Mean Streets (1973)
Amy Robinson: Teresa
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Quotes
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Charlie : [naked in bed] Forget it. If there's any chance of me falling in love with you, Teresa, I wouldn't be here right now. Believe me.
Teresa : Because?
Charlie : Because with you I can't get involved.
Teresa : Because?
Charlie : Because you're a cunt! - Wait! It was only a joke.
Teresa : Where do you get off talkin' like that!
[gets out of bed]
Charlie : It was only a joke! Teresa, hey, come here.
Teresa : The hell it was!
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Charlie : I hate the sun. Come on, let's go inside, will ya?
Teresa : What else do you hate?
Charlie : I hate the ocean and I hate the beach and I hate the sun and - the grass and the trees - and I hate heat!
Teresa : Charlie, what do you like?
Charlie : I like spaghetti and clam sauce, mountains, Francis of Assisi, chickens with lemon and garlic, John Wayne...
Teresa : You know, there aren't any mountains in Manhattan.
Charlie : Tall buildings are the same thing. And I like you.
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Charlie : That's all that's important to me now.
Teresa : Right. Guys like my cousin Johnny.
Charlie : No, not exactly your cousin Johnny.
Teresa : Why I hope not because he is crazy! I mean he is driving me nuts! I don't know how you can be with him all the time. He's like an insane person!
Charlie : What is the matter with you? How can you talk to me about him? He's your own cousin.
Teresa : Oh, fuck him!
Charlie : That's terrible. Who's gonna help him if I don't? That's what's the matter. Nobody, nobody tries anymore.
Teresa : Tries what?
Charlie : Tries to - to help, that's all. To help people.
Teresa : You help yourself first.
Charlie : Bullshit, Teresa! That's where you're all wrong. Francis of Assisi had it all down. He knew!
Teresa : What are you talkin' about?
Charlie : He knew!
Teresa : What are you talkin' about? St. Francis didn't run numbers.