Jackie Flannery Quotes in State of Grace (1990)

Terry Noonan: What did Frankie say?

Jackie Flannery: Stevie never hurt nobody. I hurt people. Frankie hurts people. Stevie borrowed money, that's all. Who'd kill him over fuckin' money?

Kathleen Flannery: You're acting surprised, Jackie? Are you serious? You want us to think this surprises you? Every time you turn around down here, somebody else is dead.

Jackie Flannery: What you talkin' about?

Kathleen Flannery: How many wakes we go to as kids because somebody forgot to pay back money?

Jackie Flannery: Every time we turn around, somebody's dead? Bullshit!

[Jackie begins to spin around]

Jackie Flannery: See! See! Stevie never hurt nobody!

[handing Stevie a paper]

Jackie Flannery: There's a horse running in the first called "Old Friend Arrives."

Stevie McGuire: No shit!

[to Terry]

Stevie McGuire: Look at this! First you save my ass, now you're gonna' win me some money! I love you, Terry, but I gotta' go. OTB opens in ten minutes. Today's my lucky day.

Terry Noonan: See you later.

[Stevie leaves]

Terry Noonan: . Lucky day. Luckiest day he ever had, his fuckin' dog got run over.

Jackie Flannery: Is he fucked up or is he fucked up?

Jackie Flannery: What's the matter,your stomach upset?

Terry Noonan: Starting to get up in the morning Jack, it's like I'm pulling my socks over my shoes.

Jackie Flannery: Yeah?

Terry Noonan: Like I'm in this fucking fog.

Jackie Flannery: Terry, you're missing the point here. I can't remember shit, that's the way I like it. Only hint of a problem is I need a little Maalox, but I can buy Maalox.

Terry Noonan: You always were tougher than me Jack.

Jackie Flannery: I always thought I was just crazier.

Jackie Flannery: Yuppies got to be thicker than the rats and the roaches. Assholes can't live without their dogs. Got dog shit all over the sidewalk. And it didn't use to be that way, it used to be, you dropped a cone, you could lift it up and finish it. People are roaming the streets homeless because of these assholes!

Terry: So we're like Robin Hood in this instance.

Jackie Flannery: Yeah. And I'm Friar Fuck.

Terry: What the fuck you doing? You'll blow us up!

Jackie Flannery: Hundred yard dash.

Jackie Flannery: The last guinea who walked around up here was Columbus, and he only lasted a week.

Borelli's Man: What are you, some fuckin' asshole? Or are you just taking lessons?

Jackie Flannery: [smirks and headbutts him]

Terry Noonan: So we're like Robin Hood in this instance?

Jackie Flannery: Yea and I'm Friar Fuck.

Jackie Flannery: Hey. I love the noises Irene makes in bed, man.

Terry: Me too!

Jackie Flannery: It's as if Angels were flying by so they dropped him off.

Jackie Flannery: They don't even want to call it "Hell's Kitchen" no more. Renamed it "Clinton".

[about Stevie]

Jackie Flannery: Is he fucked up or is he fucked up?

Jackie Flannery: All right! Hands up!

Jackie Flannery: The funeral's in Queens. I hate drivin' in fuckin' Queens.

Terry Noonan: Do you want me to drive?

Jackie Flannery: Nah... then I would have to look out the window...

Terry Noonan: Be up to the angels I guess.

Jackie Flannery: Hm. Them fucks.

Jackie Flannery: I wanna have kids. Just gotta find the right broad like Frankie did. Someone who let me fool around on the weekends and still make pancakes before Sunday Mass. Like Irene maybe.

Terry Noonan: Who's Irene?

Jackie Flannery: Ooooh! You've got to meet her man. I spend one night with her my eyes are crossed for days. I walk into walls.

Terry Noonan: I'd like to meet her.

Jackie Flannery: She's mine though.

Jackie Flannery: [at the church] I came here, I knelt down, I thought about Stevie as hard as I could... and I hoped it was praying.

Jackie Flannery: [putting a candle on the church's altar, then kneeling down with his head to the ground. Murmurs, crying] I want to make Stevie a Saint, I want to make Stevie a Saint...