I learned this from Charley Lucky during the World War II.
Oh? What did he do?
What did he do? He was there, that's what he did.
Charlie
Harvey Keitel · 7 quotes
Johnny Boy
Robert De Niro · 4 quotes
Giovanni Cappa
Cesare Danova · 3 quotes
Martin Scorsese
1 quote
Most scenes together: Charlie & Giovanni Cappa (2)
Mean Streets quotes
This Johnny Boy is like your mister Groppi...a little crazy. It's nice you should help him out because of his family and our family but watch yourself...Don't spoil anything. His whole family has problems...his cousin, the girl who lives next door to you...
Teresa.
...The one who's sick, right? In the head.
No, she's got epilepsy.
Yeah. That's what I said, sick in the head.
Hey, why don't you lower the jukebox, I can't hear nothin'.
Joey 'Clams' Scala Hey, the girls like the music loud.
Girls. You call those skanks girls?
Joey 'Clams' Scala [to Charlie]
Hey, what's a matter with this kid, huh?
Hey, there ain't nothin' wrong with me my friend, I'm feelin' fine.
Keep your mouth shut.
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?
A mook, what's a mook?
Tony DeVienazo I don't know...
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]
You too good for this ten dollars? It's a good ten dollars. You know Michael, you make me laugh. You see, I borrow money all over this neighborhood, left and right from everybody, 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. You're a **** jerk-off! You're laughing 'cause you're a jerk-off. I'll tell 'ya something else, [lights ten dollar bill on fire] I **** you right where you breathe, because I don't give two shits about you or nobody else.
[Michael jumps at Johnny Boy and they both fight but Charlie breaks them up, Johnny Boy pulls out a gun]
Come on... Come on... **** face! Come on... 'ya mother****er! Mother****er!... come on! I got somethin' for 'ya asshole!
Michael Longo You don't- you don't have the guts to use that.
Oh, I don't have the guts, huh? Come over here, I'll shove this up yer ass! Come on!
Michael Longo [showing a picture of his new girlfriend]
You think she's good-looking? She's smart, too. She's gonna be a teacher.
Tony DeVienazo Let me see that. Oh, I know this girl.
Michael Longo Yeah?
Tony DeVienazo Yeah...I saw her kissing a **** under a bridge.
Michael Longo What? What do you mean?
Tony DeVienazo A ****. As in black. A ****.
Michael Longo But what do you mean?
Tony DeVienazo [rolls his eyes]
I mean...kissing. Her lips on his lips. Kissing.
Michael Longo [worried]
I kissed her.
Oscar Look Charlie, you're a good boy. Will you just tell your uncle that I have nothing. There is nothing to give him. No envelopes with cash inside, no checks, nothing.
That bad, huh?
Oscar I can't make this week's payment and if this keeps up not next week's either.
Not next week's either... listen... you tell that to Giovanni, not me.
Oscar Listen, I should wrap up this place in a ribbon and hand it to him, you know that. I don't need this aggravation. I'm getting old.
He'd rather have the loan paid, you know that.
[They all raise their glasses to The Queen]
You know what the Queen said? If I had balls, I'd be King.
[voiceover]
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.
Hey, sorry lady! I'm sorry! I hate that lady with a passion... with a vengeance.
Honorable men go with honorable men.
It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't **** around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual.
You know something? She is really good-lookin'. I gotta say that again. She is really good-lookin'. But she's black. You can see that real plain, right? Look, there isn't much of a difference anyway, is there. Well, is there?
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.