Escape from New York (1981)

Frank Doubleday: Romero

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Quotes 

• Romero : You touch me... he dies. If you're not in the air in thirty seconds... he dies. You come back in... he dies.

  Romero : [Romero takes a package out of his shirt and unwraps it to reveal the President's middle finger, complete with ring]  Twenty seconds.

  Bob Hauk : I'm ready to talk.

  Romero : Nineteen. Eighteen.

  Bob Hauk : What do you want?

  Romero : Seventeen. Sixteen.

  Bob Hauk : [to his soldiers]  Let's go. Let's go!

• [Brain and Maggie knock on a door which is answered by Romero, the Duke of New York's right-hand man. Romero is now wearing Cabbie's cap on his head] 

  Brain : Hey, Romero. Where'd you get that cap?

  Romero : I got it from Cabbie.

  Brain : How?

  Romero : I traded it.

  Brain : Traded it? For what?

  Romero : A cassette. Something I found in the President's briefcase. Cabbie saw it and wanted it for his collection. So, I told him he had to give me something to get it.

  Brain : Oh... a cassette?

  Romero : Why are you so nervous?

  Brain : Me and Maggie, we've come to see the President.

  Romero : Who says?

  Brain : The Duke.

  Romero : No, he doesn't.

  Brain : All right. I'll go tell him you said that.

  Romero : Wait a minute. Why?

  Brain : The President has something hidden in his clothes and the Duke wants it.

  Romero : What is it?

  Brain : Let me in and I'll show you.

  Romero : You'll tell me!

  Brain : Cyanide capsules. The Duke don't want a dead President.