Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Larry Rapp: Fat Moe
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Quotes
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Noodles : How's your sister?
Fat Moe : I ain't seen her for years. She's a big star now.
Noodles : We should have known, huh? You can always tell the winners at the starting gate. You can always tell the winners, and you can tell the losers.
[looks at Moe]
Noodles : Who would've put a penny on you?
Fat Moe : I'd have put everything I ever had on you.
Noodles : Yeah, and you would've lost.
Fat Moe : Well, you're beat. Good night.
Noodles : Good night, Moe. Thanks.
Fat Moe : What have you been doing all these years?
Noodles : I've been going to bed early.
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Noodles : I always thought you might have helped yourself to that million bucks. But now I know. Yeah, you're on your ass worse than ever.
Fat Moe : But I thought it was you who...
Noodles : No, you thought wrong. The suitcase was empty.
Fat Moe : Then who took it?
Noodles : That's what I've been asking myself for 35 years.
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[Noodles gives Moe a letter to read]
Fat Moe : Who's Robert Williams?
Noodles : I am.
Fat Moe : [reading] "We wish to inform you that following the sale of the Beth Israel Cemetery..." The synagogue sent these out if you wanted to relocate your loved ones. I got the same letter on account of my father.
Noodles : Only the synagogue didn't send that. I got that last week, and the rabbi told me he sent those out about eight months ago.
Fat Moe : Yeah, that's right. That's about when I got mine. So... what else did the rabbi say?
Noodles : He said I was lucky. The bodies of... Philip Stein, Maximilian Bercovicz, Patrick Goldberg... were already spoken for. And they were up in a very fancy cemetery in Riverdale.
Fat Moe : What's this all mean?
Noodles : It means, "Noodles, though you've been hiding in the asshole of the world, we found you. We know where you are." It means, "Get ready."
Fat Moe : For what?
Noodles : That's the one thing it didn't say.
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Max : While you were on vacation, we were working overtime. The union paid off. That's your share.
Philip 'Cockeye' Stein : Yeah. Even that geek, you know, Jimmy "Clean Hands," he respects us. I shed a little blood for the cause.
Fat Moe : [handing newspapers to Noodles] Here, it's all in the papers. Morning Telegraph, they didn't like it, it says, "Underworld joins strikers in brutal battle." But the Post, they liked it: "Ends justify means in decisive gangland encounter." And they kvetched about the Atlantic City job.
Philip 'Cockeye' Stein : Newspaper guys never know what the fuck they want.
Noodles : Well, you could have looked for me.
Max : We did. Cockeye found you at the Chink's, so doped up you didn't even recognize him.
Philip 'Cockeye' Stein : There you were. You called me "Deborah."
Noodles : Go fuck yourself! Mind your own business!
Max : We do our business TOGETHER, and broads do NOT get in the way... and you know it!
Noodles : Yeah?
Max : Yeah!
Noodles : [indicating Carol] What's SHE doing here? It ain't Saturday. She should be screwing in Detroit.
Carol : Well, she's screwing HERE now - and ONLY with Max!
Noodles : Oh, yeah? With her husband peeping through?
Carol : No, I left him.
Noodles : You live with her and you tell ME not to mess with broads...
Max : You forget one thing.
Noodles : What?
Max : I don't give a fuck about her!
Carol : Max...
Max : Shut up! Shut up!
Noodles : Hey, Maxie, tell me something. What'll you spend your honeymoon on, a cathouse?
Max : Shut the fuck up! Shut up! Just shut up! You want me to dump her? You want me to kick her fucking ass out of here? Want me to kick her ass out or what? You want me to kick...? Get the fuck out! Get the fuck out! Get out! Gonna tell me I don't have a way with women?
