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Zé Pequeno: The fuck I'm Dadinho! Now, my fucking name is Zé Pequeno!
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Buscapé: You need more than guts to be a good gangster. You need ideas.
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Buscapé: [after Dadinho kills many people in a motel] That night, Dadinho killed his dream of kill.
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Bené: I'm a playboy now.
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Zé Pequeno: Can you read?
Gang Member: I can read only the pictures.
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[after seen his pictures printed in the front page of the news by mistake]
Buscapé: Fuck... I'm dead!
[cut to slum]
Zé Pequeno: What's the name of that friend of yours who took this pictures?
Thiago - Tiago: Buscapé.
[Enjoying the pictures]
Zé Pequeno: Buscapé! The guy is good!
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Zé Pequeno: Where do you want to take the shot? In the hand or in the foot?
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Sandro Cenoura: Have you lost your mind? You are just a kid!
Filé-com-Fritas - Steak and Fries: A kid? I smoke, I snort. I've killed and robbed. I'm a man.
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Buscapé: What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used to living in Vietnam, and more and more volunteers signed up to die.
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Cabeleira: Hey, Bernice. Listen, I've got something real important to say. Tell me, you ever heard of love at first sight?
Berenice: Sure, but hoods don't fall in love, they just get horny.
Cabeleira: C'mon, you cut everything I say to pieces.
Berenice: Hoods don't talk, they just vomit words.
Cabeleira: Jesus, I'm gonna stop wasting my saliva on you, you sure ain't easy.
Berenice: Hoods never stop, they just take a break.
Cabeleira: Jeez, Bernice, talking about love with you is pretty complicated, isn't it?
Berenice: Love, you gotta be kidding. You're just leading me on.
Cabeleira: But it's just that this jerk here loves you.
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Boy 1: The big deal is dope, you got it?
Boy 2: If you wanna be a dealer, you gotta start as a delivery boy, see?
Boy 1: This delivery boy business is real bullshit. The time it takes being a delivery boy, then security and then manager, is way too long.
Boy 2: What you gonna do? You've gotta wait for them to die...
Boy 1: No way! I'll do it just like Pequeno did: you gotta whack everyone and that's it!
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Buscapé: It was like a message from God: "Honesty doesn't pay, sucker."
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Zé Pequeno: [after snorting a line and seeing Knockout Ned's photograph in one of the center pages of a newspaper] Motherfucker!I'm the boss around here but he gets his picture in the paper! Have you found my photo in there?
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[first lines]
Zé Pequeno: Whoa, the chicken ran away. Get that chicken, dude!
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Buscapé Criança - Young Rocket: Sun is for everyone, beach for a few.
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Barbantinho Adulto - Older Stringy: Why return to the City of God, where God forgets about you?
City of God Quotes
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Herta 2021-10-20 18:58:32
Everything I see now is chicken soup. Living in this ridiculous and rough land of tigers and wolves results in lively life and contentment, vigorous vitality, natural insensitivity, thick skin, and never melancholy.
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Herta 2021-10-20 18:58:45
li'l's gangster glasses benny is so cute...the features are not like typical blacks at all, and they have sweet dimples when they laugh...the best latin movie I have ever seen so far
