Bugsy Quotes

"Bugsy" Siegel: Got a light?

Virginia: The way you were looking at me, I thought you were going to ask for something more interesting.

"Bugsy" Siegel: Like what?

Virginia: Use your imagination.

"Bugsy" Siegel: I'm using it.

Virginia: ...Let me know when you're finished.

Cab Driver: That's Bugsy Siegel's house.

Harry Greenberg: He doesn't like that name.

Cab Driver: Everybody calls him that.

Harry Greenberg: Not to his face, they don't.

"Bugsy" Siegel: Joey, listen. I think you owe both of us an apology for the name that you called Virginia.

Joey Adonis: Yeah? Well, you can suck that apology right out of my dick.

"Bugsy" Siegel: Joey, what words to say. Put it out, then. All right, you know what? I'll pull mine out first. Watch. Here we go...

"Bugsy" Siegel: [unzips pants, then punches Joey in the face and beats him severely, then stops] Joey, can ya hear me? You're lucky I didn't have a lot to drink tonight. Your apology is accepted.

Virginia: Do you always talk this much before you do it?

"Bugsy" Siegel: I only talk this much before I kill someone.

[they kiss]

Virginia: Well

[laughs]

Virginia: my oh my, you're pretty ferocious for a mom's concern, aren't ya? The rest of the time you're just some good-looking, sweet-talking, charm-oozing, fuck-happy fellow with nothing to offer but some dialogue. Dialogue is cheap in Hollywood Ben... why don't you run outside and jerk yourself a soda.

"Bugsy" Siegel: [talking to Cohen after Cohen robbed him] Well, if I were you, I'd have that money back by seven o'clock tonight.

Mickey Cohen: [shouting] FUCK YOU! Lookit me, FUCK YOU! And if I was you I'd shut my fuckin' mouth and watch my step! Yeah, *you*, Smiley! Or would ya like me to blow your fuckin' Adam's apple down your spine?

"Bugsy" Siegel: [calmly] Excuse me, but aren't we in a public place? Maybe we'd both be better off if you just toned down your rhetoric one notch.

"Bugsy" Siegel: I just want you to answer the question that I'm really asking; how much money have you stolen from this hotel?

Virginia: Hey, look, I've done a hundred times the amount of work I would have to do to justify taking anything I could get my hands on!

"Bugsy" Siegel: How much did you get your hands on?

Virginia: NOTHING! Not a cent! And I could've taken a LOT too! And you wouldn't have known the difference because you're an irresponsible, unrealistic, unreliable, undependable, philandering fuck!

Harry Greenberg: [Ben "Bugsy" Siegel is taking the train from New York to LA. Harry Greenberg, among those seeing him off, stayed behind to ask Ben for $50,000. Train starts in motion] You ain't gonna kill me Ben, are you?

"Bugsy" Siegel: [Ben gives him money] I'm going to try very hard to forget that this ever happened.

Harry Greenberg: I owe you my life, Ben.

"Bugsy" Siegel: I'd say that's a fair assessment.

Harry Greenberg: God bless you Ben.

"Bugsy" Siegel: Bend your knees, Harry.

Harry Greenberg: Bend my knees?

"Bugsy" Siegel: When you jump from the train, bend your knees to soften the impact.

Harry Greenberg: Bend my knees. OK Ben. Sure thing.

[leaves]

"Bugsy" Siegel: We are gonna build a garden of Eden in the desert! A hotel! But not a hotel! You know what it is? It's an oasis. It's an oasis with a casino. It's legal, it's Nevada. We're gonna have palm trees and pools, we'll have rose gardens more beautiful than Versailles, and we're gonna design them all ourselves!

Virginia: Get away from me!

"Bugsy" Siegel: We're gonna have the greatest entertainers in the world! We'll have Jolson, Kantor, and Durante, we'll have Gary Cooper, Victor Mature, all of 'em, honey, we'll have Dana Andrews, honey, and they're all just hanging around, because it'll be the most beautiful, most spectacular place they'll have ever been invited to, and you are gonna own five and three quarters percent of the whole thing! And that's gross, not net!

Bugsy Siegel: Does this bring you pleasure, Larry?

Lawrence Tibbett: My goodness, yes.

Bugsy Siegel: Then why don't l see you smiling?

Bugsy Siegel: l figured l'd run into you. Would you ever have called me?

Virginia Hill: l was planning to wait a while.

Bugsy Siegel: When?

Virginia Hill: Ten years.

Bugsy Siegel: Ten years? Why?

Virginia Hill: Since all we're gonna do is bring each other misery and torment... .

Bugsy Siegel: Why would we have to bring each other misery and torment?

Virginia Hill: We both want whatever we want whenever we want it... and we both want everything.

Virginia Hill: Were you under the impression l was a virgin?

Bugsy Siegel: No, l just thought maybe there was somebody you hadn't fucked.

Bugsy Siegel: That's not pleasant.

Virginia Hill: You listen to me, mister. We've both fucked around. You want to trade stories, fine. You wanna bury the past, we can do that too. But don't try playing these sulky little games. lf what we share isn't good enough, then we should call it quits now. What'll it be?

Virginia Hill: What l do with my time and my body is my business. Sit down, Alejandro.

Alejandro: l demand satisfaction.

Bugsy Siegel: Would this satisfy you, sweetie?

Virginia Hill: Take a hike, will you? Go back to your countess, hypocrite. l hope she gives you syphilis. Let's get out of here, Alejandro.

Virginia Hill: Do me a favor, would you? It's the only favor I'll ever ask you.

Bugsy Siegel: Anything.

Virginia Hill: Finish your drink, get the fuck out of here and never come near me again.

Bugsy Siegel: I got to know the truth.

Mickey Cohen: The truth is: who the fuck ever knows what's going on in the mind of any broad?