- Billy Bathgate: You think Mr. Shultz is an ordinary man, Mrs. Preston, but you're wrong! He's a maniac!
- [first lines]
- Bo Weinberg: [being tied up] What do you think, Irving? Makes this cheap dago move on me, Bo Weinberg. The man who took out @Vincent Coll. The man who held Jack Diamond's ears so he could put the gun in his mouth. Who found the rackets he was to *stupid* to find for himself, who made him something more than the lowdown fucking guy that he is! The schmuck, I should expect something else. He pulls me off the the street right in front of my girl, like he don't know no better. Schmuck!
- Dutch Schultz: Don't talk to Irving. Talk to me.
- Bo Weinberg: Men talk. If they are men they talk. They have disagreement, they discuss these things. But you, I don't know Dutch. I don't know what stickin' womb of puss and scum and ape shit you came out of!
- Dutch Schultz: Bo you should understand, I am past the madness part, I am past the anger. Don't waste your breath.
- Dutch Schultz: Look at it this way Bo, I'm the one sittin' here, and you're the one sittin' there. Now who would you rather be at this moment?
- Otto Berman: Count your money and don't let me see it.
- Billy Bathgate: I know how much it is.
- Otto Berman: Good. Now double that in your head and add 3, okay?
- Billy Bathgate: Alright.
- Otto Berman: Alright, now product that by 5.
- Billy Bathgate: Product?
- Otto Berman: ...multiply that by 5, subtract 6, and tell me what you come up with.
- Billy Bathgate: 279
- Otto Berman: Just lost 27 cents.
- [holds out his hand]
- Billy Bathgate: Yeah!
- [then suddenly crestfallen]
- Bo Weinberg: Look at it this way Arthur, you're the one on the lam, and I'm the one on the town. Who would you rather be at this moment, you know what I mean?
- Billy Bathgate: One of the things about being in a gang is, you gotta follow orders. So far everything they asked me to do, I done it.
- Drew Preston: Did it.
- Billy Bathgate: Don't leave until I get back.
- Drew Preston: What if I have to pee?
- Billy Bathgate: Then I'll bring you back a can.