The
Usual Suspects
Quotes:
Twisty, Mysterious Thriller
(Total Quotes:
42)
The Usual Suspects quotes are a slick triumph in wordplay which makes the movie a perfectly crafted mysterious thriller with one of the greatest movie twists you'll likely to find.
The brilliance of the story's structure is all present in The Usual Suspects quotes and lines making you want to see the movie so you can pick up all the missed clues.
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Written by: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring:
Gabriel Byrne - Dean Keaton
Kevin Spacey - Roger 'Verbal' Kint
Chazz Palminteri - Dave Kujan
Stephen Baldwin - Michael McManus
Benicio Del Toro - Fred Fenster
Kevin Pollak - Todd Hockney
Pete Postlethwaite - Kobayashi
Giancarlo Esposito - Jack Baer, FBI
Suzy Amis - Edie Finneran
Dan Hedaya - Sgt. Jeffrey 'Jeff' Rabin
Paul Bartel - Smuggler
Carl Bressler - Saul Berg
Phillipe Simon - Fortier
Jack Shearer - Renault
Peter Greene - Redfoot the Fence
The
Usual Suspects Quotes
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[first
lines]Keyser Soze: How you doing Keaton?
Keaton: I can't feel my legs...Keyser.
Keyser Soze: Ready?
Keaton: What time is it?
Keyser Soze: Twelve thirty.
[Keyser points his gun at Keaton and shoot him]
[to Kujan]
Verbal: What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody...anybody.
[Verbal followed by the rest of the five men arrested for the hijacking of a truck are ushered in to the line-up room]
Verbal: [voice over] It didn't make sense that I'd be there. I mean, these guys were hard-core hijackers, but there I was. At that point I wasn't scared, I knew I hadn't done anything they could do me for. Besides, it was fun. I got to make like I was notorious.
[five suspects in the line-up are asked to repeat a phrase]
Interrogation Cop: Number 1, step forward.
Hockney: Hand me the keys, you fucking
cocksucker.Interrogation Cop: Number 2, step forward.
McManus: Give me the fucking keys, you fucking cocksucking motherfucker, aaarrrghh!
Interrogation Cop: Knock it off. Get back. Number 3, step forward.
Fenster: [laughing] Hand me the keys, you cocksucker.
Interrogation Cop: In English, please?
Fenster: Excuse me?
Interrogation Cop: In English.
Fenster: Hand me the fucking keys, you cocksucker, what the fuck?
[being interrogated for hijacking a truck]
Fenster: Say who?
Interrogation Cop: McManus. He told us another story altogether.
Fenster: Oh, was that the one about the hooker with the dysentery?
[being interrogated for hijacking a truck]
Interrogation Cop: I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking.
Hockney: Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein? What, do you got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?
Interrogation Cop: You know what happens if you do another turn in the joint?
Hockney: Fuck your father in the shower and then have a snack? Are you going to charge me dickhead?
[Keaton's turn in interrogation chair for the hijacking]
Keaton: I'm a businessman now.
Interrogation Cop: Yeah? What's that, the restaurant business? No. From now on, you're in the gettin'-fucked-by-us business.
[after being interrogated all five men are in a holding cell together]
Fenster: They treat me like a criminal, I'll end up a criminal.
Hockney: You are a criminal!
Fenster: Why you gotta go and do that? I'm trying to make a point.
[whilst being held together in the holding cell]
McManus: I heard you were dead, Keaton.
Keaton: Oh yeah? Well, you heard right.
Keaton: This whole thing was a shakedown.
McManus: What makes you say that?
Keaton: How many times you been in a lineup? It's always you and four dummies. P.D. are paying homeless guys ten bucks a head half the time. And there's no way they'd line five felons in the same row. No way. And what's a...what's a voice lineup? Public defender could get you out off that one.
[referring to being strip-searched during his interrogation]
Fenster: I had a finger up my asshole tonight.
Hockney: Is it Friday already?
[to Verbal whose been sat quietly in the holding cell]Hockney: What about it, pretzel man? What's your story?
Keaton: His name's Verbal. Verbal Kint.
McManus: Verbal?
Keaton: Yeah.
Verbal: Roger really. People say I talk too much.
Hockney: Yeah, I was just gonna tell you to shut up.
[talking into the phone about Arkosh Kovash who's in the hospital with burns to his body]
Jack Baer, FBI: Listen, send me someone who can speak Hungarian. Yeah, he's awake. He's talking like a Thai hooker...
[Kovash is speaking rapidly in Hungarian]
Jack Baer, FBI: What?
Arkosh Kovash: ...KEYSER SOZE...KEYSER SOZE...
[in Rabin's office]
Verbal: Can I get some coffee?
Dave Kujan: In a while. Let's talk about the lineup.
Verbal: I'm really thirsty. I used to dehydrate as a kid. One time it got so bad my piss came out like snot. I'm not kidding, it was all thick and gooey...
Jeff Rabin: I'll get you a fuckin' coffee.
Dave Kujan: Verbal, you know we're trying to help you.
Verbal: Sure, and I appreciate that. And I wanna help you, Agent Kujan. I like
Dave Kujan: Verbal, you're not telling us everything. I know you know something.
Verbal: I told the D.A. everything I know.
Dave Kujan: Verbal, I know you like Keaton. I know you think he's a good man.
Verbal: I know he was good.
Dave Kujan: He was a corrupt cop.
Verbal: Sure, fifteen years ago, but he was a good thief. Anyway, the cops wouldn't let him go legit.
Dave Kujan: Dean Keaton was a piece of shit.
Verbal: Are you trying to get a rise out of me, Agent Kujan?
Dave Kujan: I just wanna hear your story.
Verbal: It's all there. May I have a cigarette?
[to Verbal]
Dave Kujan: First day on the job, you know what I learned? How to spot a murderer. Let's say you arrest three guys for the same killing. You put them all in jail overnight. The next morning, whoever's sleeping is your man. You see, if you're guilty, you know you're caught, you get some rest, you let your guard down. You follow me?
Verbal: No.
Dave Kujan: Let me get right to the point. I'm smarter than you and I'm gonna find out what I want to know and I'm gonna get it from you whether you like it or not.
Verbal: I'm not a rat.
[Verbal takes a sip of the coffee handed to him]
Verbal: Back when I was picking beans in Guatemala, we used to make fresh coffee, right off the trees I mean. That was good. This is shit but, hey, I'm in a police station.
[after being punched in the stomach by Keaton]
Verbal: I'll probably shit blood tonight.
Verbal: [voice over] And that's where we came in. McManus came to us with the job, Fenster got the vans, Hockney supplied the hardware, I came through with how to do it so no one got killed, but Keaton...Keaton put on the finishing touch. A little "fuck you" from the five of us to the N.Y.P.D.
[to Verbal]
Dave Kujan: Of course, I can't prove this. But I can't prove the best part either...Dean Keaton was dead. Did you know that? He died in a fire two years ago during the investigation into the murder of a witness who was going to testify against him. Two people saw Dean Keaton walk into a warehouse he owned just before it blew up. They said he went in to check a leaking gas main. It blew up and took all of Dean Keaton with it. Within three months of the explosion, the two witnesses, they were dead. One killed himself in his car, the other fell down an open elevator shaft.
[talking about Keaton to Verbal]
Dave Kujan: He was dead just long enough for the murder rap to blow over. And then he had lunch.
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Quotes: 42
