Skip McCoy [after first kiss with Candy]
Sometimes you look for oil, you hit a gusher.
Tied for most-quoted character in Pickup on South Street (1953): in 7 of its 14 quotes
A line from Skip McCoy [to Capt. Tiger]You're sittin' on a hot rock. I'd like to see you jump!
More lines from Skip McCoy
3 quotes Skip McCoy Skip McCoy I know you pinched me three times and got me convicted three times and made me a three time loser. And I know you took an oath to put me away for life. Well you're trying awful hard with all this patriotic eye-wash, but get this: I didn't grift that film and you can't prove I did! And if I said I did, you'd slap that fourth rap across my teeth no matter what promises you made!
Skip McCoy So you're a Red, who cares? Your money's as good as anybody else's.
Scenes with Skip McCoy
3 scenes
What's the matter with you? Playing footsie with the Commies!
Skip McCoy You waving the flag, too?
Listen, I knew you since you was a little kid. You was always a regular kind of crook. I never figured you for a louse.
Skip McCoy Stop, you're breaking my heart.
Even in our crummy line of business you gotta draw the line somewhere.
Skip McCoy You boys are talking to the wrong corner. I'm just a guy keeping my hands in my own pockets.
FBI Agent Zara If you refuse to cooperate you'll be as guilty as the traitors who gave Stalin the A-bomb.
Skip McCoy Are you waving the flag at me?
Skip McCoy Pack up the pitch with the charge or drive me back to my shack.
I'll drive you back in a hearse if you don't get the kink out of your mouth!
