Steve Buscemi movie quotes
193 quotes from 23 movies
Reservoir Dogs (1992) as Mr. Pink
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[rubs his middle finger and thumb against each other] You know what this is? It's the world's smallest violin, playing just for the waitresses.
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I don't wanna kill anybody. But if I gotta get out that door, and you're standing in my way, one way or the other, you're gettin' outta my way.
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Where's the commode in this dungeon? I gotta take a squirt.
Fargo (1996) as Carl Showalter
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Keep it still back there, lady, or else we're gonna have to, ya know, to shoot ya.
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Stay away from me, man! Hey, go smoke a ****in' peace pipe!
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You should have seen the other guy
The Death of Stalin (2017) as Nikita Khrushchev
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We were talking about Stalingrad, how cold it was, and we would do anything, anything, to warm ourselves up. We would throw live grenades to each other. Pull the pin, throw it to the prisoners. They'd be jumping around like drunken whores.
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When you go home, make sure your wife writes down everything you think you said tonight. Alright? This way, in the morning you know what you're dealing with. It's Krushchev's law.
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[sobbing over Stalin's body] He's on the floor! He's on the **** floor!
Monster House (2006) as Horace Nebbercracker
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Get off my lawn!
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Honey, I'm home.
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I know you can do it.
Hotel Transylvania (2012) as Wayne
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Hey, kids! Reel it in! You're only supposed to make Mom and Dad miserable!
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Couldn't wait for this weekend. Always good to be out of the shadows for a couple days.
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[pranking Griffin by pulling down his swimsuit] Kids, why'd you do that?
The Boss Baby (2017) as Francis Francis
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We're gonna launch a brand new puppy in every continent. In every country! We're going to take over the world, one heart at a time. Imagine a puppy that never grows up, never gets old. A puppy that stays a puppy forever. I give you the only thing you'll ever love, the Forever Puppy!
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And we are on schedule to release the most adorable puppy ever. We're gonna launch it at the pet convention in Las Vegas! Watch out, world! It's gonna crush the competition!
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I'm launching my Forever Puppies, and there's nothing you can do about it!
Armageddon (1998) as Rockhound
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Guess what guys, it's time to embrace the horror! Look, we've got front row tickets to the end of the earth!
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You wanna compare brainpans? I won the Westinghouse prize when I was 12. Big deal. Published at 19, so what. I got a double doctorate from MIT at 22. Chemistry and Geology. I taught at Princeton for two and a half years. Why do I do this? Because the money's good, the scenery changes and they let me use explosives, okay?
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We're staying, we're going, we're staying, we're going, make up your mind!
Transformers One (2024) as Starscream
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Now, are you spies... or just incompetent lackeys?
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Enough! Two options for you! One: We slowly dismantle each of you, one bolt and screw at a time, and really make sure you feel it. Or two: In exchange for a quick death, you give us intel on the Energon trains, access to the mines or anything else that could hurt your boss, Sentinel Prime!
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The yellow annoying one is correct. We were once the High Guard. We witnessed Sentinel's betrayal, saw the Primes fall. Since that day, we've been fighting from the shadows, doing whatever we can to sabotage Sentinel.
28 Days (2000) as Cornell Shaw
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Hi, my name is Cornell. I'm a drug addict, alcoholic, compulsive gambler-slash-liar.
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I like those spider plants, but whatever turns you on.
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Hey, listen. This isn't the last lousy day you're going to have here.
Desperado (1995) as Buscemi
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Now, I wasn't interested in his drink. Nope, I was more interested in what he was carrying when he walked in. Some sort of a suitcase, kind of heavy. He sat that thing on the stool beside him as if it were his girl.
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[To El Mariachi] You know, one of these days you're gonna lie down too hard on that bed and blow your brains out.
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Buscemi: Then I mentioned the guitar case. Suddenly they got really interested in who you were. So I laid the story down nice and thick.
El Mariachi: How thick?
Buscemi: Well, pretty thick.
El Mariachi: How thick?
Buscemi: Well, pretty thick.
Monsters, Inc. (2001) as Randall
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[after whacking Sulley with a scream canister] You don't know how long I've wanted to do that, Sullivan!
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Shh. Shh. Shh. Shh. Do you hear that? (Pause) It's the winds of change.
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I'm in the zone today, Sullivan. Gonna be doing some serious scarin', puttin' up some big numbers.
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022) as Wayne
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Drac always does this. I always hate getting caught between him and Mavis.
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I miss being Walter.
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This is hard to watch.
Charlotte's Web (2006) as Templeton
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Templeton: [repeated line] The Rat rules!
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Charlotte A. Cavatica: Templeton, haven't you ever heard that good things come to those who wait?
Templeton: No. Good things come to those who find it and shove it in their mouth!
Templeton: No. Good things come to those who find it and shove it in their mouth!
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Templeton: Look at her! Don't you think she's a little... uh... what's the word? EW!
Wilbur: I think she's beautiful.
Wilbur: I think she's beautiful.
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) as Wayne
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We don't need to kill anymore. We have Pop-Tarts.
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[fighting with Drac, who is trying to pull a Frisbee out of his mouth] No! It's my Frisbee! I fetched it!
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[teaching a man how to play tennis] Okay, so, what you wanna do is lift the racket right on impact, so you get that nice top spin. Try and hit one.
The Island (2005) as McCord
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Just cause people wanna eat the burger doesn't mean they wanna meet the cow.
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You're not real. You're copies of people out here in the world.
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McCord: Man, why do I gotta be the guy tells the kids there's no Santa Claus? OK, look. You're...Well, you're not like me. I mean, you're not... human. I mean, you're human, but you just, you're not real. You're not, like, a real person. Like me. You're clones. You're copies of people out here in the world.
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) as Neil
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Automated Announcement: Proceed to the nearest evacuation facility. Proceed to the nearest evacuation facility.
Neil: I think we should proceed to the nearest evacuation facility.
Neil: I think we should proceed to the nearest evacuation facility.
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Jane: What's with her?
Ryan: What's with her and the captain?
Neil: What's with her and that stupid plant? [Jane and Ryan glare at him] What?
Ryan: What's with her and the captain?
Neil: What's with her and that stupid plant? [Jane and Ryan glare at him] What?
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Ryan: Oh, please! Tell me we're not risking our necks for this plant!
Jane: I wouldn't even call it a plant. It's a weed.
Neil: I wouldn't even call it a weed.
Jane: I wouldn't even call it a plant. It's a weed.
Neil: I wouldn't even call it a weed.
Mr. Deeds (2002) as Crazy Eyes
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Deeds: Crazy Eyes.
Crazy Eyes: Hey, Deeds.
Deeds: How you doin', pal? I got your pizza for you, just the way you like it.
Crazy Eyes: Oh, yes. French Fries and Oreos, you know me all too well, Deeds.
Crazy Eyes: Hey, Deeds.
Deeds: How you doin', pal? I got your pizza for you, just the way you like it.
Crazy Eyes: Oh, yes. French Fries and Oreos, you know me all too well, Deeds.
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[last lines]
Crazy Eyes: [drives his new Corvette] Damn, these things are fast!
[he floors it and crashes into a tree]
Crazy Eyes: I'm okay! [laughs] I'm okay!
Crazy Eyes: [drives his new Corvette] Damn, these things are fast!
[he floors it and crashes into a tree]
Crazy Eyes: I'm okay! [laughs] I'm okay!
The Big Lebowski (1998) as Donny
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Donny: I am the Walrus.
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Donny: Phone's ringing Dude.
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Donny: I'm throwin' rocks tonight. Mark it, Dude.
Ghost World (2001) as Seymour
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Seymour: So, was that your boyfriend?
Enid: Josh? He's nobody's boyfriend. He's just this guy that Becky and I like to torture.
Enid: Josh? He's nobody's boyfriend. He's just this guy that Becky and I like to torture.
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Enid: You know what my number-one fantasy used to be?
Seymour: What?
Enid: I used to think about one day, just not telling anyone and going off to some random place. And I'd just... disappear. And they'd never see me again. Do you ever think about stuff like that?
Seymour: I guess I probably did when I was your age.
Enid: You know what we should do? We should just get in your car right now and just drive off. Just find some totally new place and start a whole new life. **** everybody.
Seymour: I'm, uh, I'm not in any good condition to drive.
Enid: I'm serious! I'm just so sick of everybody. Why can't I just do what I want?
Seymour: What do you want?
Enid: What do you want? [a pause. They look into each other's eyes] Don't you like me?
Seymour: What?
Enid: I used to think about one day, just not telling anyone and going off to some random place. And I'd just... disappear. And they'd never see me again. Do you ever think about stuff like that?
Seymour: I guess I probably did when I was your age.
Enid: You know what we should do? We should just get in your car right now and just drive off. Just find some totally new place and start a whole new life. **** everybody.
Seymour: I'm, uh, I'm not in any good condition to drive.
Enid: I'm serious! I'm just so sick of everybody. Why can't I just do what I want?
Seymour: What do you want?
Enid: What do you want? [a pause. They look into each other's eyes] Don't you like me?
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[Seymour is trying to interest a fellow collector in a record he's selling]
Paul: It has a large center hole and a hair crack.
Seymour: But the crack is so tight, it's completely inaudible.
Paul: But a tight hair crack is just that—a crack. I don't collect cracked records. I only pay premium on mint records. Seymour, you know that. Please.
[Paul walks away. Enid, who has been listening, goes up to Seymour]
Enid: So, what was all that about enlarged holes and tight cracks?
Paul: It has a large center hole and a hair crack.
Seymour: But the crack is so tight, it's completely inaudible.
Paul: But a tight hair crack is just that—a crack. I don't collect cracked records. I only pay premium on mint records. Seymour, you know that. Please.
[Paul walks away. Enid, who has been listening, goes up to Seymour]
Enid: So, what was all that about enlarged holes and tight cracks?
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) as Dr. Romero
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Dr. Romero: [about his creatures] They've tried to gobble me up on more than one occasion! Why do they despise me so? I created them. [looking thoughtful] Do you think... God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he's created, here on Earth? [sees Carmen and Juni giving him odd looks] Stop looking at me like that! I'm no loon!
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Donnagon Giggles: Where'd it go?
Dr. Romero: I don't know.
[gets nudged by Donnagon's Magna Men]
Dr. Romero: The Spork took it.
Dr. Romero: I don't know.
[gets nudged by Donnagon's Magna Men]
Dr. Romero: The Spork took it.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) as Wayne
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Kids Club? [to his wife] What's a kids club?
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[The monsters are all gathered for Carl and Lucy's wedding to start while waiting impatiently]
Wayne: [stuffing pacifiers into his werewolf babies' mouths to keep them from crying] Oh, when is this thing starting?
[The werewolf babies spit out their pacifiers and resume crying]
Frank: Aw, you made them cry, Wayne. [gestures to Sunny, who still remains smiling] All except this little one. Coochie-coochie…
Wayne: That's Sunny. She doesn't cry. [Sunny bites off Frank's finger] She bites.
Dracula and Mavis: Dennis!
Griffin: (screaming)
Wayne: [stuffing pacifiers into his werewolf babies' mouths to keep them from crying] Oh, when is this thing starting?
[The werewolf babies spit out their pacifiers and resume crying]
Frank: Aw, you made them cry, Wayne. [gestures to Sunny, who still remains smiling] All except this little one. Coochie-coochie…
Wayne: That's Sunny. She doesn't cry. [Sunny bites off Frank's finger] She bites.
Dracula and Mavis: Dennis!
Griffin: (screaming)
The King of Staten Island (2020) as Papa
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Your dad was a hero, and heroes are necessary, and they should be allowed to have families.
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[Papa and Ray are watching Scott wash a fire truck. Papa keeps a straight face while Ray looks at Scott with distain and skepticism]
Papa: [To Ray] He's doin' a good job.
Ray: [Scoffs] He knows how to wash a truck. Getting ready for his career working at a car wash.
Papa: Are you ever gonna give this kid a break or what?
Ray: I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Papa: Do nothing. Were you on the job when Stan was killed?
Ray: Yeah, you know I was.
Papa: What's the first thing you thought of when you heard?
Ray: [After a brief pause] I...I wondered if he had kids.
[Papa looks over at Scott]
Scott: Why do I have to clean this thing anyway? It's just gonna get fire on it. Do you think the people that are burning alive give a **** if the truck is shiny? I'm just saying. I don't even know why I have to clean the truck. What, are you trying to show up all sexy to a fire?
Papa: [Smiles; to Ray] I like him.
Papa: [To Ray] He's doin' a good job.
Ray: [Scoffs] He knows how to wash a truck. Getting ready for his career working at a car wash.
Papa: Are you ever gonna give this kid a break or what?
Ray: I don't know what I'm supposed to do.
Papa: Do nothing. Were you on the job when Stan was killed?
Ray: Yeah, you know I was.
Papa: What's the first thing you thought of when you heard?
Ray: [After a brief pause] I...I wondered if he had kids.
[Papa looks over at Scott]
Scott: Why do I have to clean this thing anyway? It's just gonna get fire on it. Do you think the people that are burning alive give a **** if the truck is shiny? I'm just saying. I don't even know why I have to clean the truck. What, are you trying to show up all sexy to a fire?
Papa: [Smiles; to Ray] I like him.
The Messenger (2009) as Dale Martin
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Look at that tree. Look at that **** tree! The same age as my son!
