Miller's Crossing (1990)

Jon Polito: Johnny Caspar

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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 : Okay kid, think about it. It's a mental state. But make it quick, my family's waitin'.

  Tom Reagan : I'll think about it and tell you later.

  Frankie : He needs to think in the thinking room.

  Johnny Caspar : Kid, if it'll help you think, you should know that if you don't do this you won't be in any shape to walk outta here.

  Tom Reagan : Would that be physically... or just a mental state?

• Johnny Caspar : I'm talkin' about friendship. I'm talkin' about character. I'm talkin' about - hell. Leo, I ain't embarrassed to use the word - I'm talkin' about ethics.

• Johnny Caspar : You think that I'm some guinea, fresh off the boat, and you can kick me! But I'm too big for that now. I'm sick a' takin the scrap from you, Leo. I'm a' of marching into this goddamn office to kiss your Irish ass. And I'M SICK A' THE HIGH HAT!

  [Puts on his hat and coat] 

  Johnny Caspar : Youse fancy pants, all a youse.

  Leo O'Bannion : Johnny, you're exactly as big as I let you be, and no bigger, and don't forget it, ever.

  Johnny Caspar : That's right, Leo. You're the big shot around here, and I'm just some schnook likes to get slapped around.

• 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't like people who do.

  Johnny Caspar : Mink was robbin' me right along with the shmatte.

  Tom Reagan : What convinced you of that?

  Johnny Caspar : Mink Larouie took a powder. We can't find him. Bluepoint's makin' excuses for him, but personally, I think you were right. I think Mink and Bernie was in it together. I think Mink heard you'd bumped the shmatte, and lit out. The lousy sonofabitch.

  Tom Reagan : I told you so.

  Johnny Caspar : Hahahaha! You got a lip on you!

• Johnny Caspar : It's gettin' so a businessman can't expect no return from a fixed fight. Now, if you can't trust a fix, what can you trust? For a good return, you gotta go bettin' on chance - and then you're back with anarchy, right back in the jungle.

• Johnny Caspar : You can't say, "I told you so."

  Tom Reagan : I don't say that and I don't like people who do.

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

• Johnny Caspar : You got references? You been to college? We ONLY take yeggs what's been to college, ain't that right, Dane? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! I'm joking, of course.

• Johnny Caspar : What is this, the high hat?

• Johnny Caspar : You double-cross once - where's it all end? An interesting ethical question.

• Johnny Caspar : [after killing Eddie Dane]  That son of a bitch! I had a feeling about this son of a bitch! We silence him! And we do the same to Mink this very night!

• Tom Reagan : Then it's not just the money he's after. He's got a wart on his fanny.

  Johnny Caspar : Huh?

  Tom Reagan : He's got a wart. On his fanny. Giving him the fidgets.