Sleepers (1996)

Jason Patric: Shakes

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Quotes 

• Lorenzo : Mike, are you sure you wanna go this way? I mean we buried this a long time ago.

  Michael : You still sleep with the light on?

• Lorenzo : [after handing Detective Davenport surveillance photos and proof that Adam Styler's a crooked cop]  So, you got enough for conviction?

  Detective : That ain't up to me. That's up to a jury.

  Lorenzo : [hands Davenport a gun in a plastic bag]  Show the jury this.

  Detective : What do you got there, Ness?

  Lorenzo : About 3 weeks ago, the body of a drug dealer named Indian Red Lopez was found in an alley in Jackson Heights. Three bullets in his head, nothing in his pockets.

  Detective : I'm with you so far.

  Lorenzo : This is the gun that killed him, and these are the shells.

  Detective : What's behind door number 3?

  Lorenzo : The prints on the gun belong to Adam Styler.

  Detective : Hey, do me a favor, would you?

  Lorenzo : What's that?

  Detective : If I ever make it onto your shit list, give me a call. Give me a chance to apologize.

• [first lines] 

  Lorenzo : This is a true story about friendship that runs deeper than blood. This is my story and that of the only three friends in my life that truely mattered. Two of them were killers who never made it past the age of 30. The other's a non-practicing attorney living with the pain of his past - too afraid to let it go, never confronting its horror. I'm the only one who can speak for them, and the children we were.

• [last lines] 

  Lorenzo : The future lay sparkling ahead, and we thought we would know each other forever.

• John : One down, Shakes, one down.

  Lorenzo : One what?

  Tommy : One Sean Nokes.

• Lorenzo : [narrating about Father Bobby]  I told him about the torture, the beating and the rapes. I told him about four frightened boys who prayed to Father Bobby's God for help that never came. I told him everything.

• Lorenzo : A number of the inmates, as tough as they acted during the day, would often cry themself to sleep at night. There were other cries, too. Diffrent from those full with fear and lonelyness. They were low and muffled, the sounds of pain and anguish.Those cries can change the course of a life. They are cries that once heard, can never be erased from the memory. On this one night those cries belonged to my friend John, when guard Ferguson paid him a visit.

• Michael : You read the Count of Monte Cristo lately?

  Lorenzo : I dunno, 10 years ago

  Michael : I read a little bit every night. I read words like revenge, sweet, lasting revenge.

• Carol : The man I know is not the boy you remember.

  Lorenzo : None of us are.

• Lorenzo : There are no clear pictures of the sexual abuse we endured. I buried it as deep as it can possibly go.

• Lorenzo : The plan, as it turned out, was as simple and as dumb as anything we'd ever done.

• Lorenzo : [after handing Detective Davenport surveillance photos and proof that Adam Styler's a crooked cop]  So, you got enough for conviction?

  Detective : That ain't up to me. That's up to a jury.

  Lorenzo : [Hands Davenport a gun in a plastic bag]  Show the jury this.

  Detective : What do you got there, Ness?

  Lorenzo : About 3 weeks ago, the body of a drug dealer named Indian Red Lopez was found in an alley in Jackson Heights. Three bullets in his head, nothing in his pockets.

  Detective : I'm with you so far.

  Lorenzo : This is the gun that killed him, and these are the shells.

  Detective : What's behind door number 3?

  Lorenzo : The prints on the gun belong to Adam Styler.

  Detective : Hey, do me a favor, would you?

  Lorenzo : What's that?

  Detective : If I ever make it onto your shit list, give me a call. Give me a chance to apologize.

• Lorenzo : [narrating]  Hell's Kitchen was a place of innocence ruled by corruption.

• Michael : You gotta get me one for our side.

  Lorenzo : One what?

  Michael : One witness. A witness who'll put John and Tommy somewhere else on the night of the murder. A witness they can't touch

  Lorenzo : Don't they got a name for that?

  Michael : A judge would call it perjury.

  Lorenzo : I see, and what are we calling it?

  Michael : A favor.

• Lorenzo : Michael was the most sexually experienced of us, which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions.

• Father Bobby : What about the life that was taken, Shakes? What's that worth?

  Lorenzo : To me? Nothing.

• Lorenzo : Do you love him?

  Carol : I don't think about it, Shakes. If I did, I'd say yes.

• Lorenzo : In truth we were all surprised in Michael's action. But in his mind losing that game and handing a feeling of victory was more important to a girl in a wheelchair was more then the right thing to do.

• Lorenzo : I didn't know you like pigeons so much.

  King Benny : I like anything that don't talk.

• [voice over] 

  Lorenzo : Young protesters spoke about how they'd change our lives and fix the world. But while they shouted their slogans, my friends and I went to the funeral services of the young men of Hell's Kitchen who came back from Vietnam in body bags.

• Lorenzo : The temperature topped out at ninety-eight degrees the day our lives were forever altered.

• [voice over] 

  Lorenzo : Most priests like to preach from the pulpit. Father Bobby liked to talk during the bump and shove of a pick-up game.

• Lorenzo : I couldn't look at him. He might look right through the fear and the shame, right through to the truth.

• Detective : Where'd you get this evidence?

  Lorenzo : It fell into my lap.

• [Shakes is about to see Father Bobby] 

  Lorenzo : [narrating]  Nokes warned us not to say anything to Father Bobby. If we did, the reprisals would be severe.