"What the hell are you talking about? You saw me at the hospital, what you think I asked for that? Is that what you think? If that's what you think then you get the fuck out of my house!"

"You don't understand how I feel! I'm standing there with my pants down and my crotch hung out for the world to see and three guys are sticking it to me, a bunch of other guys are yelling and clapping and you're standing there telling me that that's the best you can do. Well, if that's the best you could do, then your best sucks! Now, I don't know what you got for selling me out, but I sure as shit hope it was worth it!"

"Kelly McGillis - A. D. A. Kathryn Murphy"

"Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Paulsen has told you that the testimony of Sarah Tobias is nothing. Sarah Tobias was raped, but that is nothing. She was cut and bruised and terrorized but that is nothing. All of it happened in front of a howling crowd and that is nothing. Well, it may be nothing to Mr. Paulsen, but it is not nothing to Sarah Tobias and I don't believe it is nothing to you. Next, Mr. Paulsen tried to convince you that Kenneth Joyce was the only one in that room who knew that Sarah Tobias was being raped - the only one! Now you watched Kenneth Joyce, how did he strike you? Did he seem especially sensitive, especially observant? Did he seem so remarkable that you said to yourselves, 'Of course! This man would notice things other people wouldn't.' Do you believe that Kenneth Joyce saw something in that room that those three men didn't see? In all the time that Sarah was pinned down on that Pinball machine that other people didn't know? Kenneth Joyce confessed to you that he watched a rape and did nothing. He told you that everyone in that bar behaved badly - and he was right. But no matter how immoral it may be, it is not the crime of criminal solicitation to walk away from a rape. It is not the crime of criminal solicitation to silently watch a rape. But it is the crime of criminal solicitation to induce or entreat or encourage or persuade another person to commit a rape. 'Hold her down! Stick it to her! Make her moan!' These three men did worse than nothing. They cheered, and they clapped, and they rooted the others on. They made sure that Sarah Tobias was raped, and raped, and raped. Now you tell me, is that nothing?"

"Woody Brown - Danny"

"This is what the jury is going to see. And they are going to see the girl too and you can't tell it from these. But she's tiny. She's the most defenseless looking thing you you ever saw."

"Jodie Foster - Sarah Tobias"

"Scott Paulin - Attorney Ben Wainwright"

"Kim Kondrashoff - Kurt"

"Edward Binns - Tom Daly"

"Bradford Dillman - Artie Strauss"

"E. G. Marshall - District Attorney Harold Horn"

"Martin Milner - Sid Brooks"

"Dean Stockwell - Judd Steiner"

"THEIRS WAS THE PERFECT CRIME they thought! They were too sure...too smart...too careful to leave a clue—but they did! and it exploded—The shocking story of two teenagers out for kicks...looking for thrills...and finding them!"

"Orson Welles - Jonathan Wilk"

"Richard Anderson - Max Steiner"

"Diane Varsi - Ruth Evans"

"[to Judd Steiner] It just irritates me to see anyone as brilliant as you make a jackass out of himself over someone like Artie Straus."

"The neighborhood is swarming with kidnappers and degenerates!"

"You know why we did it? Because we damn well felt like doing it!"

"In those years to come, you might find yourself asking if it wasn't the hand of god dropped these glasses... And if he didn't, who did?"

"Sometimes murder is just a way to pass the time."

"They say you can only get justice by shedding their last drop of blood. Isn't a lifetime behind prison bars enough for this mad act?...You hang these boys, it will mean that in this land of ours, a court of law could not help but bow down to public opinion."

"Robert F. Simon - Police Lt. Johnson"

"If there is any way of destroying hatred and all that goes with it, it's not through evil and hatred and cruelty, but through charity, love, understanding."

"Cesare Danova - Giovani Cappa"

"Victor Argo - Mario"

"George Memmoli - Joey 'Clams' Scala"

"Richard Romanus - Michael Longo"

"Robert De Niro - Johnny Boy"

"David Proval - Tony DeVienazo"

"David Carradine - Drunk"

"Amy Robinson - Teresa"

"Honorable men go with honorable men."

"[voiceover] You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it."

"Martin Scorsese: It’s kind of difficult to talk about how and why [Mean Streets] was made. When I think about the film and think about the time in my life having made the film and having been, in a sense, a part of the way of life that is depicted in the film, it seems to, in my mind, be the final culmination of everything of what I was to do and who I am. In my mind, it’s not really a film — it’s a declaration or a statement of who I am and how I was living; those thoughts and dilemmas and conflicts were very much a part of my life up to that point in time. They couldn’t be expressed in any other way [other than] resulting in this movie.There is no message. It’s something that came out of me organically. The only way to express it was: camera and dialog and actors and color and music. In my mind it was a representation of who I was, my friends, and where I came from. The genesis was my life."

"Hey, sorry lady! I'm sorry! I hate that lady with a passion... with a vengeance."

"Robert Carradine - Boy With Gun"

"You know something? She is really good-lookin'. I gotta say that again. She is really good-lookin'. But she's black. You can see that real plain, right? Look, there isn't much of a difference anyway, is there. Well, is there?"

"You see, I borrow money all over this neighborhood, left and right from every BODY, I never pay them back. So, I can't borrow no money from nobody no more, right? So, who would that leave me to borrow money from but you? I borrow money from you, because you're the only jerk-off around here who I can borrow money from without payin' back, right? You know, 'cause that's what you are, that's what I think of you: a jerk-off."

"Harvey Keitel - Charlie"

"It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual."

"[They all raise their glasses to The Queen] You know what the Queen said? If I had balls, I'd be King."

"Julia Anne Robinson - Jessica"

"Scatman Crothers - Lewis"

"Charles Lavine - Grandfather"

"Ellen Burstyn - Sally"

"Jack Nicholson - David Staebler"