King of New York Monologues

A drug kingpin is released from prison and seeks to take total control of the criminal underworld in order to give back to the community.

From now on, nothing goes down unless I'm involved. No blackjack no dope deals, no nothing. A nickel bag gets sold in the park, I want in. You guys got fat while everybody starved on the street. Now it's my turn.

When the D.A's office investigated the sudden death of Arty Clay, they found that he left a $13 million estate. How do you explain that? There there's Larry Wong, who owned half of Chinatown when he passed away. Larry used to rent his tenements to Asian refuges, his own people, for $800 a month to share a single toilet on the same floor. How 'bout King Tito? He had thirteen-year-old girls hooking for him on the street. Those guys are dead because I don't want to make money that way. Emil Zappa, the Mata brothers, they're dead because they were running this city into the ground.

I spent half my life in prison. I never got away with anything, and I never killed anybody that didn't deserve it.

You think ambushing me in some nightclub's gonna stop what makes people take drugs? This country spends $100 billion a year on getting high, and it's not because of me. All that time I was wasting in jail, it just got worse. I'm not your problem. I'm just a businessman.

Well, I must've been away too long because my feelings are dead. I feel no remorse.

I've got a $250,000 contract on any cop involved with this case.

I've lost a lot of time. It's gone. From here on, I can't waste any. If I can have a year or two, I'll make somethin' good. I'll do somethin'...

... somethin' good. Just one year, that's all.

You should be more careful of the affairs you attend, Counselor. One is known by the company one keeps.

Wow. I must have been away too long because... my feelings are dead. I, uh... I feel no remorse. It's a terrible thing.