Do the Right Thing (1989)

Richard Edson: Vito

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Quotes 

• Sal : Pino, get a broom and sweep out front.

  Pino : Vito, get a broom and sweep out front.

  Vito : Huh?

  Pino : Get a broom and sweep out front.

  Vito : What?

  Pino : GET A BROOM AND SWEEP OUT FRONT.

  Vito : See, Pop, it's just what I was telling ya. Every time you tell Pino what to do, he tells me to do what you told him what to do.

• Sal : What'd I tell you about that noise?

  Buggin' Out : What'd I tell you about them pictures?

  Sal : What the fuck, are you deaf?

  Buggin' Out : No! Are you? Fuck you! We want some black people on that motherfucking Wall of Fame now!

  Mookie : We're trying to go fucking home! We've been here all fucking day, Buggin Out!

  Sal : Turn that jungle music off! We ain't in Africa!

  Buggin' Out : Why it got to be about jungle music? Why it got to be about Africa? It's about them fucking pictures!

  Sal : It's about turning that shit off and getting the fuck out of my place!

  Pino : Radio Raheem!

  Radio Raheem : Fuck you!

  Sal : And fuck you, too!

  Ahmad : Get in there, Pino!

  Radio Raheem : This is music. My music!

  Sal : Fuck your music!

  Radio Raheem : Well, turn it off, then.

  Vito : Hey, man, get the fuck out of here! We're fucking closed!

  Buggin' Out : Fuck you! We're closing you guinea bastards for good! For good, motherfucker! Until you get some black people on that motherfucking Wall of Fame!

  Sal : You're gonna fucking close me?

  [Sal grabs his bat] 

  Buggin' Out : You're goddamn right!

  Sal : You black cocksucker! I'll fucking tear your fucking nigger ass!

  Ahmad : Oh, we're niggers now? We niggers now!

  Buggin' Out : You fucking white trash! I'll fuck you up!

  Mookie : Sal, put the fucking bat down!

  Buggin' Out : Come on, man, you fucking guinea trash!

  Radio Raheem : Jump over the motherfucking counter!

  Sal : You black cocksucker! You nigger motherfucker!

  [Sal smashes Radio Raheem's radio several times] 

• Pino : Me and you are gonna have a talk.

  Vito : Says who?

  Pino : Says who?

  Vito : Says who?

  Pino : Says me.

  Vito : Who are you?

• Buggin' Out : Hey, hey, Sal, how come you ain't got no brothers up on the wall here?

  Sal : You want brothers up on the wall, get your own place. You can do what you want to do. You can put your brothers and uncles and nieces and nephews, step-fathers, step-mothers, whoever you want. See? But, this is *my* pizzeria. American Italians up on the wall.

  Vito : Take it easy, Pop.

  Pino : Don't start.

  Buggin' Out : Yeah, that might be fine, Sal, but, you own this, rarely do I see any American Italians eatin' in here. All I see is Black folks. So since we spend much money here, we do have some say.

  Sal : You lookin' for trouble? You a troublemaker, is that what you are? You makin' trouble?

  Buggin' Out : Yeah! I'm a troublemaker. I'm makin' trouble.

  Sal : You're a ball breaker. Always comin' in here lookin' for trouble, aren't you. Suppose I busted your head. How would you - Now, Mookie. Mookie, you wanna get your friend outta here.

  Buggin' Out : Oh, you wanna kick me out now? You're gonna kick me out, huh?

  Sal : Nah, I'm not kickin' you out. You're kickin' yourself out.

  Buggin' Out : What? Look, we want some brothers up on the wall. Yo, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, you know, Michael Jordan. Tomorrow!

• Mookie : Did you see that game last night?

  Vito : I saw it.

  Mookie : Best pitcher in the game: Dwight Gooden.

  Vito : I knew you were gonna bring that up.

  Mookie : Who's better?

  Vito : You know who's better. Roger Clemens is better.

  Mookie : Clemons sucks, man! He can carry my jock! Dwight's the best in the game!

• Vito : You don't know everything you think you do. You think you know it; but, you don't know it.