Paul Castellano: Johnny's problem is that he's a street Neapolitan, huh? Always scheming. Worse than the Sicilians.
The Electrician: I'll be forty in July, and I'm glad I never got recognition. It gives me time to develop.
Eamon de Valera: The Irish people established the Irish Republic. It can only be disestablished by the Irish people.
Larry Flynt: I think the real obscenity comes from raising our youth to believe that sex is bad and ugly and dirty, and yet it is heroic to go spill guts and blood in the most ghastly manner in the name of humanity.
Paul Morrisey: You call this a groovy light show. I'd rather sit and watch the clothes dryer at the Laundromat. Oh, look. It changed color. Where's a love child? They'll get a kick outta this. Only a hippie would find this even remotely interesting, but I'll tell ya. You spend one day with the hippies, and you realise how truly refreshing and unpretentious, hard core, New York degenerates are.
Ernest Hemingway: You love me, you just don't know it yet.
Mel Feynman: Richie, how old are you?
Young Richard: Six.
Mel Feynman: Well, act your age.