The Irishman (2019)

Al Pacino: Jimmy Hoffa

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• Jimmy Hoffa : Who's gonna be there?

  Frank Sheeran : Everybody.

  Jimmy Hoffa : Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, and Tony, huh?

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

• 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. And I do my own carpentry.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• Jimmy Hoffa : I am sitting in a room... full of fuckin' idiots. You dumb motherfuckers! You know what you did? You take Johnny O'Rourke's kid and you put him on as general organizer, pay thirty-six fucking grand, at the same time... you let him sell insurance to his fucking father's...

  [leans over the table shaking his head] 

  Jimmy Hoffa : [voices breaking]  To his fucking father's... to his fucking father's... LOCALS!

  [slams table] 

  Jimmy Hoffa : Damn it! How do you do that? How STUPID can you be? That fucking cocksucker Kennedy has got his nose up my ass everywhere I go! You don't know that they're hounding me? They're looking at everything I do, and you let this happen in public! You're giving it to him!

  [immediately in a calmer tone] 

  Jimmy Hoffa : I'm going to jail. You understand? I'm going to prison... because of you. You dumb motherfuckers. This is what you wanted. You wanted to put me in jail. Tell me now so I can kill you... right here.

  [slams table again] 

  Jimmy Hoffa : Right here!

• Jimmy Hoffa : [to Frank and Joey]  You guys sure like watermelon.

• Jimmy Hoffa : Where are you going?

  Frank Sheeran : What do you mean where am I going? I fucking quit, that's where I'm going!

  Jimmy Hoffa : What are you quitting for?

  Frank Sheeran : You gonna call me a motherfucker? If you can talk to them like that, you can't talk to me like that!

  Jimmy Hoffa : No! That didn't apply to you!

  Frank Sheeran : It didn't apply?

  Jimmy Hoffa : No!

  Frank Sheeran : You got a let me know it didn't apply to me. I'm standing right there...

  Jimmy Hoffa : I didn't even see you standing there!

  Frank Sheeran : I was standing right there, Jimmy, what are you talking about?

  Jimmy Hoffa : But it didn't apply to you! What else can I say?

  Frank Sheeran : You... you... you got a problem, you pull me aside, you don't insult me and then you say it didn't apply to me!

  Jimmy Hoffa : How am I going to pull you aside? I didn't even see you there!

• Jimmy Hoffa : 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? Italians, they can only think of one name.

• Jimmy Hoffa : In a war, you go from point A to point B. Sometimes, you spill a little beer along the way. That philosophy make sense to you?

  Frank Sheeran : Sure does.

• Jimmy Hoffa : You got your friend with you?

  Frank Sheeran : [reveals his gun]  Right here.

  Jimmy Hoffa : Good.

• Jimmy Hoffa : But nobody threatens Hoffa.

• Jimmy Hoffa : So What? That's what you want from a Number Two. You don't want somebody too smart. You want a nice guy. People like him, you know. Not dumb, but somebody you know you can have walking behind you without getting knifed.

• Russell Bufalino : You don't need money, do you?

  Jimmy Hoffa : It's not about money.

  Russell Bufalino : Well if it's not about money, then I'm really having trouble understanding. Because I don't know what all the talk is about.

  Jimmy Hoffa : It's my union. Is that hard to understand?

  Russell Bufalino : That's right, it's your union. It'll always be your union. But you can step down and still run it.

  Jimmy Hoffa : No, you don't step down. What you mean step down, Rus? You don't step down from your union. You step down to go to your grave.

  Russell Bufalino : Well, I still think... I can't help but think, I'm sorry but... is there another reason or something?

  Jimmy Hoffa : This is my union! What do you mean another reason? This is my union. Alright, let's start with that. Let's try to understand.

  Russell Bufalino : OK, listen. Some people, not me but, some people... they're a little concerned. Some people, not me. They think that you might...

  Jimmy Hoffa : I might?

  Russell Bufalino : They think that you might be showing a failure to show appreciation.

  Jimmy Hoffa : I'm not showing appreciation?

  Russell Bufalino : According to, you know, some people... .

  Jimmy Hoffa : I went to school for five fucking years.

  Russell Bufalino : Yes, you did.

  Jimmy Hoffa : Five fucking years! I didn't name one fucking name.

  Russell Bufalino : You did the right thing.

  Jimmy Hoffa : Sat there every day with that whining cocksucker, from New Jersey, talking about his woes, his problems. And all I wanted to do was finish my ice cream in peace. This cocksucker shows up at a meeting fifteen minutes late. Wearing fucking shorts! Who wears shorts to a meeting?

  Russell Bufalino : Nobody.

  Jimmy Hoffa : Nobody. How am I not showing appreciation?

  Russell Bufalino : It's not me. According to some people...

  Jimmy Hoffa : No I know it's not you! Some people think I'm not showing appreciation. Well, fuck them.

  Russell Bufalino : I'm trying to help you, Jimmy.

  Jimmy Hoffa : I know you are. But nobody threatens Hoffa.

• Jimmy Hoffa : Chuck. Listen to me. Never put a fish in your car. You never get the smell out. Unless you pack it tight. Remember that. It'll help you in life.

• Robert Kennedy : [during congressional hearing interrogation of Hoffa]  Are you saying you don't remember doing any favors for Johnny Dio, or you don't remember the conversation?

  Jimmy Hoffa : [nonchalantly]  I'm saying, to the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember.

  Robert Kennedy : Then where did this $20,000 come from?

  Jimmy Hoffa : Individuals.

  Robert Kennedy : [losing patience]  Which individuals, Mr. Hoffa?

  Jimmy Hoffa : [pretending to think]  Uh... off hand, that particular amount of money I borrowed... I don't know at this particular moment. But the record of my loans, which I requested, I have, and out of all the moneys I loaned during this period of time I went into these ventures.

• Jimmy Hoffa : I like to talk. That's what I am. That's who I am. And that's what I'm gonna do.

  Fat Tony Salerno : [in the next scene]  He said that?

  Frank Sheeran : In so many words...