Roberto Quotes in Salvador (1986)

Roberto: [trying to get Boyle to pay his debt] I'm trying to run a restaurant, not a fucking bank!

Roberto: You guys are staying in my nest.

Blu: Whoa.

[echoes]

Roberto: It's something I put together with my strength and my brawn.

[drums playing in his chest]

Tiago: No way! A bird bath!

[slides down a vine into the water while laughing]

Blu: Tiago, caref... Ah!

[water splashes onto Blu]

Tiago: [Fart-bubbles emerge from beneath Tiago] Jacuzzi.

Roberto: [Roberto chuckles]

Blu: What's so wrong with humans?

Roberto: Oh they lure you in... they trap you... they DESTROY YOUR MIND!

[suffers a troubled flashback]

Roberto: Polly want a cracker? Polly want a cracker? NO! NO MORE CRACKERS!

[after getting 10.000 dollars]

Roberto: Enzo, what are you going to do with the money?

Enzo: Have the car painted.

Roberto: Guiseppe will do that for 25 dollars.

Enzo: Then tell him to wax it too.

[after receiving $10,000]

Roberto: Enzo, really, whatcha going to do with the money?

Enzo: A rosary for mama, a dress for Angelica and you , get yourself a suit that fits. But most important.

Roberto: Yes

Enzo: Find me the Frenchman. Find me Jacques Mayol.

[Waiting for Enzo]

Roberto: It's not like him to be late. Of course, sometimes he doesn't show up at all.

Supervisor: Hey! You gotta get him outta there, fast!

Roberto: Ten thousand!

Supervisor: Lira?

Roberto: Dollars!

Supervisor: Hey, wait a minute! You guys aren't gonna try to hold me up at a time like this?

Enzo: Okay, you tell me. How much would you say a man's life is worth? In my village we have a saying. (to Roberto) How does it go again?

Roberto: I don't remember.

Supervisor: W-what's that supposed to mean?

Enzo: Forget it.

Girl: What kind of girls do you like?

Roberto: The ones who dig cod snacks.

Pierre: Another movie where I die in the end...

Roberto: Sugar, Tommy's coming.

Sugar Ray: [sees Tommy Smalls and crew coming in... nods] Thank you.

Roberto: Want me to "kick he ass"?

Sugar Ray: No, don't "kick he ass". Thank you, Roberto.

Roberto: I scream. You scream. We all scream. For ice cream.

Roberto: [looking through his book of English phrases] If looks could kill, I am a-dead now.

Roberto: I "ham" a good egg.

Roberto: Very strange mother, my mother.

Roberto: And now i have falled in love, at last. I have finded my new home. She has asked to me if I stay here, to live together with her forever and ever. Like in a book for children.

Roberto: Not enough room to swing a cat... Cat. The animal.

Roberto: My father, no. He's very strong, but with the rabbit he is afraid.

Roberto: It is a sad and beautiful world.

Zack: Yeah, it's a sad and beautiful world buddy.

Roberto: If looks can kill, I am dead now.

Augusto: [Contemptuously and vehemently] If you're mother wasn't worse than you, she'd have strangled you at birth.

Roberto: Yes, but don't spit in my face.

Roberto: I think you need to get organized.

Roberto: Where's Gaby?

Alicia: Horrible, isn't it?

Roberto: What's horrible?

Alicia: Not knowing where your daughter is!

Ana: [to Roberto] Gaby is wonderful. She says I'm the "divided" friend.

Alicia: [laughing] She can't pronounce devoted. She loves the word and uses it constantly.

Roberto: Will you be staying?

Ana: I don't know yet.

Roberto: You're looking good. I never saw you in a skirt before. Europe was good for you, wasn't it? It seems to have polished up your edges.