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West Side Story (1961)

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Directed by
Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise

Written by
Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents

Cast
Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris [more]


DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 20, 1998

Budget $6,000,000

Running Time
2 hours, 31 minutes

Country USA

Studio Mirisch Pictures, United Artists

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 Quotes from West Side Story (1961)
1
Ice: [singing] Play it cool boy, real cool.

  100% (3 votes)
2
Maria: All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate!

  100% (1 vote)
3
Riff: Now I know Tony like I know me and I guarentee you can count him in
Action: In, out, let's get crackin'
Gee-tar: Where you gonna find Bernardo?
Riff: He'll be at the dance tonight at the gym
A-Rab: But the gym's neutral territory
Riff: A-rab, I'm gonna make nice with him! I'm only gonna challenge him!
Ice: Great daddy-o.

  
4
Tony: Well end your suffering little man. Why don't you pack up your gear and clear out of here?

  
5
Riff: Look, Tony, I've never asked the time of day from a clock but I'm asking you, come to the dance tonight. I already told the gang you'd be there. If you don't show I'll be marked lousy.
Tony: What time?
Riff: Ten.
Tony: Ten it is.
Riff: Womb to tomb!
Tony: Birth to Earth. And I'll live to regret this.
Riff: Who knows? Maybe what you've been waitin' on will be twitchin at the dance tonight.
Tony: Who knows? Could be... Who knows?

  
6
Maria: My brother is a silly watchdog!
Bernardo: Ah, my sister is a precious jewel!
Anita: What am I, cut glass?

  
7
Riff: Boy, am I a victim of disappointment in you.

  
8
Riff: [singing] When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!

  
9
Anita: You have your big important council. The council,
[kiss]
Anita: or me.
[kiss]
Bernardo: First one,
[kiss]
Bernardo: then the other.
[Tries to kiss her, she pulls away]
Anita: Ah, I'm an American girl now, I don't wait.
Bernardo: Ah, back home women know their place.
Anita: Back home little boys don't have war councils.
Bernardo: Ah, but they do here. You want me to be an American, don't you?

  
10
The Girls: [singing] I like to be in America, OK by me in America, everything free in America...
Bernardo: [singing] For a small fee in America!

  
11
[singing]
Bernardo: I'd like to go back to San Juan.
Anita: I know a boat you can get on!

  
12
Tony: I- I didn't believe hard enough.
Maria: Loving is enough.
Tony: Not here. They won't let us be.
Maria: Then we'll run away.
Tony: Yeah, we can.
Maria: Yes.
Tony: We will...
Maria: [singing] Hold my hand and we are halfway there, hold my hand and I'll take you there. Somehow! Someday! Some...

  
13
Maria: [singing] I feel pretty, oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and witty, and gay!

  
14
Maria: If Chino hurts him, if he touches him, I swear to you I'll...
Anita: You'll do what Tony did to Bernardo?
Maria: I love Tony.
Anita: I know. I loved Benardo.

  
15
Action: What are we doin', poopin' around with dumb broads for?
Graziella, Riff's Girl: I and Velma ain't dumb! Are we, Velma?
Velma, Ice's Girl: No thank you.
[snap]
Velma, Ice's Girl: oo
[snap]
Velma, Ice's Girl: Ooo-belee-oo.
Graziella, Riff's Girl: And you can punctuate it...
Velma, Ice's Girl: Ooo.

  
16
Anita: Come in, come in! We won't bite you until we know you better.

  
17
[last lines]
Maria: Te adoro, Antone.

  
18
Anybodys, Tomboy: I ain't never gonna get married. Too noisy.
A-Rab: You ain't never gonna get married. Too ugly.
Anybodys, Tomboy: [mimes firing a gun] Pow!
A-Rab: Cracko Jacko! Down goes a teenage hoodlum.

  
19
Bernardo: [singing] Everyone there will give big cheers!
Anita: [singing] Everyone there will have moved here!

  
20
Anybodys, Tomboy: Hey buddy boys!
Action: Ah, go wear a skirt.
Anybodys, Tomboy: Listen...
Ice: The first thing we do is we start showin' around like we have nothin' to hide...
Anybodys, Tomboy: Listen!
A-Rab: Supposin' they ask us about the rumble?
Anybodys, Tomboy: Supposin' they ask you where's Tony and what party's lookin' for him? WITH A GUN.
Ice: Hey, you know somethin'?
Anybodys, Tomboy: I know I gotta go get a skirt.

  
21
Riff: Come on, Jets, round out! Not you, Anybodys, beat it.
Anybodys, Tomboy: Ah, Riff, you gotta let me in the gang! Didn't you just see me, I was smash, I'm a killer, I wanna fight!
A-Rab: How else's she gonna get a guy to touch her?
Anybodys, Tomboy: You dirty rat!
[lunges at him]

  


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