Millers Crossing quotes

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Eddie Dane
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Tom Reagan

View Quote Tom: Hello, Brian. Still fighting the good fight?
Officer Brian: Hello, Tom! Neither rain nor wind nor snow...
Tom: That's the mailman!

View Quote Shut you son of a bitch! Son of a bitch! You stupid son of a bitch.

View Quote Verna: What you doing?
Tom: Walking...
Verna: Don't let on any more than you have to.
Tom: ...in the rain.

View Quote You dumpin' Leo for the guy that put a bullet in your brother?

View Quote Tom: So what's the deal, you get to live and Verna has to be Leo's girl?
Bernie: I have nothing to do with that, she'll sleep with anyone Tom, you know that! She even tried to teach me a thing or two about bed antics once. Some crackpot idea about saving me from my friends. She's a sick twist all right.
Tom: She speaks highly of you.
Bernie: Yeah, well, you stick by your family.

View Quote If you want me to keep my mouth shut, it's gonna cost you some dough. I figure a thousand bucks is reasonable, so I want two.

View Quote You got references? You been to college? We ONLY take yeggs what's been to college, ain't that right, Dane? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I'm joking, of course.

View Quote Verna: Leo's got the right idea. I like him, he's honest and he's got a heart.
Tom: Then it's true what they say. Opposites attract.

View Quote Verna: Why don't we just pick up and leave town? There's nothing keeping you here. I know there's nothing keeping me.
Tom: What about Bernie?
Verna: He could go with us.
Tom: You, me and Bernie; where would we go, Verna? Niagara Falls?

View Quote You don't hold elected office in this town. You run it because people think you do. They stop thinking it, you stop running it.

View Quote If I'd known we were gonna cast our feelings into words, I'd've memorized the Song of Solomon.

View Quote You killed Mink you son of a bitch! You killed Mink,and by God I'll hear you say it!

View Quote Tom: [on finding someone sitting in the dark in his apartment] Hello Bernie
Bernie: Hey Tom. How'd you know it was me?
Tom: You're the only one I know who'd knock and then break in.
Bernie: Your other friends wouldn't break in, huh?
Tom: My other friends want to kill me so they wouldn't've knocked.

View Quote Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

View Quote Tell Leo he's not God on the throne, he's just a cheap political boss with more hair tonic than brains.