Miller's Crossing Quotes

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Tom Reagan: Nobody knows anybody. Not that well.

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Bernie: Look in your heart! Look in your heart! Tom Reagan: What heart?

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Tom Reagan: Think about what protecting Bernie gets us. Think about what offending Caspar loses us. Leo O'Bannion: Oh, come on, Tommy. You know I don't like to think. Tom Reagan: Yeah. Well, think about whether you should start.

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Eddie Dane: How'd you get the fat lip? Tom Reagan: Old war wound. Acts up around morons.

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Johnny Caspar: When you're right you're right, but you never say 'I told you so'. Tom Reagan: So what am I right about? Johnny Caspar: Well, I'll tell ya, but first you gotta promise not to say 'I told you so'. Tom Reagan: I don't say that and I don'...

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Johnny Caspar: One thing I always try to teach my boys: always put one in the brain!

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Verna: What're you chewin' over? Tom Reagan: Dream I had once. I was walkin' in the woods, I don't know why. Wind came up and blew me hat off. Verna: And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn...

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Leo O'Bannion: You hear about Rug? Tom Reagan: Yeah, RIP. Leo O'Bannion: They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that's strange, why would they do that? Tom Reagan: Maybe it was injuns.

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Tom Reagan: So what's the deal, you get to live and Verna has to be Leo's girl? Bernie: I have nothing to do with that, she'll sleep with anyone Tom, you know that! She even tried to teach me a thing or two about bed antics once. Some crackpot idea a...

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Tom Reagan: All in all not a bad guy - if looks, brains and personality don't count. Verna: You better hope they don't.

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Tom Reagan: If you want me to keep my mouth shut, it's gonna cost you some dough. I figure a thousand bucks is reasonable, so I want two.

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[Last lines] Leo O'Bannion: Dammit, Tom, I forgive you! Tom Reagan: I didn't ask for that and I don't want it. Good-bye, Leo.

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Leo O'Bannion: Seein' you mope around here ruins my, whaddya call it, "joy de veever"? Tom Reagan: "Joie de vivre".

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Johnny Caspar: Friends is a mental state. Wuddya say, kid? Tom Reagan: I'll think about it. Johnny Caspar: He'll think about it. Hear that, Bluepoint? That's terrific. The kid's a thinker. Frankie: Does he want a pillow for his head? Johnny Caspar: O...

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Tom Reagan: Tell Leo he's not God on the throne, he's just a cheap political boss with more hair tonic than brains.

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Tom Reagan: I am awake. Tad: Your eyes are shut. Tom Reagan: Who you gonna believe?

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Eddie Dane: Where's Leo? Hitman at Verna's: If I tell you, how do I know you won't kill me? Eddie Dane: Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying I wouldn't get to kill you *then*. Where's Leo? Hitman at Verna's: He's moving around. ...

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Tom Reagan: If I'd known we were gonna cast our feelings into words, I'd've memorized the Song of Solomon.

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