Crimes and Misdemeanors Quotes

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Clifford Stern: [after being handed a box of Milk Duds] Great. Now I can get rid of my few remaining teeth.

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Halley Reed: [on the philosopher Lewis Levy] He was very eloquent on the subject of love, didn't you think? Clifford Stern: I wish I had met him before I got married. It would've saved me a gall bladder operation.

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Clifford Stern: [on Lester] When he tells you he wants to exchange ideas, what he wants is to exchange fluids.

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Clifford Stern: What is the guy so upset about? You'd think nobody was ever compared to Mussolini before.

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Cliff Stern: I think I see a cab. If we run quickly we can kick the crutch from that old lady and get it.

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Judah Rosenthal: If you want a happy ending, you should go see a Hollywood movie.

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Lester: If you play your cards right, you could have my body. Halley Reed: Wouldn't you rather leave it to science?

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Lester: I told you I'm putty in your hands. Halley: What am I gonna do with a handful of putty?

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Halley: Don't get discouraged. You have your own personal vision.

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Judah Rosenthal: She's not an insect! You don't just step on her!

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Judah Rosenthal: It's pure evil, Jack! A man kills for money and he doesn't even know his victims!

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Lester: If it bends, it's funny, if it breaks it's not funny.

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Judah Rosenthal: [to Ben] Jack lives in the real world. You live in the kingdom of heaven. I'd managed to keep free of that real world but suddenly it's found me.

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Ben: But the law, Judah. Without the law, it's all darkness.

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Sol Rosenthal: Whether it's the Bible or Shakespeare, murder will out! Judah Rosenthal: Who said anything about murder? Sol Rosenthal: You did.

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Clifford Stern: [of Lester] I love him like a brother... David Greenglass. [You could look him up]

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Halley Reed: I never say no to champagne... or caviar.

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[There's this joke: about the prizefighter who enters the ring, and his brother turns to the family priest and says, "Father, pray for him." And the priest said, "I will, but if he can punch, it'll help."]

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