Other Titles • The Usual Suspects • Die Üblichen Verdächtigen (1996)
Quotes from The Usual Suspects (1995)
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[Suspects in a lineup are asked to read a phrase] Cop: Number 1, step forward. Hockney: Hand me the keys, you fucking cocksucker. Cop: Number 2, step forward. McManus: Give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucking motherfucker, aaarrrghh. Cop: Knock it off. Get back. Number 3, step forward. Fenster: [laughing] Hand me the keys, you cocksucker. Cop: In English, please? Fenster: Excuse me? Cop: In English. Fenster: Hand me the fucking keys, you cocksucker, what the fuck?
(34 votes)
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"And that was how it started. The five of us being brought in on a trumped up charge, to be leaned on by half wits....What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody."--Kint to Agent Kujan (Chazz Palminteri)
(33 votes)
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"That guy is tense. Tension is a killer. I used to be in a barber shop quartet in Skokie, Illinois. The baritone was this guy named Kip Tiskin, big fat guy...and I mean like Orca fat. He was so stressed in the morning...."--Kint to Kujan
(28 votes)
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"I'm not a rat."--Kint to Kujan
(29 votes)
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"What I want to know is, who's the gimp?"--Hockney (Kevin Pollak) to McManus (Stephen Baldwin), Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), and Keaton (Gabriel Byrne) about Kint (Kevin Spacey)
(29 votes)
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"But you say you saw Keaton die. I think you're covering his ass and he's still out there somewhere. I think he's behind that whole circus at the harbor. My bet is that he's using you because you're stupid and you think he's your friend."--Kujan to Kint
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."--Kint to Kujan
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"It was Keyser Soze, Agent Kujan. I mean the devil himself. How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"--Kint to Kujan
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"But why me? Why not Fenster or McManus or Hockney? Why me? I'm stupid. I'm a cripple. Why me?"--Kint to Kujan
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"Because you're a cripple, Verbal. Because you're stupid, because you're weaker than them."--Kujan to Kint
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Verbal: What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.
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Dave Kujan: Do you know a dealer named Ruby Deamer, Verbal? Verbal: Do you know a religious guy named John Paul? Dave Kujan: Did you know Ruby's in Attica? Verbal: He didn't have my lawyer.
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Jeff Rabin: I'm telling you this guy is protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness.
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Keaton: I'm a businessman now. Cop: Yeah? What's that, the restaurant business? No. From now on, you're in the gettin'-fucked-by-us business.
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Verbal: Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit but, hey, I'm in a police station.
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Verbal: Oh gee, thanks Dave, bang-up job so far. Extortion, coercion; you'll pardon me if I ask you to kiss my pucker.
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Verbal: Where's your head, Agent Kujan? Where do you think the pressure's coming from? Keyser Soze - or whatever you want to call him - knows where I am right now. He's got the front burner under' your ass to let me go so he can scoop me up ten minutes later. Immunity was just to deal with you assholes. I got a whole new problem when I post bail. Dave Kujan: So why play into his hands? We can protect you. Verbal: Gee, thanks, Dave. Bang-up job so far. Extortion, coercion. You'll pardon me if I ask you to kiss my pucker. The same fuckers that rounded us up and sank us into this mess are telling me They'll bail me out? Fuck you. You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting fingered and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything, it will be to get rid of me. After that, my guess is you'll never hear from him again.
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Verbal: You think you can catch Keyser Soze? You think a guy like that comes this close to getting caught, and sticks his head out? If he comes up for anything it'll be to get rid of me. After that... my guess is you'll never hear from him again.
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[Keaton is introducing quiet Verbal to the other suspects in the cell] Keaton: His name is Verbal. Verbal Kint. McManus: Verbal? Keaton: Yeah. Verbal: Roger, really. People say I talk too much. Hockney: Yeah, I was just about to tell you to shut up.
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[after being strip-searched] Fenster: Man, I had a finger up my asshole tonight. Hockney: Is it Friday already?
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Fenster: The way I hear it, Soze is some kind of butcher. A peerless, psycho, fucked-up butcher.
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Verbal: I just can't believe we're going to walk into certain death.
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Fenster: I don't know anything about no fuckin? truck. Cop: Oh, yeah? Well, your friend McManus told us a different story altogether. Fenster: Oh, is that the one about the hooker with the dysentery?
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Cop: I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking. Hockney: Really? I live in Queens, did you put that together yourself, Einstein? Got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?
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Kobayashi: Mr. Redfoot knew nothing. Mr. Soze rarely works with the same people for very long, and they never know who they're working for. One cannot be betrayed if one has no people. Fenster: So why are you telling us? Kobayashi: Because you have stolen from Mr.Soze, Mr Fenster. That you did not know you stole from him is the only reason you are still alive, but he feels you owe him. You will repay your debt. Hockney: Alright, Fuck the Debt - And Fuck You! How do we know you work for Soze? Kobayashi: I don't think that is relevant, Mr Hockney. All five of you are responsible for the murder of Saul Berg and his bodyguards. Mr. Redfoot can testify to your involvement, and we can see to it that he will. He is not of your "superior" breed.
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McManus: Old McDonald had a farm ee i ee i o. And on that farm he shot some guys. Badda boom badda bing bang boom.
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Hockney: What about it, pretzel man, what's your story?
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Cop: What are you saying? Fenster: I said he'll flip you. Cop: He'll what? Fenster: Flip you. Flip ya for real.
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Verbal: To a cop the explanation's always simple. There's no mystery to the street, no arch criminal behind it all. If you find a body and you think his brother did it, you're gonna find out you're right.
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Verbal: Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him." Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Keyser Soze.
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Verbal: Big fat guy, I mean like orca fat.
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Verbal: Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
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Verbal: The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. Verbal: And poof. Just like that, he's gone.
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Keaton: What's going on? McManus: The strangest thing...
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McManus: There's nothing that can't be done.
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Dave Kujan: He was dead just long enough for the murder rap to blow over. And then he had lunch.
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McManus: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Oswald was a fag.
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Verbal: How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?
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Verbal: And then he showed these men of will what will really is.
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Verbal: It didn't make sense that I'd be there. I mean, these guys were hard-core hijackers, but there I was. I wasn't scared, I knew I hadn't done anything they could do me for. Besides, it was fun. I got to make like I was notorious.
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Fenster: So who the goddamned piss-hell stole the fuckin' truck? Hockney: What? Fenster: Who stole the fuckin' truck?
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Dave Kujan: Of course, I can't prove this. But I can't prove the best part either... Dean Keaton was dead. Did you know that? He died in a fire two years ago during the investigation into the murder of a witness who was going to testify against him. Two people watched Dean Keaton walk into a warehouse he owned just before it blew up. They said he went in to check a leaking gas main. It blew up and took all of Dean Keaton with it. Within three months of the explosion, the two witnesses, they were dead. One killed himself in his car; the other fell down an open elevator shaft.
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Kobayashi: Before you... do me in, Mr. McManus, you will let me finish my business with Ms. Finneran first, won't you? Keaton: What did you say? Kobayashi: Edie Finneran. She's upstairs in my office for an extradition deposition. I requested that she be put on the case personally. She flew in yesterday. No matter. Kill away, Mr. McManus.
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Verbal: He lets the last Hungarian go. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the mob. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they live in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "Rat on your pop, and Keyser Soze will get you." And no-one ever really believes.
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Kobayashi: My name is Kobayashi. I work for Keyser Soze.
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Cop: Do you guys know who the fuck I am? Do you know who the fuck I am? [Hockney rips cop's badge off] Hockney: We do now, jerk-off.
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Fenster: You do some time, they never let you go. You know. They treat you like a criminal. *I'm* not a criminal. Hockney: You *are* a criminal. Fenster: Now why'd you got to go and do that? (I'm) trying to make a point.
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Verbal: A man can convince anyone he's somebody else, but never himself.
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[in interrogation room] cop: You know what happens if you do another turn in the joint? Hockney: Fuck your father in the shower and then have a snack? Are you going to charge me dickhead?
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[after being punched in the stomach by Keaton] Verbal: I'll probably shit blood tonight.
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