Memorable Quotes from Stanley Fields
4 quotesA Conversation About Managing Problems
Sam Vettori
Well, everything come off all right? Tell me.
Rico Bandello
Everything was all right. Only I had to take care of a guy.
Sam Vettori
Who was it?
Rico Bandello
McClure.
Sam Vettori
McClure. You shot McClure. A million guys in this town, and you had to pick the crime commissioner. What did I tell you, Rico? Didn't I say to make it clean? Didn't I say no gunplay?
Rico Bandello
Think I'm going to let a guy pull a gat on me? Any more of these cracks, and this is my last job.
Sam Vettori
The head of the crime commission. The Big Boy can't do us no good this trip. They'll get us dead sure now. What am I gonna do?
Rico Bandello
Why don't you go and give yourself up? You're slipping, Sam.
Sam Vettori
And Tony, what about him? Where is he?
Otero
Getting rid of the car. Tony got nervous. He's just like a big baby.
Sam Vettori
What a fine pickle we're in. You and that rod of yours.
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Discussion of a Nightclub Job Plan
Rico Bandello
Now, listen, Sam, Joe's all right. He's the best front man in the world. Why, he can go to a swell hotel and order a suite, a suite, and it's all right. Without Joe, we can't pull the job, and you know it.
Sam Vettori
What's that paper?
Rico Bandello
It's this layout I've been figuring out with Scabby.
Sam Vettori
What, this nightclub job?
Rico Bandello
Yeah.
Sam Vettori
Well, let me see it. And until I say different, nobody's gonna plan for this mob but me. You get me?
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Navigating Power and Control in Crime
Pete Montana
Now, listen, boys. Watch this guy McClure, what's head of the new crime commission. He's putting the screws on, and make no mistake about him. Now, the Big Boy wants me to tell you guys to put the chains on your gorillas for the next few months. Because if any of them go too far, it'll be just too bad.
Sam Vettori
I've never seen nobody the Big Boy couldn't get to. He can fix anything. That's why he's the Big Boy. This bird McClure will be pie for him. He'll twist him around his little finger.
Pete Montana
Don't kid yourself. Nobody's squaring nothing with McClure. Not even the Big Boy. Small jobs, that's different. We could spring guys for them. But shooting? No, sir. It's guys like this torpedo of yours that cause all the trouble.
Sam Vettori
Who, Rico? He's all right. He's a little quick on the trigger, but that's because he's new.
Pete Montana
Yeah? Well, it's us that'll swing for him if he shoots at the wrong time.
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Power Struggle and Consequences Among Gangsters
Rico Bandello
I've taken orders from you too long.
Sam Vettori
You'll keep on taking orders too or you'll get out of here so fast...
Rico Bandello
Maybe it won't be me that gets out.
Sam Vettori
No? Well, maybe the boys have got something to say about that. What about it? So, that's it, huh?
[No one moves or speaks up]
Rico Bandello
Yeah, that's it, all right. You can dish it out, but you're getting so you can't take it no more. You're through. Well?
Sam Vettori
Well, the split's okay with me, Rico.
Rico Bandello
How about you boys? No hard feelings, Sam? We gotta stick together. There's a rope around my neck right now, and they only hang you once. If anybody turns yellow and squeals, my gun's gonna speak its piece.
[to the gang]
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