Boardwalk Empire, Season 5

Ethan Thompson:
[to young Nucky] It took your mother three days to birth you. I was out in the water. I didn't know if I was a father or a widower. I come home, she's in bed with her hair down, her beautiful hair. A boy in her arms. My boy. [He strokes Nucky's hair, and then hits him in the face] You're the son of a fisherman. And what are you trying to catch?

Lucky Luciano:
[in Italian] To us, and only us. Now and forever.

Nucky Thompson:
Year in, year out - different dogs, same fucking bone.

Salvatore Maranzano:
The universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are, and make new things like them.

Lucky Luciano:
[to Narcisse] You got the policy game, the dope, the clubs...

Benjamin Siegel:
And you got all those whores.

Valentin Narcisse:
What I have belongs to me.

Lucky Luciano:
People are losing things all over. Some guy, he's a millionaire, next thing you know he's sellin' Chiclets in the street.

Benjamin Siegel:
[rubbing his throat] Or worse.

Valentin Narcisse:
[bemused] Chiclets...

Lucky Luciano:
Hanging on to what you have, that sounds like a good idea. That's what Mr. Maranzano would like to help you with. [pause] And that's what we have to say.

Valentin Narcisse:
I thank you both for your concern, and I am sorry you came all this way for nothing.

Lucky Luciano:
[smiles] What I love about the city: everything's so close.

Fern:
Does your daughter know what you are?

Chalky White:
She know what I was.

Al Capone:
You think I'm stupid?

Nelson Van Alden:
No successful man is stupid.

Al Capone:
Are you successful?

Nelson Van Alden:
Not really.

Al Capone:
Why's that?

Nelson Van Alden:
I get the feeling that my boss doesn't like me.

[Capone has a gun on Van Alden and has given him 30 seconds to explain himself]

Nelson Van Alden:
I've worked for you for seven years. I set up Dean O'Banion. I make my number every week. Maybe I'm a federal agent, maybe I'm a bigamist, maybe I'm a murderer on the run. Believe what you want, there's no way I can stop you. But that's not what matters now.

Al Capone:
It's not?

Nelson Van Alden:
[indicating Luciano] What matters is that this man comes in from out of town and starts telling Capone what to do about Capone's business in Capone's house? You ask me, that's pretty goddamn disrespectful.

[After a moment, Capone lowers the gun]

Al Capone:
[to Luciano] You can rule by fear, or you can rule by love. Remember that, if you're ever in charge. Get him a drink.

[D'Angelo leads Van Alden out]

D'Angelo:
You've got a pair.

Nelson Van Alden:
What did I say?

D'Angelo:
You don't remember?

Nelson Van Alden:
I need a men's room.

D'Angelo:
You gonna be sick?

Nelson Van Alden:
I may have soiled myself,

Al Capone:
[to Nucky] We got a problem. His name is Charlie.

Eli Thompson:
Look, I don't know about you, but my life is a fuckin' shipwreck!

Nelson Van Alden:
Well, land ho!

Nucky Thompson:
There's no sense looking back. The only thing you can do is start again. I really believe that.

Chalky White:
We ain't schoolboys no more.

Nucky Thompson:
We're not dead, either. That leaves a lot of road in the middle.

[Flashback scene to when Nucky and Gillian met for the first time]

Nucky Thompson:
Been busy today, hmm? What's your name? You must have a name.

Gillian Darmody:
Nellie Bly.

Nucky Thompson:
Don't cut shines with me. That's what it says on the book. I'm Nucky. That's my brother Eli. It's not as bad as you think. Just tell me your name.

Gillian Darmody:
Gillian.

Nucky Thompson:
That's not a name for a boy.

Gillian Darmody:
I'm not a boy.

[Nucky hands Joe Harper a $100 bill]

Nucky Thompson:
Take it.

Joe Harper:
No, sir.

Nucky Thompson:
Why not?

Joe Harper:
You just had a rough night, that's all. Besides, if you only help people to help yourself, what kind of world would it be?

Nucky Thompson:
Someone I was close to just died because of me. Last thing I heard her say was, "have your coffee." She's gone... and I'm still here. What kind of world is that? [holds out the money] Come on, now. It's not helping yourself. It's helping me.

Nelson Van Alden:
I am Nelson Casper Van Alden. I am a sworn agent of the United States Treasury. And I swear by Jesus our Lord that justice will reign down upon you if it is my last- [Clipped by D'Angelo]

Benny Siegel:
Hey, Talia, I think I left my tongue down there.

Joe Harper:
[about death] What's it like, when you see it?

Nucky Thompson:
You tell yourself it's quick, but you don't know. You can't know until it's you and then you'll never tell anyone.

Lucky Luciano:
What do you want?

Nucky Thompson:
A meeting so we can settle this bullshit.

Lucky Luciano:
I'll meet you at your funeral. We can talk there.

Commodore Louis Kaestner:
In the end, we do what we have the nerve for, or we disappear

Nucky Thompson:
I was a bellboy. The first time I was tipped a nickel, I thought, "The world is a wonderful place... but a dime, a dime would be better." Then it was a quarter.

Margaret Thompson:
Here is an experiment for you. Think about the things you want in life, then picture yourself in a dress.

Eli Thompson:
How come you always had to be the wise one?

Nucky Thompson:
Because you needed me to be.

Lucky Luciano:
[addressing the Commission] This table, it's round for a reason: 'Cause no one sits at the head. There's no boss - there's seven bosses. A commission. Five families in New York, plus Buffalo and Chicago. Nobody gets made, unless we all approve. Put it to a vote. Any beefs, wherever you go - New Orleans, Kansas City, St. Louis - they all get settled here by us, before things get out of hand. The old way of doin' things, it's over. The mustache petes are in the ground. Our friends, our partners - the Jews, the Irish, what have you. If it's good for business, it's good for us. There's no point in limiting our opportunities. The future is ours, boys.

Chalky White:
All a dream to begin with. Ain't nobody ever been free.