Live by Night (2016) quotes

Director
Ben Affleck.

Cast
Ben Affleck.
Elle Fanning.
Brendan Gleeson.

A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

I don’t wanna be a gangster. Stopped kissing rings a long time ago.
– Joe Coughlin

On Saturdays I take my son to the shows.
– Joe Coughlin
Some little German guy is making trouble overseas. I don’t believe they will fight another war though. No percentage in it… My son loved the show. It was about an honest sheriff in a dirty town. All he could talk about was getting his own badge when he grew up.
– Joe Coughlin
That’s my brother. That was my brother’s name. That’s your uncle.
– Joe Coughlin
In the afternoon we fish for red-fins. One day my son asked me “Where is heaven in the sky?”I told him what Loretta told to me. “This is heaven, right here. We are in it now.”
– Joe Coughlin

I’m crazy about her.
– Joe Coughlin
Crazy isn’t love.
– Thomas Coughlin

We do what we wanna do. Go where we wanna go.
– Emma Gould

Can you tolerate an Irishman in your crew?
– Joe Coughlin
This is America. I’ve lived worse.
– Maso Pescatore

People don’t fix each other, Joseph. And they never become anything but what they’ve always been.
– Thomas Coughlin

I don’t know if there’s a God, but I hope there is, and I hope he’s kind. Wouldn’t that be swell?
– Loretta Figgis

If you’re going to kill him, be man enough to pull the trigger. Ain’t no pride in having other people do what you’re too weak to do yourself.
– Chief Figgis
Okay. In my experience doesn’t take much to pull the trigger.
– Joe Coughlin

It’s a hard thing for a man to have a son this stupid.
– Maso Pescatore

Even if you win today’s battle, there’s so much violence in what you do.
– Graciella Suarez
You don’t think I’m strong enough?
– Joe Coughlin
I don’t know if you’re cruel enough.
– Graciella Suarez
Powerful men don’t have to be cruel.
– Joe Coughlin