“The Warriors” quotes

(1979)
Movie The Warriors
Title The Warriors
Year 1979
Director Walter Hill
Genre Thriller, Action
Plot – In New York City, during a night with no moon, all the gangs of the neighborhoods gather themselves in a Bronx park. The guys meet by word of mouth, arriving from every NY area. Every gang is dressed up with its uniform. Cyrus, the leader of the 'Riffs', is a charismatic guy praised by everyone. He wants all the gangs to unite their forces to challenge the police and the organized crime.
All actors – Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler, David Harris, Tom McKitterick, Marcelino Sánchez, Terry Michos, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Roger Hill, David Patrick Kelly, Lynne Thigpen
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  • “- Vermin: How much longer we gotta wait? We might be here forever, I'm sick of waiting for trains!
    - Swan: Vermin, sit down and shut up.
    - Vermin: Okay, okay!”

    Terry Michos - Vermin
    Michael Beck - Swan
  • “- Mercy: Wait a minute. I can't go in there. It's a men's room.
    - Vermin: Are you kidding?”

    Deborah Van Valkenburgh - Mercy
    Terry Michos - Vermin
  • “- Cowboy: What do you know about Cyrus?
    - Rembrandt: He's the one and only.”

    Tom McKitterick - Cowboy
    Marcelino Sánchez - Rembrandt
    [Tag:leader, power]
  • “- Snow: It's the Turnbull A.C.'s.
    - Cowboy: Think they forgot about the truce?
    - Vermin: No shit!
    - Ajax: Those lousy skinhead fucks!”

    Brian Tyler - Snow
    Tom McKitterick - Cowboy
    Terry Michos - Vermin
    James Remar - Ajax
  • “Why don't you just tie a mattress to your back? You don't care where it is, do you?”

    Michael Beck - Swan
  • “- Swan: You recognize them?
    - Fox: Orphans. So far down they're not even on the map. Real low class.
    - Swan: Numbers?
    - Fox: Full strength: maybe 30?
    - Vermin: Thirty. A lot more than eight.
    - Ajax: Not if they're wimps!... and I'm sick of this running crap.”

    Michael Beck - Swan
    Thomas G. Waites - Fox
    Terry Michos - Vermin
    James Remar - Ajax
  • “Good news, Boppers: The big alert has been called off. It turns out that the early reports were wrong, all wrong. Now for that group out there that had such a hard time getting home, sorry about that. I guess the only thing we can do is play you a song.”

    Lynne Thigpen - D.J.
  • “- Ajax: One thing we might get out of Cyrus’ little get together is meeting some strange wool. I wouldn’t mind laying a little something down on the way back.
    - Vermin: You got a one-track brain, you know that?
    - Ajax: What’s the matter, you goin’ faggot?”

    Terry Michos - Vermin
    James Remar - Ajax
    [Tag:hope, sex]
  • “- Swan: Why'd you do it? Why'd you waste Cyrus?
    - Luther: No reason. I just... like doing things like that!”

    Michael Beck - Swan
    David Patrick Kelly - Luther
  • “- Cyrus: [yelling] Can you count, suckers? I say, the future is ours... if you can count!
    - Cyrus: Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That... is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to...” (continue)
    (continue reading)

    Roger Hill - Cyrus
  • “- Cropsey, Rogue Lieutenant: We set?
    - Luther: We're set alright. Somebody should pick their ass up. The Riffs sent out the word. They want 'em alive. We don't.
    - Cropsey, Rogue Lieutenant: Sooner someone grabs 'em, the better.
    - Luther: What's the matter? Ya afraid the Warriors are gonna shoot their mouths off before they get wacked?
    - Cropsey,...” (continue)
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    Joel Weiss - Rogue
    David Patrick Kelly - Luther
    [Tag:fear, treachery, truth]
  • “- Orphan: Just take your colors off and we'll let you pass.
    - Swan: We don't do that kind of stuff.”

    Paul Greco - Orphan
    Michael Beck - Swan
  • “- Cowboy: [cheering] Whoo! All right, Warriors!
    - Vermin: Them cats were some desperate dudes.
    - Cowboy: [laughs] Hey, so was we!
    - Ajax: But even fight, we can take 'um!
    - Ajax: Bunch of chicken-shits!
    - Cowboy: Those cats didn't look too chicken-shit to me.
    - Vermin: Me either.”

    Tom McKitterick - Cowboy
    Terry Michos - Vermin
    James Remar - Ajax
  • “Shit! The chicks are packed! The chicks are packed!”

    Marcelino Sánchez - Rembrandt
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