Boardwalk Empire (season 2) Quotes

Boardwalk Empire is a TV show that first aired in 2011 on HBO. Boardwalk Empire stopped airing in 2011.

Boardwalk Empire was on for 12 episodes.

The cast includes: Vincent Piazza as Lucky Luciano, Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein, Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder, Michael K. Williams as Chalky White, Vincent Piazza as Buck, Stephen Graham as Al Capone, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Carolyn Rothstein.

Boardwalk Empire Quotes

Vincent Piazza as Buck

• (Vincent Piazza) "There's another 50 in the car. They're ingersolls."
• (Meyer Lansky) "I wish you would stop with this. We schlep around with a box of watches, what do we look like?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "Fellas who know what time it is."
• (Meyer Lansky) "Might as well set up a pushcart."
• (Benny Siegel) "Arnold Rothstein's here."
• (Meyer Lansky) "We're talking, Benny."
• (Benny Siegel) "Oh. So I should tell him go f*** a duck?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "Enough with the crazy s*** already, huh?"
• (Meyer Lansky) "Bring him in before he breaks the house."
• (Meyer Lansky) "A.R., did you come to sit in?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "You know you're always welcome."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "I'm afraid those sharpers out there'd fleece me. Owing to his present difficulties, I've made a deal with Nucky Thompson. He'll be offloading his liquor shipments in Philadelphia. Waxey Gordon will ensure safe arrival. The route to Atlantic city will be my responsibility."
• (Meyer Lansky) "And you'd like us to recruit the muscle?"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "I would like you to be the muscle."
• (Vincent Piazza) "A.R., we, uh, got some business going on just now."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "I can see that. But Mr. Thompson is paying me a premium."
• (Vincent Piazza) "Anybody could ride shotgun."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Until you encounter Indians."
• (Meyer Lansky) "We're honored by your trust, A.R., and flattered that you would come below 14th street to discuss it personally. Aren't we, Charlie?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "Sure."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "As it happens, I was down here having dinner with Joe Masseria, who left me with the distinct impression he'd still like both of you dead."
• (Vincent Piazza) "You broke bread with that prick?"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "We were served a native dish of tripe, which I cannot abide. But I ate it anyway, to keep the peace. Some things, Charlie, you just have to swallow."

• (Vincent Piazza) "You wanted to see me?"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Yeah, it turns out my sister-in-law's nephew, for a time at least, survived the shooting in the woods."
• (Vincent Piazza) "Well, I'm sorry about your loss. Obviously, if there's anything I can do --"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "There is actually. You can kill someone for me to settle a debt. I have it on good authority that a James Darmody of Atlantic City was one of the two shooters."
• (Vincent Piazza) "Who was the other one?"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "I don't know. But I'd bet you're persuasive enough to get Darmody to tell you."
• (Vincent Piazza) "That's a good bet."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "The only kind I make."

Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein

• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Do you know what the nice thing is about the Bronx zoo, Charlie? There are bars between you and the monkeys."

• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "What should I do here, Charlie?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "Depends on what the other guy got."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Depends on what the other gentleman has."
• (Vincent Piazza) "Right."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Well? What does he have?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "How should I know? I'm no swami."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "The very reason this game is so challenging. There's a lot of money in that pot. How much do you think is in there?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "Plenty."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "22,500$. How much mining equipment do you have to sell to make 22 grand, Buck?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "A lot. Now are you gonna call or fold?"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "I'll see your two -- And raise you five."
• (Vincent Piazza) "Take it. I was bluffing."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "I know. So was I."

• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Arnold, a Nucky Thompson on the telephone."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "I'll take it in here, darling."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "How's that stomach?"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "It's still a little tentative."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "So much apple bread."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "It has a binding effect."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Is that the best thing right now?"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "A sound elimination is the basis of good health."

• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Meyer, Charlie, I believe you know Mr. Masseria."
• (Vincent Piazza) "Everybody knows Joe the boss."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Then perhaps you also know, though it is of course news to me, that a card game you operate is located in territory that Mr. Masseria considers to be his."
• (Joe Masseria) "Not considers. Is mine."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "My thinking was, before any more blood is shed, that a compromise can be reached."
• (Meyer Lansky) "More blood?"
• (Joe Masseria) "Tompkins Square Park, my two nephews?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "I don't know what you're talking about."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Apparently two of Mr. Masseria's emissaries to your establishment were murdered shortly after their visit."
• (Meyer Lansky) "We do operate a game in what might be termed a grey area territorially. But as to any violence in the neighborhood --"
• (Joe Masseria) "They stab themself, eh?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "A coincidence then. It happens."
• (Joe Masseria) "On my streets, no coincidence."
• (Joe Masseria) "This little prick, since he's 10 years old he causes problems."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "It seems to me you boys ought to extend a token of goodwill towards Mr. Masseria. Shall we say a one-time fee of $2,000 for the families of those gentlemen and a tax of 10% on the game going forward?"
• (Vincent Piazza) "Hold on a f***in' second --"
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Charlie."
• (Joe Masseria) "10% is okay. For now."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Then we have an agreement?"
• (Joe Masseria) "What are you doing with these Christ-killers? Come with me, I'll make you rich."
• (Vincent Piazza) "With your other hand in my pockets."
• (Joe Masseria) "I'm watching you, boy. Every f***ing step."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Charlie."
• (Vincent Piazza) "A.R., two grand is bad enough, but 10% of the f***ing game?"
• (Meyer Lansky) "We already pay half the take on that game to you."
• (Michael Stuhlbarg) "Yes. And now you boys know why."

Michael K. Williams as Chalky White

• (Michael K. Williams) "These here are my daddy tools."
• (Unnamed) "What are you going to do with them?"
• (Michael K. Williams) "Well, I ain't building no bookcase."

• (Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson) "You're sensitive."
• (Michael K. Williams) "Like a baby's ass, motherf***er."

Stephen Graham as Al Capone

• (Stephen Graham) "Well I got that out of my system."
• (Michael K. Williams) "You and me both."

Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder

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