Val Kilmer: Mentor

True Romance

Mentor

Mentor: You think a cop gives a fuck about a pimp? Listen. Every pimp in the world gets shot. Two in the back of the fuckin' head. Cops'd throw a party, man.

Mentor: Well, can you live with it?
Clarence Worley: What?
Mentor: I said, can you live with it?
Clarence Worley: Live with what?
Mentor: That son of a bitch walkin' around, breathing the same air as you, gettin' away with it every day. Are you haunted?
Clarence Worley: Yeah.
Mentor: You wanna get unhaunted?
Clarence Worley: Oh, yeah.
Mentor: Well, I'd kill him, shoot him in the face, put him down like a dog.
Clarence Worley: I can't believe what you're tellin' me.
Mentor: I'm just sayin' what I'd do.
Clarence Worley: You'd do that?
Mentor: Fuck don't deserve to live.
Clarence Worley: [Exhales] Look, he's hauntin' me, you know? I mean, I do wanna kill him, but I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in jail.
Mentor: Hey, man, I don't blame you.
Clarence Worley: If I thought I'd get away with it...
Mentor: Get away with it? Killing's the hard part. Gettin' away with it, that's easy. You think a cop gives a fuck about a pimp? Listen. Every pimp in the world gets shot. Two in the back of the fuckin' head. Cops'd throw a party, man. Long as you're not at the scene of the crime, smokin' gun in your hand, you'd get away with it. Clarence, I like you. I always have. Always will.

Clarence Worley: How you really think I'm doing with Lee, huh?
Mentor: Nah, you kidding me man? He loves ya.
Clarence Worley: You don't think I'm kissing his ass or anything, do you?
Mentor: Well you told him what he wants to hear there - same thing as kissing his ass.
Clarence Worley: Yeah, but I saw Coming Home in a Bodybag - loved it - I'm not lying to the guy.
Mentor: No? That's why you ain't an ass-kisser. What you're doing is genuine. And he knows it.
Mentor: [puts his hand on Clarence's shoulder] I like you Clarence. Always have. Always will.