"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."

"Richard Romanus - Michael Longo"

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Honorable men go with honorable men."

"Brian Avery - Herald Cohen"

"Jackie Mason (uncredited voice) - Robot tailors"

"Douglas Rain (uncredited voice) - Evil computer / Robot butlers"

"Peter Hobbs - Dr. Dean"

"John McLiam - Dr. Aragon"

"Bartlett Robinson - Dr. Orva"

"Chris Forbes - Rainer Krebs"

"Woody Allen takes a nostalgic look at the future."

"Woody Allen - Miles Monroe"

"Diane Keaton - Luna Schlosser"

"A love story about two people who hate each other. 200 years in the future."

"Do I believe in God? I'm what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey."

"Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service."

"John Beck - Erno Windt"

"I am a renowned poet. I sell 20 to 30 poems a week, plus greeting cards."

"My brain? It's my second favorite organ!"

"I can't believe this. I go into the hospital for a lousy ulcer operation. I lay around in a Birds-Eye wrapper for 200 years, I wake up, suddenly I'm on the Ten-Most-Wanted List....I knew it was too good to be true. I parked right near the hospital."

"I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now."

"Frank Adu – Drill sergeant"

"Marya Small - Dr. Nero"

"Sol Frieder - Voskovec"

"Lloyd Battista – Don Francisco"

"I just beat a man senseless with a large strawberry!"

"Tony Jay - Vladimir Maximovitch"

"Howard Vernon - General Leveque"

"Aubrey Morris - Soldier 4"

"Brian Coburn - Dmitri"

"Jessica Harper - Natasha"

"Féodor Atkine - Mikhail Grushenko"

"Alfred Lutter - Young Boris Grushenko"

"Susan Miller - Ellen Pogrebin"

"Yves Barsacq - Rimsky"