Buddy "Cloudy" Russo Quotes in The French Connection (1971)

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: You dumb guinea.

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: How the hell did I know he had a knife.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Never trust a nigger.

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: He could have been white.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Never trust anyone!

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: If that's not a drop I'll open up a charge for you at Bloomingdale's.

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Make it Alexander's Toy Department.

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: You wanna play "hide the salami" with his old lady?

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Pay attention, we're gonna ask questions later!

Walt Simonson: Brooklyn is loaded with guys that own candy stores, two cars, and like to go to nightclubs!

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Yeah, but you put this little candy store hustler together with Joel Weinstock and maybe we got a big score!

Walt Simonson: Score, my ass!

Walt Simonson: Buddy, here's the warrant. The court order's in there for the wiretap, the judge gave you sixty days on it. Tell Doyle that Mulderig and Klein will sit in for the Feds. They'll make all the buys. Be sure you keep them informed of everything that goes down.

Walt Simonson: [to Mulderig] You know Doyle, don't you, Bill?

Bill Mulderig: Yeah, I know Popeye. His brilliant hunches cost the life of a good cop.

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Hey look, if this is the way you're coming in on this, why don't you stay home and save us all a lot of grief?

Bill Mulderig: Because that's my opinion!

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Shove it up your ass.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: That's the third time he's come here this week. Got anything on this building?

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: The building's clean. I checked the tenant list. Remember Don Ameche, the actor? He lives here.

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: We got the information there's no shit on the street. Right? It's like a god damn desert full of junkies out there. Everybody waiting to get well.

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: [Cloudy walks in Popeye's apartment and finds Popeye with his ankle handcuffed to the bed] What happened?

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: [Yawns] That crazy kid. She locked me up with my own cuffs.

[sighs]

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Where's the keys?

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Get the warrants?

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: Yeah. We also got two Feds. Mulderig and Klein.

Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle: Oh, what do we need those pricks for?

Buddy "Cloudy" Russo: The other guys a Frog too. He checked into the Edison. Had a hooker sent up.