Key Largo (1948)

Edward G. Robinson: Johnny Rocco

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Quotes 

• Johnny Rocco : There's only one Johnny Rocco.

  James Temple : How do you account for it?

  Frank McCloud : He knows what he wants. Don't you, Rocco?

  Johnny Rocco : Sure.

  James Temple : What's that?

  Frank McCloud : Tell him, Rocco.

  Johnny Rocco : Well, I want uh ...

  Frank McCloud : He wants more, don't you, Rocco?

  Johnny Rocco : Yeah. That's it. More. That's right! I want more!

  James Temple : Will you ever get enough?

  Frank McCloud : Will you, Rocco?

  Johnny Rocco : Well, I never have. No, I guess I won't. You, do you know what you want?

  Frank McCloud : Yes, I had hopes once, but I gave them up.

  Johnny Rocco : Hopes for what?

  Frank McCloud : A world in which there's no place for Johnny Rocco.

• Johnny Rocco : You'd give your left arm to nail me wouldn't you? I could see the headlines now, 'Local Deputy Captures Johnny Rocco'. Your picture'd be in all the papers. You might even get to tell on the newsreels how you pulled if off, yeah. Listen hick, I was too much for any big city police force to handle. It took the United States Government to pin a rap on me. And they won't make it stick. You hick, I'll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor and governor before you get a ten buck raise.

• Johnny Rocco : After living in the USA for more than thirty-five years they called me an undesirable alien. Me. Johnny Rocco. Like I was a dirty Red or something!

• James Temple : [Praying]  Make the big wave. Send it crashing down on us. Destroy us all, if need be. But punish him.

  Johnny Rocco : Shut up, old man! l'm warning you!

  James Temple : Hear me. Hear me!

  Johnny Rocco : I'll kill you!

  James Temple : Make a big wave. Send it against us. Take us all. But destroy him.

• Gaye Dawn : [finishes her song and goes over to the bar]  Give me that drink now, Johnny.

  Johnny Rocco : No.

  Gaye Dawn : Johnny!

  Johnny Rocco : [louder]  No.

  Gaye Dawn : But you promised!

  Johnny Rocco : So what?

  Gaye Dawn : You said that...

  Johnny Rocco : But you were rotten.

• Johnny Rocco : I'll be back pulling strings to get guys elected mayor before you ever get a ten-buck raise! Yeah, how many of those guys in office owe everything to me? I made them. Yeah, I made them just like a... Like a tailor makes a suit of clothes. I'd take a nobody, see, teach him what to say, get his name in the papers. Then I'd pay for his campaign expenses. Dish out a lot of groceries and coal. Get my boys to bring the voters out. And then count the votes over and over again 'til they added up right, and he was elected.

• Johnny Rocco : Now what you were saying, that's the truth only you don't believe it. I can see right through you. What you're really thinking is "I'm better than Rocco. He's filth, Like the old man said". Right?

  James Temple : Right!

  Johnny Rocco : He's got a gun, you're thinking, and I haven't. You figure it's the gun? Well listen soldier, thousands of guys got guns but there's only one Johnny Rocco!

• Johnny Rocco : She drinks beer from a bottle!

• Johnny Rocco : [Nora has caught his attention]  Some little wildcat. I knew one like you a long time ago. Scratched, kicked, bit. Regular hellion. She even stuck a knife in me once. Irish kid. Little and kind of skinny she was, but a real fireball. Her name was Maggie Mooney. But for "professional" reasons, I had her change it to Gaye Dawn.

  Curly : She was a knockout in those days.

• Toots : Hey, boss! Hey, hey, boss!

  Johnny Rocco : What's the matter?

  Toots : The boat's gone!

  Johnny Rocco : [Rocco and his henchmen all run out to look]  What?

  Johnny Rocco : [referring to the hired boat skipper]  He did it. I told him I'd kill him, but he did it just the same.

  Curly : Maybe he'll come back now the storm's over.

  Johnny Rocco : No.

  Toots : Why not?

  Johnny Rocco : Because he believed me when I told him I'd kill him.