Sleepers Quotes

Fred Carlson: [about The Count of Monte Cristo] We can discuss the book on Friday if you think the count can hold their attention.
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: He's got a shot.
Fred Carlson: Any particular section I should read from?
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra: That's easy, the part where he

escapes from prison.

Rizzo: Why is Saturday any different?
Young Michael: cause on Saturday we can hit back, look they don't fuck with you like they do with us, but they fuck with you in another way, you're just an animal to them.
Rizzo: I don't give a fuck
Young Michael: Yeah you do, and beating them on Saturday won't make a

difference.
Rizzo: Then why, white boy, why?
Young Michael: To make them feel what we feel, just for a couple of hours.

[Nokes is escorting Shakes, Mike, John, and Tommy down a corridor]
Sean Nokes: It's a tragedy, I tell ya. I don't understand you, boys. I don't think you know what it means to have rules. You gotta have rules and you gotta have discipline. Now I don't know what it was like in your homes and your homelifes, but in my house with my father, there were rules. And if you didn't

follow the rules, there was hell to pay. You had rules and you had discipline. Sometimes it wasn't nice, but boy, we learned. We sure did learn.
[the boys enter a storage room where the other three guards are waiting]
Sean Nokes: Yeah, right around there to the right. There ya go. Come on now. I mean, it's a simple thing really. You got rules and you got discipline.

That's the beginning of the story and that's the end of the story. Do we understand each other?

Nokes: [after breaking up fight] So you Hell's Kitchen's Boys get any lunch?
Young Michael: I got to smell it.
Nokes: [laughing] You got to smell it, that's good
[boys start walking back to line]
Nokes: , Hey, Hey, Hey, where you going?
Young Michael: You said to get lunch.

Nokes: Oh, you boys don't need to get back in line to get lunch 'cause there's plenty to eat right where you're standing
[looks at food on floor]
Nokes: , YOU CAN SMELL IT.
Young Michael: [looks at food in disbelief and shock] I'm not hungry.
Nokes: Well I don't give a fuck if you're hungry or not.

You eat because I'm telling to eat.
Young Michael: [looks down at food again] I'm still not hungry!
Young Michael: [gets Hit by Nightstick] Uh, Ooh!
Nokes: I'll tell you when you're hungry or not, now eat!
Nokes: [looks at Shakes, Tommy, and John] Excuse me, what the fuck are you looking at? GET THE

FUCK DOWN ON YOUR GODDAMN KNEES AND FINISH YOUR GODDAMN LUNCH!

Judge #1: John Reilly, the Court hereby sentences you to be remanded for a period of no more than 18 months, no less than one year at the Wilkinson Home for Boys. Thomas Marcano, the Court hereby sentences you to be remanded for a period of no more than 18 months, no less than one year at the Wilkinson Home for Boys. Michael Sullivan... the Court hereby sentences you to be

remanded for a period of no more than 18 months, no less than one year at the Wilkinson Home for Boys. Lorenzo Carcaterra. Taking into consideration that you arrived on the scene after the theft of the cart had already occurred... in consideration of that, the Court hereby sentences you to serve... no more than one year, no less than six months at the Wilkinson Home for Boys. And I might add, had

it not been for the intervention of Father Robert Carillo, who spoke in glowing terms on your behalf... I would have sentenced you to a much stiffer punishment. I still have my doubts as to your inherent goodness. But, only time will serve to prove me wrong.