QoTD: Neil McCauley

“Do not have any attachments, do not have anything in your life you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner.” — Neil McCauley (Robert DeNiro) in Heat

This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on July 6, 2006 at 07:12, filed under Quote of the Day. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

4 Comments

  1. Unnamed
    Posted July 6, 2006 at 09:18 | Permalink

    There’s plenty of other things that can be done in 30 seconds, which would be more interesting.

  2. Darren Brierton
    Posted July 6, 2006 at 13:05 | Permalink

    Surely this is a better quote from the same film:

    Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino): I’m angry. I’m very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband’s dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!

  3. Jakub Steiner
    Posted July 6, 2006 at 23:20 | Permalink

    Loved Heat. Awesome soundtrack.

  4. jonoxer
    Posted July 7, 2006 at 14:37 | Permalink

    I’m pretty sure that line was actually a joke between DeNiro and Pacino. IIRC it’s taken from a line in Carlito’s Way, where Carlito (played by Pacino) says almost the exact same thing. So when Neil/DeNiro says to Vincent/Pacino something like “a man once told me…”, he means Carlito/Pacino.

    Adds a whole new dimension to the conversation ;-)

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