- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: [to Tony] Look, you want to be a civilian, I appreciate that. I'm all for it. But pay attention to me for once, okay? You take the speakers, right? At the same time, you promise yourself these speakers are it. Now, you say to yourself, "This is the last time I'm ever gonna steal something." And you stick to it. It's that simple.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: My wife, she can't get pregnant. You know, it takes a toll. I want a son so bad. What would you do?
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: It's the wanting.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: Huh?
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: The Buddhist will tell you: "All life is pain." Pain comes from always wanting things.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: A son is not a thing.
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: It's the wanting.
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: As far as your nephew goes... may I make a brief suggestion for a nice Christmas present you could give him?
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: I'm listening.
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: Stay out of his life.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: [to Giuseppina] If I don't love you anymore, you won't mistake it for a maybe.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: [about Tony] You give him the best advice you can, you lead by example, he'll make the right decision. This kid's got what it takes.
- Teenage Tony Soprano: [from trailer] When I was a kid, guys like me were brought up to follow codes.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: The thing about remodeling is, you start with the sinks and then you go, "We might as well do this other thing while we're at it." It spins out of control.
- Mrs. Jarecki: I wonder if I could talk to you for a moment alone, Mrs. Soprano.
- Livia Soprano: Well, it's gonna have to be fast, cuz i'm parked at the hydrant.
- 'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti: Dick, it's paradise over there. On the one hand, you can't believe the beauty. On the other hand, they don't even have toilets!
- Buddha: Who the fuck is Overall?
- Harold McBrayer: He's a crazy young motherfucker that runs the Saints. Leon Overall. He's from East Orange.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: Colored kids hit one of my colored runners. Threw him a beating.
- Junior Soprano: You believe this? How these people prey on their own?
- Johnny Soprano: Janice - she went to her catechism. She practiced her Latin. She even stopped watching those two stunods, Sonny and Cher, long enough to think about God, huh?
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: You used to throw my mother down the stairs. I didn't like it then, I don't like it now.
- 'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti: Well, some women like the rough stuff. Don't ask me why.
- 'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti: I told you not to leave your douchebag hanging in the shower!
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: It's a part of life! What's the matter with you?
- 'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti: It's unsightly! Does the Venus de Milo have a douchebag?
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: She can't use a douchebag. She's handicapped.
- Queen Isola: [talking about Vietnam] Brothers doing all the dying over there. We don't need no more.
- Harold McBrayer: Well, somebody's gonna to win the Medal of Honor.
- Queen Isola: Not a Black man. Please. Ooh, baby, you are a riot tonight.
- Harold McBrayer: Are you sure you don't got no Black blood?
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: That's Sicilians. I'm Napoletano.
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: What do you want, Richard?
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: I'll be honest with you. I want to do a good deed.
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: Huh! A what?
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: A good deed.
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: Miles. Birth of the Cool.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: What?
- 'Sally' Moltisanti: It's a record. I'm a jazz nut. Bring me a copy next time you come. If you come.
- Livia Soprano: You're talking through your hat. A bird would never fly into a garage to announce a death. A house is another matter.
- 'Hollywood Dick' Moltisanti: You wanted to get into her fucking pants since the day I brought her over. I give you permission to picture her while you're jerking off.
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: I like to work, Dickie. And America has so many work. Un giorno, I want to have my own beauty parlor.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: Well, you're not gonna work for those two fanooks. The DiLorenzos?
- Livia Soprano: Did the surprise work?
- Johnny Soprano: You know, I'll tell you what surprised me. You got shines on the block, huh?
- Livia Soprano: I got everybody together. I dressed up. And you spit on it all, on me! I didn't invite the coloreds onto the block!
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: Over there, I wanted to be a priest.
- Building Manager: You mean "nun."
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: No, no, priest. Nuns have to do what they told. The priest is the boss. Capo.
- Building Manager: So you never tried the convent, huh?
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: Not for me. I could not stand the silence. No male. You wind up doing - push-ups in the asparagus garden. You know?
- Mrs. Jarecki: You talk a lot at home?
- Teenage Tony Soprano: I don't know.
- Mrs. Jarecki: Well, your dad, for example, what does he talk to you about?
- Teenage Tony Soprano: The lawn.
- Mrs. Jarecki: What about the lawn?
- Teenage Tony Soprano: I don't know, he goes to Yankee Stadium and he comes home and says our lawn looks crummy.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: If my Christopher grew up to be like Tony, I'd be goddamn proud of him.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: I don't want us walking into a stupid situation.
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: You think I'm stupid?
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: Oh, let me ask you, what are you, on the rag?
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: Dickie says colored men don't have no head for making money.
- Harold McBrayer: Well, that's what we're gonna find out.
- Mrs. Jarecki: What about your mother? Is she someone who likes to talk a lot?
- Teenage Tony Soprano: I guess so.
- Mrs. Jarecki: Well, what makes her happy?
- Teenage Tony Soprano: Happy? My mother?
- Buddha: Where's Giuseppina tonight?
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: The movies with her girlfriend.
- Buddha: I would eat her shit.
- Livia Soprano: I went to all that trouble just so we could have a nice conversation for once, and for what? How am I supposed to enjoy a Broadway show with my children and their pot?
- Teenage Tony Soprano: Ma, I don't smoke pot!
- Livia Soprano: Well, your sister comes in here smelling like a gypsy.
- Teenage Tony Soprano: Well, I'm not my sister. I'm always being accused.
- Livia Soprano: Oh! Poor you!
- Frank Lucas: Say, hey! There's my farm boy from the Garden State. Where's my tomatoes?
- Harold McBrayer: Brought you collard greens.
- Frank Lucas: Ah, now you talkin'.
- Mrs. Jarecki: On the basis of the Stanford-Binet, he's high IQ, but you know that.
- Livia Soprano: You can't prove it by me. He's got a D-plus average.
- Mrs. Jarecki: Well, that's because he doesn't apply himself, but he is smart.
- Livia Soprano: There's a big difference between a smart person and a smart aleck.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: Hey, what did the bartender say when the horse came in?
- Giuseppina Moltisanti: "Why the long face?" You told me that a million times.
- Richard 'Dickie' Moltisanti: Yeah, so? Why the long face?
- Frank Lucas: With smack, you got white kids comin' in from Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester, to the East Village, payin' 30 bucks to stick their arm in a hole. Invisible person on the other side finds a vein, shoots 'em up. Should tell you somethin' about the future.
- Harold McBrayer: You make a good point.
- Frank Lucas: You're doin' good.
- Harold McBrayer: Soon I'll be in the stratosphere with you. Call me Buzz Aldrin.
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