- Darlene LaVonne: You drinkin' that stuff so early?
- Delong: Listen, doll girl, when you drink as much as I do, you gotta start early.
- Rocky Mulloy: You're a pint ahead of schedule.
- Delong: Only the blind can really see.
- Rocky Mulloy: Well, you're only half blind.
- Delong: I'll fix that.
- Rocky Mulloy: You know, I had another friend once who had trouble with that stuff. He found a way to get off of it.
- Delong: How?
- Rocky Mulloy: He quit.
- Delong: Thank you, Billy Sunday.
- Williams: I don't like it at all, Mr. Mulloy.
- Rocky Mulloy: Well, I'm sorry to hear that. I wish I knew what you were talking about.
- Rocky Mulloy: [Alice Fletcher opens the door] Fletcher apartment?
- Alice Fletcher: I don't need any brushes, but come on in.
- Rocky Mulloy: Mrs. Fletcher?
- Alice Fletcher: Yes.
- Rocky Mulloy: I'd like to see your husband.
- Alice Fletcher: Well, that's not very flattering. Would you like some coffee?
- Rocky Mulloy: Oh, a second cup never hurt anybody.
- Gus Cobb: Now, just get it through your heads that the pressure's on.
- [to Nancy]
- Gus Cobb: I wouldn't give a nickel for your husband's chances before that parole board with all this going on.
- [to Rocky]
- Gus Cobb: And I wouldn't give a nickel for your chances with those two apes running around looking for you.
- [to Castro]
- Gus Cobb: For you, I just wouldn't give a nickel.
- Nancy Morgan: What happens if the police come?
- Rocky Mulloy: We're old friends. We'll always find something to talk about.
- Bookie: So what if a bookie gets hit hard? It's a big joke. Big joke. Never occurs to you that I've got a wife and kids like other people. Well, there goes the two weeks at camp I promised the kids this summer.
- Newsie: [seeing Rocky's picture on the newspaper's front page] Nice picture, huh?
- Rocky Mulloy: Add five years to it, it would look just like me.
- Williams: [as Rocky exits the trailer park shower] Did you turn off the shower?
- Rocky Mulloy: [deadpanned] I couldn't even turn it on.
- Gus Cobb: [greeting Rocky who is returning from five years in prison] Rocky, how ya been?
- Rocky Mulloy: You might say all right, Gus, but I wouldn't.
- Gus Cobb: Treated ya rough, did they?
- Rocky Mulloy: Oh, I got a couple of bruises...
- [points to his head]
- Rocky Mulloy: up there.
- Gus Cobb: Well, you're out now.
- Rocky Mulloy: Yeah, and what's five years? You could do that just sitting around and waiting.
- [Rocky is lying on his bunk just having finished a cigarette]
- Delong: Can't sleep, huh?
- Rocky Mulloy: Nope.
- Delong: I can never sleep after I've been shot at either.
- Rocky Mulloy: Say, you've got all my dough. How about some cab fare?
- Gus Cobb: What're you gonna pay me back with, some more of that hot money?
- Rocky Mulloy: Maybe all of it.
- Gus Cobb: All right, there's twenty. That's out of my own pocket. Remember, I've got a wife and a couple of kids.
- Rocky Mulloy: I haven't met anybody lately who hasn't.
- Rocky Mulloy: And do me a favor, Castro, while I'm on the phone, try and jump me. I'd like nothing better than to give it to you in the belly.