The Irishman (2019) Quotes

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What kind of man makes a call like that...

Russell Bufalino : When I ask somebody to take care of something for me, I expect them to take care of it themselves. I don't need two roads coming back to me.

He likes to talk, don't he?

If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it.

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.

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.

You always charge a guy with a gun! With a knife, you run away.

Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was.

I thought maybe he owned the gas station. 'Cause he owned something, you could tell. Yeah, it turns out he owned the whole road.

They talked about it all the time. She came from mob royalty, if you want to call it that. To them, it was like they came over on the... the Italian Mayflower.

Jimmy Hoffa : I am sitting in a room... full of fuckin' idiots. You dumb motherfuckers! You know what you did? You take Johnny O'Rourke's kid and you put him on as general organizer, pay thirty-six fucking grand, at the same time... you let him sell insurance to his fucking father's...

Jimmy Hoffa : To his fucking father's... to his fucking father's... LOCALS!
Jimmy Hoffa : Damn it! How do you do that? How STUPID can you be? That fucking cocksucker Kennedy has got his nose up my ass everywhere I go! You don't know that they're hounding me? They're looking at everything I do, and you let this happen in public! You're giving it to him!
Jimmy Hoffa : I'm going to jail. You understand? I'm going to prison... because of you. You dumb motherfuckers. This is what you wanted. You wanted to put me in jail. Tell me now so I can kill you... right here.
Jimmy Hoffa : Right here!

Frank Sheeran : I should call Jo.
Irene Sheeran : You haven't called Jo yet?
Older Peggy Sheeran : Why?
Frank Sheeran : What?
Older Peggy Sheeran : Why?
Frank Sheeran : Why what?
Older Peggy Sheeran : Why haven't you called Jo?

Frank Sheeran : When I was young, I thought house painters painted houses. What did I know? I was a working guy. A business agent for Teamster Local 107 out of South Philly.
Frank Sheeran : One of a thousand working stiffs... until I wasn't no more. And then I started painting houses... myself.

Russell had a piece of everything. He had this store in Pittston called Penn Drape & Curtains. And he ran everything out of there. Who knew what it all was? I mean, I'm sure the man had partners. They always have partners. Nobody keeps all the money. But everybody listened to Russ. That I can tell you. You wanted to bribe a judge, you asked Russell. You didn't know how much to bribe him, Russell was gonna tell you. You wanna promote one of your guys, Russ would tell you you could or you could not. You wanna make somebody disappear, you gotta get Russell's permission. You know, no two ways about it. And when you did something for Russ, you did it yourself. Like Russ used to say...

FBI Agent 1 : He's dead.
Frank Sheeran : Who's dead?
FBI Agent 1 : Your attorney, Mr. Rogano.
Frank Sheeran : He's dead?
FBI Agent 1 : Yeah.
Frank Sheeran : Who did it?
FBI Agent 2 : Cancer

Angelo Bruno : You know who owns the Cadillac Linen Service?
Frank Sheeran : Some Jews in the laundry business. That's what they told me.
Angelo Bruno : They own a part of it. Somebody else got an interest in that. You know who?
Frank Sheeran : No.
Angelo Bruno : I do.
Frank Sheeran : Who?
Angelo Bruno : No, I do. I own the other part. Not I know somebody who owns the other part.