아메리칸 갱스터

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

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

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

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

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

It’s chaos. Every gorilla for himself.

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.

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

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

There are two sides to the American dream.

Pick up the fuckin' glass!

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.

Tango: What the fuck you gonna do Frank, huh? You gonna shoot me, in front of everybody? Huh? Come on...

Rivera: I’m a leper. Because I listened to you and turned in a million fucking dollars. You know who’ll work with me after that? Same as you. No one.

Rossi: They seize it, arrest everybody, whack it up and sell it back to us. Our dope. They been living off it for years, these New York cops. They basically control the market with it. What the fuck has happened to the world, Frank?