Joel Weinstock Quotes in The French Connection (1971)

[analyzing drug shipment]

Chemist: Blast off: one-eight-o. Two hundred: Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Two ten: U.S. Government certified. Two twenty: lunar trajectory, junk of the month club, sirloin steak. Two thirty: Grade A poison. Absolute dynamite. Eighty-nine percent pure junk. Best I've ever seen. If the rest is like this, you'll be dealing on this load for two years.

Joel Weinstock: So you tell me it's worth the half million?

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Weinstock, I'm telling you, they'll split if we don't move! This guy's got 'em like that, he's everything they say he is!

Joel Weinstock: What about you, Sal? Are you everything they say YOU are?

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Look, I'm telling you, I'll take the deal somewhere else.

Joel Weinstock: So let him take sixty kilos of heroin somewhere else and find out how easy it is to put together half a million in cash. You won't find there's any hurry to do this kind of business.

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: The stuff is here! We can make the switch in an hour! Look Weinstock, I'm telling you they'll split if we don't move. This guy's got them like that, he's everything they say he is!

Joel Weinstock: What about you, Sal? Are you everything they say YOU are?

Joel Weinstock: [to the Chemist] Thank you, Howard. Take what's left there with you and good night. Ah-ah... not that one. The little one.

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: I guess we got a deal, huh?

Joel Weinstock: What we got here, Sal, is a test. A deal for half a million dollars? Eh, maybe.

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Maybe? Come on, Joel. The guy... he wants the bread. He wants to go back to France. This guy's not going to hang around and play games. Look, he's one of the shrewdest cats I ever come across.

Joel Weinstock: What am I? A schmuck? What's the hurry? He can see a couple of shows, visit the top of the Empire State Building.

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Don't jerk me, Weinstock.

Joel Weinstock: One thing I've learned: move calmly, move cautiously, you'll never be sorry.

Salvatore "Sal" Boca: Look, I've been damn careful up to now!

Joel Weinstock: This is why your phone lines are tapped and the Feds are all over you like fleas.