アメリカン・ギャングスター

This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.

Forget it, Frank. There's no one in charge.

Cattano: Success. It's got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends.

Cattano: I always wonder if people know when history’s being made. And what they’re doing at the time. This, for instance, could be a historic moment, and you’re sipping a glass of ice water.

US Attorney: No fucking nigger has accomplished what the American Mafia hasn’t in a hundred years!

It’s chaos. Every gorilla for himself.

This is the problem. This is what’s wrong with America. It’s gotten so big you can’t find your way.

[To Trupo]Detective. There are some things you don’t do. This is one of them. Not on a man’s wedding day.

That's the way it is now: You can’t find the heart of anything to stick the knife.

For a cop the uppermost thing is the arrest. For a prosecutor, the arrest is nothing without the evidence to convict. We don’t have any real evidence on anyone on this board, so they’re coming down. We’re starting over from the street.

Won’t get any informants. Not inside. It’s like a Sicilian family. Like he’s structured his own family the same way to protect himself. Being with Bumpy long as he was, he would have been around Italians a lot. Enough to learn that much.

Pick up the fuckin' glass!

The number one fear of people isn't dying, it's public speaking.