Going in Style (1979)
George Burns: Joe
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Quotes
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Joe : No tinhorn joint like this could ever hold me.
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Pete : [visiting Joe in the prison] The lawyer says they're gonna' be a lot tougher on you than you thought, Joe, if you don't give 'em back the money.
Joe : Yeah? Well, screw them.
Pete : I don't know, Joe. Maybe you should just give 'em back the money from the robbery.
Joe : Forget it. Al and Willie would both die if I gave that money back. Besides, Pete, let me tell you something. For the past couple of years, me, Al and Willie all sat on that park bench and looked at each other. Maybe a politician would come around and talk to us at election time, but that was about it. That was our life.
Joe : [continues] Here I've got my own cell, with a toilet and a sink. Food's okay, and I'm feeling good. As a matter of fact, they treat me like a king around here. Everyone comes around to talk, and they all want to do me favors. Pretty soon they'll all wind up asking me where I hid the money. They don't know it, but they're all older than me.
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Joe : [Al, Joe, and Willie are sitting on a park bench. Willie's feeding pigeon's, and as Al tells Willie the birds are filthy, Joe's staring into space, when a chunky kid - his mouth and face smeared with jelly - comes along - frightens the pigeons away, and stands right in front of Joe - blankly staring. Joe stares back, for a few seconds, but, becomes bewildered by this kid's staring, and mutters to Al] What the hell's the matter with this kid?
[Al looks at the kid - sizing him up - for a second]
Joe : If he eats any more jelly doughnuts, they'll have to take him to kindergarten in a moving van.
[Al chuckles. The kid doesn't blink. Doesn't smile. Just stares. Joe turns to Al]
Joe : Look at that mug. Got one of them heads they make piss-pots out of
[Irritated, Joe scowls, and jerks his arms and legs up and down, at the kid]
Joe : Get the hell out of here!
[the kid runs off]
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Joe : [after yelling at the kid to go away, the 3 men sit in silence. Willie's staring into space, Joe sighs] Too much excitement for one day.
Al : [Al's starting at something, but, replies to Joe] I'm telling you.
[Al goes back to staring off into space, and grinding his jaw]
Joe : [Joe looks around - a scowl on his face. Willie - still silent] I'm sick of this shit.
Al : Yeah, but it beats getting hit in the head with a dull ax.
Joe : Yeah? I wonder about that.
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Joe : [Joe, Al, and Willie, have just 'cased' a bank. To 'celebrate', the 3 men are talking over details as they each get hot dogs - with the 'works' - from a street cart. WIllie pulls out some money to pay, but, Joe says] uh-uh - put that away. These are on me. By next week, we'll be going out for Chinese food - *every* night!
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Joe : [Joe - with Willie's assistance - is having the teller shove the money into their flight bag, as he tells her - in 'encouraging words' how to do it] Put it all in there. That's it. Both hands.
[the teller's putting fistfuls of cash into the bag]
Joe : That-a-girl. Right there - that big bundle.
[the teller finishes stuffing the money in]
Joe : Tell your boss to give you a raise.
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Joe : Feels like we're living two lives. One before the robbery and one after.
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Joe : [standing in front of Willie's coffin in the funeral home] Feels funny to say, but I get the feeling I'm gonna' be joining you real soon, Willie.
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Joe : Wake up, Al. The cops just called us a bunch of amateurs. I suppose we gotta' knock off a bank every other week in order to get some respect from those jerks.
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Joe : How's about we all go on a stick-up? It's foolproof. If it works, we'll be in great shape. If not, maybe they'll give us three years. Maybe. That would be free room and board, and when we get out, we'd each have 36 social security checks waiting for us. That, by the way, adds up to 8,532 bucks - apiece. Not a bad piece of change.
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Joe : I got to look back and say that my life was okay. I got my share of everything but money, and the guys who went out for that, some of them got it today, but put too much time in getting it. Whatever. That's history. Right now, here we are, and I ain't complaining, but things would be a lot easier if we had a little extra cash. And, besides, what the hell could we lose? Either we get the money or we get caught. We're winners either way.
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Joe : [the three are walking on a jammed NY city sidewalk] Don't anybody work up here? They're all out walking.
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Joe : A stick-up guy I used to know a long time ago told me that the most important thing is to put fear into everybody right away. So when we get in there, let me do all the talking.
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Joe : The bones. Give the man the bones. He's got the bones. Throw the bones out!
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Joe : Don't worry about a thing, Willie. We're gonna make you feel young again.
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Hot Dog Vendor : Onions?
Willie : Ah, better not.
Joe : Come on, live a little.
Al : Come on, live it up.
Willie : Okay, onions.
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Joe : [opening the electric bill] Jesus Christ, $49. Who's using all the lights?
Willie : Don't look at me.
Joe : Al?
Al : What?
Joe : Don't "what" me. Every time you get up to take a leak at night, you forget to shut the light off in the bathroom.
Al : What are you talking about? I don't ever turn the lights on.
Willie : No wonder the seat's always wet in the morning.
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Joe : I'll have cream cheese and jelly sandwich on rye bread, sweetheart, and a cup of coffee, please.
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Joe : I tell you what, we'll take a gypsy cab there and tell him to wait while we go inside. Those gypsy cab drivers don't keep a record of where they go or what. We'll act dopey, and we'll give him a good deal. He won't figure three old guys to be up to anything.
