Nick Conklin Quotes in Black Rain (1989)

Nick Conklin: Just hope they got a Nip in this building who speaks fucking English.

Matsumoto Masahiro: [overhearing] Assistant Inspector Matsumoto Masahiro, Criminal Investigation section, Osaka Prefecture police. And I do speak fucking English.

Nick Conklin: I usually get kissed before I get fucked.

Matsumoto Masahiro: "Perhaps you should think less of yourself and more of your group, try to work like in Japanese. I grew up with your soldiers; you were wise then. Now - music and movies are all America is good for. We make the machines, we build the future, we won the peace.

Nick Conklin: "And if there was ONE of you guys who had an original idea, you'd be so tight that you couldn't even pull it out of your ass!"

Nick Conklin: One good hand job deserves another.

Nick Conklin: Sugai-san, I am the solution... to your problems.

Nick Conklin: [to Matsumoto] You watch your tail, cowboy.

Joyce: Because you could get me killed. You see, there's a war going on here, and they don't take prisoners.

Nick Conklin: What are you talking about?

Joyce: It's between Sato and an old crime boss named Sugai.

Nick Conklin: Who else knows about this war?

Joyce: Counting you and me?

[beat]

Joyce: Eleven million.

Nick Conklin: If you pull it, you better use it.

Nick Conklin: Now, you got a counterfeiting ring goin' on & you should talk to your partner before you go to the suits. So fuck you very much!

Nick Conklin: Sometimes you should forget your head and grab your balls.

Matsumoto Masahiro: Balls?

Berg, Internal Affairs: That's a king-sized nut. I admire your thrift

Nick Conklin: Yeah, well, life's a bitch.

Crown, Internal Affairs: We did the math, Hero. You're twenty grand in the hole a month. You're into the shylocks, Conklin, you're takin'.

Nick Conklin: Look, you wanna charge me, you charge me, okay? You wanna jerk off, you go back to your office.

Nick Conklin: Sometimes, you just got to go for it.

Nick Conklin: A couple of guys I used to work with in the department took some money from some drug dealers. No big deal.

Matsumoto Masahiro: They stole?

Nick Conklin: They liberated funds.

Matsumoto Masahiro: Theft is theft. There is no gray area.

Nick Conklin: Hey Matsu, New York is one big gray area.

Joyce: Look, I've been living in this country for seven years, and I still can't read the headlines. Yes means no. Maybe means never.

Nick Conklin: You still didn't answer my question. How do I get to him?

Joyce: Let the police handle it. Nobody's going to help a gaijin.

Nick Conklin: Gaijin?

Joyce: Yeah, a stranger. A barbarian. A foreigner. Me and you... More you.

Nick Conklin: [handing over his keys] Give that to Internal Affairs. They can water my fucking plants!