Murder, Inc. (1960)

Peter Falk: Abe Reles

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Quotes 

• Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : I'm gonna tell you something about women. I never met one that didn't need a rap in the head, and often.

• Joey Collins : Why'd you do it? Why did you kill him?

  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : He had bad breath.

• Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : Hey, Joe, c'mon in, we've been waitin' for you.

  [Reles lets Joey Collins into the luxury apartment he has been using] 

  Joey Collins : Eadie, I'd like to talk to you.

  [to his wife sitting in the living room] 

  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : Hey, Joe, listen, Joe, I was just telling Eadie, that you know, you're both friends of mine and I like ya, what I'd like to do is I'd like for you and Eadie to have this apartment.

  Joey Collins : We don't want it.

  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : What do you mean, you don't want it?

  Joey Collins : Well, just what I said.

  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : Well, maybe, Eadie wants it.

  Joey Collins : Well, she doesn't.

  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : You read minds?

  Joey Collins : Eadie?

  [to his wife] 

  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : [becoming angry]  Listen, what is it with you two? What are you doing to me, I don't understand! Look, I offered you a free ticket to this place and it's like I was offering you poison or something! What, do you come from some other world than I do? Maybe they didn't teach you-

  [Reles turns and throws and shatters a shot glass against the wall] 

  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : [shouting angrily]  Take, you see, what you can get your hands on, you take! Don't ask questions! Take! What you want, take! What I want, I take! Nothing means nothing unless I got it! What do you got hands for! Huh? TAKE!

• Abe "Kid Twist" Reles : So long as you stayed in line, nobody ever went after you.

  Burton Turkus : So why are they after - you?