Mean Streets

Johnny Boy: 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 fucking jerk-off! You're laughing 'cause you're a jerk-off. I'll tell 'ya something else, [lights ten dollar bill on fire] I fuck you right where you breathe, because I don't give two shits about you or nobody else. Johnny Boy: Come on... Come on... fuck face! Come on... 'ya motherfucker! Motherfucker!... come on! I got somethin' for 'ya asshole! Michael Longo: You don't- you don't have the guts to use that. Johnny Boy: Oh, I don't have the guts, huh? Com

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Johnny Boy: Hey, why don't you lower the jukebox, I can't hear nothin'. Joey 'Clams' Scala: Hey, the girls like the music loud. Johnny Boy: Girls. You call those skanks girls? Joey 'Clams' Scala: [to Charlie] Hey, what's a matter with this kid, huh? Johnny Boy: Hey, there ain't nothin' wrong with me my friend, I'm feelin' fine. Charlie: Keep your mouth shut. Johnny Boy: 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 interrupts] We're not payin', because this guy, this guy's a fuckin' 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? Johnny Boy: A mook, what's a mook? Tony DeVienazo: I don't know... Johnny Boy: What's a mook? Jimmy: You can't call me a mook! Joey 'Clams' Scala: I can't? Jimmy: No... Joey 'Clams' Scala: [paus

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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. Charlie: That bad, huh? Oscar: I can't make this week's payment and if this keeps up not next week's either. Charlie: 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. Charlie: He'd rather have the loan paid, you know that.

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Giovanni Cappa: 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... Charlie: Teresa. Giovanni Cappa: ...The one who's sick, right? In the head. Charlie: No, she's got epilepsy. Giovanni Cappa: Yeah. That's what I said, sick in the head.

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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 nigger under a bridge. Michael Longo: What? What do you mean? Tony DeVienazo: A nigger. As in black. A nigger. 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.

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Giovanni Cappa: I learned this from Charley Lucky during the World War II. Charlie: Oh? What did he do? Giovanni Cappa: What did he do? He was there, that's what he did.

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