- Grace Faraday: He'll kill you if he finds out!
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Who?
- Grace Faraday: Mickey!
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Mickey Mouse?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: The whole town's underwater. You're grabbing a bucket when you should be grabbing a bathing suit.
- Grace Faraday: What's your racket, handsome?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: I'm a bible salesman.
- Grace Faraday: Want to take me away from all this and make an honest woman out of me?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: No ma'am, I was just hoping to take you to bed.
- Lt. Quincannon: Two things you can't take back on this job, kid. Bullets out of your gun, and words out of your mouth.
- Officer Conway Keeler: Son, your dad's a genius.
- Keeler's Son: [nods yes]
- Officer Conway Keeler: Go tell your mom that.
- Mitch Racine: Mr. Cohen, I swear to God...
- Mickey Cohen: You're talkin' to God, Mitch, so you might as well swear to me.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: You're a good man, John. You might even be a fucking angel. Either way you're a hero.
- Sgt. John O'Mara: You lose everything and you win the war - you're a hero. You lose everything and you lose the war - you're just a fool.
- Mickey Cohen: [eating his last meal] I like having only one fork. You never make the wrong decision.
- Mickey Cohen: You heard of Manifest Destiny? That's when you take what you can when you can. The greasers took it from the redskins and we took it from them. And I'm gonna take it all from you, Jack, and not just because I can. But because this is my destiny. Los Angeles is my fucking destiny, you motherfucker.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Do you have to that in front of me? You have to make yourself pretty for him in front of me?
- Grace Faraday: Yes, ma'am.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: You got a lot of nerve.
- Mickey Cohen: It's like they say, "All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money."
- Grace Faraday: Where have you been all my miserable life ?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Drinking.
- Grace Faraday: That's no profession.
- [first lines]
- Sgt. John O'Mara: Every man carries a badge. Some symbol of his allegiance. His were the scars of a boxer who'd used his fists to climb the social ladder of the mob. A Jew who'd gained the respect of wops through a homicidal lust. He'd sworn an oath of violence. And his master? His own insatiable will to power. He wanted to own this town. His name was Mickey Cohen.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: What are you doing here?
- Grace Faraday: I saw Cohen kill him.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: That's more reason for you to get out of here.
- Grace Faraday: No, I'm a witness.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Grace...
- Grace Faraday: I'm a witness.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Grace, listen to me for one...
- Grace Faraday: I'm your witness, Jerry!
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Gracie...
- Grace Faraday: Let me.
- Jack Whalen: You expecting some trouble, Mickey? You lookin' for some?
- Mickey Cohen: My dog, Mickey Junior... he shits more trouble than you're gonna give me.
- Mickey Cohen: Go back to Chicago and tell them what you saw tonight. You tell them that Los Angeles belongs to Mickey Cohen.
- Mickey Cohen: Whores don't grow trees. They're like mustangs. You gotta catch 'em wild and break 'em before you train them to do tricks.
- Jack Whalen: [about Wooters] He's a sheep in wolf's clothing. He's got a smart mouth... but he's dumb where it counts.
- Bridge Goon: You are dead, pal. You - are - all - dea...
- Sgt. John O'Mara: [swings his baton] Yeah, we get that alot.
- Sgt. John O'Mara: We're going to war.
- Officer Navidad Ramirez: [suddenly appearing] That sounds good to me.
- [the group points their guns at him]
- Officer Navidad Ramirez: Take it easy I'm on your side.
- Officer Conway Keeler: Who the fuck is this guy?
- Officer Max Kennard: He's a huge pain in my ass, is what he is.
- Sgt. John O'Mara: Mickey Cohen... you're under the arrest for the murder of Jack Whalen.
- Mickey Cohen: All right lawman, take me in.
- [He puts up his fists to prepare to box]
- Mickey Cohen: Come on. - Wanna dance?
- Sgt. John O'Mara: -Yeah.
- Mickey Cohen: All right. You're an interrupter of progress. I'm progress, see?
- Grace Faraday: What's your racket, handsome?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Mostly, I like to play Post Office.
- Grace Faraday: Post Office? It's a kid's game.
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: Not the way I play it. But my racket is I'm a bible salesman.
- Grace Faraday: You wanna take me away from all this and make an honest woman out of me?
- Sgt. Jerry Wooters: No ma'am. I was hoping to take you to bed.
- Sgt. John O'Mara: Can I buy you a drink?
- Officer Coleman Harris: Seeing as how I'm still on duty, you can buy me two.
- Sgt. John O'Mara: You loose everything and win the war... you're the hero. You lose everything and you win the war... you're just a fool.