Quotes for
Neil McCauley (Character)
from Heat (1995)

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Heat (1995)

Neil McCauley: He knew the risks, he didn't have to be there. It rains... you get wet.

Vincent Hanna: I don't know how to do anything else.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.
Vincent Hanna: I don't much want to either.
Neil McCauley: Neither do I.

Neil McCauley: I don't even know what I'm doing anymore. I know life is short, whatever time you get is luck. You want to walk? You walk right now. Or on your own... on your own you choose to come with me. And all I know is... all I know is there's no point in me going anywhere anymore if it's going to be alone... without you.

Neil McCauley: All right. Take off your shirt.
Doctor: My- my daughter gave this shirt to me as a present. I can't just...
Neil McCauley: I don't give a shit. Take off your shirt.

Neil McCauley: Chris. Listen to me. Nate's going to pick you up. He's going to take you over to his place.
Chris Shiherlis: Where's Charlene?
Neil McCauley: We gotta go. We're on the 6:00 news. We gotta get out of here.
Chris Shiherlis: I'm not going without her.
Neil McCauley: Think about that. I will meet you at Nate's.
Chris Shiherlis: Where are you going?
Neil McCauley: To find out if our out got spilled along with every other damn thing.
Chris Shiherlis: Who did it?
Neil McCauley: Who wasn't there?
Chris Shiherlis: Trejo
Neil McCauley: I'll see you at Nate's.

[Robbing a bank]
Neil McCauley: We want to hurt no one. We're here for the bank's money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you're not gonna lose a dime. Think of your families, don't risk your life. Don't try and be a hero.

Vincent Hanna: You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if it's between you and some poor bastard whose wife you're gonna turn into a widow, brother, you are going down.
Neil McCauley: There is a flip side to that coin. What if you do got me boxed in and I gotta put you down? Cause no matter what, you will not get in my way. We've been face to face, yeah. But I will not hesitate. Not for a second.

Chris Shiherlis: When are you gonna get some furniture?
Neil McCauley: When I get around to it.

Chris Shiherlis: When are you gonna get a lady?
Neil McCauley: When I get around to it.

Eady: You travel a lot?
Neil McCauley: Yeah.
Eady: Traveling makes you lonely?
Neil McCauley: I'm alone, I am not lonely.

Vincent Hanna: So you never wanted a regular type life?
Neil McCauley: What the fuck is that? Barbeques and ballgames?

Vincent Hanna: My life's a disaster zone. I got a stepdaughter so fucked up because her real father's this large-type asshole. I got a wife, we're passing each other on the down-slope of a marriage - my third - because I spend all my time chasing guys like you around the block. That's my life.
Neil McCauley: A guy told me one time, "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a... a marriage?

Neil McCauley: L.A.P.D. Gee, what, where the fuck did this heat come from?
Chris Shiherlis: Maybe it's the score they were onto, the place, not us. 'Cause it's been hit a couple of times, you know, or something?
Neil McCauley: Assume they got our phones, assume they got our houses, assume they got us, right here, right now as we sit, everything. Assume it all.

[from a deleted scene:]
Neil McCauley: And I am double the worst trouble you ever had.

[Over the phone]
Van Zant: What are you doing?
Neil McCauley: What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone.
Van Zant: I don't understand.
Neil McCauley: 'Cause there is a dead man on the other end of this fuckin' line

Neil McCauley: I do what I do best, I take scores. You do what you do best, try to stop guys like me.

Vincent Hanna: Seven years in Folsom. In the hole for three. McNeil before that. McNeil as tough as they say?
Neil McCauley: You lookin' to become a penologist?
Vincent Hanna: You lookin' to go back? You know, I chased down some crews; guys just lookin' to fuck up, get busted back. That you?
Neil McCauley: You must've worked some dipshit crews.
Vincent Hanna: I worked all kinds.
Neil McCauley: You see me doin' thrill-seeker liquor store holdups with a "Born to Lose" tattoo on my chest?
Vincent Hanna: No, I do not.
Neil McCauley: Right. I am never goin' back.
Vincent Hanna: Then don't take down scores.

[last lines]
Neil McCauley: Told you I'm never going back.
Vincent Hanna: Yeah.

Neil McCauley: Where's the key?
Bank Guy: What key?
Neil McCauley: [socks bank guy in the lip so hard he tumbles backwards]
Neil McCauley: [extracts the necessary key]
Bank Guy: [struggling in pain]
Neil McCauley: Don't move! And don't touch it! Let it bleed.

Neil McCauley: [has gun on a severely injured Waingro]
Neil McCauley: Look at me. *Look at me!*
Waingro: [doesn't want to and whimpers]
Neil McCauley: Look at me!
Waingro: [slowly pathetically looks upward]
Neil McCauley: [fires two shots into Waingro's chest]
Waingro: [makes some wild horrible gasping sound]
Neil McCauley: [aims upward and fires a third shot, this one into Waingro's head]

Vincent Hanna: Why don't you try leading... a normal life?
Neil McCauley: What the fuck's that? Barbecues and ball games?
Vincent Hanna: Yeah...

Neil McCauley: Our problem is take the bank or split right now, do not go home, do not pack, nothing. 30 secs flat from now we are gone on our separate ways, that's it...

Nate: What happened out there?
Neil McCauley: Don't ask...

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