The quote refers to a line from the Coen brothers’ movie Miller’s Crossing. In the film, John Turturro’s character Bernie Bernbaum plays a bookie caught in the middle of a Prohibition-era mob war. Gabriel Byrne’s character Tom Reagan is ordered to kill Bernbaum, but relents after he tearfully pleads for his life. Bernbaum then doublecrosses Reagan and blackmails him. “I’d just squirt a few and then you’d let me go again,” Bernbaum says, indicating his dramatic sob story was all an act to save his own life.