Road to Perdition (2002)

Stanley Tucci: Frank Nitti

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Quotes 

• Connor Rooney : I can look after myself.

  Frank Nitti : No, you can't! This is the point. You're a big baby who doesn't know his thumb from his dick!

• Michael Sullivan : I'd like to work for you.

  Frank Nitti : [Chuckles]  Well... that's very interesting.

  Michael Sullivan : And in return, I'd like you to turn a blind eye to... what I have to do.

  Frank Nitti : And what is that?

  Michael Sullivan : Kill the man who murdered my family.

• [Nitti is on the phone with Sullivan, giving him Connor Rooney] 

  Frank Nitti : I understand. But Al wants your assurance that after this, it's over.

  [pauses] 

  Frank Nitti : The Lexington Hotel, room 1432.

• Frank Nitti : [Michael Sr. is requesting a sanctioned reprisal against Conner Rooney]  All these years you've been living under the protection of people who care about you, and those same people are protecting you now, including me. So, if you go ahead with this, if you open that door, you're walking through it alone, and all that loyalty, and all that trust will no longer exist for you. And Mike, you won't make it. Not on your own, and not with a little boy.

  Michael Sullivan : You're protecting him already?

  Frank Nitti : We're protecting our interests, Mike.

• John Rooney : God help me. What do I do?

  Frank Nitti : You think objectively, and you make your choice. What would you do if Sullivan were just some guy?

  John Rooney : God help me. Make it quick.

  Frank Nitti : And the kid?

  John Rooney : Oh, Christ, no. No.

  Frank Nitti : One day, the kid becomes a man. Think he won't remember?

  John Rooney : I said not the kid.

  Frank Nitti : All right. I know who to call. There's a guy who's done some work for us in the past. He's gifted.

• Frank Nitti : [on the phone with one of the bankers Sullivan robbed]  How much did they take? *How* much? Okay, answer me this: what are we paying you for?

• Connor Rooney : Where is my father?

  Frank Nitti : What the fuck is this?

  Connor Rooney : Why is no one talking to me?

  Frank Nitti : [to his contact on the phone]  Hold on.

  Connor Rooney : I feel like a fucking prisoner.

  Frank Nitti : I told you, you are not a prisoner. You are being protected. This is what your father wants.