Robert De Niro movie quotes

View Quote May 26th. Four o'clock p.m. I took Betsy to Charles Coffee Shop on Columbus Circle. I had black coffee and apple pie with a slice of melted yellow cheese. I think that was a good selection. Betsy had coffee and a fruit salad dish. She could have had anything she wanted.

View Quote June 29th. I gotta get in shape now. Too much sittin' is ruinin' my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on, it will be fifty push-ups each morning, fifty pull-ups. There'll be no more pills, there'll be no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on, it will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.

View Quote Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man. June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.

View Quote All right, now look, Focker, I'm a patient man. That's what 13 months in a Vietnamese prison camp will do to you. But I will be watching you, studying your every move. And if I find that you are trying to corrupt my firstborn child, I will bring you down, baby. I will bring you down to Chinatown.

View Quote [About Mr. Jinx, the cat] You tried to milk him, didn't you you sick son of a bitch?

View Quote Jesus, Focker. It's just a game.

View Quote [After being beaten half to death by Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake is still standing.] Hey, Ray, I never went down, man! You never got me down, Ray! You hear me, you never got me down.

View Quote I'm gonna win. There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

View Quote Why? Why? Why?...Why'd you do it? Why? You're so stupid...I'm not an animal. Why do you treat me like this? I'm not so bad.

View Quote When you love someone, you've gotta trust them. There's no other way. You've got to give them the key to everything that's yours. Otherwise, what's the point? And for a while, I believed that's the kind of love I had.

View Quote No matter how big a guy might be, Nicky would take him on. You beat Nicky with fists, he comes back with a bat. You beat him with a knife, he comes back with a gun. And you beat him with a gun, you better kill him, because he’ll keep coming back and back until one of you is dead.

View Quote In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and keep them coming back. The longer they play, the more they lose. In the end, we get it all.

View Quote I'm watching you.

View Quote Are you still physically attracted to my daughter, Greg?

View Quote [sternly] Even after her body's endured the hellish ordeal of birthing twins?

View Quote It's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. Then in self defense, I could do something to you that you would not like, right here.

View Quote I am going to teach you the meaning of commitment. Fourteen years ago I was forced to make a commitment to an eight by nine cell, now you are going to be forced to make a commitment. You could say I'm here to save you.

View Quote [watching passing teenaged girls] They're great at that age, ain't they? All those discoveries ahead of 'em. You're lucky, Counselor. My own daughter, she don't even know me. After I went inside, her mama told her I was dead - which, in a way, I was.

View Quote [To Vincent] A guy once told me, "Do not have any attachments, do not have anything in your life you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner."

View Quote I am double the worst trouble you ever thought of.

View Quote [Robbing a bank] We want to hurt no one. We're here for the bank's money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you're not gonna lose a dime. Think of your families, don't risk your life. Don't try and be a hero.

View Quote You wanna play games, I'll play your **** games.

View Quote Those are sun dogs...It means a blessing on the hunter sent by the Great Wolf to his children...It's an old Indian thing.

View Quote Here's to Nick.

View Quote [to Jerry] Jesus, they certainly don't give you very good protection, do they? Look at you here. Who the hell is watching you? Any one of these freaks could just walk right up to you and do whatever he wants.

View Quote [to Rita] You going to spend the rest of your life in that place? Is that what you really want, talking about nothing with nothings? I thought you wanted something a little better than that and that's what I'm offering. Every King needs a Queen, Rita. I want you to be mine. What do you say?

View Quote [to Rita, about Marilyn Monroe] She wasn't a great actress but she had a real gift for comedy. She died tragically, you know, alone, like so many of the world's most beautiful women. I'm going to see that doesn't happen to you, Rita.

View Quote Jack Walsh: Fear of flying, you son of a bitch?! Get back here, you son of a bitch! Get over here. Stop! Fear of flying, my ass! You son of a bitch, get out! You're a goddamn pilot, you son of a bitch?!!
Jonathan Mardukas: I didn't feel it was appropriate to share that with you.

View Quote Jack Walsh: Jimmy. There's something I've been wanting to say to you for ten years.
Jimmy Serrano: Yeah, and what's that!?
Jack Walsh: [smiling] You're under arrest!

View Quote Jonathan Mardukas: Come on, cigarettes are killers.
Jack Walsh: So are women.

View Quote All good things come to those who wait.

View Quote Either you're part of the problem or you're part of the solution or you're just part of the landscape.

View Quote Sam: You labour or management?
Vincent: If I was management, I wouldn't have given you a cigarette.

View Quote [voice over] When I was young, I thought house painters painted houses. What did I know? I was a working guy, a business agent for Teamster Local 107 out of South Philly. [speaking] One of a thousand working stiffs, until I wasn't no more. And then I started painting houses myself.

View Quote [about his boss to be] I thought maybe he owned the gas station. 'Cause he owned something, you could tell. Yeah, it turns out he owned the whole road.

View Quote Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was.

View Quote Party till you're pregnant!

View Quote The greatest gift a grandson can give his grandfather is a hot college girl who wants to have unprotected sex with him before he dies.

View Quote Jason Kelly: Being a corporate lawyer, it's got its upsides.
Dick Kelly: You know what I'd rather do?
Jason Kelly: What?
Dick Kelly: I'd rather let Queen Latifah shit in my mouth from a **** hot air balloon.

View Quote A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

View Quote All combat takes place at night, in the rain, and at the junction of four map segments.

View Quote Can't have a war without an enemy...You could have one, but it would be a very dull war...

View Quote [The record player gets stuck while Lino talks with Sykes.]
Don Lino: Luca.
[Luca moves the needle; the record player plays Baby Got Back by Six Mix-a-Lot; Luca quickly moves the needle again and it cuts off.]
Luca: Hey, boss, big butts! [chuckles]
Don Lino: Oy vey!

View Quote Don Lino: What do you mean you don't understand? What's there to understand. We've been over this 1,000 times. I don't want to have to say it again. You know, you're really giving me agita, you know that. I don't know what else to say this. Lenny, you see something, you kill it, you eat it. Period. Thanks. That's what sharks do. That's a fine tradition. What's the matter with you? Your brother, Frankie, here, he's a killer.
Frankie: Thanks, Pop.
Don Lino: He's beautiful. He does what he's supposed to do. Wipe your face, but you... I'm hearin' things. You gotta understand when you look weak, it makes me look weak.
Lenny: I know.
Don Lino: I can't have that.
Lenny: Pop, I'm sorry.
Don Lino: Lenny. Lenny. Look at me. Look at me. This handin' over the business is for both of us and you're acting like you don't even want it. I need to know you can handle that. [sighs] [splutters] Alright, alright. Right here in front of me now, eat this.
Lenny: [whimpers] Gee, thanks, Pop. Here's the thing. I'm on a diet. And I read an article about these shrimps, they're not good for ya. I tell you. You know how many calories are in one of those shrimps? A lot.
Shrimp: It's true. It's true and the other thing is, my sister had a baby and I took it over because she passed away, and then the baby lost its legs, and its arms and he doesn't put a stump, but I still take care of it with my wife and it's growing and it's fairly happy, but it's difficult 'cause I've been working a second shift at the factory to put food on the table, but all the love and I see that little guy's face makes worth it in the end. True story.
Don Lino: [sighs] I'm not askin' you anymore. I'm tellin' you. Eat it!
Shrimp: No, have mercy!
Lenny: Pop, please...
Don Lino: Eat!
Shrimp: No eat!
Don Lino: Son, eat the shrimp! Please!
Lenny: No, please.
Don Lino: Lenny! Eat, eat, eat!
Lenny: Put the shrimp down! [Lenny grabs the shrimp and lets it go.] Go now. No one's looking. Get out of here. You're free now, go on. Go. Go.
Shrimp: You're a good person. [glares at Lino, then gestures to some other shrimp] Come on, fellas.
Frankie: Pop, I can handle the reef. It's not a problem.
Don Lino: No. No. We're gonna do this as a family. Frankie, I want you to take Lenny out, and show him the ropes.
Frankie: Oh, come on, Pop.
Don Lino: Son, you're gonna learn how to be a shark. Whether you like it or not.

View Quote Don Lino: I bring you in here, look you in the eye, tell you what's what, and what?
Sykes: What?
Don Lino: What "what"?
Sykes: "What, what" nothin'. You said "what" first.
Don Lino: I didn't say what first. I asked you what.
Sykes: No, you said "And then what?", and I said "What?"
Don Lino: [confused] No, I said "what what", like what, what?
Sykes: You said "what" first.
Don Lino: [annoyed] Now you're making fun of me?
Sykes: No, no, no, no, you misunderstood.
Frankie: Sorry we're late, Pop. Lenny had an accident. He was born.
Lenny: [sarcastic laughter] You're a comic genius.
Sykes: Look, all I'm saying is the kid ain't exactly no killer.
Don Lino: My Lenny is a killer! Ya hear me? A cold-blooded killer! Look at him!
[Lino and Sykes both notice Lenny obliviously spinning around on his chair; Frankie shakes his head.]
Sykes: Huh?
Don Lino: That's it! That is it! You are out!
Sykes: What? [inflates; high-pitched] Whaddya mean I'm "out"?
Don Lino: You're fired! [shoves Sykes; Sykes screams and lands on a picture across the room] And on top of that, you're gonna have to start payin' me!
Sykes: For what?
Don Lino: So nothing happens to that little Whale Wash of yours.

View Quote No matter how cleverly you sneak up on a mirror, your reflection always looks you straight in the eye.

View Quote They say there's enough religion in the world to make men hate each other, but not enough to make them love.

View Quote The flesh is weak, Johnny. Only the soul is immortal. [darkly] And yours belongs to ME.

View Quote Laura: It's going to be a real treat having both of you here.
David: I didn't even realize anyone else lived up here.
Laura: Well, it does get pretty quiet in the off season.

View Quote Emily: I have a new friend.
David: A new friend?
Emily: He told me to call him Charlie.
David: When did you meet Charlie?
Emily: Today.
David: When we went to town?
Emily: Just before that.
David: Is he here right now?
Emily: He's touching me

View Quote David: Emily, why would you do this?
Emily: It was Charlie.

View Quote Dr. Ben Sobel: Lou the Wrench? Why the Wrench?
Paul Vitti: He twisted some guy's head off.
Dr. Ben Sobel: OFF?

View Quote Dr. Ben Sobel: Paul, you know what you said about not flipping out?
Paul Vitti: Yeah.
Dr. Ben Sobel: Sorry.
[freaks out]

View Quote Dr. Ben Sobel: I thought you might appreciate a nice home-cooked meal after being in prison for so long.
Paul Vitti: Yeah, that's what I've been jerkin' off for the last 850 nights in a row, a ****in' home-cooked meal. "Oh, tuna casserole!"

View Quote I want you to get this **** where he breathes! I want you to find this Nancy-boy Eliot Ness, I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I wanna go there in the middle of the night and I wanna piss on his ashes!

View Quote I grew up in a tough neighborhood. We used to say, "You can get further with a kind word and a gun than you can with just a kind word." And in that neighborhood, it might've been true. And sometimes your reputation follows you. Yes! There is violence in Chicago. But not by me, and not by anybody who works for me, and I'll tell you why: because it's bad for business.

View Quote [to Ness] You got nothing. You're nothing but a lot of talk and a badge! You hear me? Cause you got nothing! You got nothing in court, you don't got the bookkeeper, you got NOTHING! NOTHING! And if you were a man, you would've done it now! You don't got a thing, you punk!

View Quote Sometimes in the heat of passion, the little head tells the big head what to do, and the big head should think twice about what you are doing.

View Quote The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.

View Quote [about Sonny] People don't love him, they fear him. There's a difference.

View Quote [before confessional camera] Do you feel lucky, punk? Well, do you? I'm too old for this shit. Go on, I dare you.

View Quote [Mitch is making an arrest but is caught on camera for his rough methods]
Det Mitch Preston: Get that **** camera out of here!
Cameraman: I'm just doing my job!
[Preston shoots at the camera]

View Quote [Preston has just called out Trey Sellars for the staged robbery with a friend]
Mitch Preston: This guy's a disgrace to the badge.
Chase Renzi: So you'd never work with him?
Preston: [as he leaves] Never. Not in a million years.

View Quote [to Jack] You want my advice? Make a list of everything you want now and spend the next 25 years getting it, slowly, piece by piece.

View Quote Nick: How can I be sure you're okay?
Diane: I suppose I could **** you.
Nick: That would work.

View Quote Nick Wells: If you want me to do this, you gotta pay me what's right. It's gotta be that way.
Max: [Indignant] I always pay you what's right.
Nick: You always think you do. I always know what you pay me. It's not always right.

View Quote [narrating] Every precinct has its cop bar - a private club - all blue. For the 3-7 it was the Four Aces, just across the river.

View Quote Listen, you deaf ****. I offered you a chance when we could have done something, I offered you a chance to be a cop, and YOU BLEEEEW IT! You blew it.

View Quote The case is closed, finished, over! Go to lunch! Go! Hey, go to lunch. Go to lunch! The case is closed. Everybody, get the **** outta here. Get outta here! The case is **** closed!

View Quote [Rimgale and Brian crash Alderman Swayzak's press conference] These detectives would like to question you on how come you paid Donald Cosgrove, Jeffrey Holcomb and Alan Seagrave to create a phony manpower study! Ask him who made money off firemen dying!

View Quote Rimgale: What about the world, Ronald? What would you like to do to the whole world?
Ronald Bartel: Burn it all.
Rimgale: See you next year, Ronald.

View Quote Rimgale: In a word, Brian, what is this job all about?
Brian: Fire.
Rimgale: It's a living thing, Brian. It breathes, it eats, and it hates. The only way to beat it is to think like it. To know that this flame will spread this way across the door and up across the ceiling, not because of the physics of flammable liquids, but because it wants to. Some guys on this job, the fire owns them, makes 'em fight it on it's level, but the only way to truly kill it is to love it a little. Just like Ronald.

View Quote Victor Frankenstein: Go on, kill me now!
The Creature: That is too mild. If you deny me my wedding night, I will be with you on yours!

View Quote [Walton finds the Creature weeping over Frankenstein's body]
Captain Robert Walton: Who are you?
The Creature: He never gave me a name. [continues to weep]
Captain Robert Walton: Why do you weep?
The Creature: He was my father.

View Quote The Creature: There are people, but they do not know me.
Grandfather: Why do you not go to them?
The Creature: Because I am so ugly, and they are beautiful.

View Quote Have you liquidated Moose and Squirrel? Did you use the CDI? Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me? Then who else are you talking to? Are you talking to me? Well, I am the only one here, so you must be talking to me. AND YOU ARE LYING!!!!! Now catch Moose and Squirrel. And next time use the CDI on them.

View Quote Well, Agent Sympathy. I have waited many years to face an enemy I could respect... and I'm still waiting.

View Quote [Rocky and Bullwinkle's arch-rivals, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, and their leader, Fearless Leader, have transformed from animated characters into live action]
Minnie Mogul: Hey! How did that happen?
Fearless Leader: We are attached to the project.

View Quote Hello. My name is Leonard Lowe. It has been explained to me that I've been away for quite some time. I'm back.

View Quote Read the newspaper. What does it say? All bad. It's all bad. People have forgotten what life is all about. They've forgotten what it is to be alive. They need to be reminded. They need to be reminded of what they have and what they can lose. What I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!

View Quote Leonard Lowe: It's quiet.
Dr. Sayer: Yes, everybody's sleeping.
Leonard Lowe: I'm not asleep.
Dr. Sayer: [smiling] No. You're awake.

View Quote Listen, this whole system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a twenty-seven B stroke six... bloody paperwork.

View Quote Listen, kid, we're all in it together.

View Quote Well, that's a pipe of a different color.

View Quote Louis: [on having sex with Melanie] I just felt strange, you know, I thought, if she was your girlfriend...
Ordell: But you **** her anyway?
Louis: Well...
Ordell: Well, I hope you felt appropriately guilty about it afterwards.
Louis: Afterwards, I did.
[They both laugh]

View Quote Louis: Who's that?
Ordell: That's Beaumont.
Louis: Who's Beaumont?
Ordell: An employee I had to let go.
Louis: What'd he do?
Ordell: He put himself in a position where he was going to have to do ten years in prison, that's what he did. And if you know Beaumont, you know ain't no goddamn way he can do ten years. And if you know that, then you know Beaumont's gonna do anything Beaumont can to keep from doing them ten years, including telling the federal government any and every mutha****in' thing about my black ass. Now that, my friend, is a clear-cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me.

View Quote [Louis and Melanie are looking at a picture]
Melanie: That's Japan.
Louis: Uh, looks like... I can... It shows...
Melanie: Wanna ****?
Louis: Yeah.
[three minutes later]
Melanie: That was fun.
Louis: Yeah, that hit the spot.
Melanie: Now, we can catch up.
Louis: Yeah. [heavy breathing] Got a beer?
Melanie: Sure. In the fridge.

View Quote Hey, sorry lady! I'm sorry! I hate that lady with a passion... with a vengeance.

View Quote You see, I borrow money all over this neighborhood, left and right from every BODY, I never pay them back. So, I can't borrow no money from nobody no more, right? So, who would that leave me to borrow money from but you? I borrow money from you, because you're the only jerk-off around here who I can borrow money from without payin' back, right? You know, 'cause that's what you are, that's what I think of you: a jerk-off.

View Quote Johnny Boy: Hey, why don't you lower the jukebox, I can't hear nothin'.
Joey 'Clams' Scala: Hey, the girls like the music loud.
Johnny Boy: Girls. You call those skanks girls?
Joey 'Clams' Scala: [to Charlie] Hey, what's a matter with this kid, huh?
Johnny Boy: Hey, there ain't nothin' wrong with me my friend, I'm feelin' fine.
Charlie: Keep your mouth shut.
Johnny Boy: You tell me that in front of this asshole?
Joey 'Clams' Scala: Alright, alright, we're not gonna pay. We're not paying.
Jimmy: But why? Joey, we just said we were gonna have a drink.
Joey 'Clams' Scala: [Joey interupts] We're not payin', because this guy, this guy's a ****in' mook.
Jimmy: But I didn't say nothin'.
Joey 'Clams' Scala: And we don't pay mooks.
Jimmy: Mook? I'm a mook?
Joey 'Clams' Scala: Yeah
Jimmy: What's a mook?
Johnny Boy: A mook, what's a mook?
Tony DeVienazo: I don't know...
Johnny Boy: What's a mook?
Jimmy: You can't call me a mook!
Joey 'Clams' Scala: I can't?
Jimmy: No...
Joey 'Clams' Scala: [pause] I'll give you mook! [punches Jimmy in the face]

View Quote [after faking Tristan's murder] Oh, it works every time. An ounce of bargaining, a pinch of trickery, a soupcon of intimidation — et voila! The perfect recipe for a towering reputation without ever having to spill one drop of blood. Ever tried to get bloodstains out of a silk shirt? Nightmare!

View Quote No, seriously, don't mention it. Reputations, you know — a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

View Quote [after throwing the mannequin overboard] I'm taking the girl to my cabin, and mark my words, anyone who disturbs me for the next few hours will get the same treatment. [Crewman: "What, you'll...?"] No, you idiot, I'll sling you over the side as well!