Zé Pequeno: Where do you want to take the shot? In the hand or in the foot?
Buscapé: You need more than guts to be a good gangster. You need ideas.
Zé Pequeno: Can you read? Gang Member: I can read only the pictures.
Buscapé: It was like a message from God: "Honesty doesn't pay, sucker."
Sandro Cenoura: Have you lost your mind? You are just a kid! Filé-com-Fritas - Steak and Fries: A kid? I smoke, I snort. I've killed and robbed. I'm a man.
[after seen his pictures printed in the front page of the news by mistake] Buscapé: Fuck... I'm dead! [cut to slum] Zé Pequeno: What's the name of that friend of yours who took this pictures? Thiago - Tiago: Buscapé. [Enjoying the pictures] Zé Pe...
Barbantinho Adulto - Older Stringy: Why return to the City of God, where God forgets about you?
Cabeleira: Hey, Bernice. Listen, I've got something real important to say. Tell me, you ever heard of love at first sight? Berenice: Sure, but hoods don't fall in love, they just get horny. Cabeleira: C'mon, you cut everything I say to pieces. Bereni...
Zé Pequeno: The fuck I'm Dadinho! Now, my fucking name is Zé Pequeno!
Bené: I'm a playboy now.
Boy 1: The big deal is dope, you got it? Boy 2: If you wanna be a dealer, you gotta start as a delivery boy, see? Boy 1: This delivery boy business is real bullshit. The time it takes being a delivery boy, then security and then manager, is way too l...
Buscapé: What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used ...
Buscapé Criança - Young Rocket: Sun is for everyone, beach for a few.
Buscapé: [after Dadinho kills many people in a motel] That night, Dadinho killed his dream of kill.
[first lines] Zé Pequeno: Whoa, the chicken ran away. Get that chicken, dude!
Zé Pequeno: [after snorting a line and seeing Knockout Ned's photograph in one of the center pages of a newspaper] Motherfucker!I'm the boss around here but he gets his picture in the paper! Have you found my photo in there?
