Prizzi's Honor

Irene Walker: I can't get over it. What kinda creep wouldn't catch a baby? If it was real it coulda been crippled for life. Charley Partanna: He wasn't paid to bodyguard the baby.

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Irene Walker: Charley, I've been doin' three to four hits a year for the past couple of years, most at full pay. Charley Partanna: That many? Irene Walker: Well, it's not many when you consider the size of the population.

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Maerose Prizzi: So let's do it. Charley Partanna: With all the lights on? Maerose Prizzi: Yeah. Right here. On the Oriental. With all the lights on.

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Charley Partanna: [about Irene] I met her in a church. It just happened. I knew she was the woman for me. She'd organized the scam in Vegas. I go looking for the bad guy and it turns out to be my woman, can you imagine this? Not only that - Pop tells me she's the piece man for the Nettabino contract. Just the same, I love her, Mae... I love her. Maerose Prizzi: Well... Charley Partanna: How can I live with this? I gotta do something about it. I gotta straighten it out. Maerose Prizzi: Then do. Charley Partanna: Do what? Do I ice her? Do I marry her? Which one of these? Maerose Prizzi: Marry her, Charley. Just because she's a thief and a hitter doesn't mean she's not a good woman in all the other departments. If she was some kind of fashion model, well it wouldn't last more than thirty days. But you and she is in the same line of business. You are lucky you found each other, you know that, Charley? Charley Partanna: Yeah, I guess. Maerose Prizzi: She's an American! She had a chance to m

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Eduardo Prizzi: [reading from the letter from Charley] "Dominic put out a contract on me..." Dominic Prizzi: He's a fuckin' liar! Eduardo Prizzi: You wanna hear the letter? Then listen, don't talk. There's about a 130 million dollars here, maybe more. We gotta renegotiate before we get it back. Just shut up and listen. Go on, sit down. Go on. [continuing to read from the letter] "Dominic will say it's a lot of bullshit. But it so happens he hired my own wife and he gave her a down payment of 50 thousand dollars and my wife is sittin' here next to me and she's laughin' like hell. I personally think the Don found Dominic on a doorstep because Dominic is fifty times too dumb to be a Prizzi!"

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Don Corrado Prizzi: Charley, you swore an oath of blood, my blood and yours, that you would always put the family before anything else in your life. We are calling on you to keep that sacred oath. Charley Partanna: Irene is my family. She's my wife. Angelo 'Pop' Partanna: Charley, she is a woman you have known only for a few weeks. She is your wife. We are your life.

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