Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

Chazz Palminteri: Cheech

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Quotes 

• Cheech : Olive, I think you should know this: you're a horrible actress.

  [Cheech shoots Olive] 

• David Shayne : I studied playwrighting with every teacher, I read every book...

  Cheech : Let me tell you somethin' about teachers. I hate teachers. Those blue-haired bitches used to whack us with rulers. Forget teachers.

• Cheech : It stinks on fucking hot ice.

• David Shayne : You're gonna write it?

  Cheech : What am I? A fuckin' idiot? They taught me how to read and write in school before I burned it down.

  David Shayne : You burned down your school?

  Cheech : Yeah, it was Lincoln's birthday. There was nobody there.

• [Cheech is helping Olive rehearse a scene] 

  Olive : Can't you see? You're living out the exact same pattern your mother lived out with your father.

  Cheech : I am? Pray tell.

  Olive : In some way you're trying to relive it and in the process of reliving it, correct it. As if that were possible. HA.

  Cheech : It don't say "ha."

  Olive : I know it don't say "ha," I added that.

  Cheech : Are you allowed to do that? I don't think you're allowed to do that.

  Olive : We're allowed to add things. It's called ad-libbing.

  Cheech : Well, I think the whole thing stinks.

  Olive : Well, I think you're a degenerate zombie so shut up and read.

  Cheech : You shut up.

  Olive : You shut up and read.

  Cheech : You're lucky you're Nick's girl.

  Olive : You're lucky you're an idiot.

• Cheech : She can't act. Are you listening to me? She makes stuff not work - stuff she ain't even in - it comes out all twisted!

• Cheech : [at the end, dying]  No. Don't speak.

• Cheech : Sylvia Pincus. Big fat Jewish broad, had a little tiny husband. She chopped him up with an ax and mailed his pieces all over the country. I don't know what she was tryin' to prove.

• Cheech : You're lucky you're Nick's girl!

  Olive : You're lucky you're an idiot!

• Cheech : Where I come from, nobody squeals!