American Gangster quotes
49 total quotesDet. Richie Roberts
Elwsorth "Bumpy" Johnson
Frank Lucas
Multiple Characters
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For a cop the uppermost thing is the arrest. For a prosecutor, the arrest is nothing without the evidence to convict. We don't have any real evidence on anyone on this board, so they're coming down. We're starting over from the street.
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Pick up the ****in' glass!
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Won't get any informants. Not inside. It's like a Sicilian family. Like he's structured his own family the same way to protect himself. Being with Bumpy long as he was, he would have been around Italians a lot. Enough to learn that much.
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Richie: I want to know everyone you've met for the last twenty years. Everyone you sold to. Every cop you ever paid off. Every one who ever stole from you. Every one you remember.
Frank: Oh, I remember them all. That's not the problem.
Richie: What is?
Frank: The jail's aren't big enough.
Frank: Oh, I remember them all. That's not the problem.
Richie: What is?
Frank: The jail's aren't big enough.