Belini Quotes in Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

[after giving Belini $10,000 in cash in exchange for information]

Sands: Just for my own edification, I offered you fifty. Why'd you say no?

Belini: I'm not a greedy man. Not looking to get rich quick. Besides, fifty thousand is a lot for what you wanted me to find out. Could just as well put a bullet in my head as cough it up, see? But ten? Ten thousand is civilized. Ten is something we both can live with.

Sands: Ten might still be too much.

Belini: You'd kill me over ten thousand dollars? You wouldn't dare. You wouldn't dare.

[leaves]

Sands: [whispers] Yes, I would.

Belini: This story is well-traveled. It might have picked up some embellishments along the way. Just read between the lines.

[first lines]

Agent Sands: I never heard of him.

Belini: Who?

Agent Sands: The man you recommended.

Belini: The guitar fighter?

Sands: Belini... How long have you and I done business together? A long time. And in a way, I almost, could have the tiniest smidgen of respect for you. Almost. But you need to stop farting around. Now, do you have the information on Barillo or do you not?

Belini: I have what you need. I'm just enjoying this temporary position of power. That make you nervous?

Sands: You know that withholding vital information from a federal officer is a serious offence. Especially when that officer has paid handsomely for it and wouldn't think twice about ripping that patch off your eye hole and skull-fucking you to death.

Belini: People say he was the biggest Mexican they'd ever seen... he was 5 9, 5 10 tops, it was no record, but bigger than most of us