Once Upon a Time in America Quotes

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Fat Moe: [winding up a clock] What do you think? Noodles: I think the answer's here. That's why I came back.

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[Patsy meets Peggy] Young Peggy: What do you want? Young Patsy: Me? Young Peggy: Mama said you were looking for me. Young Patsy: No, the guys told me that... [pause] Young Patsy: What? Young Patsy: I'll come back some other time... [leaves post-haste...

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[Max shows Noodles his latest purchase] Noodles: What is it? Max: It's a throne. It was a gift to a pope. It cost me about 800 bucks. Carol: It's from the 17th century. Noodles: What are you going to do with it? Max: I'm sitting on it.

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Max: Ladies and gents, I drink to the demise of Fat Moe's speakeasy. Who the hell wants to drink here legally anyway, am I right? Okay, come on, Moe, set them up! Go on, get in there! [raises a toast] Max: Here's mud in your eye! Boys, let's drink to...

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[Noodles is spying on Deborah as she dances] Young Deborah: Fats, you better spray the toilet! I saw a cockroach in there!

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[about Deborah] Young Noodles: She don't leave me alone, I'm gonna give her what she's asking for...

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Carol: Hit me! Noodles: What, are you crazy?

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Beefy: [beating up Moe] Who you protecting, you dumb asshole? A stoolie who rats on his own friends? They were your friends too!

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[Noodles runs into Moe as he is carrying a pile of full plates - crash!] Young Noodles: Sorry, Fats!

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Noodles: To keep from going crazy, you have to cut yourself off from the outside world, just not think about it. Yet there were years that went by. It seemed like... no time at all, because you're not doing anything.

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Chicken Joe: [as he and another thug are torturing Jimmy O'Donnell] I don't give a *shit* about you and your Socialist workers!

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[first lines] [In 1933, two goons rudely question a young woman] Beefy: Where is he? Where's he hiding? Eve: I don't know... I've been looking for him since yesterday. [second goon slaps her harshly; she falls onto the bed] Beefy: I'm gonna ask you f...

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Deborah Gelly: Where were you? Noodles: I was out of town. Deborah Gelly: Have you been back long? Noodles: A couple of days. Deborah Gelly: Are you staying? Noodles: [sits down] That depends...

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[Deborah orders her maid Margo to leave her alone with Noodles] Noodles: She called you Miss... you never got married? Deborah Gelly: No. Noodles: Do you live alone? Deborah Gelly: No.

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