American Hustle Quotes

Rosalyn Rosenfeld The car is a total wreck, and I'm a little stiff. But I don't want to talk about it.

Rosalyn Life is ridiculous. And you know that I would never say anything bad about your father in front of you, but your father is a sick son-of-a-bitch.

Danny Daddy's a sick son-of-a-bitch?

Rosalyn Don't repeat that... but yes.

Rosalyn Rosenfeld That's why I sent them over there, because I know they were gonna knock some sense into you, and you were going to come up with a plan to get us out of all this. So thank God for me.

Rosalyn Rosenfeld We fight and then we fuck, that's our thing.

Irving Rosenfeld She was the Picasso of passive-aggressive karate.

Irving I want show you something. This Rembrandt here? People come from all over the world to see this.

Richie Yeah, he's good. Yeah.

Irving It's a fake.

Richie Wait, what’re you talking about? That's impossible.

Irving People believe what they want to believe. Cause the guy who made this was so good that it's real to everybody. Now who's the master -- the painter or the forger?

Richie That's a fake?

Irving That's the way the world works. Not black and white, like you say. Extremely grey.

Irving Rosenfeld I felt like we had a secret, just the two of us. Like that thing where you just wanna be with one person all the time. You feel like the two of you get something no one else gets.

Paco This whole thing is racist. Abscam? "Arab-scam"? It's completely racist!

Richie So what do you have to worry about, Sheikh? You're Mexican.

Sydney Who was that?

Richie My fiancee.

Sydney You have a fiancee?

Richie Well... sorta... I guess... I don't know.

Irving I told you not to put metal in the science oven, what did you do that for?

Rosalyn Don't make such a big deal! Just get another one.

Irving I don't want another one, want the one that Carmine gave me.

Rosalyn Oh, Carmine! I want the one that Carmine gave me! Carmine! Carmine! Why don't you just marry Carmine? Get a little gold microwave and put it on a chain around your neck! You wanna be more like Carmine? Why don't you build something, like he does? Instead of all your empty deals; they're just like your fuckin science oven. You know, I read that it takes all of the nutrition out of our food! It's empty, just like your deals. Empty! Empty!

Irving Bullshit.

Rosalyn It's not bullshit! I read it in an article, look: By Paul Bradeur Bring something into this house that's gonna take all the nutrition out of our food and then light our house on fire? Thank God for me.

Lady Edith Greensky You're nothing to me until you're everything.