Most of the immigrants didn't find the streets paved with gold. Instead, they found hard times.
8 seconds sound clip from the Johnny Dangerously movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:05:41 in the DVD version of the movie.
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- Times were good in America. There was plenty of everything: Jobs, security, laughs.
- And over 97 percent of them settled in a two-block area of New York City.
- Most of the immigrants didn't find the streets paved with gold. Instead, they found hard times.
- And nobody had it tougher than my mom, Mom Kelly.
- She was kind and sweet. And she had a colorful way of putting things.
- The Lower East Side, this really sucks.
- I was about your age then and just starting out in business.
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Actors: Michael Keaton (Johnny Dangerously), Joe Piscopo (Danny Vermin), Marilu Henner (Lil Sheridan), Maureen Stapleton (Ma Kelly), Peter Boyle (Jocko Dundee), Danny DeVito (D.A. Burr)
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