- Hank McCain: What do you do? Sell women? Sell marijuana? - what d'you do? Where'd you get the twenty-five thousand? I wouldn't give you twenty-five cents. What d'you do? - you go out and you hustle yourself all over the street. Small time - no dignity! You don't beg.
- Jack McCain: That's why, Hank - I need this chance. I got tired of being small change.
- Hank McCain: You're gonna be small change all your life.
- Irene Tucker: Fabulous.
- Hank McCain: Twelve years in prison, I still get a kick out of these lights.
- Irene Tucker: They're beautiful.
- Hank McCain: They're not beautiful. They're cheap. It's an attraction for sad, fat businessmen begging for more money. For hustlers, for thieves, for pimps. I love it.
- Don Francesco DeMarco: Do you think we want an ape like you for a partner?
- Charlie Adamo: When I took over the West Coast it was full of apes. And the organization was in the toilet. Now I straightened it out - me - and nobody else. Now I'm takin' heat. Why? For what? How the hell do I run this district if I'm in the dark? What's the matter - I can't make an investment? I'm not allowed to make a dollar? I ain't got that right?
- Don Francesco DeMarco: When someone talks to us about rights, he ends up like Gennarino Esposito, y'know? And with me, you don't raise your voice.
- Joni Adamo: I can't stand the West any longer. You've absolutely got to get us to New York.
- Don Francesco DeMarco: And what else?
- Joni Adamo: Have Charlie transferred.
- Don Francesco DeMarco: Joni, this isn't the time to talk about it. Not now.
- Joni Adamo: I've got to be - near you.
- Don Francesco DeMarco: All right. I'll do my best.
- Joni Adamo: How lovely to see you. What an elegant tuxedo.
- Don Francesco DeMarco: Really? Do you like it?
- Charlie Adamo: What do you call this, a pair of pajamas?
- Don Francesco DeMarco: Your wife has good taste in men, Charlie.
- Charlie Adamo: She's got good taste in money, too. She likes it green.
- Margaret DeMarco: Well, green is a good color.
- Charlie Adamo: The best.
- Charlie Adamo: I'm on top, it's nice. You know, from Mulberry Street to the top. Who knows? Maybe I got lucky. Hey, but I'm up there.
- Hank McCain: Who are those two slobs out there?
- Jack McCain: Cooter and Barkley.
- Hank McCain: Cooter and Barkley?
- Jack McCain: They're good.
- Jack McCain: They're bums! They're punks, they're fags, they're fringe nothings.
- Hank McCain: I'll do it, my way. And I don't want those two Hollywood fags standing in my way either.
- Hank McCain: I've been in prison, twelve years. Armed robbery, I - I'm looking for someone, I need someone.
- Irene Tucker: I don't believe you.
- Hank McCain: Yeah?
- Irene Tucker: Where you want to go?
- Hank McCain: Where do you live?
- Nightclub Singer: [singing] Soon, I know you're bound to come, Come soon, Soon, Soon, Soon, So, kiss me, Soon, Caress me, Soon...
- Joni Adamo: They're always late, you know that. Who the hell do they think they are? Next time you'll listen to me and we'll leave the house an hour later.
- Charlie Adamo: Uh-huh. You need a haircut.
- Joni Adamo: Charlie, I'm serious.
- Charlie Adamo: So am I. Shut up.
- Charlie Adamo: So, how's things in New York, Frank?
- Don Francesco DeMarco: Smooth as oil. In New York.
- Hank McCain: Everything all right?
- Irene Tucker: Huh?
- Hank McCain: I said, everything all right dumbo?
- Irene Tucker: Yes fine, hard to get, but I made it.
- Hank McCain: Okay, get your little tail out of here.
- Rosemary Scott: How'd you get tied up with a kid like that? I don't like to be an I told you so, but, you should've come home.
- Don Francesco DeMarco: Now what's wrong? You two still sulking over what happened? I don't like fighting in the family. It's not good for you, for me, for everybody. Shake hands. Be friends. Fuhgeddaboudit.