Quotes

City of God

Sandro Cenoura: Have you lost your mind? You are just a kid!
Filé-com-Fritas - Steak and Fries: A kid? I smoke, I snort. I've killed and robbed. I'm a man.

Barbantinho Adulto - Older Stringy: Why return to the City of God, where God forgets about you?

Cabeleira: Hey, Bernice. Listen, I've got something real important to say. Tell me, you ever heard of love at first sight?
Berenice: Sure, but hoods don't fall in love, they just get horny.
Cabeleira: C'mon, you cut everything I say to pieces.
Berenice: Hoods don't talk, they just vomit words.
Cabeleira: Jesus, I'm gonna stop wasting my saliva on you, you sure ain't easy.
Berenice: Hoods never stop, they just take a break.
Cabeleira: Jeez, Bernice, talking about love with you is pretty complicated, isn't it?
Berenice: Love, you gotta be kidding. You're just leading me on.
Cabeleira: But it's just that this jerk here loves you.

Buscapé: [after Dadinho kills many people in a motel] That night, Dadinho killed his dream of kill.

Buscapé: What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out war. The City of God was divided. You couldn't go from one section the other, not even to visit a relative. The cops considered anyone living in the slum a hoodlum. People got used to living in Vietnam, and more and more volunteers signed up to die.

Boy 1: The big deal is dope, you got it?
Boy 2: If you wanna be a dealer, you gotta start as a delivery boy, see?
Boy 1: This delivery boy business is real bullshit. The time it takes being a delivery boy, then security and then manager, is way too long.
Boy 2: What you gonna do? You've gotta wait for them to die...
Boy 1: No way! I'll do it just like Pequeno did: you gotta whack everyone and that's it!

Zé Pequeno: [after snorting a line and seeing Knockout Ned's photograph in one of the center pages of a newspaper] Motherfucker!I'm the boss around here but he gets his picture in the paper! Have you found my photo in there?

Buscapé: A picture could change my life, but in the City of God, if you run away, they get you, and if you stay, they get you too.

Buscapé: [last line before credits] I forgot to say, I'm not Rocket anymore. I'm Wilson Rodrigues, photographer.

[after killing Ze, the "Runts" take over]
Caixa Baixa: Cocoa robbed three houses in Barra. Better kill him.
Caixa Baixa: Who shot Roger?
Caixa Baixa: It was Beef! Kill that fucker.
Caixa Baixa: We should kill the Chief and Gringo as well.
Caixa Baixa: What about Cherry? Let's go, us and two, three others.
Caixa Baixa: It's a deal.
Caixa Baixa: Have you heard of the Red Brigade?
Caixa Baixa: No, but if they come, we'll kill them!
Caixa Baixa: Who knows how to write? Let's make a blacklist! We'll kill them all!
Caixa Baixa: Put fucking Night Owl on there. And Croquet.
Caixa Baixa: Leonard too, he owes me money. And Chinaman, he thinks he's hot stuff. And Claudio.

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