WISEGUY quotes
lopresti robert
Vinnie's brother the priest: My conscience is clear. I could walk out
that door and get hit by a truck and it wouldn't matter.
(about ten minutes before he gets hit by...aw, you guessed.)
Daniel Raeside
It was a shame when they(writers, producers etc) bumped off Pete
in the second season. imho. If the truck just crippled him instead
of killing him the storyline would not have been affected one bit.
Vinnie would have still infiltrated the Pilgrims Of Promise and Pete
could still give advice from the hospital room.
I guess Pete's death was in the cards all along since it marked
a significant turning point in the character of Vincent Terranova
in his quest to escape the grey areas between right and wrong
during his undercover work.
ERIC
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" It may be coming back actually... With me in it "
KEN WAHL: April 29, 1994(referring to his tv series WISEGUY)
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Daniel Raeside
In the pilot ep with Steven Bauer, Johnathan Banks utters a
classic line in response to his character's name being
*mispronounced* as McPuke by a CIA Agent.
" You want to measure testosterone levels with me pal?
I think you've got the wrong guy! "
And of course the immortal, SPORT SHOES!
ERIC
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" It may be coming back actually... With me in it " KEN WAHL 94/04/29
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nau...@utkvx.utk.edu
I agree that it was a shame Pete was killed off. I really liked the scenes
between the two brothers and I thought it was interesting to have a "good"
brother, Pete, and a "bad" brother, Vinnie. (At least, this was how they viewed
by people who didn't know Vinnie was undercover.)
Tesa Nauman
nau...@utkvx.utk.edu
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE - and so are a lot of X-Philes!
Jeff Meyer
fortune! You can have it
all."
"Well, thank you, I
will."
[WISEGUY]
----
"You don't preach revolution on the streets of this
country without renting drawer space somewhere in
Washington."
[Frank McPike on WISEGUY]
----
"And you're telling me that
Mel Profitt is the boss?"
"No Buckwheat, Mel
Profitt is God. Where
he walks the ground
shakes. Make him happy,
you get wealthy over
night. Cross him, the
ground opens up and
swallows you."
"That's where you come
in."
"We all have our place in
line."
[The essence of Roger Loccoco, from WISEGUY]
----
"They're players, Sugar. We are all players in the
Profitt school of high income and hard knocks. We
live fast, burn out early, and die young with nice
tans."
[Mel Profitt groupie, from WISEGUY]
----
"I sell peace and tranquility at reasonable rates
to deserving clientele."
[Roger, from WISEGUY]
----
"Nah... you're the mob,
*you're* the mob in this
room, Vinnie. I'm just
your average
entrepreneur."
"I *saw* you *garotte* a
man IN MY *FACE*!!"
"That's RIGHT, I'd do it
AGAIN, but I'd do it
*MYSELF*! I don't have
to send TEENAGERS off to
the SLAUGHTER and the
next day MAKE EXCUSES FOR
IT IN THE OP ED PAGE!!"
[Sonny and Vinnie having it out in the penultimate episode of WISEGUY's
Steelgrave arc]
----
"This is *NOT* ABOUT
TAXES!!"
"THEN WHAT'S IT ABOUT,
MAN?!!"
"This is about the *core*
of yourself that *cannot*
be excused by whatever it
is about you I admire!
This is about the *need*
in your life *not* to run
rampant over other
people's lives simply
because your fire *burns*
*brighter*!
"Hey... this is about the
*LAW*, man!"
"I *loved* you, man."
[R.I.P., Sonny Steelgrave. WISEGUY, "Nobody Gets Out Of Here Alive."]
----
"AAAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!.....
Two-minute warning."
[Frank McPike lets off some steam in WISEGUY]
----
"I didn't get to be an old coot by playing footsie
with geeks."
[Harry the Hump gives his impressions on snitching to McPike on WISEGUY]
----
"My family."
"You know, I've got a
family too, pal; and you
don't give a damn about
them."
[A few ironic words from McPike to Don Baglia in WISEGUY]
----
"Daryl... you're a *good* bureaucrat. Heavy
action for you is the whirlpool at the Agency
toilets. Now this is a mop-up operation in a war
zone, you be a good guy and leave it to the
warriors."
[Frank lets Daryl have it on WISEGUY]
----
"Remember the 60's,
Vinnie?"
"Yeah."
"How are ya gonna remember
this? How ya gonna
remember me, Vinnie?"
[The last hours of Sonny Steelgrave, from WISEGUY]
----
"I know that you were
behind it, Sid."
"Pardon?"
"`Pardon?'.... Not in this
organization."
[Sonny and Sid's first major confrontation on WISEGUY]
----
"Does your mother have any
idea what a total *dink*
you turned into, Frank?"
"My *mother*... thinks
I'm *adorable*."
[Frank McPike and Vinnie Terranova meet, on WISEGUY]
----
"What a perceptive bitch."
[When families fall out... Ron Silver, from the rag trade episode of WISEGUY]
----
"Money isn't enough; it's
the vantage point. It's
making sure that the
right people in your life
always see you from the
vantage point of looking
up... preferably with
their necks craned back
at a 90-degree angle...."
"It's not the looking up;
it's the looking down.
You can't see the pain
in their faces."
"Then I want this deal
played out on street
level."
[A woman with a problem. From the Rag Trade episode of WISEGUY]
----
"Look, `Ma'... I've done my service as Acolyte at
the Altar of Ideals, and the service always ends
up the same. Idealism, in practice, is
*pragmatism*; pragmatism slowly slides to
*fatalism*, running down the wrong road, pedal to
the metal, *pushing* your future *behind* you!"
[Roger Loccoco espouses philosophy (not Malthus!) from WISEGUY]
----
"I want to be civilized about this, but I don't
want to get screwed. He *is* from Seattle."
[Mark Volchek, being shrewd, from WISEGUY]
----
"Maybe we're close and we
don't know it."
"You mean somewhere
between Walden's Pond
and Skinner's Box?"
[Another shrewd analysis from Roger Loccoco on WISEGUY]
----
"I like these people; they all look like they're
out of a Diane Arbus photograph..."
[A keen observation from Roger Loccoco on WISEGUY]
----
"Opening night, the lead actor disappeared to do a
two-part KOJAK and I lost my show.... but
*spiritually*, it was the right thing to do, wasn't
it, McPike?"
[Mark Volchek spins off the road again, from WISEGUY]
----
"Hurry... Helmut's getting sleepy!"
[WISEGUY]
----
"Frankly, I don't trust him... he's from Seattle."
[Volchek from WISEGUY]
----
"Your cue, Buckwheat."
[Roger Loccoco directs Volchek's ressurection on WISEGUY]
----
"Death can't be cheated -- not even by Volcheks.
But life can be."
[Lacy makes a shrewd observation that applies to other people besides Volcheks.
WISEGUY]
----
"Sounds sort of angry, Frank."
[Loccoco from WISEGUY]
----
"I sell sex... not affection. Affection's free;
but nobody ever asks."
[WISEGUY]
----
"The only codicil I come with is my name. I live
with it; I don't hide from the past."
[Loccoco from WISEGUY]
----
"Well, there are no morally corrupt men
manipulating Vinnie Terranova. He didn't wake up
one morning and say it's wrong-headed, he woke up
and said `It's ugly, I don't wanna look at it any
more.' Well, *I* think it's ugly too, and *I*
don't wanna look at it; but I'm doin' it 'cause I
said I would!"
[Frank blows up on WISEGUY]
----
"Mr. McPike -- I have some
bad news."
"VCR broke?"
[Mark and Frank on WISEGUY]
----
"You're *sorry*. Well... in lieu of a parachute,
here's a hanky!"
[Volchek on WISEGUY]
----
"Get the cop in the pocket BACK in your pants."
[Volchek on WISEGUY]
----
"And the Rev. Adams likes to come in every two
weeks dressed in a leather tux and wants to be
called `Volfie.'"
[WISEGUY]
----
"I practice my passion on
the town... What makes
them so beautiful is that
they require a
specialized pollination
because of a twisted
ovary."
"Are you sane?"
[Mark and Frank on WISEGUY]
----
"...and maybe if we have time, we can see a movie!"
[I wonder which one that might be? Let a smile be your umbrella... WISEGUY]
----
"They were fine men,
Stem."
"They were good dancers,
too."
[Stem begins to loose it on WISEGUY]
----
"If the Old Man blows by
you in his weird sports
car, just wave at him."
"Right. What kind of
sport car?"
"I can't pronounce it...
but I think it's Italian
for 'money.'"
[Vinnie and Stem from WISEGUY]
----
"Do I have to take an oath
or something?"
"You swear to do what I
tell you?"
"I swear."
"You've taken the oath."
[Vinnie and Stem from WISEGUY]
----
"No, Vince... you carry enough."
[A weary Frank McPike on WISEGUY]
----
"McPike. McPIKE!"
[WISEGUY. You hadda be there.]
----
"Don't you care about this
country?"
"Damn right I care...
about *this* country.
That's why I own it."
[WISEGUY]
----
"So in our vast files, we
have about as much on
this guy as, uh, The
National Enquirer?"
"Our files are *from* The
National Enquirer."
[WISEGUY]
----
"I'm a recluse, dammit. I don't see people. If I
did, I wouldn't be a recluse."
[WISEGUY]
----
"What?"
"You know you just threw
the Second-assistant
Attorney General out of
his own war room?"
"Well, so what?"
"So, I always wanted to
do that."
[WISEGUY]
----
"You want honest? Honest is: it sucks. But you
sleep with both eyes closed."
[Frank McPike of WISEGUY, commenting on a desk job]
----
"Don't worry... I said *if* there was any justice.
I doubt that there is."
[Frank McPike on WISEGUY]
----
"...for criminal conspiracy, copyright
infringements, fraud, tax evasion, and a generally
annoying attitude."
[Frank on WISEGUY]
----
"Heh heh heh... you're a
funny little man, aren't
you?"
"Heh heh heh... not as
long as I have your yams
in my pocket, I'm not."
[McPike and Twine, at it again, on WISEGUY]
----
"Irony is the stem of the rose."
[Who but Tim Curry could say this? WISEGUY]
----
"I'm not a sycophant, Winston; I am a Sicillian;
and we view alliances with a fatalistic eye."
[Vinnie tells of Newquay in WISEGUY]
----
"It's a basic tenet of democracy -- innocent until
proven guilty. Not that we should let that stand
in the way of a good time."
[Frank McPike in WISEGUY]
----
"Oh, Frank, um... wear leather, OK? Love you,
babe."
[Vinnie tweaks Frank in WISEGUY]
----
"She used to be a superstar -- now she works for
you. Life can be cruel."
[...and Travis tweaks Vinnie in WISEGUY]
----
"If you're not a player, you're not in the game."
[Vinnie Terrenova's mob motto on WISEGUY]
----
"You McPike?"
"Most of my life. In 3rd
grade I was Batman, but
that seems to have
passed."
[One of Frank McPike's best droll comments, from WISEGUY]
----
"Vaya con dios, scumbucket."
[Roger Loccoco from WISEGUY]
----
"Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a
whorehouse at low tide."
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