot you. Manolo... shoot that piece of shit. [About Frank]
Tony Montana [Watching Flamingos on T.V.]
Hey Manny, look at the pelican fly. Come on pelican!
Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.
Tony Montana I never **** anybody over in my life that didn't have it coming to 'em. You got that? All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break 'em for no one. You understand? That piece of shit up there, I never liked him, I never trusted him. For all I know he had me set up and had my friend Angel Fernandez killed. But that's history. I'm here, he's not. You wanna go on with me, you say it. You don't, then you make a move.
Tony Montana You know what capitalism is? Gettin' ****!
Tony Montana That prick... **** wasp whore.
Tony Montana I know that, but you know why, Vic? 'Cause you got your head up your culo (refer to ass in Spanish). That's why. That ****in' guy. He never tells the truth. That mother****er.
Tony Montana Who put this thing together? Me, that's who! Who do I trust? Me!
Tony Montana **** Gaspar Gomez, and **** the ****in' Diaz Brothers! **** 'em all! I bury those cockroaches!
Tony Montana [To Elvira:]
How would you know? Bubble head..!
Tony Montana You think I kill two kids and a woman? **** that! I don't need that shit in my life! [sees that Alberto is about to detonate the car bomb] You die, mother****er! [shoots Alberto in the face, killing him] What you think I am? What you think, I'm a ****in' worm, like you? I told you, man! I told you, don't **** with me! I told you, no ****in' kids! No, but you wouldn't listen! Well, you stupid ****! Look at you now!
Tony Montana Is this it? Is this what it's all about, Manny? Eating, drinking, ****, sucking, snorting? Then what? Tell me, then what? You're fifty. You got a bag for a belly. You got tits, you need a bra; they got hair on 'em. You got a liver, it's got spots on it, and you're eatin' this **** shit; and looking like these rich **** mummies in here. Is this what it's all about? Is this what I work for? Look at that, a junkie. I got a **** junkie for a wife. Don't eat nothin', sleeps all day wit them black shades on. Wakes up with a Quaalude. And who won't **** me, cause she's in a coma. I can't even have a kid wit'er, Manny. Her womb is so polluted, I can't even have a **** little baby wit'er!
Tony Montana Let her go. Another Quaalude, she's gonna love me again.
Tony Montana [to the guests at the restaurant]
What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of ****in' cockroaches. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be. You need people like me. You need people like me so you can point your ****in' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." So... what that make you? Good? You're not good. You just know how to hide, how to lie. Me, I don't have that problem. Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. So say good night to the bad guy! Come on. The last time you gonna see a bad guy like this again, let me tell you. Come on. Make way for the bad guy. There's a bad guy comin' through! Better get outta his way!
Tony Montana I'm Tony Montana! You **** with me, you ****in' with the best!
Tony Montana You wanna go to war?! We'll take you to war, okay?!
Tony Montana You wanna play games? Okay, I'll play with you. You wanna play rough? Okay! Say hello to my little friend!
Note: the bolded line is ranked #61 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema.
Tony Montana Hey, how'd you like that? Huh? You ****in' maricón! Hey!
Tony Montana Somebody **** up.
Tony Montana I ****in' hate Colombians!
Tony Montana You have a look in your eye like you haven't been **** in a year.
Tony Montana Rebenga! [stabs Rebenga] From a friend you ****!
Tony Montana I'll bury you ****in' cockroaches!!!!
Tony Montana You think you can take me! You're gonna need a **** army to take me, you hear!
Tony Montana [shouting defiantly after being shot several times]
Hey, how'd you like dat? Huh? You ****in' maricòn! Hey! You think you can take me? You need a ****in' army, you gonna take me! Y'hear? C'mon! I'll take you all to ****in' Hell! Come on! Come on! Come to me! Okay! Who you think you ****in' with? I Tony Montana! You **** with me, you ****in' with the best! [while being shot repeatedly] I'm still standin', huh! ****! Come on! Go ahead! I take your ****in' bullet! Come on! I take your ****in' bullet! You think you kill me with bullets? I take your ****in' bullets! Go ahead!
Tony Montana This is paradise. This is paradise, I'm tellin' you. This town's like a great big pussy just waitin' to get ****. I'm tellin' you. I shoulda come here ten years ago. I'd have been a millionaire by this time. By this time, I'd have had my own boat, my own car, my own golf course.
Tony Montana What I try to tell you? This country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman. That's why you gotta make your own moves.
Tony Montana Okay, Sosa. YOU WANNA **** WITH ME?! You **** with the best! You wanna **** with me? Okay. Okay, you little cockroaches... come on! You wanna play games? Okay, I can play with you. Come on! Okay, YOU WANNA PLAY ROUGH?! Okay! SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEND!
Tony Montana The eyes, chico. They never lie.
Scenes with Tony Montana
14 scenesO.K., so what do you call yourself? ¿Como se llama?
Tony Montana Antonio Montana. And you, what you call yourself?
Where'd you learn to speak the English, Tony?
Tony Montana Uh, in a school. And my father, he was, uh, from the United States. Just like you, ya know? He was a Yankee. Uh, he used to take me a lot to the movies. I learn. I watch the guys like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney. They, they teach me to talk. I like those guys. I always know one day I'm comin' here, United States.
Where'd you get the beauty scar, tough guy, eatin' pussy?
Tony Montana How am I gonna get a scar like that eatin' pussy?
What about homosexuality, Tony? You like men, huh? You like to dress up like a woman?
Tony Montana This guy kiddin', or what?
Immigration Officer #2
Just answer the questions, Tony!
Tony Montana Okay, no. **** no!
Are you ready for some good news, or are you ready for some good news?
Tony Montana Sure, what you got, man?
Manny Ribera; We can be outta this place in thirty days, Not only that, but we got a Green Card and a job in Miami, man. Now, are we made or are we made, man?
Tony Montana What do we gotta do? Go to Cuba and hit the beard or what?
No, man. Somebody else.
Tony Montana You're kidding?
No.
Tony Montana You're not kidding.
Guy named Rebenga, man. Emlio Rebenga.
Tony Montana Rebenga? Coño, man, I know that name.
Yeah?
Tony Montana He's political.
Yeah! Well, he's coming in here today, man.
{Manny and Tony watch Rebenga walk into the camp}
Castro just sprung him. This guy, man, he was one of the top dogs for Fidel in the early days. But Castro felt he couldn't trust him anymore, y'know, and threw him in jail. But while he was on top, he tortured a few guys to death. and one of the guy's brother is a rich guy in Miami now, and he wants the favor repaid. That's where we come in.
Tony Montana He's ugly, man.
Tony Montana [The two watch Rebanga nervously puff on a cigarette as he walks by]
You tell your guys in Miami... your friend... it'd be a pleasure. I kill a Communist for fun, but for a Green Card, I gonna carve him up real nice.
You know what a chazzer is?
Tony Montana No, Frank, you tell me. What is a chazzer?
It's a Yiddish word for "pig." See, the guy, he wants more than what he needs. He don't fly straight no more.
Tony Montana Hey, Frank, you're a piece of shit.
What are you talking about?
Tony Montana You know what I'm taking about about, you **** cockroach.
Tony, don't kill me, please!
Tony Montana I ain't gonna kill you.
Oh Christ, thank you! Thank you! [Tony looks at Manny]
Tony Montana Manolo, shoot that piece of shit! [Manny shoots Frank]
Tony Montana Me, I want what's coming to me.
Oh, well what's coming to you?
Tony Montana The world chico...the world and everything in it!
He **** up.
Tony Montana You too Mel. You **** up.
Don't go too far, Tony.
Tony Montana I'm not, Mel. You are.
Tony Montana Whoever said you was one?
Wait a minute! If you let me go, I'll fix this up.
Tony Montana Sure, Mel. Maybe you can handle yourself one of them first class tickets to the resurrection.
**** punk. Son of a bitch!
Tony Montana So long Mel. Have a good trip.
**** you! [Tony shoots him in the chest.]
Omar **** you!
Tony Montana **** you!
Okay. So, what do you call yourself? Uh? ¿Cómo se llama? (What's your name?)
Tony Montana Antonio Montana. And you, what'd you call yourself?
Where'd you learn to speak English, Tony?
Tony Montana Uh, in a school. And my father, he was from the United States. Just like you, you know? He was a Yankee. Uh, he used to take me a lot to the movies. I learned. I watch the guys like, uh, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney... They teach me to talk. I like those guys. I always know one day I'm coming here, the United States.
So where's your old man now?
Tony Montana He's dead. He died. Sometime. Somewhere.
Mother?
Tony Montana She's dead, too.
What kind of work you do in Cuba, Tony?
Tony Montana Ah, you know, things. I was, this, that. Construction business. I work a lot with my hands. I was in the Army.
Any family in the States? Cousins, brother-in-law, anyone?
Tony Montana Nobody. Everybody's dead.
D'you ever been to jail, Tony?
Tony Montana Me? Jail? No way, no.
Been in a mental hospital?
Tony Montana Yeah. On the boat coming over.
What about homosexuality, Tony? D'you like men? D'you like to dress up like a woman?
Tony Montana [beat]
What the **** is wrong with this guy, man? He kidding me or what?
Immigration Officer #2
Just answer the questions, Tony.
Tony Montana Okay. No. ****, no!
Arrested for vagrancy? Marijuana?
Tony Montana Never, man.
Heroin? [Tony shakes head] Cocaine?
Tony Montana No.
Immigration Officer #2
[Tilts Tony's face with a finger]
Where'd you get the beauty scar, tough guy? Eating pussy?
Tony Montana How am I gonna get a scar like that eating pussy? This was when I was a kid, you know? You should see the other kid. You can't recognize him.
Immigration Officer #2
[Grabs Tony's hand]
And this?
Tony Montana What? That's nothing. That's for my sweetheart.
Immigration Officer #2
Sweetheart, my ass! We've been seeing more and more of these. Some kind of code these guys used in the can. Pitchfork means an assassin or something. D'you want to tell us about it, or d'you want to take a trip to the detention center?
Tony Montana Okay, you got me. I was in the can one time. For buying dollars. Big deal.
Immigration Officer #2
That's pretty funny, Tony.
Tony Montana That's true. It was a Canadian tourist.
Immigration Officer #2
Did you mug him first? Get him out of here! Come on!
Tony Montana So I **** up! Let me talk to this guy. Please! Let me talk to him a minute. You a communist? Huh? How'd you like it, man? They tell you all the time what to do, what to think, what to feel. Do you wanna be like a sheep? Like all those other people? [Mimics sheep]
Immigration Officer #2
I don't have to listen to this bullshit!
Tony D'you wanna work eight, ten **** hours? You own nothing, you got nothing! D'you want a chivato (sneaky informer) on every corner looking after you? Watching everything you do? Everything you say, man? D'you know I eat octopus three times a day? I've got **** octopus coming out of my **** ears. I've got the ****in' Russian shoes my feet's comin' through. How'd you like that? What, d'you want me to stay there and do nothing? Hey, I'm no ****in' criminal, man. I'm no puto (whore) or thief. I'm Tony Montana, a political prisoner from Cuba. And I want my ****in' human rights, now! [Slams desk] Just like the President Jimmy Carter says. Okay?
Carter should see this human right. He's really good. What do you say, Harry?
Immigration Officer #2
I don't believe a word of this shit! They all sound the same to me. That son of a bitch Castro is shittin' all over us. Send this bastard to Freedom Town. Let them take a look at him. Get him outta here.
Tony D'you know somethin'? D'you can send me anywhere. Here, there, this, that; it don't matter. There's nothing you can do to me that Castro has not done. Nothing! [Tony gets manhandled out of the room]
Tony [Tony and Manny are riding a school bus repurposed for detainees]
So?
So?
Tony What'd you tell them?
I told them what you told me to tell them. Told them we were, I was in sanitation. They didn't go for it.
Tony Sanitation?
Yeah.
Tony I told you to tell them you was [sic] in a sanitarium, not sanitation.
Sanitarium. Yeah. You didn't tell me that.
Tony No, I told you to say you had TB and you was in a sanitarium. You was cured.
When did you tell me that?
Tony You should've kept your mouth shut. They'd think you was a horse and let you out.
Tony Montana Hey, coño, what is your problem? You got a problem? You're good-looking, you got a beautiful body, beautiful legs, beautiful face, all these guys in love with you. Only you got a look in your eye like you haven't been **** in a year!
Hey, Jose. Who, why, when, and how I **** is none of your business, okay?
Tony Montana Now you're talking to me, baby. That I like. Keep it coming.
Don't call me "baby"! I'm not your baby.
Tony Montana Not yet, but you gotta give me some time.
Even if I were blind, desperate, starved and begging for it on a desert island, you'd be the last thing I'd ever ****.
No, Tony, no, don't kill me, please! [crying]
Tony Montana I ain't gonna kill you.
Oh Christ, thank you!
Tony Montana Get off my foot.
Thank you! Thank you! [Tony looks at Manny]
Tony Montana Manolo, shoot that piece of shit!
What? No. No! NO!
Tony Montana [Manny kills him; Tony sits down]
Every dog has his day, huh, Mel?
I told him. It didn't make any sense, clipping you when we had you working for us. He wouldn't listen. He got hot tonight, about the broad, you know? He **** up.
Tony Montana You too, Mel. You **** up.
Don't go too far, Tony.
Tony Montana I'm not, Mel. You are. [shoots Bernstein in the gut]
****... You can't shoot a cop!
Tony Montana Whoever said you was one?
Wait a minute! If you let me go, I'll fix this up.
Tony Montana Sure, Mel. Maybe you can handle yourself one of them first class tickets to the Resurrection.
**** punk! Son of a bitch!
Tony Montana So long, Mel. Have a good trip.
**** YOU! [Tony shoots him in the heart]
Tony Montana You know what your problem is, pussycat?
What is my problem, Tony?
Tony Montana You got nothing to do with your life, man. Why don't you get a job? Do something, be a nurse. Work with blind kids, lepers, that kind of thing. Anything beats you waiting around all day, waiting for me to **** you, I'll tell you that.
Don't toot your horn, honey, you're not that good.
Tony Montana Oh yeah? Frank was better huh?
You're an asshole! [storms off]
Tony Montana Where are you going? Come here! Coño! Hey, Elvi! I was kidding. I was only kidding!
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