Mean Streets (1973)

Amy Robinson: Teresa

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• Charlie : [naked in bed]  Forget it. If there's any chance of me falling in love with you, Teresa, I wouldn't be here right now. Believe me.

  Teresa : Because?

  Charlie : Because with you I can't get involved.

  Teresa : Because?

  Charlie : Because you're a cunt! - Wait! It was only a joke.

  Teresa : Where do you get off talkin' like that!

  [gets out of bed] 

  Charlie : It was only a joke! Teresa, hey, come here.

  Teresa : The hell it was!

• Charlie : I hate the sun. Come on, let's go inside, will ya?

  Teresa : What else do you hate?

  Charlie : I hate the ocean and I hate the beach and I hate the sun and - the grass and the trees - and I hate heat!

  Teresa : Charlie, what do you like?

  Charlie : I like spaghetti and clam sauce, mountains, Francis of Assisi, chickens with lemon and garlic, John Wayne...

  Teresa : You know, there aren't any mountains in Manhattan.

  Charlie : Tall buildings are the same thing. And I like you.

• Charlie : That's all that's important to me now.

  Teresa : Right. Guys like my cousin Johnny.

  Charlie : No, not exactly your cousin Johnny.

  Teresa : Why I hope not because he is crazy! I mean he is driving me nuts! I don't know how you can be with him all the time. He's like an insane person!

  Charlie : What is the matter with you? How can you talk to me about him? He's your own cousin.

  Teresa : Oh, fuck him!

  Charlie : That's terrible. Who's gonna help him if I don't? That's what's the matter. Nobody, nobody tries anymore.

  Teresa : Tries what?

  Charlie : Tries to - to help, that's all. To help people.

  Teresa : You help yourself first.

  Charlie : Bullshit, Teresa! That's where you're all wrong. Francis of Assisi had it all down. He knew!

  Teresa : What are you talkin' about?

  Charlie : He knew!

  Teresa : What are you talkin' about? St. Francis didn't run numbers.