Oscar (1991)

Peter Riegert: Aldo

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Quotes 

• Aldo : Breakfast is soived.

  Snaps : "Served", you paluka!

• Snaps : Aldo, you're the witness.

  [turns paper towards him] 

  Snaps : Witness!

  Aldo : Aw, boss, you know the rules: Never witness nuthin'. You live longer.

  Snaps : Just sign it!

  Aldo : [signing]  Louie the Lug was a witness, look what happened to him.

• Aldo : Lemme me show you tha door;

  [shouts] 

  Aldo : There's tha door!

• Snaps : Now take Louie 'The Lug' McGurk. He died tragically at 25.

  Anthony : I'm twenty five. What happened?

  Aldo : Somebody stepped on his fingers.

  Anthony : And that killed him?

  Aldo : He was hanging from a window ledge of the Edison Hotel at the time.

• Snaps : [pointing to Anthony]  Pop this guy!

  Aldo : Boss! We can't have a stiff in the house with company coming!

  Snaps : You're right. It ain't proper.

• Connie : I warned him, boss.

  Aldo : Anthony said it was a matter of life and death, boss.

  Snaps : And will you two mugs stop callin' me "boss"? It ain't respectable!

  Connie , Aldo : Sorry, boss.

• Aldo : Oh, Dr. Poole! Come on in. The boss been expecting you.

  Dr. Thornton Poole : [chuckling]  Aldo, do you realize what you just did?

  Aldo : What?

  Dr. Thornton Poole : You used the past participle without a modifier.

  Aldo : I did? What's the rap on that?

• Aldo : [dead pan]  This day has been an emotional rollercoaster.

• Oscar : I'm Oscar!

  Snaps : Get rid of him!

  [beat] 

  Snaps : Expeditiously.

  Aldo : Right, boss.

  [Oscar screams as he is forcibly removed] 

• Snaps : Get him back here. He said he was taking a walk around the block.

  Aldo : [Holds up a fish]  I can't -- I'm smoking a salmon.

  Snaps : Put it out, get Anthony, and stash him somewhere.