Movie Quotes for Sleepers

Tommy: [after John shot Nokes in the groin] Did that hurt, Nokes?

Nokes: So what do you want?
John Reilly: What Ive always wanted. Is to watch you die!

Nokes: [after breaking up fight] So you Hells Kitchens Boys get any
  lunch?
Young Michael: I got to smell it.
Nokes: [laughing] You got to smell it, thats good [boys start
  walking back to line] , Hey, Hey, Hey, where you going?
Young Michael: You said to get lunch.
Nokes: Oh, you boys dont need to get back in line to get lunch
  cause theres plenty to eat right where youre standing [looks at
  food on floor] , YOU CAN SMELL IT.
Young Michael: [looks at food in disbelief and shock] Im not hungry.
Nokes: Well I dont give a fuck if youre hungry or not. You eat
  because Im telling to eat.
Young Michael: [looks down at food again] Im still not hungry!
Young Michael: [gets Hit by Nightstick] Uh, Ooh!
Nokes: Ill tell you when youre hungry or not, now eat!
Nokes: [looks at Shakes, Tommy, and John] Excuse me, what the fuck
  are you looking at? GET THE FUCK DOWN ON YOUR GODDAMN KNEES AND
  FINISH YOUR GODDAMN LUNCH!

Nokes: [Watching Shakes undress and sees hes wearing a necklace]
  What the fuck is that hangin around your neck? Take it off.
Young Lorenzo Shakes Carcaterra: Its Mary, you know, the mother of
  God.
Nokes: [scoffs] I dont give a fuck whose mother it is. Take it off.

Nokes: What do you want?
John: What Ive always wanted. To watch you die.

Shakes Father: [to Shakes mother] I buried one fucking wife, I can
  bury another.

Young Lorenzo: They killed him?
Young Michael: They took turns beating him... until there was nothing
  left of that kid to beat.

Lorenzo: I didnt know you like pigeons so much.
King Benny: I like anything that dont talk.

Michael: Its payback time.

[voice over]
Lorenzo: Most priests like to preach from the pulpit. Father Bobby
  liked to talk during the bump and shove of a pick-up game.

Father Bobby: Listen, I got a story I want to tell you.
Young Tommy Marcano: It aint the one about the lepers, is it? Cause
  that one gave me nightmares.

[voice over]
Lorenzo: Young protesters spoke about how theyd change our lives and
  fix the world. But while they shouted their slogans, my friends and
  I went to the funeral services of the young men of Hells Kitchen
  who came back from Vietnam in body bags.

King Benny: Father Bobby would have made a good hitman. Its a shame
  we lost him to the other side.

Father Bobby: [about sermons, before the boys are sentenced] This is
  one of my favorites.
Young Lorenzo Shakes Carcaterra: What is?
Father Bobby: "Whatever you do to the least of brethren, you do to
  me".

Michael: Do you still sleep with the lights on?

Michael: You read the Count of Monte Cristo lately?
Lorenzo: I dunno, 10 years ago
Michael: I read a little bit every night. I read words like revenge,
  sweet, lasting revenge.

Lorenzo: There are no clear pictures of the sexual abuse we endured.
  I buried it as deep as it can possibly go.

Father Bobby: [about Shakes prank in the church] Nuns are such easy
  targets.

Carol: The man I know is not the boy you remember.
Lorenzo: None of us are.

Michael: You gotta get me one for our side.
Lorenzo: One what?
Michael: One witness. A witness wholl put John and Tommy somewhere
  else on the night of the murder. A witness they cant touch
Lorenzo: Dont they got a name for that?
Michael: A judge would call it perjury.
Lorenzo: I see, and what are we calling it?
Michael: A favor.

Carol: Mug me or marry me, Shakes. Im too tired for anything else.

Lorenzo: [narrating about Father Bobby] I told him about the torture,
  the beating and the rapes. I told him about four frightened boys
  who prayed to Father Bobbys God for help that never came. I told
  him everything.

Danny Snyder: I cant do this now. You gotta know that. Its been a
  long time for me. I mean -ah- you need somebody younger, ya know,
  somebody like I used to be.
King Benny: younger is not better. Doesnt have experience, doesnt
  know his way around the courthouse.
Danny Snyder: Hey, Im lucky I can find the courthouse. I had only
  four cases last year-you know how many I won? None, thats how
  many, none. In two of them, uh, I, a, I think the jury blamed me
  personnally.
King Benny: They must have been innocent. It is tough to get an
  innocent man off a rap.
Danny Snyder: I wasnt even planning on going to court with this one.
  I was just gonna plea it down the best I could and walk away. I
  wasnt, I wasnt planning on taking this to trial.
King Benny: Well your plans have been changed.
Danny Snyder: Well Im afraid Ill make a mistake and... say the
  wrong thing and, ya know, uh, uh, make a wrong turn somewhere. You
  dont want to take that risk.
King Benny: Life is a risk.
Danny Snyder: Im sorry?
King Benny: Life is risk.
Danny Snyder: Life is a risk.
King Benny: Um-huh.
Danny Snyder: A-huh.I havent been in here before. What do you need
  me to do?
King Benny: Listen. Youre going to be given the answers and the
  questions. All you have to do is read. You can read cant you?
Danny Snyder: Its, its, is it in English?
King Benny: Just dont drift, dont drink, and dont lose.
Danny Snyder: What if I do lose?
King Benny: Then youll go down for the dirt nap.
Danny Snyder: Never heard that expression before... dirt nap. Im not
  cut out for this anymore. I mean a guys gets hit by a bus, ya know,
  and sues. I like that. Some lady slips in a supermarket, Im with
  her, a guy...
King Benny: The discussions over.
Danny Snyder: Im an alcoholic. This is a murder case. This isnt for
  me.
King Benny: It was once. Before you let the drink lead. Be sober by
  tomorrow and dont look so worried, Snyder. You have nothing to
  lose, just like the rest of us.
Danny Snyder: I dont want to be a burden to you, but, I do, you
  know, aside, or along with my alcohol problem, I have a slight drug
  problem, I mean nothing big, just...
King Benny: Go away.

Tommy: This is amazing!
John Reilly: Hello! Its been a long time!
Nokes: Who the fuck are you guys?
[John and Tommy each pull up a chair and sit down at Nokes table]
Nokes: Hey, who the fuck asked you to sit down?
Tommy: I thought youd be happy to see us... I guess I was wrong.
John: You know, after all that training, after all that time you put
  in, just guarding someone elses money... that seems like a waste!
Nokes: Im asking you one more time who the fuck you are!
John: Why dont you take your time it will come to you!
[Nokes stares at them, thinking]
John: I can see how you might forget. We were just something for you
  and your friends to play with.
Tommy: Its not that easy for us to forget... you gave us so much
  more to remember.

Father Bobby: What about the life that was taken, Shakes? Whats that
  worth?
Lorenzo: To me? Nothing.