Once Upon a Time in America

Max:
You're looking good.

Noodles:
You're looking a little better.

Fat Moe:
What have you been doing all these years?

Noodles:
I've been going to bed early.

Max:
Some we give them the good life, others we give it right up the ass.

Max:
When you've been betrayed by a friend you hit back.

Max:
You know, if we listened to you we would still be out rolling drunks.

Police Chief Aiello:
I'm the chief of police not the chief of the people.

Max:
You'll live with the stink of the streets all your life.

Noodles:
I like the stink of the streets. It cleans out my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.

Bugsy:
You work for Bugsy or you work for no one.

Noodles:
I hope the investigation turns out to be nothing. It would be a shame to see all these years of work go to waste.

Noodles:
You see, I have a story too, Mr. Bailey. I had a friend once. A dear friend. I turned him in to save his life. He died. But he wanted it that way. Things went bad for my friend, and they went bad for me too.

Noodles:
I haven't had a gun in my hands for many, many years. My eyes aren't what they used to be, even with the glasses. My hands shake. And I wouldn't want to miss.

Max:
Is this your idea of revenge?

Noodles:
No. It's just the way I see things.

Max:
We're going, you cumming?

Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz:
You're looking good.

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
You're looking a little better.

Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz:
You'll live with the stink of the streets all your life.

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. I like the smell, and it opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.

Joe Minaldi:
[inspecting diamonds through a loupe] Any trouble?

Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg:
No trouble. Kid stuff. [Pulls out a gun and shoots Joe in the eye through the loupe]

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
You really are crazy, Max.

Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz:
[pulls out a gun and hits Noodles over the head with the butt, repeatedly] Don't you ever, ever say that!

James Conway O'Donnell:
[to Max] You boys ain't a mild case of the measles - you're the plague. And bastards like him - [motioning at Crowning] - are immune. That's the difference between us and them.

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
[puts a jacket on O'Donnell, who flinches] Take it easy. The difference is, they're always gonna win. And you're gonna keep gettin' it up the ass.

Crowning:
Sooner than you think.

Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg:
[Patsy and Max have Crowning at gunpoint and are trying to get Chicken Joe and Willie the Ape to release O'Donnell] Just swapping prisoners.

Philip 'Cockeye' Stein:
Fair trade, huh, chickenhead? [Chicken Joe turns and sees Cockeye and Noodles standing to his right] Union boy over here, for Mister Boss Man.

Chicken Joe:
Well, look who's here - Fat Moe's boneyard boys!

Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz:
Which reminds me... how's that cancer in your gut comin' along, Chicken Joe?

Sharkey:
[O'Donnell has been shot in the leg by Crowning's henchmen] Don't worry, Jimmy. With one leg a little shy, you're gonna take giant steps.

James Conway O'Donnell:
Yeah... always one step behind you, eh Sharkey?

Fat Moe:
When did you get back?

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
Today.

Fat Moe:
Why?

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
They got in touch with me.

Fat Moe:
Who?

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
I thought you might know.

Fat Moe:
Me? I don't know nothin' 'bout nobody no more.

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
Why was that a surprise? You can always pick the winners at the starting gate - the winners and the losers. Who woulda put a penny on me?

David 'Noodles' Aaronson:
I'm not that type of guy, besides if I hit you, I'm afraid you'd like it.

Maximilian 'Max' Bercovicz:
This country's still growing up. Certain diseases, you're better off having when you're still young.

Joe Minaldi:
Life is... funnier than sh*t.

Dominic:
[dying words after being shot by Bugsy] Noodles, I slipped!

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

Patrick 'Patsy' Goldberg:
Hey, scotch heating!

Frankie Minaldi:
[introducing the gang to Joe] Here they are, "The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse"! Did you happen to see that movie, Joe? It's a good movie.

Deborah Gelly:
I read books, I want to learn everything, I want to know everything. Doesn't it make sense to have plans?