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West Side Story

1961

Ice: (singing) Play it cool boy, real cool.

Riff: Now I know Tony like I know me and I guarentee you can count him in Action: In, out, let's get crackin' Gee-tar: Where you gonna find Bernardo? Riff: He'll be at the dance tonight at the gym A-Rab: But the gym's neutral territory Riff: A-rab, I'm gonna make nice with him! I'm only gonna challenge him! Ice: Great daddy-o.

Tony: Well end your suffering little man. Why don't you pack up your gear and clear out of here?

Riff: Look, Tony, I've never asked the time of day from a clock but I'm asking you, come to the dance tonight. I already told the gang you'd be there. If you don't show I'll be marked lousy. Tony: What time? Riff: Ten. Tony: Ten it is. Riff: Womb to tomb! Tony: Birth to Earth. And I'll live to regret this. Riff: Who knows? Maybe what you've been waitin' on will be twitchin at the dance tonight. Tony: Who knows? Could be... Who knows?

Maria: My brother is a silly watchdog! Bernardo: Ah, my sister is a precious jewel! Anita: What am I, cut glass?

Riff: Boy, am I a victim of disappointment in you.

Riff: (singing) When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way!

Anita: You have your big important council. The council, (kiss) or me. (kiss) Bernardo: First one, (kiss) 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?

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!

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!

(singing) Bernardo: I'd like to go back to San Juan. Anita: I know a boat you can get on!

Tony: I- I didn't believe hard enough. Maria: Loving is enough. Tony: Not here. They won't let us be. Maria: Then we'll 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 I'll take you there. Somehow! Someday! Some...

Maria: (singing) I feel pretty, oh so pretty! I feel pretty, and witty, and gay!

Maria: If Chino hurts him, if he touches him, I swear to you I'll... Anita: You'll do what Tony did to Bernardo? Maria: I love Tony. Anita: I know. I loved Benardo.

Action: What are we doin', poopin' around with dumb broads for? Graziella, Riff's Girl: I and Velma ain't dumb! Are we, Velma? Velma, Ice's Girl: No thank you. (snap) oo (snap) Ooo-belee-oo. Graziella, Riff's Girl: And you can punctuate it... Velma, Ice's Girl: Ooo.

Anita: Come in, come in! We won't bite you until we know you better.

(last lines) Maria: Te adoro, Antone.

Anybodys, Tomboy: I ain't never gonna get married. Too noisy. A-Rab: You ain't never gonna get married. Too ugly. Anybodys, Tomboy: (mimes firing a gun) Pow! A-Rab: Cracko Jacko! Down goes a teenage hoodlum.

Bernardo: (singing) Everyone there will give big cheers! Anita: (singing) Everyone there will have moved here!

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 where's Tony and what party's lookin' for him? WITH A GUN. Ice: Hey, you know somethin'? Anybodys, Tomboy: I know I gotta go get a skirt.

Riff: Come on, Jets, round out! Not you, Anybodys, beat it. Anybodys, Tomboy: Ah, Riff, you gotta let me in the gang! Didn't you just see me, I was smash, I'm a killer, I wanna fight! A-Rab: How else's she gonna get a guy to touch her? Anybodys, Tomboy: You dirty rat! (lunges at him)

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