Charlie Barret Quotes in Suicide Kings (1997)

Lono Veccio: You okay?

Charlie Barret: Eh, so-so. You know, except for this

[holds up his bandaged hand]

Lono Veccio: They cut your finger off? You fuckin' sick fucks. It's all this fuckin' rap shit, isn't it?

Charlie Barret: That phone call I got, it came from outside high walls and fancy gates; it comes from a place you know about maybe from the movies. But I come from out there, and everybody out there knows, everybody lies: cops lie, newspapers lie, parents lie. The one thing you can count on - word on the street... yeah, that's solid.

Charlie Barret: The gun again. Can't you guys just play nice?

Lono Veccio: Drop the gun, asshole.

Max Minot: [finally fed up] Why don't you drop your gun?

Lono Veccio: I don't drop my fucking gun, okay?

Max Minot: [in a mocking voice] Okay.

Charlie Barret: I'm going to give you an opportunity: get out of this. Now. Before it gets so fucked up nobody could ever recover.

Charlie Barret: Guys, if I don't bleed to death pretty soon, I'm gonna die of boredom.

Charlie Barret: Well, I'm wondering, how come a day and a half ago Max can't navigate his way around Harlem with a Sherpa guide, but tonight he knows the place like his backyard?

Charlie Barret: You guys didn't think this through too good, did you?

Max Minot: Oh, she's more than beautiful. She's got this way she looks at you, just... just stop your heart, you know? And make it start back up again. You know any girls like that?

Charlie Barret: Yeah. All of them.

Charlie Barret: I'm bleeding to death. Humor me.

[last lines]

Charlie Barret: You should never lie to your friends.

Charlie Barret: I think I'm done on this side.

[after "correcting" a story about him told by Brett]

Charlie Barret: Everything your pal Brett said is true. Except he left out one detail. Those dogs... that was not steak they were eating.

Charlie Barret: Anybody wants to hold hands with my dick, I insist they buy me a drink first. I mean, after all, I'm not asking for dinner and dancing.

Charlie Barret: Ira, come here. You are the man. Remember that. Okay.

Ira Reder: That's fresh ice. That's very cold!

Charlie Barret: [to Avery] Thank your lucky stars I don't let Lono do to you what he wants to.

Lono Veccio: Fuckin A right.

Charlie Barret: The gun again. Can't you guys just play nice?

Charlie Barret: That's just bad business.

Lono Veccio: Very bad. Fuckin' tragic.

Charlie Barret: Wait, wait... BOAT? What BOAT?

Charlie Barret: A number of times, the only thing that kept me out of a satin box was I could size up the other guy maybe half a second quicker than he could me.

Brett Campbell: [laughing] What the fuck are you talking about? You're taped to a chair! He saw us coming a mile away at the Plaza! Didn't you?

Charlie Barret: [laughing] I admit I'm out of practice.

T.K.: [Lono holds everyone at gun point, T.K.'s beeper goes off] It's my girlfriend.

Charlie Barret: T.K., call your woman back, come on...

Brett Campbell: [as they argue over who will help Charlie take a piss] All right. Since I'm in charge, fuck it, Max, you do it.

Max Minot: Fuck that, I'm not doing it. Avery, you can do it.

Avery Chasten: No, I'm not doing it.

Charlie Barret: Guys, It's my dick, I pick.

Charlie Barret: Well, life don't make sense. It's not fair. It doesn't follow logic or obey orders.

[after it is revealed that both Avery and Max were involved in Elise's kidnapping]

Lono Veccio: Charlie, what do you want me to do?

Charlie Barret: Shoot...

T.K.: No!

Charlie Barret: [points] ... him.

[Lono shoots Brett in the leg. Brett goes down, screaming]

Brett Campbell: Aw, fuck, why *me*?

Charlie Barret: [re: his own kidnapping] It was *your* idea, Dunsky!