The Italian Job Quotes

Stella: I don't go out with strange men. I just met you 5 minutes ago.

Steve: What, I'll just have to sabotage my cable till we get to know each other better?

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John Bridger: I'm sending you something.

Stella Bridger: Does it smell nice?

John Bridger: No. But it's sparkly.

Stella Bridger: [sounding slightly angry] Does it have a receipt?

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Stella Bridger: What did you do to your hand?

Charlie Croker: I punched Steve.

Stella Bridger: Well, why do you get to punch him and I don't?

Charlie Croker: Because those hands are way too valuable.

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Charlie Croker: Me? I've been a thief since I had baby teeth.

Young Charlie: Okay, you both know what to do.

Bully: Cough it up now. Watch it, spas! Hey, what's your problem, man?

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John Bridger: I want to propose a toast. To us!

Charlie Croker, Lyle, Left Ear, Handsome Rob, Steve: Yeah!

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[Arthur blows up a truck]

Charlie Croker: You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

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Mr. Bridger: We've come here to pay our respects to Great Aunt Nellie. She brought us up properly and taught us loyalty. Now I want you to remember that during these next few days. I also want you to remember that if you don't come back with the goods, Nellie here will turn in her grave, and, likely as not, jump right out of it and kick your teeth in.

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Charlie Croker: Don't you want to see what's inside?

Stella: Absolutely.

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Cop: Don't you want to look inside?

Stella: I never look inside.

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[about John]

Charlie Croker: Just because he was around me more doesn't mean he wasn't thinking about you.

Stella Bridger: [Sniffling] It would be nice if it were true.

Charlie Croker: It is true. He always regretted not having been a better father to you, Stella.

Stella Bridger: How do you know that?

Charlie Croker: Because he told me.

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Dominic: Shouldn't we synchronise our watches?

Charlie Croker: Nuts to your watches! You just be at the Piazza at a quarter to...

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[about John]

Charlie Croker: Just because he was around me more doesn't mean he wasn't thinking about you all the time.

Stella Bridger: [Sniffling] It would be nice if it was true.

Charlie Croker: It is true. He always regretted not having been a good enough father to you, Stella.

Stella Bridger: How do you know that?

Charlie Croker: Because he told me.

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Charlie Croker: A police boat can get from the station to our position in seven. That means you've got four minutes to work your magic.

John Bridger: What? You told me ten and you said that I would have five.

Charlie Croker: [slightly panicking] When?
[John smiles and then chuckles]

Charlie Croker: [sighs with relief] Do not be messing with me right now, okay? I will kick your ass.

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[introducing Stella to his partners]

Charlie Croker: That's Lyle. He's my computer genius. You know he's who really invented Napster? At least that's how Lyle tells it. Said Shawn Fanning was his roommate in college and stole his idea. I think it's his first time riding that bike, though.

Lyle: Hey.
[Lyle falls over]

Charlie Croker: You okay?

Lyle: Yeah.
[a car drives up]

Charlie Croker: That's Left Ear. Demolition and explosives. When he was ten, he put one too many M-80s in the toilet bowl...

Kid On Left: Damn, that was cool. How did you do that?

Young Left Ear: What?

Kid On Right: How did you do that?

Young Left Ear: What?

Kid On Right: I said how did you do that?

Young Left Ear: What?

Charlie Croker: Lost the hearing in his right ear. He's been blowing stuff up ever since.
[a car zooms in from behind Charlie and Stella]

Charlie Croker: Handsome Rob. Premier wheel man. Once drove all the way from Los Angeles just so he could set the record for longest freeway chase. You know he got 110 love letters sent to his jail cell from women who saw him on the news?

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Keats: They say he's going to do a job in Italy.

Mr. Bridger: Well, I hope he likes spaghetti. They serve it four times a day in the Italian prisons.

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Charlie Croker: You'll be making a grave error if you kill us.

Charlie Croker: There are a quarter of a million Italians in Britain and they'll be made to suffer. Every restaurant, cafe, ice-cream parlor, gambling den and nightclub in London, Liverpool and Glasgow will be smashed.

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Skinny Pete: If there's one thing I know, it's never to mess with mother nature, mother in-laws and, mother freaking Ukrainians.

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Lyle: Wow, that is a nice car. Sorry Rob.

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[last lines]

Charlie Croker: Hang on, lads; I've got a great idea.

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Mr. Bridger: You must learn, Keats, there are more things to life than breaking and entering.

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Miss Peach: [Camp Freddy has one of Miss Peach's cats on his lap] I shouldn't let her do that, dear. Gives them ideas.

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Charlie Croker: You wouldn't hit a man with no trousers on, would you?

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Stella: I don't go out with strange men. I just met you five minutes ago.

Steve: I guess I'll just have to sabotage my cable, you know, till we get to know each other well enough.

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Lyle: You want all greens? 'Cause, ah, 'cause you got 'em.
[chuckles]

Charlie Croker: What have you got?

Lyle: Welcome to L.A.'s Automated Traffic Surveillance and Control Operations Center. See, they use video feeds from intersections and specifically designed algorithms to predict traffic conditions, and thereby control traffic lights. So all I did was come up with my own... kick ass algorithm to sneak in, and now we own the place.

Charlie Croker: You want to do a dry run?

Lyle: [singsong] I thought you'd never ask.

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Actor Reharsing in Car: Turn in your badge and your weapon. I don't want to see you anywhere near this investigation.
[Drinks from an imaginary cup and then pretends to crush the cup]

Actor Reharsing in Car: Crush

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Charlie Croker: Steve, what the hell are you doing?

Steve: Made a few plans of my own.

John Bridger: There's nowhere you can go where we won't find you, Steve. You know that.

Steve: I think that's probably right, John.

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[introducing Stella to his partners]

Charlie Croker: That's Lyle. He's my computer genius. You know he's who really invented Napster? At least that's how Lyle tells it. Said Shawn Fanning was his roommate in college and stole his idea. I think it's his first time riding that bike, though.

Lyle: Hey.
[Lyle falls over]

Charlie Croker: You okay?

Lyle: Yeah.
[a car drives up]

Charlie Croker: That's Left Ear. Demolition and explosives. When he was ten, he put one too many M-80s in the toilet bowl... lost the hearing in his right ear. He's been blowing stuff up ever since.
[a car zooms in from behind Charlie and Stella]

Charlie Croker: Handsome Rob. Premier wheel man. Once drove all the way from Los Angeles just so he could set the record for longest freeway chase. You know he got 110 love letters sent to his jail cell from women who saw him on the news?

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Charlie Croker: Just remember this - in this country they drive on the wrong side of the road.

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'Camp' Freddie: But Mr. Bridger, what if the Professor's not bent?

Mr. Bridger: Camp Freddie, everyone in the *world* is bent!

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Steve: You blew the best thing you had going for you. You blew the element of surprise.
[Charlie punches Steve]

Charlie Croker: Surprised?

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