Ice: [singing] Play it cool boy, real cool. Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: Now I know Tony like I know me and I guarentee you can count him in Action: In, out, lets get crackin Gee-tar: Where you gonna find Bernardo? Riff: Hell be at the dance tonight at the gym A-Rab: But the gyms neutral territory Riff: A-rab, Im gonna make nice with him! Im only gonna challenge him! Ice: Great daddy-o. Is this interesting? | Share this Tony: Well end your suffering little man. Why dont you pack up your gear and clear out of here? Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: Look, Tony, Ive never asked the time of day from a clock but Im asking you, come to the dance tonight. I already told the gang youd be there. If you dont show Ill be marked lousy. Tony: What time? Riff: Ten. Tony: Ten it is. Riff: Womb to tomb! Tony: Birth to Earth. And Ill live to regret this. Riff: Who knows? Maybe what youve been waitin on will be twitchin at the dance tonight. Tony: Who knows? Could be... Who knows? Is this interesting? | Share this [first lines] [the Jets dance across the streets of New York, eventually coming to a playground where they toss around a basketball. The ball is intercepted by Bernardo, leader of the Sharks] Riff: [snaps fingers at Bernardo] Come on. [Bernardo drops the ball, Riff picks it up] Riff: Beat it. Is this interesting? | Share this Maria: My brother is a silly watchdog! Bernardo: Ah, my sister is a precious jewel! Anita: What am I, cut glass? Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: Boy, am I a victim of disappointment in you. Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: Four-and-a-half years I live wit a buddy an his family. I think Im diggin a guys character... Boy, Im a victim of disappointment in you. Tony: End ya sufferin, little man. Why dontcha just pack up ya gear an move out? Riff: Cause ya mas hot fa me... Is this interesting? | Share this Tony: You heard - its gonna be a fair fight! Doc: And thats going to cure something? Tony: From here on in, everythins gonna be all right! I got a feelin! Doc: What have you been taking tonight? Tony: A trip to the moon! And Ill tell ya a secret. It aint a man thats up there, Doc. Its a girl, lady. Buenas noches, Senor. Doc: Buenas noches? So thats why you made it a fair fight... Tony: Im gonna see her tomorrow an I cant wait! Doc: Tony... things arent tough enough? Tony: Tough? Doc, Im in love! Doc: And youre not frightened? Tony: Should I be? Doc: [after a pause] No. Im frightened enough for the both of us. Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: [singing] When youre a Jet, youre a Jet all the way! from you first cigarette your last dyin days. Is this interesting? | Share this Anita: You have your big important council. The council, [kiss] Anita: or me. [kiss] Bernardo: First one, [kiss] Bernardo: then the other. [Tries to kiss her, she pulls away] Anita: Ah, Im an American girl now, I dont wait. Bernardo: Ah, back home women know their place. Anita: Back home little boys dont have war councils. Bernardo: Ah, but they do here. You want me to be an American, dont you? Is this interesting? | Share this Maria: All of you! You all killed him! And my brother, and Riff. Not with bullets, or guns, with hate. Well now I can kill, too, because now I have hate! Is this interesting? | Share this The Girls: [singing] I like to be in America, OK by me in America, everything free in America... Bernardo: [singing] For a small fee in America! Is this interesting? | Share this [singing] Bernardo: Id like to go back to San Juan. Anita: I know a boat you can get on! Is this interesting? | Share this Tony: I- I didnt believe hard enough. Maria: Loving is enough. Tony: Not here. They wont let us be. Maria: Then well run away. Tony: Yeah, we can. Maria: Yes. Tony: We will... Maria: [singing] Hold my hand and we are halfway there, hold my hand and Ill take you there. Somehow! Someday! Some... Is this interesting? | Share this Maria: [singing] I feel pretty, oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and witty, and gay! Is this interesting? | Share this Maria: If Chino hurts him, if he touches him, I swear to you Ill... Anita: Youll do what Tony did to Bernardo? Maria: I love Tony. Anita: I know. I loved Benardo. Is this interesting? | Share this Action: What are we doin, poopin around with dumb broads for? Graziella, Riffs Girl: I and Velma aint dumb! Are we, Velma? Velma, Ices Girl: No thank you. [snap] Velma, Ices Girl: oo [snap] Velma, Ices Girl: Ooo-belee-oo. Graziella, Riffs Girl: And you can punctuate it... Velma, Ices Girl: Ooo. Is this interesting? | Share this Anita: Come in, come in! We wont bite you until we know you better. Is this interesting? | Share this [last lines] Maria: Te adoro, Antone. Is this interesting? | Share this Anybodys, Tomboy: I aint never gonna get married. Too noisy. A-Rab: You aint never gonna get married. Too ugly. Anybodys, Tomboy: [mimes firing a gun] Pow! A-Rab: Cracko Jacko! Down goes a teenage hoodlum. Is this interesting? | Share this Bernardo: [singing] Everyone there will give big cheers! Anita: [singing] Everyone there will have moved here! Is this interesting? | Share this Anybodys, Tomboy: Hey buddy boys! Action: Ah, go wear a skirt. Anybodys, Tomboy: Listen... Ice: The first thing we do is we start showin around like we have nothin to hide... Anybodys, Tomboy: Listen! A-Rab: Supposin they ask us about the rumble? Anybodys, Tomboy: Supposin they ask you wheres Tony and what partys lookin for him? WITH A GUN. Ice: Hey, you know somethin? Anybodys, Tomboy: I know I gotta go get a skirt. Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: Come on, Jets, round out! Not you, Anybodys, beat it. Anybodys, Tomboy: Ah, Riff, you gotta let me in the gang! Didnt you just see me, I was smash, Im a killer, I wanna fight! A-Rab: How elses she gonna get a guy to touch her? Anybodys, Tomboy: You dirty rat! [lunges at him] Is this interesting? | Share this Tony: Youre not thinking Im someone else? Maria: I know you are not. Tony: Or that weve met before? Maria: I know we have not. Tony: I felt, I knew something never before was going to happen, had to happen. But this is so much more. Maria: My hands are cold. [he takes them in his] Maria: Yours too. [he moves them to his face] Maria: So warm. [she moves his to hers] Tony: So beautiful. Maria: Beautiful. Tony: Its so much to believe. Youre not making a joke? Maria: I have not yet learned how to joke that way. I think now I never will. Is this interesting? | Share this Baby John: Hey... you gotta handkerchief first? A-Rab: Whats wrong with your sleeve? Is this interesting? | Share this Anita: We came with our hearts open! Consuelo: With our arms open! Pepe: [to Consuelo] You came with your mouth open! Is this interesting? | Share this Glad Hand, Social Worker Leading Dance: I want you all the form two circles. The boys on the outside and the girls on the inside. Action: Where will you be? Is this interesting? | Share this Doc: When do you kids stop? You make this world lousy! Action: We didnt make it, Doc. Is this interesting? | Share this Lieutenant Schrank: All right, wise guys. Now you listen to me. All of ya! You hoodlums dont own these streets. And Ive had all the roughhouse Im gonna put up with around here! You wanna kill each other, kill each other! But you aint gonna do it on my beat. Are there any questions? Bernardo: Yes sir. Would you mind translating that into Spanish? Lieutenant Schrank: Get your... friends outta here Bernardo. And stay out! [Mock charm] Lieutenant Schrank: Please. Bernardo: Okay, Sharks. *Vaminos.* [Leaves with his gang] Lieutenant Schrank: Boy oh boy! As if this neighborhood wasnt crummy enough! [Pleasantly, to the Jets] Lieutenant Schrank: Now look, fellas. Lets be reasonable. If I dont get a little law and order around here, I get busted down to a traffic corner. And your friend dont like traffic corners. So that means youre gonna start making nice with the PRs from now on. [Grabs A-Rab by the shoulder] Lieutenant Schrank: I said nice, get it? Because if you dont, and I catch any of you doing any more brawlin in my territory, Im gonna personally beat the living crud out of each and every one of you and see that you go to the can and rot there. Say good-bye to the nice boys, Krupke. Officer Krupke: Good-bye, boys. Is this interesting? | Share this Officer Krupke: [to Baby John] You. Baby John: Who, me sir? Officer Krupke: Yeah, you. Didnt ya hear me? Baby John: Oh, yes sir. I got 20-20 hearing. Officer Krupke: [not amused] Then why didnt ya answer me? A-Rab: His mother told him never to answer back to a cop. Officer Krupke: You little wise apple! You want me to run you in? A-Rab: Oh indeed not, *sir*. Is this interesting? | Share this Action: [pretending to be a psychiatrist] Juvenile delinquency is purely a social disease. Riff: Hey! I got a social disease! Is this interesting? | Share this Bernardo: [singing] Everywhere grime in America / Organised crime in America / Terrible time in America Anita: You forget Im in America Is this interesting? | Share this A-Rab: Baby John, what are you doin here? Baby John: Nothin. A-Rab: What are you doin nothin here for? Come on. Baby John: I dont want the guys to see me A-Rab. A-Rab: Why not? Baby John: Im cryin. A-Rab: You are? What for? Baby John: I dont know. I just... A-Rab: Blow your nose. Baby John: A-Rab? A-Rab: Yeah? Baby John: Did you get a look at their faces? A-Rab: Which faces? Baby John: You know, at the rumble. Riff and Bernardo. A-Rab: Yeah. I wish it was yesterday. Baby John: Me too. Im scared! A-Rab: Well cut it out. You hear me? Cut it out! Baby John: A-Rab, what are we gonna do? A-Rab: Were gonna meet with the other guys and form up. Thats what were gonna do. Come on, lets go. Baby John: A-Rab, you got a hankerchief first? A-Rab: Whats wrong with you sleeve? Is this interesting? | Share this Action: We gotta show them whos on top! The Jets! Baby John: Havent you had enough? Action: What are you scared? Baby John: Whos scared? Is this interesting? | Share this Action: Weve gotta show them whos on top! Joyboy: The Jets! Action: Lets do it now! Baby John: Hey, havent we had enough? Action: Whats the matter; you scared? Baby John: Well... whore you callin scared? A-Rab: Lay off of him. Action: Mind your own business. A-Rab: Dont start up on me, or Ill punch in your stupid... Action: Youll do what? Huh? [Action and A-Rab start fighting] Ice: KNOCK IT OFF! Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: We gotta stand up to them Doc; its important. Doc: Fighting over a little piece of street is so important? Action: To us it is! Doc: To hoodlums it is! Action: Whore you callin a hoodlum? Doc: War councils... Action: Dont start, Doc. Doc: ...Rumbles... Action: Dyou hear me, Doc? Doc: Why, when I was your age... Action: When *you* was my age? When my old man was my age, when my brother was my age... You was never my age, none of ya! And the sooner you creeps get hip to that, the sooner youll dig us! Doc: Ill dig you an early grave, thats what Ill dig. Is this interesting? | Share this Doc: Ill dig you an early grave, thats what Ill dig. A-Rab: [snaps his fingers] Dig, dig, dig... Is this interesting? | Share this The Jets: [singing] Here come the Jets, like a bat out of hell - Someone gets in our way, someone dont feel so well. Is this interesting? | Share this Lieutenant Schrank: [as they exit] Say goodbye to the nice boys, Krupke. Officer Krupke: Goodbye, boys. Snowboy: [mimicking Krupke] Goodbye, boys. Action: [mimicking Shranke] You hoodlums dont own the streets. Snowboy: Go play in the park! Action: Keep off of the grass. Ice: Get outta the house! Action: Keep off the block! A-Rab: Get outta here! Action: Keep off of the world! A gang that dont own the street is nothin! Riff: WE DO OWN IT! Is this interesting? | Share this Lieutenant Schrank: What I mean is... CLEAR OUT! Thats right, all of you? [pause] Lieutenant Schrank: Oh, I know. Its a free country and I aint got the right. But I got a badge. Whatve you got? Is this interesting? | Share this Lieutenant Schrank: Do you mind? Doc: I have no mind. I am the village idiot. Is this interesting? | Share this Tony: You know what Maria and me are gonna do out in the country? Were gonna have kids, lots of em, and name them all after you-even the girls. That way when you come and visit... Doc: [slaps him] Wake up! Is this the only way to get to you? Fight like all you kids do? Is this interesting? | Share this Member of the Jets: [in the middle of the Officer Krupke song] Hey, Ive got a social disease! Is this interesting? | Share this Doc: Why do you kids live like theres a war on? Is this interesting? | Share this Anita: [sobbing bitterly] Bernardo was right, If one of you was lying in the street bleeding, Id walk by and spit on you. Is this interesting? | Share this Tony: [angrily] I aint playing anymore, CANT ANY OF YOU GET THAT? Anybodys, Tomboy: [agitatedly] BUT THE GANG! Tony: Youre a girl! be a girl and beat it! Is this interesting? | Share this Anybodys, Tomboy: [spitefully] Bernardos girl wants to help? Action: Even a greaseballs got feelins. Anybodys, Tomboy: But she wants to help get Tony! Anita: [panicking] NO! Is this interesting? | Share this Doc: [frustrated] Why do you kill? Tony: [picks up the scattered money] I told you how it happened, Maria understands, I thought you did too. Is this interesting? | Share this Maria: [after discovering that Bernardo is killed] Make it not true, please make it not true! Is this interesting? | Share this Lieutenant Schrank: At the gym last night, your brother got into a heavy argument because you danced with the wrong boy. Maria: Yes Lieutenant Schrank: Who was that boy? Maria: Another from my country. Lieutenant Schrank: And his name? Maria: Jose. Is this interesting? | Share this Riff: Now move in and shake hands. Bernardo: For what? Riff: Well, thats the way its done, buddy boy. Bernardo: More gracious living. Everyone of you hates everyone of us, and we *hate* you right back. Is this interesting? | Share this Anybodys, Tomboy: [pretending to shoot A-rab] POW, POW! A-Rab: Cracko jacko. Down goes a teenage hoodlum. [drops to the ground] Baby John: Gee. Could a real zip gun make you do like that? Anybodys, Tomboy: You dont know what a zip gun would do? Man, you better wear diapers. Baby John: Eh, go walk the streets like your sister. Anybodys, Tomboy: Listen jailbait, I licked you twice and I can do it again! [pounces on Baby John] Is this interesting? | Share this Action: What are we doin, poopin around with dumb broads for? Graziella, Riffs Girl: I and Velma aint dumb!
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