Boardwalk Empire (TV Series)

You'd Be Surprised (2012)

Michael Stuhlbarg: Arnold Rothstein

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• Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : All right, Arnold. You're allowed to blow off steam.

  Arnold Rothstein : It's not all right. Do you think I entered into this arrangement because I value your companionship? You are a convenience of geography and supply. You promised a quantity and a price. *You* have failed to deliver! And now, owing to your inability to manage your affairs in *New Jersey*, a state I have little interest in or affection for, you expect me to start a war? In New York? Where things actually matter?

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : I expect you to understand that Gyp Rossetti is trouble for everyone. I lost an entire convoy...

  Arnold Rothstein : [interrupting]  Because of your own cavalierness! Because you run off to Manhattan at a moment's notice to rut with some showgirl!

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : You'd be wise to leave Miss Kent out of this.

  Arnold Rothstein : Why? You can't. Do you even begin to understand how weak that makes you look?

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : That's a big noise from a man who is dead below the waist.

  Arnold Rothstein : I practice discretion.

  Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : You practice bullshit! Who the fuck are you, Arnold, aside from a little weasel with a good poker face?

• Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : [referring to Gyp]  What would you do about a mad dog?

  Arnold Rothstein : Before anything else I'd find out who its master was.