Mobsters (1991)

Titus Welliver: Al Capone

Quotes 

• Lucky : [to the fledgeling Mafia Commission, at a meeting hosted by a young Al Capone]  ... You all know how I got this scar. Maybe Joe Profaci, here...

  Joe Profaci : Wait a minute. What're you saying?

  Lucky : Don't worry, Joe. Maybe you knew it was gonna happen to me, maybe you didn't. But by the old way of doin' things... If I became boss now, I'd have to hit you in case you knew. And all of you shrug, except some of you are friends of Joe's. And one day I might do something that upsets you, so then you'll hit me. And then YOU'LL become boss. My friends, they'll hate you for that. Then somebody else becomes boss, and so on, and on... You know what I call that? Stupid. Very stupid... We're all bosses here.

  Joe Profaci : What then, Charlie? We're gonna vote on everything?

  Lucky : That's right. Everybody here... is equal.

  Meyer Lansky : Corporations have a board of directors, a Commission. So will we.

  Lucky : Now, I have friends. They're not from Palermo, they're not from Sicily... They're not even Italians. They're Jewish. But they're still my friends. And I trust 'em.

  Al Capone : You say there's gonna be no boss, but you're startin' to talk like one.

  Lucky : I've learned. Every organization needs somebody standin' out front. Call it a figurehead, a leader, a headman, a kingpin, a president, whatever. It doesn't much matter to me who does it.

  Joe Profaci : I say we make Charlie Luciano head of our National Commission. Who agrees?

  [Everybody at the table raises his hand... with the exception of Capone, who sits at the head of the table opposite Lucky] 

  Lucky : You want it, Al? It's yours.

  Al Capone : No, I want you to do it. It's just that Julius Caesar never took no vote.

  Lucky : That's why Julius Caesar ended up dead in the street.

  [Capone raises his hand at last] 

  Lucky : ... Any other business?