Millers Crossing quotes

55 total quotes

Eddie Dane
Johnny Caspar
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Tom Reagan

View Quote 'Tom: Rug Daniels is dead.
Verna: Gee, that's tough.
Tom: Don't get hysterical.

View Quote I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about - hell. Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talkin' about ethics.

View Quote Then I wondered "Why would Einstein want to talk to a gorilla?" So I grab the gorilla and I beat it out of him.

View Quote It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin' on chance - and then you're back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.

View Quote You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't.

View Quote Verna: Shouldn't you be doing your job?
Tom': Intimidating helpless women is my job.
Verna: Then go find one, and intimidate her.

View Quote You double-cross once - where's it all end? An interesting ethical question.

View Quote Close your eyes ladies! I'm comin' in!

View Quote Do you know who I am?

View Quote It's like I tell all of my boys. [Casper shoots Eddie Dane] Always put one in the brain!

View Quote Up is down, black is white.

View Quote Verna: What're you chewin' over?
Tom: Dream I had once. I was walkin' in the woods, I don't know why. Wind came up and blew me hat off.
Verna: And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn't a hat anymore and it changed into something else, something wonderful.
Tom: Nah, it stayed a hat and no, I didn't chase it. Nothing more foolish than a man chasin' his hat.

View Quote What is this, the high hat?

View Quote That son of a bitch! I had a feeling about this son of a bitch! We silence him! And we do the same to Mink this very night!

View Quote Tom: All in all not a bad guy - if looks, brains and personality don't count.
Verna: You better hope they don't.