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Once Upon a Time in America |
| Year |
1984 |
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[Noodles seeing Max after 10 years in prison]
Max:
You're looking good.
Noodles:
You're looking a little better.
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Fat Moe:
What have you been doing all these years?
Noodles:
I've been going to bed early.
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Max:
Some we give them the good life, others we give it right up the***
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Max:
When you've been betrayed by a friend you hit back.
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Max:
You know, if we listened to you we would still be out rolling drunks.
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Police Chief Aiello:
I'm the chief of police not the chief of the people.
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Max:
You'll live with the stink of the streets all your life.
Noodles:
I like the stink of the streets. It cleans out my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.
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Bugsy:
You work for Bugsy or you work for no one.
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Bugsy:
[Bugsy and his gang have beaten Noodles and Max] You don't work for me, you don't work for no-one!
Young Max:
I don't like bosses.
Bugsy:
You'd be better off you stayed in the Bronx.
Young Max:
Woulda been better for *you*, too!
[Bugsy spits on him, and he and his gang walk off]
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Max:
This country's still growing up. Certain diseases, you're better off having when you're still young.
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Joe Minaldi:
Life is... funnier than***
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Dominic:
[after being shot by Bugsy] Noodles, I slipped!
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Joe Minaldi:
[inspecting diamonds through a looking glass] Any trouble?
Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg:
No trouble. Kid's stuff.
[pulls out a gun and shoots Joe in the eye through the glass]
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Chicken Joe:
[as he and another thug are torturing Jimmy O'Donnell] I don't give a *** about you and your Socialist workers!
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Noodles:
You really are crazy, Max.
Max:
[pulls out a gun and hits Noodles over the head with the butt, repeatedly] Don't you *ever*, *ever* say that!
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[last lines]
Noodles:
I hope the investigation turns out to be nothing; it'd be a shame to see a lifetime of work go to waste.
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Noodles:
You see, I have a story too, Mr. Bailey. I had a friend once. A dear friend. I turned him in to save his life. He died. But he wanted it that way. Things went bad for my friend, and they went bad for me too.
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Noodles:
I haven't had a gun in my hands for many, many years. My eyes aren't what they used to be, even with the glasses. My hands shake. And I wouldn't want to miss.
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Max:
Is this your idea of revenge?
Noodles:
No. It's just the way I see things.
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[Noodles is having***with Tuesday Wells]
Max:
We're going, you cumming?
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Bercovicz & Co. hearse:
Why go on living when we can bury you for $49.50?
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[first lines]
Beefy:
Where is he? Where's he hiding?
Eve:
I don't know... I've been looking for him since yesterday.
[a second goon slaps her harshly]
Beefy:
I'm gonna ask you for the last time: Where is he?
Eve:
I don't know... What are you gonna do to him?
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[first lines]
Beefy:
Where is he? Where is he hiding?
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Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg:
Hey, scotch heating!
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Frankie Minaldi:
[introducing the gang to Joe] Here they are, "The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse"! Did you happen to see that movie, Joe? It's a good movie.
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James Conway O'Donnell:
[to Max] You boys ain't a mild case of the measles - you're the plague. And bastards like him
[Crowning]
James Conway O'Donnell:
are immune. That's the difference between us and them.
Noodles:
[puts a jacket on O'Donnell, who flinches] Take it easy. The difference is, they're always gonna win. And you're gonna keep gettin' it up the***
Crowning:
Sooner than you think.
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Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg:
[Patsy and Max have Crowning at gunpoint and are trying to get Chicken Joe and Willie the Ape to release O'Donnell] Just swapping prisoners.
Philip 'Cockeye' Stein:
Fair trade, huh, chickenhead?
[Chicken Joe turns and sees Cockeye and Noodles standing to his right]
Philip 'Cockeye' Stein:
Union boy over here, for Mister Boss Man.
Chicken Joe:
Well, look who's here - Fat Moe's boneyard boys!
Max:
Which reminds me... how's that cancer in your gut comin' along, Chicken Joe?
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Sharkey:
[O'Donnell has been shot in the leg by Crowning's henchmen] Don't worry, Jimmy. With one leg a little shy, you're gonna take giant steps.
James Conway O'Donnell:
Yeah... always one step behind you, eh Sharkey?
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Noodles:
I'm not that type of guy, bedsides if I hit you I'm afraid you'd like it.
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Deborah Gelly:
I read books, I want to learn everything, I want to know everything. Doesn't it make sense to have plans?
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Fat Moe:
When did you get back?
Noodles:
Today.
Fat Moe:
Why?
Noodles:
They got in touch with me.
Fat Moe:
Who?
Noodles:
I thought you might know.
Fat Moe:
Me? I don't know nothin' 'bout nobody no more.
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