Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)

Robert De Niro: Bruce

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Quotes 

• Bruce Pearson : Everybody'd be nice to you if they knew you were dying.

  Henry Wiggen : Everybody knows everybody is dying; that's why people are as good as they are.

• Henry Wiggen : See, it was no double birdie.

  Mr. Pearson : Double Birdie?

  Bruce Pearson : Whereas for, it coulda been a spread eagle.

  Henry Wiggen : Probably you've been playing Southeastern Tegwar all your life, but in the Majors the boys all play Western Canadian style. Which, for my money, is much faster. That leaves you free for a Butchered Hog most any time, whereas, uh.

  Bruce Pearson : Whereas uh.

  Mr. Pearson : Wh, Whereas what?

  Bruce Pearson : Whereas, it, uh, keeps you from dropping dead on the board.

• Joe Jaros : Can you beat a Coney Island Thirty?

  Bruce Pearson : What about this Double Ace Deucer?

  Joe Jaros : I wish ya a lot of luck with it.