How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Reservoir Dogs.
Quote #1
MR. BROWN: Okay. Let me tell you what Like a Virgin's about. It's all about this cooz who's a regular f*** machine. I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon—dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
MR. BLUE: How many dicks is that?
MR. WHITE: A lot.
MR. BROWN: Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherf***er, and it's like, whoa, baby. This cat is like Charles Bronson in the great escape. He's digging tunnels. She's getting this serious dick action and feeling something she ain't felt since forever—pain. Pain. It hurts. It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her. Her pussy should be bubblegum by now, but when this cat f***s her, it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see, the pain is reminding a f*** machine what it was like to be a virgin. Hence: Like a Virgin.
Well, this is certainly one interpretation, and a kind of violent one at that. Brown takes a nice song about a down and out girl who meets a sensitive guy (or however Blonde puts it) and turns it into a song about pain. Tarantino took the role of Mr. Brown for himself; it's interesting that he's got some of the most violently misogynistic lines in the film. The diner scene shows how violent imagery and words are the common language of this criminal crowd.
Quote #2
MR. WHITE: You almost killed me! Asshole! If I'd known what kind of guy you were, I never would've agreed to work with you.
MR. BLONDE: Are you going to bark all day, little doggie, or are you going to bite?
MR. WHITE: What was that? I'm sorry. I didn't catch it. Would you repeat it?
MR. BLONDE: Are you going to bark all day, little doggie, or are you going to bite?
MR. PINK: Oh, Christ. Look, you two assholes, calm the f*** down. Hey, come on, back off! What, we in a playground here? Am I the only professional? F***ing guys are acting like a bunch of f***ing n*****s, man—you work with n*****s huh?—just like you two, always saying they're gonna kill each other.
White implies that Blonde is violent by nature and therefore can never be trusted. Pink, however, is a "professional." He can kill when the situation requires it, but he's in control... albeit disgustingly racist. White challenges us most, because we see him be compassionate and attentive to the dying Orange while killing cops and beating up on the helpless hostage. Pink and White seem to know the meaning of "gratuitous" violence. Tarantino got slammed for the use of racist language in this scene.
Quote #3
PINK: You kill anybody?
WHITE: A few cops.
PINK: No real people?
WHITE: Just cops.
Killing a cop will probably get you more prison time than killing an innocent bystander—it's considered a particularly heinous thing to do. However, these guys have some kind of twisted honor code that seems to make cops fair game if they're trying to bust you or kill you, while killing "real people" is something to avoid if possible. This is why they consider Blonde to be a real sicko; he doesn't make that distinction.