Boardwalk Empire/Quotes
Nucky Thompson: First rule of politics, kiddo: Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. |
Mickey Doyle: Enough with the bohunk cracks. My name's Doyle now. |
Jimmy Darmody: What the fuck was that? |
Jimmy Darmody: Nucky, all I want is an opportunity. |
Jimmy Darmody: You can't be half a gangster, Nucky. Not anymore. |
Lucy Danziger: "Screaming?" WE WERE FUCKING, GODDAMIT! |
Al Capone: I'm making a statement. |
Arnold Rothstein: There was a man once... I don't recall his name... frequented the billiard parlors downtown. He made a comfortable living wagering whether he could swallow certain objects, billiard balls being a specialty. He'd pick a ball, take it down his gullet to here, then regurgitate it back up. And one evening I decided to challenge this man to a wager... 10,000 in cash for him to do the trick with a billiard ball of my choosing. Now he knew I'd seen him do this a dozen times, so I can only surmise that he thought I was stupid. We laid down the cash and I handed him the cue ball. He swallowed it down. It lodged in his throat and he choked to death on the spot. What I knew and he didn't was that the cue ball is 1/16th of an inch larger than the other balls... just too large to swallow. Do you know what the moral of this tale is, Mr. Yale? |
Nucky Thompson: Wanna be a gangster, kid? Go be a gangster. But if you want to be a gangster in my town, then you'll pay me for the privilege. |
Chalky White (to his all black henchmen): Let's go. Open it up. I'ma do a bottle count as soon as we're done. And for every drop goes missing, I'ma take a drop of blood out of one of y'all asses. |
Agent Sebso: We just broke about 12 laws! |
(after a witness talks back in Yiddish) |
Gillian Darmody: I thought you could do anything. |
Chalky White: 'tis here ma daddy tools. |
Margaret Schroeder: Maybe your cunny isn't the draw you think it is. |
Margaret Schroeder: Is he nice to you, Mr. Kessler? |
Jimmy Darmody: I think you'd agree that Greek Town belongs to us now. ( *Shoots Sheridan in the head*) |
Isabelle Jeunet: I thought you could be helpful. |
Arnold Rothstein: You know what the nice thing about the Bronx Zoo is, Charlie? There are bars between you and the monkeys. |
Lucien D'Alessio: Oh! Oh, fucking tough guy! Are you going to kill me for mouthing off? |
Nucky Thompson: We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with. |
Bill Fallon: It's speculation, innuendo, and, if I remember my law school Latin, a steaming pile of horseshit. |
Nelson Van Alden: Do you wish to appear in this spectacle? |
Arnold Rothstein: I’ve made my living, Mr. Thompson, in large part as a gambler. Some days I make twenty bets, some days I make none. There are weeks, sometimes months in fact, when I don't make a bet at all, because there is simply no play. So I wait. Plan. Marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all. |
Nelson Van Alden: I brought lemons. |
Jimmy Darmody: It's hard to believe that things have changed so much in a year. |
Nucky Thompson: (before shooting Jimmy) I am not seeking forgiveness! |
Jimmy Darmody: (recurring throughout the series) To the lost. |