Buscemi [To El Mariachi]
You know, one of these days you're gonna lie down too hard on that bed and blow your brains out.
Played by Steve Buscemi 
Desperado (1995) · 21 quotes
Desperado (1995) · 21 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Desperado (1995): in 8 of its 21 quotes
Most scenes with: El Mariachi (4), Short Bartender (2)
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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What do you want?
Buscemi Beer.
All I got is piss-warm Chango.
Buscemi That's my brand. You got a cleaner mug? This one's dirty.
**** you, man! That's the cleanest one I got!
Buscemi Oh, this is damn good! Say, this is the best beer I've ever had. Actually, I'm just glad to be alive right now. I was up a few towns away... you know Saragosa? I was visiting a bar there, not unlike this one. They serve beer. Not quite as good as this, but close. And I saw something you wouldn't believe. I'm sitting there, see, small table all by myself, at this bar. It's full of real lowlifes! I mean, not like this place here. No, I mean bad. Like they were up to no good. Anyway, I'm by myself... I like it that way. Meanwhile, things are going on... under-the-table kinds of things. Not too obvious, but not too secret either. So, I'm sitting there. And in walks the biggest Mexican I have ever seen. Big as shit. Just walks right in like he owns the place. And nobody knew quite what to make of him... or quite what to think. There he was, and in he walked. He was dark too. I don't mean dark-skinned. No, this was different. It was if he was always walking in a shadow. I mean, every step he took toward the light, just when you thought his face was about to be revealed... it wasn't. It was as if the lights dimmed, just for him.
Buscemi [after telling about a rogue gunslinger shooting up a bar]
The stranger shot him, walked over to the bartender, paid, and left.
So the bartender lived? [laughing] The bartender never gets killed!
Buscemi But as the stranger neared the door...
Buscemi [In a flashback, a bartender pulls a shotgun. The stranger shoots the bartender in the head]
No, man. The bartender got it worse than anybody.
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.
How thick?
Buscemi Well, pretty thick.
Buscemi What happens when he's dead?
When Bucho is dead... it's over. He is the last one.
Buscemi End of payback? An eye for an eye and all that crap? You finally going to be satisfied?
I think so.
Buscemi I hope so. Because I don't have the stomach for this anymore.
You never did.
Buscemi Well... neither did you.
Buscemi Just try and keep it from turning into a **** bloodbath, all right? Not like last time.
That one wasn't my fault.
Buscemi Well, of course not.
No, they started it.
Bless me, Father, for I have just killed quite a few men.
Buscemi [opens window in confessional]
No shit!
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