Cosmo Quotes in Sneakers (1992)

Cosmo: I cannot kill my friend.

[to his henchmen]

Cosmo: Kill my friend.

Cosmo: Pollution. Crime. Drugs, poverty, disease, hunger, despair - we throw GOBS of money at them and problems only get worse. Why is that? Because money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it.

Martin Bishop: I agree. Now who did you say you were working for?

Cosmo: Oh, that's just my day job.

Cosmo: There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!

Liz: This is my last computer date.

Cosmo: Wait. A computer matched *her* with *him*? I don't think so.

Cosmo: There I was in prison. And one day I helped a couple of nice older gentlemen make some free telephone calls. They turned out to be, let us say, good family men.

Martin Bishop: Organized crime?

Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.

Cosmo: The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money. It's run by little ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons.

Cosmo: Posit: People think a bank might be financially shaky.

Martin Bishop: Consequence: People start to withdraw their money.

Cosmo: Result: Pretty soon it is financially shaky.

Martin Bishop: Conclusion: You can make banks fail.

Cosmo: Bzzt. I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.

Martin Bishop: Stock market?

Cosmo: Yes.

Martin Bishop: Currency market?

Cosmo: Yes.

Martin Bishop: Commodities market?

Cosmo: Yes.

Martin Bishop: Small countries?

Cosmo: I might even be able to crash the whole damn system. Destroy all records of ownership. Think of it, Marty: no more rich people, no more poor people, everybody's the same. Isn't that what we said we always wanted?

Martin Bishop: Cos, you haven't gone crazy on me, have you?

Cosmo: Martin Brice - my old and good friend who promised me we would not get in trouble and who, I might add, did not.

Cosmo: I'm sorry if he hurt you. I'm afraid Wallace doesn't like you very much.

Martin Bishop: You oughta have that guy checked for rabies.

Cosmo: Rabies occurs only in warm-blooded animals.

Cosmo: Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?

Cosmo: You will give me the box, right now, or I will kill you, right now.

Cosmo: Anyway, I couldn't have you talking to the Russians. Five years ago, yes, we could trust them not to go running to the F.B.I., or if they did we could trust the F.B.I. not to believe them, but today we can't trust anybody.

Cosmo: No more secrets, Marty.

Cosmo: Pain? Try Aspirin.

Cosmo, Nation, Nurse Ansalong, 'Rest Home' Ricky: [singing] You're not just lookin' at a fast-food king/Just another well-known face/You're not lookin' at the king of anything/

Farley Flavors: I'm gonna shoot for the moon/I'm gonna play high noon/I'm gonna take on the entire human race/

Cosmo, Nation, Nurse Ansalong, 'Rest Home' Ricky: You're not looking at a king/

Farley Flavors: You're looking at an ace...

Brad Majors: To Farley: I'm as sane as you are! Saner!

Cosmo: To Audience: And he was only with us for one day!

Nation: [singing] I feel the heat from your skin and the stubble on your chin, you're no good/

Cosmo: You're no good/

Nation: You've got dirt on your hands and everybody understands you're no good/

Cosmo: You're no good/

Nation: Oh, what a joke/

Cosmo: What a joke/

Nation: You feel like choking/You play for broke/

Cosmo: Play for broke/

Nation: He leaves you smoking/

Cosmo: Oh, romance is not a children's game/

Nation: But you keep going back/It's driving you insane/

Cosmo: [in song] You need a bit of... ooh, shock treatment/Get you jumpin' like a real live wire/Need a bit of... ooh, shock treatment/So look out, mister, don't you blow your last resistor for a vista that'll mystify ya!

Cosmo: Every since I was a little boy, dressing up has always been

[holds up some high heels and Janet smiles]

Cosmo: my greatest joy. But when it's time to be discreet, there's one thing you just can't beat and that's a strapless, backless classical little black dress.

Cosmo, Nation: [singing] When Heaven's in the music, Hell is in control. The angels got the voices but the Devil got the rock and roll!

Nation: This could be worse than the old series.

Cosmo: In the old series, we never had a convertible.

[flashes the keys]

Cosmo: Ah, hello, Mr. and... Mrs. Majors. How wonderful to see you. I'm Dr. Cosmo McKinley, and this is my sister and... colleague... Dr. Nation McKinley.

Cosmo: Look out mister, don't blow your last resistor on a sister that'll certify ya.

Cosmo: Help us to help him.

Bob: Nobody said anything about guns! They've got guns, and I think we need guns!

Cosmo: [sarcastically] That's smart thinkin', Bob. That's real smart thinkin'. All the damn money I spread around here, and you want to go play Al Capone with some fuckin' meatball! You fuckin' juvenile!