City of God 2002 quotes

The big deal is dope, you got it?

If you wanna be a dealer, you gotta start as a delivery boy, see?

This delivery boy business is real bullshit. The time it takes being a delivery boy, then security and then manager, is way too long.

What you gonna do? You've gotta wait for them to die...

No way! I'll do it just like Li'l Z? did: you gotta whack everyone and that's it!

Have you lost your mind? You are just a child!

Listen man, I smoke, I snort... I've been begging on the street since I was just a baby. I've cleaned windshields at stop lights. I've polished shoes, I've robbed, I've killed... I ain't no kid, no way. I'm a real man.

Can you read?

I can read only the pictures

Hey, Berenice. Listen, I've got something real important to say. Tell me, you ever heard of love at first sight?

Berenice

Sure, but bums don't fall in love, they just get horny.

C'mon, you cut everything I say to pieces.

Berenice

Bums don't talk, they just smooth talk.

Jesus, I'm gonna stop wasting my saliva on you, you sure ain't easy.

Berenice

Bums never stop, they just take a break.

Jeez, Berenice, talking about love with you is pretty complicated, isn't it?

Berenice

Love, you gotta be kidding. You're just leading me on.

But it's just that this jerk here loves you.

****... I'm dead!

What's the name of that friend of yours who took these pictures?

Rocket.

Rocket! This guy is good!

Dadinho my dick, my name now is Li'l Z?, ****!

The **** I'm Li'l Dice! My **** name is Li'l Zé now!

What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section to the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used to living in Vietnam, and more and more volunteers signed up to die.

Where do you want to take the shot? In the hand or in the foot?

You need more than guts to be a good gangster, you need ideas.