Irene Tucker: Fabulous.
Hank McCain: Twelve years in prison, I still get a kick out of these lights.
Irene Tucker: They're beautiful.
Hank McCain: They're not beautiful. They're cheap. It's an attraction for sad, fat businessmen begging for more money. For hustlers, for thieves, for pimps. I love it.

Joni Adamo: How lovely to see you. What an elegant tuxedo.
Don Francesco DeMarco: Really? Do you like it?
Charlie Adamo: What do you call this, a pair of pajamas?
Don Francesco DeMarco: Your wife has good taste in men, Charlie.
Charlie Adamo: She's got good taste in money, too. She likes it green.
Margaret DeMarco: Well, green is a good color.
Charlie Adamo: The best.

Hank McCain: What do you do? Sell women? Sell marijuana? - what d'you do? Where'd you get the twenty-five thousand? I wouldn't give you twenty-five cents. What d'you do? - you go out and you hustle yourself all over the street. Small time - no dignity! You don't beg.
Jack McCain: That's why, Hank - I need this chance. I got tired of being small change.
Hank McCain: You're gonna be small change all your life.

Rosemary Scott: It's a lot of work, ya know, just staying alive.