West Side Story (1961)

George Chakiris: Bernardo

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• [singing] 

  Bernardo : I'd like to go back to San Juan.

  Anita : I know a boat you can get on!

• Maria : My brother is a silly watchdog!

  Bernardo : Ah, my sister is a precious jewel!

  Anita : What am I, cut glass?

• 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!

• Bernardo : [singing]  Everyone there will give big cheers!

  Anita : [singing]  Everyone there will have moved here!

• Bernardo : [singing]  Everywhere grime in America / Organised crime in America / Terrible time in America

  Anita : You forget I'm in America

• 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, I'm an American girl now, I don't wait.

  Bernardo : Ah, back home women know their place.

  Anita : Back home little boys don't have war councils.

  Bernardo : Ah, but they do here. You want me to be an American, don't you?

• Lieutenant Schrank : All right, wise guys. Now you listen to me. All of ya! You hoodlums don't own these streets. And I've had all the roughhouse I'm gonna put up with around here! You wanna kill each other, kill each other! But you ain't 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 wasn't crummy enough!

  [Pleasantly, to the Jets] 

  Lieutenant Schrank : Now look, fellas. Let's be reasonable. If I don't get a little law and order around here, I get busted down to a traffic corner. And your friend don't like traffic corners. So that means you're 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 don't, and I catch any of you doing any more brawlin' in my territory, I'm 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.

• Riff : Now move in and shake hands.

  Bernardo : For what?

  Riff : Well, that's the way it's done, buddy boy.

  Bernardo : More gracious living. Everyone of you hates everyone of us, and we *hate* you right back.

• Lieutenant Schrank : You Puerto Ricans get what you've been itching for, use of the playground, use of the gym, the streets, the candy store. So what if you do turn this whole town into a stinkin' pig sty?

  Bernardo : [Bernado jumps up but the Jets stop him from attacking Schrank] 

  Lieutenant Schrank : Don't stop him! He wants to get home, write a few letters to San Juan tell 'em how he's got it made over here! What I mean is... Clear out, you! I said, clear out!

  Bernardo : [Bernardo and the Sharks move towards Schrank] 

  Lieutenant Schrank : Yeah, sure, I know. It's a free country, I ain't got the right. But I got a badge. What do you got? Things are tough all over. Beat it.

  Bernardo : [Bernardo and the Sharks leave, whistling]  My Country 'Tis of Thee...

• Bernardo : Now, I do not say these things to spoil your evening, or to hear myself talk - I am here longer than you, Maria!

  Maria : Sí, Nardo.

  Bernardo : Someday, when you're an old, married woman with five children, then you can tell *me* what to do! But right now, it is the other way around. Now go to bed.

  Anita : [Bernardo exits, to Maria]  He's the old, married woman.

• Anita : Why would you want to go back to Puerto Rico?

  Bernardo : Ah, it's so good here?

  Anita : It's so good there? We had *nothing*.

  Bernardo : Ah, we still have nothing - only more expensive.

• Anita : She was only dancing!

  Bernardo : With an American! Who's really a polack.

  Anita : Says the spic!

  [the other Sharks react] 

  Bernardo : You are NOT so cute.

• [repeated line] 

  Bernardo : Hey, Jets!

• Bernardo : [sarcastically]  In America, *nothing* is impossible.

• Bernardo : [to Tony]  Get your hands off, American!

  Maria : Bernardo!

  Bernardo : Stay away from my sister.

  Tony : Sister?

  Bernardo : [to Maria]  Couldn't you see he's one of them?

  Maria : No, l saw only him.

  Bernardo : There's only one thing they want from a Puerto Rican girl.

• Bernardo : Chino makes half of what the Polack makes. The Polack is an American.

  Anita : Oh, here comes the whole commercial.

  Bernardo : Your mother's...

  Anita , Bernardo : A Pole. Your father's a Swede. But you were born...

  Anita : Here. That's all that you need. You are an American. But us? *Foreigners*!

• Anita : Once an immigrant, always an immigrant.

  Bernardo : Hey, look, instead of a shampoo, she's been brainwashed.

  Anita : Stop it!

  Bernardo : She's given up Puerto Rico and now she's queer for Uncle Sam.

• Anita : They use Maria for an excuse to start World War lll.

  Bernardo : lt is more than that.

  Anita : More than what? She was *only* dancing.

  Bernardo : With an American - who is really a Polack.

  Anita : Says the Spic.

  Bernardo : You are not so cute.

• Lieutenant Schrank : [shouting to the others]  BREAK IT UP, YOU PUNKS! Cut it out! Come on, let's break it up, l said! Come on! Break it up! COME ON!

  Officer Krupke : Alright, knock it off. Get up. Come on. Settle down.

  Lieutenant Schrank : How many times have l told you punks to cut this stuff out?

  Riff : Why, if it ain't Lieutenant Schrank.

  The Jets : Top o' the day, Lieutenant Schrank.

  Bernardo : And Officer Krupke.

  The Sharks : Top o' the day, Officer Krupke.

  Officer Krupke : [points at the sharks]  l'll give you the top o' the head.

  Lieutenant Schrank : Hey, you, get down!

  A-Rab : But we're havin' such fun.

  Snowboy : We enjoy the playground.

  Riff : Ah, see, it keeps us deprived children off of the foul city streets.

  Officer Krupke : Shut up.

  A-Rab : And born like we was on the hot pavements.

  Officer Krupke : You wanna get your skull broke?

  Lieutenant Schrank : Hey, Baby John, come here! COME HERE!

  [comes up to Lieutenant Schrank, and looks at the sharks] 

  Lieutenant Schrank : All right! Now, which one of these Puerto Ricans bloodied you? Huh?

  Baby John : [looks at Schrank]  W-Well, sir, uh...

  Lieutenant Schrank : [points at them]  Which one?

  Riff : Uh... Uh, excuse me, sir. As a matter of fact, uh... we suspicion that the job was done by a cop.

  Snowboy : Two cops.

  Action : [points at the Jets]  At the very least.

  Officer Krupke : lmpossible.

  Bernardo : ln America, nothing is impossible.

  [they both laugh] 

• Bernardo : I don't want you.

  Riff : I want you though.