Lucky Number Slevin – Movie Quotes

The two of you killed everything I ever loved. Fuck you both.

— I don't have your money.
— This isn't like skipping out on the check.

I bet it was that mouth that got you that nose.

— And what happened to your nose?
— I was using it to break some guy's fist.

— You know why?
— No.
— Orders. Now, you do know what orders is, right?
— I think I got the concept.
— Orders is orders.
— So I guess no one ever taught you not to use the word you're defining in the definition.

Sorry about that, son. Sometimes there's more to life than just living.

— Fuck! Shit! Jesus!
— Fuck shit Jesus is right.

My father used to say, "The first time somebody calls you a horse, you punch 'em on the nose, the second time somebody calls you a horse, you call 'em a jerk, but the third time somebody calls you a horse, well, then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."

That's a fuckin' story, man. Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest in Monte Carlo and came in third. Now, that's a story.

How do you get to two men that can't be gotten to? You get them to come to you.

And before you know it, folks are getting a big dose of the gimmies, and men start talking their hats off, and that Manischewitz Grapevine Wine spills in your ear and tells you you got a sure thing, and what's worse is, you start to believe it.

That's when the villain is most effective... when you don't know what he looks like.

See, I think people should only fall in love if there's a great story behind how they met. You know, seeing as how you have to tell it over and over again.

Ever since somebody shot him, old Slim went deaf.

— There was a time.
— 4:35.
— You misunderstood. I wasn't asking for the time. I was just saying there was a time.
— There was a time?
— Mm-hmm. Take Brown Sugar back there, for example. She's pretty fucking foxy, right?
— She's 70. If she's a day.
— But there was a time.

Lying to a dead man is the same as lying to yourself.