On the Waterfront

(102 votes)   Charlie: Look, kid, I - how much you weigh, son? When you weighed one hundred and sixty-eight pounds you were beautiful. You coulda been another Billy Conn, and that skunk we got you for a manager, he brought you along too fast.
Terry: It wasn't him, Charley, it was you. Remember that night in the Garden you came down to my dressing room and you said, Kid, this ain't your night. We're going for the price on Wilson. You remember that? This ain't your night! My night! I coulda taken Wilson apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Charley, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end money.
Charlie: Oh I had some bets down for you. You saw some money.
Terry: You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charley.


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(100 votes)   Father Barry: You'd better get rid of that gun, unless you haven't got the guts, and if you don't, you'd better hang on to it!


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(104 votes)   Terry: Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.


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(98 votes)   Edie: Which side are you with?
Terry: Me? I'm with me, Terry.


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(97 votes)   Edie: But Pop, I've seen things that I know are so wrong. Now how can I go back to school and keep my mind on... on things that are just in books, that-that-that aren't people living?


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(97 votes)   Terry: Quite a nose, huh? Some people just have a face that sticks in your mind.


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(97 votes)   Terry: You know this city's full of hawks? That's a fact. They hang around on the top of the big hotels. And they spot a pigeon in the park. Right down on him.


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(97 votes)   [Terry returns to Johnny Friendly's bar after setting up Joey Doyle]
Charlie: So, how'd it go?
Terry: He up on the roof.
Charlie: The pigeon?
Terry: Uh, yeah, it worked.


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(95 votes)   Edie: What kind of saint hides in a church?


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(95 votes)   Terry: Conscience... that stuff can drive you nuts!


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(93 votes)   Terry: You know, I seen you a lot of times before. Remember parochial school out on Paluski Street? Seven, eight years ago. Your hair, you had your hair uh...
Edie: Braids.
Terry: Looked like a hunk of rope. And you had wires on your teeth and glasses and everything. You was really a mess.


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(91 votes)   Terry: Yeah his racket, everybody's got a racket.


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(89 votes)   [after being badly beaten by Johnny Friendly and his goons]
Terry: Get me on my feet.
[Father Barry and Edie help Terry stand up]
Father Barry: How're you doing?
Terry: Am I on my feet?


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(84 votes)   Edie: I've never met anyone like you. There's not a spark of sentiment or romance or human kindness in your whole body.
Terry: What good does it do you but get you in trouble?


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(81 votes)   Big Mac: The only arithmetic he ever got was hearing the referee count up to ten.


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