Get Shorty

"Don't worry. I'm not going to say anything more than I have to, if that."

"I don't think the producer has to do much, outside of maybe knowing a writer."

"Listen, Touch of Evils playing near my hotel. You wanna go check it out, watch Charlton Heston play a Mexican?"

"Look at me, Leo. I wouldn't think you're that dumb, leave over three hundred grand in the closet, underneath the extra blanket, but I guess you are."

"You know, Welles didn't even wanna do that one. Some studio made him do it. He owed 'em one and all his own movies lost money. But, hey, sometimes that's when you do your best work, you got a gun to your head."

"Rough business, this movie business. I may have to go back to loan sharking for a rest."

"Hey, Bear, look at me. Tell your boss I don't ever want to see him again. He made a deal with Harry and a deal's a deal."

"I mean I could see myself in movies Robert De Niro had been in. Or I could maybe do an Al Pacino movie, play a hard-on. But I couldn't see myself in ones, like say the one where the three guys get stuck with a baby. They don't know how to take care of it and you see these big grown-up assholes acting cute."

"Harry, look at me. You're trying to tell me you fucked up without sounding stupid, and that's hard to do."

"I produce feature motion pictures, no TV. You mentioned Grotesque? That happened to be Grotesque Part Two that Karen Flores was in. She starred in all three of my Slime Creatures releases you might have seen."

"That's half a movie, with holes in it. Maybe forty minutes of screen time. You don't even have a girl, a female lead, and on top of that, there's no one to sympathize with. You don't have a good guy."

"A blockbuster. But quality. No mutants or maniacs. This one's gonna be my Driving Miss Daisy."

"Every day, same time, they come down here and have breakfast. He has the egg white omelet; she has the banana pancakes. He sits facing west so he can see his billboard. She faces east so she has an excuse to wear the shades."

"Anyway, Murray has this shrink, who also happens to be Martin's personal trainer's shrink. Murray gives the shrink the script and the shrink gives it to Martin's trainer who reads it to Martin while they work out, and Martin flips. Loves it."

"What she did not say was, 'I just loved the way the director moved the camera so much it made me fuckin' seasick.' All she cared about was that look. All she remembered was that look. And why do we remember things in movies? Because we can see them. So keep this fuckin' camera down here on the ground and shoot this scene, so we can see what the fuck is goin' on, before I get someone over sixteen to fuckin' shoot it for you!"

"Man's in town two days, thinks he's David O. fucking Selznick."

"When I came upstairs, you stayed to finish your drink. I told you to turn off the TV when you were through. Come to think of it, I also told you you could sleep in the maid's room."

"I spent all day crawling out of a grave. The costumer kept bitching 'cause I was ripping my nylons."

"I know I'm better than what I've been doing the last ten years, walking around in fuck-me pumps and a tank top, waiting till it's time to scream."

"Yeah, well Martin is known for his flipping. He flips over a script, and when the time comes to make a deal, he flips out."

""It" didn't slip away, Martin. You did when you went off to fuck Nicki in the middle of my birthday party."

"Movie stars never pick up the check. They have no idea what things cost. Most of them don't know their zip code and a lot don't even know their own phone number."

"Chili Palmer. Chilly outside. Chili inside. It's a regular fuckin' chili-fest. Hey, waiter, give Mr. Chili Pepper a big fuckin' bowl of chili!"

"Yeah well, I hope you drive better than you fucking spell, jack-off. My name is Barboni, not Barbone, okay!"

"You cut straight hair here or just fags?"

"I'm glad you rejected me ten years ago when I auditioned for Eddie Solomon, the pedophile clown in Birthday Boy. Had I gotten the part. I might've gotten typecast."

"Attitude plays a part"

"John Travolta - Chili Palmer"

"Gene Hackman - Harry Zimm"

"Rene Russo - Karen Flores"

"Danny DeVito - Martin Weir"

"Dennis Farina - Ray "Bones" Barboni"

"Delroy Lindo - Bo Catlett"

"James Gandolfini - Bear"

"David Paymer - Leo Devoe"

"Martin Ferrero - Tommy Carlo"

"Miguel Sandoval - Mr. Escobar"

"Jon Gries - Ronnie Wingate"

"Linda Hart - Fay Devoe"

"Renee Props - Nicki"

"Jacob Vargas - Yayo Portillo"

"Bobby Slayton - Dick Allen"