- [Frenchy has just broken Owney's watch]
- Frenchy: You cheap son of a bitch! You only offered $500 for me?
- Owney: What?
- Frenchy: If you were kidnapped, I wouldn't offer more than that for you!
- Owney: $500?
- Frenchy: That's what I heard!
- Owney: 50 grand! I paid 50 grand! They only wanted 35 but I gave 50 not to hurt you. $500. I would've given 500,000 for you. I been worried sick about you. Look at what you done to my fuckin' watch.
- Frenchy: 50 grand?
- Owney: Yeah.
- [Frenchy hands Owney a box that Owney opens]
- Owney: What's this? A platinum watch. (smiling) You asshole.
- Bumpy Rhodes: [violently accosting a racist guard] This uppity nigger is buying you a drink!
- [flushes his head down the toilet]
- Dixie: What do they call you?
- Sol Weinstein: Nobody calls me nothin'.
- Dixie: Not even your mother?
- Sol Weinstein: I didn't have a mother. They found me in a garbage pail.
- [a boy runs up to Dixie in the street]
- Boy in Street: Vincent's been telling everyone around here that you saved the Dutchman's ass!
- Vera: Mr. Flynn was a bootlegger. That's how they live in this world. Maybe one day you'll wise up, sap!
- Frenchy Demange: I don't trust anyone who's called by just their nickname
- Owney: You get called by your nickname
- Frenchy Demange: Because I'm trustworthy
- Vincent Dwyer: [on the cotton club] You know they don't let niggers in here.
- Tish Dwyer: They don't let them in this club.
- [last lines]
- Flynn: You know Jews are just jigs turned inside out
- [livid Dutch snatches up a knife and starts stabbing him]