34 The Irishman Quotes (2024)

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Jimmy Hoffa: You always charge a guy with a gun! With a knife, you run away.

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Russell Bufalino: [to Hoffa] You might be demonstrating a failure to show appreciation.

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Jimmy Hoffa: Who's gonna be there?
Frank Sheeran: Everybody.
Jimmy Hoffa: Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, and Tony, huh?

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Frank Sheeran: Hello?
Jimmy Hoffa: Is that Frank?
Frank Sheeran: Yes.
Jimmy Hoffa: Hiya, Frank. This is Jimmy Hoffa.
Frank Sheeran: Yeah, yeah. Glad to meet you.
Jimmy Hoffa: Well, glad to meet you, too, even if it's over the phone. I heard you paint houses.

Frank Sheeran: Yes. Yes, sir, I... I do.

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FBI Agent #1: He's dead.
Frank Sheeran: Who's dead?
FBI Agent #1: Your attorney, Mr. Rogano.
Frank Sheeran: He's dead?
FBI Agent #1: Yeah.
Frank Sheeran: Who did it?
FBI Agent #2: Cancer

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Frank Sheeran: What kind of man makes a call like that...

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Russell Bufalino: If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it.

#know

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Jimmy Hoffa: You wanna be a part of this fight?
Frank Sheeran: Yes, I do, sir.
Jimmy Hoffa: Would you like to be a part of this history?
Frank Sheeran: Yes, I would. Whatever you need me to do, I'm available.

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Sally Bugs: I'm just trying to understand how a person can buy a fish and not know what kind it was.

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Jimmy Hoffa: Who said it?
Frank Sheeran: Don't matter who said it.
Jimmy Hoffa: It matters. Was it Russell?
Frank Sheeran: No.
Jimmy Hoffa: No. Of course it's not Russell. And the little cocksucker from the Miami fiasco? No? Not him? No? Then who?
Frank Sheeran:

I'm gonna tell you. Tony.
Jimmy Hoffa: Tony? Which Tony? They're all named Tony. I mean, what's the matter with Italians that they can only think of one name?
Frank Sheeran: The other Tony.
Jimmy Hoffa: What Tony?

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Frank Sheeran: Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was.

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Jimmy Hoffa: If I said it once, I said it a thousand times, I don't care they're Irish. I don't care they're Catholic. If there's one person you can't trust in this life, it's millionaires' kids.

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Russell Bufalino: [on Hoffa] He likes to talk, don't he?

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Sally Bugs: What kind of fish?
Chuckie O'Brien: What?
Sally Bugs: What kind of fish?
Chuckie O'Brien: I don't know... The kind you eat? A fish!
Sally Bugs: You don't know what kind?
Chuckie O'Brien: No I don't.
Sally Bugs: Where'd you get

it?
Chuckie O'Brien: What the fuck? A fish place!
Sally Bugs: What so you just go in there and say give me a fish?
Chuckie O'Brien: Pretty much, yeah.
Sally Bugs: You didn't say you want a salmon, you want a haddock, you want a fucking cod?
Chuckie O'Brien: What the fuck does it

matter what kind of fish it was? Why are you so concerned about this fish?
Sally Bugs: I'm just trying to understand how a person can buy a fish, and not know what kind it was.
Chuckie O'Brien: There was a fish waiting for me there. Uh..I didn't ask what kind of fish it was, I'm sorry.
Sally Bugs: So your friend had already

ordered this fish?
Chuckie O'Brien: Right.
Sally Bugs: Because I want to be able to explain this if somebody asks me.

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Jimmy Hoffa: You don't keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something. When you want to say fuck you.

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Whispers DiTullio: To tell you the truth, I'm a little concerned.
Frank Sheeran: [narrating] Whenever anybody says they're a little concerned, they're very concerned.
Whispers DiTullio: As a matter of fact, I'm really more than a little concerned.
Frank Sheeran: [narrating] And when they say they're more than

a little concerned, they're desperate.

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[from trailer, Frank sits in front of lawyer Bill Buffalino's desk]
Bill Bufalino: Frank... Sheeran. Isn't that right?
Frank Sheeran: Yeah, you said it right.
Bill Bufalino: Uh, under the contract, management can only fire a driver under very specific charges. So, you ever show up late?
Frank Sheeran:

No.
Bill Bufalino: You have any moving violations?
Frank Sheeran: No.
Bill Bufalino: Do you drink on the job?
Frank Sheeran: No.
Bill Bufalino: You ever hit anybody?
Frank Sheeran: ...On the job?
Bill Bufalino: Yeah.

Frank Sheeran: I don't think so.
Bill Bufalino: Alright, then, we have nothing to worry about.
[Frank smiles. Bill taps his pen and looks at Frank in silence]
Bill Bufalino: You know, I don't, uh... I don't care whether you did it or not. That makes no difference to me.
Frank Sheeran: Yeah, I know.

Bill Bufalino: I'm here to defend you. Right?
Frank Sheeran: Right.
[Bill keeps eyeing Frank]
Frank Sheeran: Whaddaya wanna know? You wanna know if I did it or not?
[they both laugh]

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[watching news of the Hoffa disappearance]
Frank Sheeran: I should call Jo.
Irene Sheeran: You haven't called Jo yet?
[Frank shakes his head]
Older Peggy Sheeran: Why?
Frank Sheeran: What?
Older Peggy Sheeran: Why?
Frank Sheeran: Why what?

Older Peggy Sheeran: Why haven't you called Jo?

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[first lines]
Frank Sheeran: [narrating] When I was young, I thought house painters painted houses. What did I know? I was a working guy. A business agent for Teamster Local 107 out of South Philly.
Frank Sheeran: One of a thousand working stiffs... until I wasn't no more. And then I started painting houses... myself.

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Angelo Bruno: You know who owns the Cadillac Linen Service?
Frank Sheeran: Some Jews in the laundry business. That's what they told me.
Angelo Bruno: They own a part of it. Somebody else got an interest in that. You know who?
Frank Sheeran: No.
Angelo Bruno: I do.
Frank