The Best Anton Wojeska Quotes

Anton: [sitting with Joe in the back room of a restaurant offering him coffee] You, uh, want some, uh, cream, sugar?
Joe: Uh, black is fine.
Anton: How, uh, how come I don't hear from Henderson a whole week already?
Joe: Because he's dead. A bomb in his car. It was in all the papers.
Anton: Papers? I don't read so good. My kid, she... used to read to me. She went to school... she... she read lots of books. A bomb? He was a pretty nice fellow.
Joe: Mmm.
Anton: What am I gonna do now?
Joe: Would you like me to take over the case?
Anton: Well, on the telephone, you told me that you're too busy, you know.
Joe: Not anymore.
Anton: But I don't pay you no more than I pay him, $462.00. That's all I got in the bank.
Joe: Special rate this week, uh, no charge.
Anton: No, no. Just, I don't want no favors. No favors. $462.00. You get me the fella who killed my daughter.
Joe: We'll, uh, discuss the fee later. What did Henderson say to you the last time you saw him? Uh, did he have a lead?
Anton: No. He talked with my kid's friends at the high school, St. Ignatius.
Joe: Came up empty?
Anton: Same, like the cops.
Joe: Do you, uh, do you have a picture of your daughter?
Anton: Sure.
[walk back to the counter and takes a picture sitting on the cash register]
Anton: Here. It's from two years ago.
Joe: [looks at the picture] She was very pretty.
Anton: Mmm.
Joe: Do you mind if I borrow this?
Anton: I want the fella that killed her.
Joe: Drugs killed your daughter.
Anton: You find him for me! I'll give him to the police when I'm through.
Joe: Mr. Wojeska...
Anton: Five minutes, that's all. I guarantee he don't sell no drugs to no more kids, never.
Joe: Mr. Wojeska, now you listen to me. You let the law punish him. Now, they don't like pushers either.
Anton: You got a kid?
Joe: No.
Anton: Okay. You ever go in a hospital... and the doctor says, "Is this your kid?" and you don't even recognize her? Her whole face is blue, and she's just lying there waiting to die.
[clears throat]
Anton: That ever happen to you?
Joe: No.
Anton: Okay. Five minutes.
Joe: I'm sorry. I can't give him to you.
[gets up from his seat]
Anton: [grabs Joe's arm] YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON WOJESKA?
Joe: I'm not turning my back on you, Mr. Wojeska. I'm gonna talk to somebody who might know the man who hooked daughter.