Chili Palmer I don't think the producer has to do much, outside of maybe knowing a writer.
Played by John Travolta 
Get Shorty (1995) · 51 quotes
Get Shorty (1995) · 51 quotes
Most-quoted character in Get Shorty (1995): in 25 of its 51 quotes
Most scenes with: Harry Zimm (4), Ray "Bones" (4), Karen Flores (4)
Listen, "Touch of Evil"'s playing near my hotel. You wanna go check it out? Watch Charlton Heston play a Mexican?
More lines from Chili Palmer
8 quotes Chili Palmer Chili Palmer Look at me, Leo. I wouldn't think you're that dumb, leave over three hundred grand in the closet, underneath the extra blanket, but I guess you are.
Chili Palmer You know, Welles didn't even wanna do that one. Some studio made him do it. He owed 'em one and all his own movies lost money. But, hey, sometimes that's when you do your best work, you got a gun to your head...
Chili Palmer Rough business this movie business. I may have to go back to loan sharking for a rest.
Chili Palmer Hey, Bear, look at me. Tell your boss I don't ever want to see him again. He made a deal with Harry and a deal's a deal.
Chili Palmer I mean I could see myself in movies Robert De Niro had been in. Or I could maybe do an Al Pacino movie, play a hard-on. But I couldn't see myself in ones, like say the one where the three guys get stuck with a baby. They don't know how to take care of it and you see these big grown-up assholes acting cute...
Chili Palmer Don't worry. I'm not going to say anything more than I have to, if that.
Chili Palmer Harry, look at me. You're trying to tell me you **** up without sounding stupid, and that's hard to do.
Scenes with Chili Palmer
16 scenes Chili So what're you tellin' me, you're never gonna go to sleep again?
Tommy No, I said I'm never goin' to bed. There's a difference. See, the article says most people die in their beds. I figure long as I stay outta bed, I'm safe.
You got a miss. Leo Devoe. Guy's six weeks over.
Chili He died.
How'd you know he died, he tell you?
Which also means when I speak, I'm speakin' for Jimmy. So e.g. as of now, you start affording me the proper respect.
Chili 'E.g.' means 'for example', Ray. I think what you wanna say is 'i.e.'
Bullshit. E.g. is short for 'ergo'.
Chili Ask your man here.
Mob Guy
Best a my knowledge, e.g. means 'for example.'
E.g., i.e., **** you. The point is, I say jump, you say okay. Okay?
Chili What is this?
Attendant An Oldsmobile Silhouette.
Chili I reserved a Cadillac.
Attendant Yeah, well, this one's the Cadillac of minivans.
Chili Harry Zimm, how you doing? I'm Chili Palmer.
Jesus, if I have a heart attack, I hope you know what to do.
Chili Where you been, Harry?
Have we met? I don't recall.
Chili We just did. I told you my name's Chili Palmer.
Chili Harry, look at me.
I'm looking at you.
Chili I want you to keep looking right here, okay?
That's what I'm doing.
Chili Martin Weir. He played the mob guy that turned snitch in "The Cyclone".
One of his best parts.
Chili No, his best part was the cripple gay guy that climbed Mt. Whitney.
"Ride the Clouds". Good picture.
Chili So you're thinking what if I was to put you next to my dry cleaner. Ask him if he wants to invest his money in a movie.
That, or I'm thinking what if some tragic accident were to befall the widow Saffrin...
Chili I'm not gonna pop her, Harry.
Just a thought.
Chili You have a piece of a movie, that's all. You don't have a piece of Harry. He told you we're doing another movie first. And that's the way it's gonna be.
Excuse me. But who the **** are you?
Chili I'm the one telling you how it is. That's not too hard to figure out, is it?
Chili Hey... Karen. How ya' doin'?
What're you doing here?
Chili I wanted to come by, apologise for coming into your house like I did last night.
Lemme get this straight, you broke in again to apologize for breaking in before?
Chili No, no... you let the patio door open. You gotta stop doin' that, all the nice things you got around here.
Chili You read Harry's new one? He says it's the best thing he's ever read.
He must mean after "Slime Creature 3".
Chili I was never much into it. All that bullshit having to do with respect. It's bad enough having to treat those guys like they're your heroes, having to smile when they make some stupid remark they think's real funny.
And you think the movie business is any different?
Chili Martin, look at me.
Martin I'm looking at you.
Chili No, I want you to look at me the way I'm looking at you. Put it in your eyes, 'You're mine, asshole,' without saying it.
Martin Like this?
Chili What you're telling me, you're tired? You wanna go to bed?
Martin Wait. How about this?
Chili Now you're squinting like you need glasses. Look at me. I'm thinking, You're mine. I ****in' own you. What I'm not doing is feeling anything about it one way or the other. You understand? You're not a person to me, you're a name in my collection book, a guy owes me money, that's all.
Martin How about this?
Chili That's not bad.
Martin That's what I think of you, asshole. Nothing.
Chili I believe it.
Chili What kinda food they serve at this Ivy place anyway?
Continental, but it doesn't matter. Martin won't order from the menu.
Chili Why not?
Because a movie star can never order straight from the menu. They have to think of something they have to have that isn't on the menu.
Chili You don't need that. You want to sit down and talk, it's fine with me. Get this straightened out. How'd you get in here?
I told them I was you. I acted stupid and they believed me.
Momo is dead, which means that everything that he had now belongs to Jimmy Capp, including you, which also means when I speak, I'm speaking for Jimmy — e.g. from now on you start showing me the proper **** respect.
Chili "e.g." means "for example." I think what you want to say is "i.e."
Bullshit. That's short for "ergo."
Chili Ask your man.
Mob Guy
To best of my knowledge, "e.g." means "for example."
e.g., i.e., **** you! The point is this, is that when I say jump, you say "okay." Okay?
