Trees Lounge (1996)

Steve Buscemi: Tommy

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Quotes 

• Tommy : Everybody's fucked up, but nobody wants anybody else to think they are, but everybody knows they are anyway.

• Tommy : Hey Bill, did - did you ever kill anybody?

  Bill : [slurred drunkenly]  What kind of an asshole question is that?

  Tommy : I mean, in uh, Korea.

  Bill : What "career?"

• [about having another glass of whiskey] 

  Vic : You're a weak man.

  Tommy : Yeah, I know. That's why I drink it straight. The ice cubes are too heavy.

• Tommy : If I win, I get to take you home. If you win, you can go home with me.

  Crystal : What kind of deal is that, huh? I don't know it doesn't make sense to me.

  Tommy : It's a good deal. It's a good deal for me!

• Tommy : No, Jerry is allright. Saved my life once.

  Debbie : What, he was gonna kill you but he changed his mind?

• Tommy : I know, but now I'm even worse. I don't know what I'm doing. I just, I, I just feel like... I don't know what I feel. I don't. I don't feel anything. Except lost.

• [Tommy is immitating Marlon Brando from "On the Waterfront"] 

  Tommy : I coulda been somebody, instead of just an ice cream truck driver, which is what I am, let's face it.

  Debbie : Who was that, Jerry Lewis?

  Tommy : Jerry Lewis? You thought that was Jerry Lewis?

• Tommy : He's a little old man. Can't you take some of the wrinkles out? You've given birth to Mr. Magoo.

• Harry : Can I help you?

  Tommy : Yeah, I was in here last week, I left my number. I was just wondering if you found a mechanic yet.

  Harry : No, not yet.

  Tommy : Because I'm available, I mean I know you're probably still looking at other possibilities but I can start anytime.

  Harry : I remember you. Where's your car?

  Tommy : My car?

  Harry : Yeah, when you drove away from here last week your car stalled out down the block, it took you 25 minutes to get it started.

  Tommy : I know, it's a piece of shit. But I've got it running pretty good now.

  Harry : So how come you're on foot?

  Tommy : Just felt like walking.

• Tommy : I'm serious.

  Mike : About What? What are you serious about?

• Tommy : [to a little boy squirting him with a water gun while he's driving the ice cream truck]  Hey, you fuck, get away from the truck!