Nino Quotes in Air America (1990)

Nino: STOP! No more breakings, General. You understand? Now I tell you something. I talk to Versailles. I talk to New York. They say 'opium no so good this year.' They say 'heroine been cut with baking powder.' So who fucking who, hey General? No No. I no gonna pay you same same you give me shit!

Major Lemond: Nino!

[Major Lemond walks into the kitchen]

Major Lemond: Listen to me, okay? Nino, you pay same same, or you will never use any of my airplanes again.

Nino: Okay. Okay. Pay same same.

Nino: Fuck you eating chink food in my fucking restaurant?

Bernie Rose: What's a Jew doing running a pizzeria?

Nino: You paid three-hundred fucking grand for this piece of shit?

Bernie Rose: I paid for it - out of my own pocket. This is just the shell; it's the inside that counts, not the outside, right Shannon?

Shannon: You are correct, sir.

Nino: Fuck that shit; I pay three-hundred for something, I want everybody to fucking see it!

Bernie Rose: Of course you do.

Nino: [Nino sees an collectible car] Now this... that is one motherfucking, fine-ass, pussy-mobile, motha-fucka'! Damn!

Bernie Rose: Shannon, sell him the car.

Shannon: He wouldn't be able to find pussy in a whore house...

Shannon: [Shannon begins hobbling over to Nino] You know what? This car will even make you good-looking.

Nino: I'm already good-looking, pal.

Nino: What do you get out of it?

Driver: Just that. Out of it.

Nino: Take a fucking hike. I want to talk to my partner.

[pause]

Nino: I'm just fucking with you. How you doing, Shannon? How's the fucking leg?

Shannon: I paid my debt.

Bernie Rose: [snaps] You didn't tell me you were ripping off the family

Nino: [snaps back] FAMILY... What family? The same family that calls me kike to my face

[shouts]

Nino: TO MY FACE! I'm fifty nine years old and they still keep pinching my cheeks like I'm a child!

Nino: [to Driver] You're not very good at this, are you?

Mercury: Hey "Romeo", what's that on your face?

Tony: Shit, it's too hot for you Mercury.

Mercury: Hey you look good with that cotex on your nose. Why don't you run across the street and have the "fish-head" take your picture.

Alby: I'll tell you now Tony. I catch in that fuckin' neighborhood again, I swear to Christ I'll smack the shit out of you. You understand me?

Tony: I told you I wasn't in their neighborhood Alby.

Alby: How many times I gotta tell you to stay away from these people. They are nothing but trouble. huh?

Mercury: People? They don't even look human.

Nino: Look at 'em. Have you ever seen one without a camera in their hand? Ha ha.

Mercury: Do you notice that they are squinting even when it's cloudy?

Tony: Thank God I'm not stupid like you guys.

Chiki: Do you even know what's the difference between a pessimist and an optimist?

Nino: No, what?

Chiki: A pessimist thinks things can't be worse. An optimist knows they can.

[Nino points a gun at Chiki]

Nino: Now... tell me. Who started the war?

Chiki: [long pause] We did.

Nino: Slim. A change of plan.

[he beckons Slim over]

Slim, member of Indio's gang: What is it Nino?

Nino: Indio wants you to...

[he stabs Slim and releases the prisoners]

Nino: Here are your guns without bullets. And listen don't let Indio find you both around.