Casino Quotes
Nicky Santoro : If you ever get of line over there again, I'll smash your fuckin' head in so hard, you won't be able to put that cowboy hat on. You hear me? Fuckin' hick.
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Nicky Santoro : I'm what counts out here. Not your fuckin' country clubs or your fuckin' TV shows. And what the fuck are you doin' on TV anyhow?
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Nicky Santoro : [ voice-over ] For two days and two fuckin' nights, we beat the shit out of this guy. I mean, we even stuck ice-picks in his balls.
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Nicky Santoro : Ace don't... listen, don't... don't make a scene, all right?
Ace Rothstein : I want to just talk. I want to talk to that Irish bitch.
Nicky Santoro : She didn't know who to turn to. She... she didn't know where to turn. She was tryin' to save your marriage.
Ace Rothstein : Yeah? Nicky, I want to talk to that fuckin' bitch.
Nicky Santoro : Hey, be fuckin' nice. Calm. Be nice. Don't fuck up in here,
Ace Rothstein : I want to just talk. I want to talk to that Irish bitch.
Nicky Santoro : She didn't know who to turn to. She... she didn't know where to turn. She was tryin' to save your marriage.
Ace Rothstein : Yeah? Nicky, I want to talk to that fuckin' bitch.
Nicky Santoro : Hey, be fuckin' nice. Calm. Be nice. Don't fuck up in here,
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Nicky Santoro : You took your boots off? You put your feet on the table? You shit-kicking, stinky, horse-manure-smellin' motherfucker you. You fuck me up over there, I'll stick you in a hole in the fuckin' desert.
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Ace Rothstein : [ narrating over Ginger and Nicky in bed ] And this... this is how she backed him off.
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Nicky Santoro : [ after beating Joe until he cries ] You hear a little girl, Frankie? Is that a little girl, Ace? Is that a little fuckin' girl? What happened to the fuckin' tough guy who told my friend to stick it up his fuckin' ass?
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Nicky Santoro : Give me the fuckin' name!
Tony Dogs : Ch-Charlie M.
Nicky Santoro : Charlie M?
Tony Dogs : Charlie M.
Nicky Santoro : Charlie M? You made me pop your fuckin' eye out of your head to protect that piece of shit? Charlie M? You dumb motherfucker!
Tony Dogs : Kill me.
Nicky Santoro : I'll kill you. You motherfucker you! Frankie, do him a fuckin' favor.
Tony Dogs : Ch-Charlie M.
Nicky Santoro : Charlie M?
Tony Dogs : Charlie M.
Nicky Santoro : Charlie M? You made me pop your fuckin' eye out of your head to protect that piece of shit? Charlie M? You dumb motherfucker!
Tony Dogs : Kill me.
Nicky Santoro : I'll kill you. You motherfucker you! Frankie, do him a fuckin' favor.
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[ a plane just landed on the golf course ]
Ace Rothstein : [ voice-over ] The Feds were watching Nicky play golf for so long that they ran out of gas. Just what I needed, right in front of the control board.
Nicky Santoro : A hundred dollars to whoever hits the plane.
Ace Rothstein : [ voice-over ] The Feds were watching Nicky play golf for so long that they ran out of gas. Just what I needed, right in front of the control board.
Nicky Santoro : A hundred dollars to whoever hits the plane.
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Ace Rothstein : [ voice-over ] Whoever it was, they put the dynamite under the passenger's side. But what they didn't know, what nobody outside the factory knew, was that that model car was made with a metal plate under the driver's seat. It's the only thing that saved my life.
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[ Last lines ]
Ace Rothstein : [ narrating ] The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing?
Ace Rothstein : [ narrating ] The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots. In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played. Today, it's like checkin' into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday. Today, it's all gone. You get a whale show up with four million in a suitcase, and some twenty-five-year-old hotel school kid is gonna want his Social Security Number. After the Teamsters got knocked out of the box, the corporations tore down practically every one of the old casinos. And where did the money come from to rebuild the pyramids? Junk bonds. But in the end, I wound up right back where I started. I could still pick winners, and I could still make money for all kinds of people back home. And why mess up a good thing?
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Ace Rothstein : [ to Don ] Listen to me very carefully. There are three ways of doing things around here: the right way, the wrong way, and the way that *I* do it. You understand?
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Nicky Santoro : I've been trying to reach you. You're tougher to get than the president.
Charlie Clark : Well, I've been busy.
Nicky Santoro : Yeah, the least you could do is return my phone calls, though.
Charlie Clark : Well, I've been busy.
Nicky Santoro : Yeah, the least you could do is return my phone calls, though.
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Ace Rothstein : I'm just curious. I saw you shuffling your checks with your right hand. Can you do that with both hands?
Signaller : No.
Ace Rothstein : Can't do it with both hands?
Signaller : No, sir.
Ace Rothstein : Can you do it with your left hand?
Signaller : Well, I... I never tried.
Ace Rothstein : So you're a righty?
Signaller : Yeah. [ one of the guards repeatedly bangs the signaller's right hand with a hammer ]
Ace Rothstein : Now you're gonna have to learn with your left hand.
Signaller : No.
Ace Rothstein : Can't do it with both hands?
Signaller : No, sir.
Ace Rothstein : Can you do it with your left hand?
Signaller : Well, I... I never tried.
Ace Rothstein : So you're a righty?
Signaller : Yeah. [ one of the guards repeatedly bangs the signaller's right hand with a hammer ]
Ace Rothstein : Now you're gonna have to learn with your left hand.
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Pat Webb : Are we certain that you want the gamin' control board eyeballing your record and your gangster pals like Nicky Santoro?
Ace Rothstein : I think you're way out of line talking to me like that. What your saying is libelous, and you're in no position to challenge my expertise.
Ace Rothstein : I think you're way out of line talking to me like that. What your saying is libelous, and you're in no position to challenge my expertise.
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[ the winner is sent into the casino office, and sees his friend, the signaler, displaying a broken hand ]
Signaller : Look what they did to my hand man!
Ace Rothstein : [ to the winner ] All right, I'm gonna give you a choice. You can either have the money and the hammer or you can walk out of here. You can't have both. What do you want?
Winner : I just wanna get outta here.
Ace Rothstein : And don't forget to tell your friends what happens if they fuck up around here. You understand?
Winner : I'm sorry. I made a bad mistake.
Ace Rothstein : You're fuckin' right you made a bad mistake. 'Cause if you come back here, if we catch either one of ya, we're gonna break your fuckin' heads and you won't walk out of here. You see that fuckin' saw? We're gonna use it. We don't fuck around in this place. You got it? Get outta here.
Winner : [ relieved ] Thank you. [ Security escorts the winner off the premises for good, then tells the other security what to do with the man with the broken right hand ]
Ace Rothstein : Throw him out into the alley and just tell the cops he got hit by a car.
Signaller : Look what they did to my hand man!
Ace Rothstein : [ to the winner ] All right, I'm gonna give you a choice. You can either have the money and the hammer or you can walk out of here. You can't have both. What do you want?
Winner : I just wanna get outta here.
Ace Rothstein : And don't forget to tell your friends what happens if they fuck up around here. You understand?
Winner : I'm sorry. I made a bad mistake.
Ace Rothstein : You're fuckin' right you made a bad mistake. 'Cause if you come back here, if we catch either one of ya, we're gonna break your fuckin' heads and you won't walk out of here. You see that fuckin' saw? We're gonna use it. We don't fuck around in this place. You got it? Get outta here.
Winner : [ relieved ] Thank you. [ Security escorts the winner off the premises for good, then tells the other security what to do with the man with the broken right hand ]
Ace Rothstein : Throw him out into the alley and just tell the cops he got hit by a car.
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[ Frank and Jack struggle with a safe ]
Nicky Santoro : What's takin' so long over there?
Frank Marino : This peter's a motherfucker.
Jack Hardy : It's workin'. Just keep workin' it. It's comin'.
Nicky Santoro : Gotta learn how to open these fuckin' things so you won't have to take 'em.
Nicky Santoro : What's takin' so long over there?
Frank Marino : This peter's a motherfucker.
Jack Hardy : It's workin'. Just keep workin' it. It's comin'.
Nicky Santoro : Gotta learn how to open these fuckin' things so you won't have to take 'em.
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Ace Rothstein : [ voice-over ] Normally, my prospects of coming back alive from a meeting with Nicky were 99 out of 100. But this time, when I heard him say "a couple of hundred yards down the road", I gave myself 50-50.
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Nicky Santoro : That black book's a joke. It's only got two names in it for the whole country. And one of them's still Al Capone.
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Nicky Santoro : [ voice-over ] Me? Thats why The Bosses sent me out here - they wanted me to make sure none of the other crews robbed the joint. Like these two fuckin' ballonheads over here. They were gonna try to bang us outta two hundred fuckin' grand? Yeah, right, I'm sure.
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Ace Rothstein : [ voice-over ] They had enough of Nicky. They had enough. I mean, how much more were they gonna take? So, they made an example of him and his brother: they buried them while they were still breathing.
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Nicky Santoro : Maybe if I stick your head through that window over there you'll get unconfused. Give me the fuckin money.
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Nicky Santoro : If you had any fucking heart at all you'd be out fuckin' stealing for a living.
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Nicky Santoro : Oh I don't know whether you know this or not, but you only have your fuckin casino because I made that possible. I'm what counts out here, not your fuckin country clubs or your fuckin TV shows! And what the fuck are you doing on TV anyhow? You know I get calls from back home every fuckin day, they think you went bat shit!
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