Wiseguy quotes

Vinnie Terranova

What do you do, Frank? What do you do when you're 3,000 miles from your wife and the urge hits you?

Frank McPike

I watch Billy Graham and pray for salvation.

Frank McPike

Well, there you are in a nine hundred dollar a day suite at the Georges Cinque and here I am in the naugahyde room of the Karl Marx Pavilion. This is great. When I was undercover it was pockmarked prostitutes.

Frank McPike

Lillah, Lillah, please don't take this as a personal thing. I used to go home before Mel Profitt, now I haven't been home for a weekend in more than three months. I know the strain's beginning to show. I'm hurting in places I don't wanna hurt. And Vince... Vince. You know, I stood right here buying a hamburger when he took it. And I looked out there and there he was in the blood and the pain... You know, I'd just been bitching about how lucky he's had it... And my wife left me. I hadn't talked to her in a week. We kept missing each other. This morning I got a recording telling me that the phone had been disconnected at the customer's request. She put my dog in a kennel and took my kid to her mother's. Now you tell me where the hell that's at-my dog is thirteen years old and he's gonna stay in a kennel 'til I get back or I exceed my credit card limit. In which case I don't have any idea what happens to him. Vinnie's dying and she tells me I'm doing this to her? Actually, her mother tells me 'cause she won't talk to me. She says that if she were dying I'd say, go ahead and go on without me, Hon, 'cause I have no idea why I'll be home. So here I am, standin' here in my nightie, telling this to a practically absolute stranger. A very nice stranger. Because - Because, Lillah, I want to be touched. I want to be loved. Because- 'Cause I'm an ass.

Frank McPike

I don't care what gets raised right now. Vince's cover couldn't mean less to me.

Frank McPike

They're MBA gangsters. They don't honor thy father, they honor the leveraged buyout.

Susan Profitt

[to dying Mel] I love you.

Vinnie Terranova

I want you to tell me what happened to Mel. I want you to tell me so I can help you.

Susan Profitt

Do you think, do you think he knew I loved him? I know I told him, but do you think he really knew?

Roger LoCocco

I live in a thicket infested by zealots bent on the bloodletting of this nation. They raise a glass of Sake to the rising sun and plummet Zeros filled with dynamite into our fathers. They beat themselves with chains until they arrive at a narcotized state, then they shout "Allaahh!" and drive truckloads of explosives into our brothers. They thump Marxist manifestos like some backwater evangelist and carve away half of Europe, enslaving our cousins. Now they want what we have, but they don't want to arrive at it by initiative, they want it by insurrection.

Roger LoCocco

You tell me, Herb. You just tell me, where it's worth dying for: life, liberty, and the pursuit of soda pop.

Vinnie Terranova

Look, Frank, you may think this job is who you are, but I don't. I want to get the hell out of it someday. I want to fight with my wife, play with my kids, worry about my taxes and crabgrass.