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Lieutenant Shrank:  Alright, wiseguys. Now you listen to me. All of you. You hoodlums don't own these streets, and I've had all the roughhousin' I'm gonna put up with around here. You wanna kill each other, kill each other. But you ain't gonna do it on my beat. Any questions?
Bernardo: Yes, sir. Would you might translating that into Spanish?

Action: Who needs Tony?!
Riff: WE need Tony. He's got a rep that's bigger than the whole west side.
Action: He don't BELONG no more!
Riff: Now, CUT it, Action! Me and Tony STARTED the Jets.
Action: So where is he?! How come he takes a lousy stinkin' job?
Snowboy: Heh, the Youth Board corrupted him.
Riff: Yeah, temporary sickness -- wait and see!

Riff: Howdya LIKE that, eh? Four and a half years I live with a buddy and his family. I think I'm diggin' the guy's character! Boy, am I a victim of  disapointment in you.
Tony: End your suffering, little man. Why doncha pack up your gear and move out?
Riff: 'Cause your ma's hot for me.


Tony: Go play games with the Jets.
Riff: Why not? They're the greatest.
Riff: ...ain't they?
Tony: Were.
Riff: You found somethin' better?

Riff: Tony, look at me. I never asked the time of day from a clock, did I? I never asked nothin' from nobody. But I'm asking you. Come to the dance tonight.

Anita: Listen, with THOSE boys, you can start in dancing and up bringing.

Maria: My brother is a silly watchdog!
Bernardo: My sister is a precious jewel.
Anita: What am I? Cut glass?


Gladhand: So tonight, kids, we're gonna have something special! We're gonna have....a get-together dance!
Action: Peachy!
Gladhand: Alright, kids, I want you to form two circles-
Action: How many?
Gladhand: - two. Boys on outside, and girls on the inside.
Arab: Hey, where are you?
Gladhand: ...(forced laughter)

Gladhand: Well, it won't hurt you to try...
Snowboy: Ooh-hoo! It hoights! It hoights! Ooh! It hoights! Ooh!
Riff:
Snowboy.

Tony: You're not thinkin' I'm someone else?
Maria: I know you are not.
Tony: Or that we've met before?
Maria: I know we have not.
Tony: I felt...I knew something never before was gonna happen, had to happen, but this is so much more!
Maria: My hands are cold! ...yours too?
[...]
Tony: So much to believe...you're not makin' a joke?
Maria: I have not yet learned to joke that way. I think now I never will.

Chino: Come, Maria.
Tony: ...Maria...


Anita: Sometimes, I don't know which is thicker- your skull or your accent.

Anita: They use Maria as an excuse to start World War Three.
Bernardo: It is more than that!
Anita: She was only dancing.
Bernardo: With an American! ...he was really a pollack.
Anita: Says the spic.
Bernardo: You are not so cut
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