Rescue Me Quotes

[Shelia wants to tell something to Tommy but she won't tell him over the phone]
Tommy: It's gonna drive me crazy, not that you don't have a lock on that particular skill, right now.
Shelia: Why do you have to be such an asshole?
Tommy: Practice.

TV Show: Rescue Me
[A guy was impaled by a tree branch from a rooftop garden]
Lou: Maybe we should uh, go up and talk to the tree. I mean, it looks like an accident but you never know.
Tommy: Well, there might be a couple of scrubs up there that saw somethin'. I say we go up, uproot the whole goddamn garden and bring it in for questioning.
Lou: You know, just 'cause it's vegetation it thinks it can get away with this shit.
Tommy: Shameful.
Lou: It really is.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Tommy: [to Janet, who wants more money] Yeah, lemme pull down my pants and grab the money that's growin' outta my ass.

TV Show: Rescue Me
[The whole crew is looking at the NYC skyline]
Sean: It's a nice view, huh?
Tommy: Yeah. It'll never be the same for me.
Franco: Yeah, me either.
Laura: Even when they put up whatever it is that they're puttin' up.
Franco: It's like they're tryin' to erase what happened. You know?
Chief Reilly: It's insulting. Remember when they had those spotlights right after 9/11? I couldn't take that. I like it like this... empty. Just the way those scumbags left it. No spotlights, no new buildings, just empty.
Tommy: Yeah. That's the thing about the spotlight, you know. Walk out into it and at first everybody thinks they see a good-lookin' all-American hero. But then you stay out there long enough and you know, they start to notice certain things. Maybe your nose is a little crooked, you know, maybe your teeth are too crooked. Maybe you got a little scar on your upper lip. Your hair's not right. One eye's bigger than the other. Next thing 'ya know they think they're lookin' at some kinda goddamn monster. Like they're lookin' at King Kong. Then they start throwin' shit at 'ya.
Lou: Well, I'll tell ya one thing. That morning they threw a couple a jets into a couple a buildings. And they threw at us the biggest job in the history of our profession. And what do we do? We gave up 343 of our guys to save... at least 10,000.
Tommy: Yeah. And look at us now: Three years later and still waitin' for a goddamn raise. I'll tell 'ya what guys, we were on our own that morning and we're still on our own today.

TV Show: Rescue Me
[After Mickey told Franco that Tommy was seeing Shelia]
Tommy: [to Mickey, in confession] Bless me father for I have sinned, and so have you. [he grabs him and starts beating him up]

TV Show: Rescue Me
[Sean is dating a girl who's a really bad kisser]
Chief Reilly: Now, you're talkin' about bad kissin'. Are you talkin' about too much saliva bad kissin'? Or using your tongue like an iguana eatin' a fly bad kissin'? [Sean and Franco give him a look] Hey, I used to be a player.
Franco: That was disturbing, Chief.
Sean: Yeah. And disgusting.
Chief Reilly: You shoulda saw the chick that I did it with.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Franco: What's with the camera?
Laura: Oh, my folks wanted to see where I worked. So I, uh, you know, I thought I'd send them a couple pictures give them an idea of what it looks like.
Sean: Oh, yeah? You gonna take any pictures of us?
Laura: I don't wanna scare them.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Franco: Hey, Laura. Can you do me a favor?
Laura: If it involves any part of your body, no.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Chief Reilly: Broads.
Lou: Crazy broads.
Chief Reilly: [sees Laura] Speaking of which. [to Laura] Banker's hours, sweetheart?
Laura: Sorry, darling.
Chief Reilly: Excuse me?
Laura: From now on, you call me names, you're getting them right back.
Chief Reilly: Don't push it, dollface.
Laura: Okay. Love-lum. [walks into the house]
Chief Reilly: Love-lum?
Lou: I've used it.

TV Show: Rescue Me
[Lou catches Tommy sitting outside the house in his truck]
Tommy: I got this new girlfriend, and uh, she's really into antiques. Uh, and I remember that antiques shop up here and I went over to look at---
Lou: [interrupting] Who the hell do you think you're talking to asshole? I've helped you concoct some of the most bullshit cover stories---
Tommy: [talking over Lou] This is not a concoction, okay?
Lou: ---Under the worst possible pressure situations okay?
Tommy: I have a new girlfriend, okay?
Lou: [mocking] Antiques, and my new girlfriend. Why don't you kiss my goddamn giant Irish pisshole? I've seen you out here in your truck 10, 20, times in the last three months. I figure you must to desperate to know what's going on so I figured I come out here and fill you in.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Tommy: [About a woman who's reportedly trapped on the third floor, after the newspaper called the FDNY racist] Is she black?
Chief Reilly: I guess so. Given the neighborhood I guess. Why?
Tommy: Well, we're racists. Just think how much easier it would be if we only had to save the white people.
Sean: [laughs] Or even, you know, models.
Tommy: There you go.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Sheila: [in baby talk] The diddle baby wants his big Daddy to bring some more soupy. Do you think that big Daddy can bring some more soupy-woupy?
Tommy: That had better be the baby talking because if it's you, big Daddy's gonna come home and punch you right in the neck.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Sean: [about his date] She said if I can find her friend a date we can move on to the next stage.
Mike: What's the next stage?
Sean: The blow job stage.
Mike: I like that stage.
Sean: Yeah, it's the best stage.

TV Show: Rescue Me
[Franco puts the "moves" on Laura]
Laura: Can I tell you how this is gonna go?
Franco: Yeah, please. I love a woman who takes control.
Laura: You're really cute, and really funny, and make great faces, until I sleep with you which I eventually will because you're a tall stud and I'm as unlaid as a pile of bricks.
Franco: Sounds good so far.
Laura: But then I'll want more out of the relationship eventually, you know, me being the woman and all and I'm so goddamn good in the sack you will actually try and commit for the first time in your life. You'll change for me Franco. But then you'll resent me and I'll resent you for resenting me. Pretty soon we won't even stand being in the same room together let alone forcing our body parts to intersect. But we have to be in the same room because we work together. So unless one of us dies in a fire or moves away or kills the other. We'll be forced to remember the bloody horrific train wreck of a relationship that we had that started with your hand on my coat. But it's your move, stud.
Franco: [pause] I'll see you tomorrow.
Laura: Smart man.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Lou: [to Chief Reilly, who has had his face scratched in his sleep by his wife who has Alzheimer's] Next time you try banging the cat, put little booties over its paws so it can't scratch. That's what I do.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Tommy: It's not like you need me around here anyways. The biggest call we got in the last three weeks was that old lady reporting a gas leak. Ended up she was the leakee.
...
Tommy: I'm gonna go upstairs, and leave you three guys alone so you can blow each other.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Laura: You call me "honey" one more time and I'm going to kick your nuts through the top of your head.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Franco: [After sex] Alright, so what does this mean?
Laura: This meaning... [makes a motion to them with her fingers] This?
Franco: Yeah. What does this mean?
Laura: [laughs] Oh, come on. You did not just ask me that. I'm just the girl here.
Franco: Hey, well I wanna get things clear. We work together, things could get messy.
Laura: Okay, let me do the math for you. [points to herself] Drunk and horny. [points to Franco] Perpetually horny.
Franco: Yeah.
Laura: Equals out [looks at her watch] 34 minutes of extremely hot, but meaningless sex. So do you want to discuss this more? [pulls one foot above her head] Or do you want to go for the full hour?
Franco: Talking is way overrated, I'm sorry. [kisses her]

TV Show: Rescue Me
John Sr.: Hey, it's not about the money, Tommy.
Tommy: Well, then what's it about? Go ahead Dad and enlighten me.
John Sr.: It's about the sex.
Tommy: Oh, Christ.
John Sr.: Now, let me tell you something my cock still functions and this broad thinks I'm funny and I get to bang her for free.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Lou: [after rescuing Sully, who's dressed in female fetish clothing] All the angels and saints.
Franco: Holy shit.
Mike: Is that Sully? [Sean checks, sees that it is, and jumps up and away from him instantly]
Chief Reilly: Blessed screaming Jesus on a whole wheat goddamn cracker.
Sean: Okay, I think I'm gonna puke.
Sully: Wait, guys let me explain.
Lou: Go ahead, man. We're all ears.
Sully: [laughs] Oh, who am I kiddin', right? I like to dress up like a chick, okay? I like to wear panties and high heels and... rough sex.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Tommy: This is the big emergency that you had me come over and help you with?
Sheila: Yeah. An emotional emergency.
Tommy: Do me a favor: Next time call the hormone hot line.
[Paulie beeps the horn from in the truck]
Sheila: Hey, retard! I got neighbors.
Paulie: Sorry!
Tommy: [to Sheila] He really is retarded.
Sheila: Really?
Tommy: Yeah.
Sheila: [to Paulie] Sorry!
Paulie: What?
Tommy: Shut up! [to Sheila] You know, I have to go to work, I have to drop him off blah blah blah.
Sheila: Oh, I'm sorry. Am I an inconvenience to you? Oh, yeah. I must be a big fat inconvenience to you. [Tommy starts walking towards his truck] Right? Unless of course you've got no place to go or you're lonely or you're looking for some place to park your cock.
Tommy: Talk to you later.
Sheila: Oh that's perfect. There's a picture I can't get enough of. You walking away. Hey, you have no responsibility here, too bad you're not married, you don't have to handle it right? You big pussy! [starts crying and Tommy starts his truck]
Tommy: You got a girlfriend, Paulie? [Paulie shakes his head] I think I'm the retarded one.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Mickey: I used to hear voices the first two months I was sober. Sometimes I thought, you know, it was like God; sometimes it was Satan.
Tommy: Two months?
Mickey: Yep. God was tellin' me I was a worthless piece of shit, Satan's tellin' me I'm God's gift.
Tommy: What did God sound like?
Mickey: Tom Hanks.
Tommy: Figures.
Mickey: Satan was a doubleheader: one minute, he's like Jack Nicholson; the next, you know, like Hillary.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Franco: [to Laura] The point is this we all use every ethnic and personal slogan in the book against each other. You name it we say it.
Tommy: It's true. Cock-breath.
Franco: Shithead.
Sean: Asswipe.
Mike: Numb nuts.
Tommy: Ball brains.
Franco: Shit for brains.
Sean: Dipshit.
Mike: Pussy.
Tommy: Prick.
Franco: Dick.
Sean: Scumbag.
Tommy: Dick face.
Franco: Ape ass.
Mike: Ape face.
Tommy: Pencil dick, tight ass, needle dick.
Franco: Yeah. And that's not even getting into any of the gay stuff.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Sean: Laura, we call each other names all the time it's like, you know, what do you call it?
Mike: Name calling?
Sean: No, it's like ball busting but more-- more--
Tommy: Camaraderie.
Sean: No... no.
Franco: It's part of being on the team, you know, you joke around. You jive, you cut.
Laura: I never sit around with my girlfriends and call them a twat. I was on the basketball team in high school. I was on the girl's softball team in college and I never called any of those women a twat. You know why? Because every woman I've ever met finds that word offensive. Not as offensive as the other word but in a race you know, they're like neck and neck.
Tommy: Yeah, but now you work in a job with men. A highly-populated job by men, so now you gotta cut the men you work with a little slack.
Mike: I thought the word that women hated most was the "C" word.
Sean: Yeah. I thought they invented "twat" so no one would ever have to say the other word ever again.
Laura: I think men invented both and never bothered to check with women about either.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Chief Reilly: [about Laura] Franco, you're not messin' around with her are you?
Franco: What're you nuts? She's not even my type.
Chief Reilly: Franco, she's got two tits, a pussy and she's breathin'.
Franco: Okay, so my taste in women has a wide set of parameters.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Johnny: [On the phone] Oh, let me get this straight, you quit drinking but you're going around beatin' up cops? The city was safer when you were a drunk.
Tommy: Yeah. Blow me.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Don Kleinman: Okay, you think you're prejudiced?
Tommy: Yep.
Don Kleinman: Against who?
Tommy: Chevy Neons that cost 12 grand to buy but have 8,000 dollar paint jobs and have 9 Spicks inside of them smokin' weed. That's one thing.
Don Kleinman: Now the term Spick--
Franco: It's okay, I'm a Spick.
Don Kleinman: Well, see that's not really th---
Tommy: Crazy chink broads that really don't know how to drive in the first place but now they have cell phones stuck to their ears while their doin' 65 MPH down 5th Avenue, huh, right? Crazy chinks on bikes who have 10 pounds of Chinese food strapped to the handle bars.

TV Show: Rescue Me
Franco: You see, that's another thing. Puerto Ricans even get shafted when it comes to racial slurs. Chinks have what, like four? We have one-- Spick. That's it. The Irish they got, mick, patty, donkey. The Italians they got guinea, wop, dago.
Sean: Yeah, and spaghetti-bender.
Franco: Ah, spaghetti-bender went out of style during Sinatra's first marriage.
Mike: Greaseball.
Franco: Yeah, greaseball. There you have it; that's four.
Tommy: Yeah, and the same thing with the Jews, right? Heeb, kike, Jew boy, Benny.
Franco: Shylock.
Tommy: That's five.
Franco: Black people, forget about it. Spear-Chucker, jungle bunny, raisin head, porch monkeys.
Lou: Spook.
Sean: Tar baby.
Franco: Yeah. It's endless, totally unfair. [Don Kleinman just looks at them, totally mortified] What?

TV Show: Rescue Me
Don Kleinman: [After watching a sensitivity video] Now, what did we learn from that?
Tommy: Uh, that only white people can be racist?
Don Kleinman: That wasn't the point of the video.
Tommy: Well, it's pretty obvious. Where are the black guys callin' white people crackers, huh? Where were the Mexicans shittin' all over the Puerto Ricans? You know? Where were all the chinks who hate the Japs, who hate the Koreans who hate-- [Don trys to interrupt him but Tommy keeps going] This is bullshit. This is just to cover the FDNY's ass, that's all this is good for. Just in case some Puerto Rican woman or some fat Chinese guy files a lawsuit against the FDNY or God help us there's another disgruntled female firefighter who thinks she has a case. The FDNY can say "No, no, no, they can't be prejudice, they took this horseshit sensitivity training." Let me tell you somethin' the next time I run into a burning building and refuse to bring out anybody who's not the same color as me, then that's when you can bring my angry, pink, sober, Irish, ass back down here. Got it?

TV Show: Rescue Me
Johnny: Are you outta your mind, huh? Did mom know?
John Sr.: If your mother knew we wouldn't be having this conversation because I'd be dead somewhere in some river with my balls in my mouth. [mocking Johnny] "Did mom know?"
Tommy: You know the guy's almost the same age as me, right? He's like a couple weeks younger. I mean how long were you seein' this broad?
John Sr.: Uh... oh, about 36 years.
Johnny: What? You were having an affair for 36 years?
John Sr.: What can I tell you? When it comes to adultery I'm a one woman man.

TV Show: Rescue Me