Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Agent Sands: Are you a Mexi-CAN or a Mexi-CAN'T?
Cucuy: I'm a Mexi-CAN
Agent Sands: Good. Then do as I say.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Agent Sands: El, you really must try this because it's puerco pibil. It's a slow-roasted pork, nothing fancy. It just happens to be my favorite, and I order it with a tequila and lime in every dive I go to in this country. And honestly, that is the best it's ever been anywhere. In fact, it's too good. It's so good that when I'm finished, I'll pay my check, walk straight into the

kitchen and shoot the cook. Because that's what I do. I restore the balance to this country. And that is what I would like from you right now. Help keep the balance by pulling the trigger.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

[after giving Belini $10,000 in cash in exchange for information]
Sands: Just for my own edification, I offered you fifty. Why'd you say no?
Belini: I'm not a greedy man. Not looking to get rich quick. Besides, fifty thousand is a lot for what you wanted me to find out. Could just as well put a bullet in my head as cough it up, see? But ten? Ten

thousand is civilized. Ten is something we both can live with.
Sands: Ten might still be too much.
Belini: You'd kill me over ten thousand dollars? You wouldn't dare. You wouldn't dare.
[leaves]
Sands: [whispers] Yes, I would.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

[trapped on the upper floor of a hotel by Marquez's men]
El Mariachi: Any suggestions, Ms. "Why don't we get a room on the 5th floor so we can see the beautiful sunset"?

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

El Presidente: Who are you guys?
El Mariachi: Sons of Mexico, sir.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Sands: My name is Sheldon Jeffery Sands. I work for the Central Intelligence Agency. I throw shapes. I throw shapes, I set them up, I watch them fall. I'm living la vida loca.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Left Nut: I was tortured once... I didn't like it. You know what the really fucked up part was? They tore out my left nut. That really turned me off to the whole thing.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Fideo: The man who wants nothing is invincible, cabron.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

El Mariachi: Go practice.
Fideo: Practice playing or shooting?
El Mariachi: What do you think?
Fideo: I don't think, I drink.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

[last lines]
Carolina: [in Spanish]
[subtitled version]
Carolina: What do you want in life?
El Mariachi: To be free...
Carolina: Simple.
El Mariachi: No.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

El Mariachi: You want me to shoot the cook?
Agent Sands: No. I'll shoot the cook. My car's parked out back, anyway.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Agent Sands: [Hands Belini a lunch box] I couldn't find a briefcase small enough for 10,000 dollars in cash.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Agent Sands: Mexico's my beat, and I'm walking it.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

[standing in front of Sands with no eyes]
Ajedrez: See anything you like?
[shoots her in the stomach]
Agent Sands: No.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Marquez: [in Spanish, sub-titled] Carolina?
El Mariachi: She died.
Marquez: Your daughter?
El Mariachi: She died.
Marquez: You?
El Mariachi: Dead.
Marquez: And me?
El Mariachi: Alive and well.
[Marquez draws

a gun, El Mariachi draws and fires, and Marquez falls wounded. El Mariachi walks up and places his gun to Marquez's head]
El Mariachi: In hell.
[Kills him]

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Sands: FBI agents never retire, they just take it a little easier.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Lorenzo: Practice shooting, not drinking.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Agent Sands: Can you hear me now?... Fucking bells...

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Agent Sands: [In Marlon Brando Voice] Failure to appear at meetings at designated times will result in forfeiture of protection... protection you will definitely need.

Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Agent Sands: Bullfights. Bull hockey. Do you like this? The bull is stabbed, prodded, beaten. The bull is wounded. The bull is tired before the matador ever steps into the ring. Now, is that victory? Of course it is. Want to know the secret to winning? Creative sportsmanship. In other words...
[He leans forward and taps Cucuy, who triggers a remote control. In the ring, a

taser hidden in the matador's clothes goes off, freezing him in place, and the bull tramples him]
Agent Sands: One has to rig the game.