The Sopranos (TV Series)

The Strong, Silent Type (2002)

Elias Koteas: Dominic Palladino

Quotes 

• [at Christopher's intervention] 

  Dominic Palladino : Paul, you wanna read your statement?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : I don't write nothin' down, so I'll keep this short and sweet. You're weak. You're outta control. And you've become an embarrassment to yourself and everybody else.

• Dominic Palladino : [During Christopher's intervention]  Christopher, this won't be easy for any of us I want you to know we're here today because we care about you all we ask is that you listen

  Christopher Moltisanti : [to Adriana]  was this your idea?

  Dominic Palladino : [to Adriana]  would you like to begin?

  Adriana La Cerva : [to Christopher]  I love you very much, my only dream is that we have a happy life together for the last few months things have gotten very bad because you're using drugs all the time, your high all the time and I can't take it

  Dominic Palladino : [to Adriana]  be specific.

  Adriana La Cerva : When we first started going out we made love all the time now because of the drugs...

  Christopher Moltisanti : Jesus, is this fucking necessary?

  Dominic Palladino : [to Adriana]  go ahead

  Adriana La Cerva : You can no longer function as a man, last week when I came and found you killed our dog that was the final straw

  Christopher Moltisanti : [Referring to the dog]  I fell asleep, she got suffocated

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : You killed little Cosette, I ought to suffocate you, you little prick

  Dominic Palladino : Tony, we're going in order

  Christopher Moltisanti : [after Silvio reads his statement]  I told you I had the flu, I can't even defend myself now?

  Dominic Palladino : No one's attacking you

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Look, it doesn't change anything but I can verify he was sick for a little while, still this thing with the dog, how could you not see it on the chair?

  Dominic Palladino : You're getting emotional tony

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : That's because I know what it's like to lose a pet!

  Carmela Soprano : I happen to know you were high at my mother in law's wake, you were talking nonstop for twenty minutes, nothing but gibberish

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [Shaking his head in disappointment]  my mother's wake, Jesus Christ

  Dominic Palladino : [after Paulie reads his statement]  whoa, guys we said "non-judgmental"

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Fuck that, let him take his medicine

  Christopher Moltisanti : Seriously Paulie, you want to talk about "being up"?

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Watch it Chrissy

  Christopher Moltisanti : What? I thought we're honest here, you got some balls you know that? All of you, you want to talk about "self-control", how about you Sil? Fucking every slut you got working for you when you got a wife and kid at home how about you Paulie? You remember last year in the woods with the Russian guy?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Christopher I am fucking warning you!

• Dominic Palladino : [briefing them]  Are we all here? Good afternoon, for those of you that don't know me, my name's Dominic and I'm alcoholic and an addict

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [irritated]  Don't forget scumbag

  Dominic Palladino : As some of you don't know, I've also been in recovery going on four years. I joined AA in prison and frankly, it saved my life. Now, we're all here today because we have something in common: not only we share a certain background in culture, we also care about Chris and want to help him with his heroin addiction. Has anyone of you guys been involved in an intervention before?

  Silvio Dante : We caught our daughter smoking pot once but...

  Gabriella Dante : [interrupts him]  Not really, no

  Dominic Palladino : No problem. An intervention is a non-judge mental confrontation: a care-front-tation, we call it. Now what I need from you guys is make a list of specific times where Christopher's drug use impacted on you directly. For example, Adriana, is it?

  Dominic Palladino : [after she nods]  You would say something like this, Christopher, last Monday, you came from work high, belligerent, and you were physically abusive to me

  Adriana La Cerva : What if his high when we try to talk to him?

  Dominic Palladino : Then we wait until his sober. During my first intervention, Steven Patrono waited ten hours for me to sober up

  Silvio Dante : Your first intervention?

  Dominic Palladino : In 1997, I suffered a relapse, as heroin addicts, alcoholics suffer a fairly high recidivism rate

  Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [sarcastically]  Great, so his taking advice from a two-time loser?

  Dominic Palladino : There are no losers in recovery