The Best Vincent Gardenia Quotes

Lewis: You got a job to do. I want Morgan taken care of. I want him dead... and i mean now!

Audrey: Seymour's first radio broadcast! I wanted to hear it so bad. I tried to be on time, but...
Mr. Mushnik: Don't tell me. You got tied up.
Audrey: No. Just handcuffed a little.

Audrey: I got a date.
Mr. Mushnik: With that same no-goodnik? I'm telling you, Audrey, you don't need a date - you need major medical!

Frank: We want you to get out of New York... Permanently.
Paul: [pause] Inspector... By sundown?

Mr. Mushnik: Move, move! Move! Stay away!
[gestures them away from inside his window]
Mr. Mushnik: No loitering!
Ronette: Man, I wasn't loitering! Were you, Crystal?
Crystal: Not me, Ronette! Were you, Chiffon?
Mr. Mushnik: You oughta be in school!
Chiffon: Yeah, well, we're on a split shift.
Ronette: Yeah! We went to school till fifth grade, then we split!
Mr. Mushnik: So! How do you intend to better yourselves?
Crystal: Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you're from Skid Row, ain't no such thing!

Mr. Mushnik: [after Seymour asks why Mushnik is angry at him] Little red dots all over the linoleum, little red spots on the concrete outside - I'm talking blood, Krelborn! I'm talking under my own roof!
[grabs an axe]
Mr. Mushnik: An axe murderer!
[Seymour goes alarmed]
Audrey: [sings off-screen] He's got your number now.
Mr. Mushnik: I saw everything!
Audrey: He knows just what you've done.
Mr. Mushnik: Everything you did to her boyfriend!
Audrey: You've got no place to hide.
Mr. Mushnik: [swings the axe] I saw you chopping him!
Audrey: You've got nowhere to run.
Seymour: [innocently] It's true! I chopped him up, but I didn't kill him!
Audrey: He knows your life of crime.
Mr. Mushnik: [points a gun at him] Tell it to the police!
Audrey: I think it's suppertime!

[first lines]
Vito: You're getting on that boat tonight, Frank. There's no other way.
Frank: [disguised Rollin Hand] But there is, Vito. There's one other way.
Vito: Yeah? What's that?
Frank: [disguised Rollin Hand] I'll show you. You and Al can decide then whether I take that boat or not.

[last lines]
Victor: And I killed them all for... for Parma!
Lewis: That's enough!
Victor: I killed them all for Parma!
Lewis: Shut up, Vic!
Victor: I killed them all for Parma. A guy in San Francisco. A guy named Phillips in Denver.
Lewis: Find your way in there! And kill him! Kill him! Kill him!

Seymour: The Audrey Two is not a healthy girl.
Mr. Mushnik: Strictly between us - neither is the Audrey One.

Mr. Mushnik: Hey, urchins!
[bangs on window]
Mr. Mushnik: Shoo, get outta here!/ No loitering!
Ronette: Maan, I wasn't loitering/ Were you Crystal?
Crystal: Not me Ronette, were you Chiffon?
Mr. Mushnik: You kids should be in school!
Chiffon: Yeah, but were on a split shift.
Ronette: Yeah! We went to school till the tenth grade, then we split!
Mr. Mushnik: So! How do you intend to better yourselves?
Crystal: Better ourselves? You heard what he said? Better ourselves! Mister, when you're from Skid Row/ Ain't no such thing!

[Seymour is attempting to put a plant on a high shelf. The shelving unit falls and the plants crash to the floor]
Mr. Mushnik: Seymour, what's going on?
Seymour: Very little, Mr. Mushnik.

[last lines]
Al: There's a freighter leaving Pier 26 at 11 tonight. You're gonna be on it.
Vito: If you stay, Frank, they'll put you away.
Frank: [disguised Rollin Hand] I'm not going, and they're not putting me anywhere.
Cheever: Well, you shot and killed a U.S. Marshal, and that cop is a witness.
Vito: We talked it over, Frank. You can't stay.
Al: Frank, we're only thinking what's best for you.
Frank: [disguised Rollin Hand] You two have gone crazy. I'm going nowhere.
Vito: Don't make it rough on yourself, Frank. You're out of it... one way or another... tonight.

Mr. Mushnik: [to Seymour] You love her madly, don't you, schmuck?