Bad Boys (1983)

Eric Gurry: Horowitz

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Quotes 

• Viking Lofgren : Hey, lipshitz.

  Horowitz : The name is Horowitz, asshole.

  Viking Lofgren : Horowitz asshole?

  Paco Moreno : I heard it was lipshitz.

  Viking Lofgren : Yeah, and if your lip shits, what's your asshole doin'?

• Horowitz : What are you afraid of?

  Mick O'Brien : I ain't afraid of anything.

  Horowitz : Hey, after what you did to Viking and Tweety, you're IT!

• Horowitz : [after Mick has just entered the cell for the first time]  So? How do you like it so far?

  Horowitz : [Mick stays silent]  You got a name? Can you talk? Smoke?

  [tosses cigarette pack to Mick, who stays silent] 

  Horowitz : My name's Horowitz. You don't feel like talking right now? It's okay. I understand. But you understand I really don't want a fucking mute in my cell., and I like a little conversation sometimes. Okay?

  [Mick stays silent] 

  Horowitz : The last guy who was in here with me killed himself by drinking a half gallon of disinfectant, he liked the place so much!

  [Mick stays silent, and Horowitz shrugs and turns away from him] 

  Mick O'Brien : [breaking the silence]  My name's O'Brien.

  Horowitz : [turning back to face Mick]  Shit! A fucking Mick!

• Gene Daniels : Hey, Horowitz, stand up, man. You read this to the class.

  [hands Horowitz a newspaper article] 

  Horowitz : Youth killed in robbery attempt. A youth died Saturday from gunshot wounds received in an attempted holdup of a liquor store. Police said Warren Jerome of Chicago was shot twice in the abdomen by the proprietor of the High Jay liquor store on Kimball Avenue, after brandishing a pistol and demanding money. Jerome died undergoing surgery at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Hospital.

  Horowitz : [looking up at Mr. Daniels]  So?

  Inmate #1 : So what? Who the fuck is Warren Jerome?

  Inmate # 2 : Who the fuck cares?

  Inmate # 3 : Really. Who the fuck cares?

  Viking Lofgren : Shut up!

  [Class falls silent] 

  Gene Daniels : Yeah, Viking, tell them who Warren Jerome was.

  Viking Lofgren : That was Tweety, you assholes.

  [the other inmates are speechless] 

• Horowitz : That's Lofgren. They call him Viking. I call him shit for brains.

  Viking Lofgren : Shut your fucking mouth, Horowitz.

• Horowitz : [explaining his sentence to Mick]  I firebombed the bowling alley, killed three people. I was goofing around with some girls. Their boyfriends didn't like it too much, beat the shit out of me. Came back the next night, totaled the place. Only thing was, I wasted the wrong three people.