Paradise Alley (1978)

Sylvester Stallone: Cosmo Carboni

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• Cosmo Carboni : Do you know how many men could've been sitting on top of the world, but they let a dame tell them what to do and the only thing they ended up sitting on top of was a toilet.

• Cosmo Carboni : Everybody needs something. And I think what YOU need is a whole lotta ME, wrapped around you on a cold winter night.

• Victor : We're brothers doesn't that mean anything to you?

  Cosmo Carboni : [Serious]  Yes that means a lot to me. It means there's a lot of bananas

  [Humorously] 

  Cosmo Carboni : hanging off the family tree.

• Cosmo Carboni : Frankie! My brother who aint as handsome as you is as strong as Charles Atlas.

  Stitch : Your brother is a moron.

  Cosmo Carboni : Nah. He ain't no moron.

  Stitch : I said he's a moron.

  Cosmo Carboni : Okay he ain't no flaming wit guaranteed. But he can haul over four-hundred and fifty pounds of ice up five flights of stairs without blowing his breakfast. Can he do that?

• Cosmo Carboni : You gotta start off every morning by cronin' to that low-life, bag bird?

  Victor : Bella likes music in the morning.

  Cosmo Carboni : Yeah? Then BUY THE BUM A RADIO!

• Cosmo Carboni : [after Cosmo beats Rat in a race]  Hey, nice try Rat.

  Rat : I'll get you greaseball!

• Annie : You gotta lot of style for somebody with pigeon crap on their shoulder, Cosmo.

  Cosmo Carboni : That ain't real pigeon crap. That's just something I had sewn on to make me stand out in a crowd. You know?

• Cosmo Carboni : Hey, Vic. Frankie here wants to have a friendly arm-wrestling contest with you.

• Cosmo Carboni : Why should I walk around looking like a boiled rag when I can have a stylish set of duds for free?