Miller's Crossing (1990)

J.E. Freeman: Eddie Dane

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Quotes 

• Eddie Dane : How'd you get the fat lip?

  Tom Reagan : Old war wound. Acts up around morons.

• Leo O'Bannion : So you wanna kill him...

  Eddie Dane : For starters.

• Eddie Dane : Where's Leo?

  Hitman at Verna's : If I tell you, how do I know you won't kill me?

  Eddie Dane : Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying I wouldn't get to kill you *then*. Where's Leo?

  Hitman at Verna's : He's moving around. He's getting his mob together tomorrow night. Whisky Nick's.

  Eddie Dane : You sure?

  Hitman at Verna's : Check it. It's gold.

  Eddie Dane : You know what, yegg? I believe you.

  [Shoots him] 

• Eddie Dane : Very smart. What were you doing at the club, talking things over with Leo?

  Tom Reagan : Don't think so hard, Eddie. You might sprain something.

  Eddie Dane : You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't. I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outski, like some goddamn Bolshevik picking up his orders from Yegg Central. You think you're so goddamn smart. You join up with Johnny Caspar, you bump Bernie Bernbaum. Up is down. Black is white. Well, I think you're half smart. I think you were straight with your frail, I think you were queer with Johnny Caspar... and I think you'd sooner join a ladies' league than gun a guy down. Then I hear from these two geniuses they never even saw this rub-out take place.

  Frankie : Boss said to have him do it. He didn't say nothing about...

  Eddie Dane : Shut up! Or maybe you still got too many teeth. Everyone is so goddamn smart. Well, we'll go out to Miller's Crossing... and we'll see who's smart.

• Eddie Dane : I am gonna send you to a deep, dark place and I am gonna have fun doing it!

• Eddie Dane : Not so fast, there, Kaputnik.

• Eddie Dane : Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart.

• Eddie Dane : Hey, Tic-Tac! You ever notice how the snappy dialogue dries up once a guy starts soiling his union suit?

• Eddie Dane : You understand that if we don't find a stiff out here, we leave a fresh one.

• Eddie Dane : Up is down, black is white.

• Tom Reagan : Is there a point... or are you just brushin' up on your small talk?

  Eddie Dane : Oh, cool under fire, I like that.

• Eddie Dane : You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't.

• Eddie Dane : You dumpin' Leo for the guy who put a bullet in your brother?