The Irishman (2019) quotes
Director
Martin Scorsese.
Hitman Frank Sheeran looks back at the secrets he kept as a loyal member of the Bufalino crime family.
You always charge a guy with a gun! With a knife, you run away.
– Jimmy Hoffa
Who’s gonna be there?
– Jimmy Hoffa
Everybody.
– Frank Sheeran
Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, and Tony, huh?
– Jimmy Hoffa
If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it.
– Russell Bufalino
He’s dead.
– FBI Agent #1
Who’s dead?
– Frank Sheeran
Your attorney, Mr. Rogano.
– FBI Agent #1
He’s dead?
– Frank Sheeran
Yeah.
– FBI Agent #1
Who did it?
– Frank Sheeran
Cancer.
– FBI Agent #2
What kind of man makes a call like that…
– Frank Sheeran
I’m just trying to understand how a person can buy a fish and not know what kind it was.
– Sally Bugs
You might be demonstrating a failure to show appreciation.
– Russell Bufalino
You wanna be a part of this fight?
– Jimmy Hoffa
Yes, I do, sir.
– Frank Sheeran
Would you like to be a part of this history?
– Jimmy Hoffa
Yes, I would. Whatever you need me to do, I’m available.
– Frank Sheeran
You don’t keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something. When you want to say fuck you.
– Jimmy Hoffa
I felt like I was talking to General Patton.
– Frank Sheeran
Who said it?
– Jimmy Hoffa
Don’t matter who said it.
– Frank Sheeran
It matters. Was it Russell?
– Jimmy Hoffa
No.
– Frank Sheeran
No. Of course it’s not Russell. And the little cocksucker from the Miami fiasco? No? Not him? No? Then who?
– Jimmy Hoffa
I’m gonna tell you. Tony.
– Frank Sheeran
Tony? Which Tony? They’re all named Tony. I mean, what’s the matter with Italians that they can only think of one name?
– Jimmy Hoffa
The other Tony.
– Frank Sheeran
What Tony?
– Jimmy Hoffa
He likes to talk, don’t he?
– Russell Bufalino
If I said it once, I said it a thousand times, I don’t care they’re Irish. I don’t care they’re Catholic. If there’s one person you can’t trust in this life, it’s millionaires’ kids.
– Jimmy Hoffa
You guys sure like watermelon.
– Jimmy Hoffa
In a war, you go from point A to point B. Sometimes, you spill a little beer along the way. That philosophy make sense to you?
– Jimmy Hoffa
Sure does.
– Frank Sheeran
But nobody threatens Hoffa.
– Jimmy Hoffa
Then who?
– Jimmy Hoffa
I’m gonna tell you. Tony.
– Frank Sheeran
Tony. Which Tony? They’re all named Tony. I mean, what’s the matter? Italians, they can only think of one name.
– Jimmy Hoffa
Three people can keep a secret only when two of them are dead.
– Frank Sheeran
I like to talk. That’s what I am. That’s who I am. And that’s what I’m gonna do.
– Jimmy Hoffa
He said that?
– Fat Tony Salerno
In so many words…
– Frank Sheeran