The Sopranos (TV Series)

For All Debts Public and Private (2002)

James Gandolfini: Tony Soprano

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• Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : Mom started going downhill after the World Trade Center. You know Quasimodo predicted all this.

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Who did what?

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : All these problems - the Middle East, the end of the world.

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Nostradamus. Quasimodo's the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : Oh right. Notre Damus.

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Nostradamus, and Notre Dame. Two different things completely.

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : It's interesting though, they'd be so similar, isn't it?" And I always thought okay, Hunchback of Notre Dame. You also got your quarterback and halfback of Notre Dame.

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : One's a fucking cathedral.

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : Obviously. I know, I'm just saying. It's interesting, the coincidence. What you're gonna tell me you never pondered that? The back thing with Notre Dame?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : No!

• Carmine Lupertazzi : One other thing though. John told me he went to a cookout at your house.

  Tony Soprano : Yeah.

  Carmine Lupertazzi : A don doesn't wears shorts.

• Tony Soprano : [Tony chastises his assembled captains who aren't making enough money for the crime family]  This thing is a "pyramid" since time immemorial, shit goes downhill, money goes up: it's that simple. I should not have to be coming here "hat in my hand", reminding you of your duty to that man.

  Tony Soprano : [pointing at Raymond]  and I don't want to hear about the fuckin economy either! I don't want to hear it. Sil, break it down for them. What two businesses have traditionally been recession proof since time immemorial?

  Silvio Dante : Certain aspects of show business... and our thing.

  Tony Soprano : Now that's it. That's all I've gotta say. Frankly, I'm depressed and ashamed.

• Tony Soprano : [as he enters the Bada Bing strip club, referring to the captains Silvio assembled together to meet Tony for a private meeting]  they over there?

  Silvio Dante : I was able to reach everybody

  Tony Soprano : [to Georgie as he walks by the bar]  what the fuck are you doing?

  Georgie : [while emptying the ice bucket]  what Tone?

  Tony Soprano : You're wasting fuckin ice

  Georgie : Tone, it's mostly melted

  Tony Soprano : You're going to argue with me now?

  Georgie : No, Tone

  Tony Soprano : You don't have to see the monthly statements from this place we're hemorrhaging fuckin money out of here

  Georgie : No, Tone your right I don't

  Tony Soprano : You think that shit grows on trees?

  Georgie : [Genuinely confused by his idiom]  ice? No I don't

  Tony Soprano : What, are you getting cute with me?

  Georgie : No

  Tony Soprano : I think you are. I think you're getting a fuckin attitude on you

  Georgie : I'm not. Ice, Tone when it hangs around...

  Silvio Dante : [Interrupts him, implying he should stop talking or he'll anger Tony even further]  Georgie, be quiet

  Georgie : It gets watery, it dilutes the drinks, especially scotch

  Silvio Dante : [Shakes his head, knowing Tony's going to beat Georgie]  Jesus Christ

  Tony Soprano : [throws a cup of ice at him from his right then beats him with the empty metal ice bucket]  here throw it all away, waste it all Mr. John D. Rockefeller, waste it all!

• Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [while in a dinner]  so you mentally prepared for this promotion?

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : oh, yeah

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : how's that steak?

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : it's ok

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [yells to the waitress]  hun?

  Waitress : yeah?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : another steak sand over here: rare

  Waitress : coming up

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : it's a lot of added responsibility

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : I think it should've happened sooner

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : how's your family doing, you know, since the tragedy with your dad?

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : rough on my mother

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : yeah, well, how old is she now?

  Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri : she's sixty-nine

• Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Take me to my uncle's doctor

  Christopher Moltisanti : Furio called me, his going to the fuckin track today?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : So, what about it?

  Christopher Moltisanti : I don't know, I'm driving you again all of a sudden

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : So what? I gotta explain why I want you with me this week?

  Christopher Moltisanti : [sarcastically]  God, forbid you explain

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : That's right and now you're gonna get fresh about it

  Christopher Moltisanti : I'm just saying... I mean I'm glad to do it

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [sarcastically]  I'm glad your glad. You know, your father was like a mentor me

  Christopher Moltisanti : Right

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [referring to Christopher's father was reliable and honorable]  Stand up? You ask anybody, your old man was a legend. He single-handedly hunted down that New England crew, brought the war home to them up there

• Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : I want to know why there's zero growth in this family's receipts. Where's the fucking money? You're supposed to be earners. That's why you've got the top-tiered positions. So I want each one of you to go out to your people on the street, crack some fucking heads, making some fucking earnings out there!

• Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [meeting privately in Junior's doctor's clinic]  What'd you want to talk to me about?

  Junior Soprano : My trial starts a week from Tuesday

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : You'll beat it: Melvoin's good

  Junior Soprano : We need to change our arrangement

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Which arrangement is that?

  Junior Soprano : These fuckin lawyers are taking my internal organs: a million bucks for this trial Melvoin and Hershwin are charging and if that was bad enough, now they put this Harvard kid on, this lackey. I don't know what the fuck he does and then they just decided we need audibility experts to testify you can't determine what the defendant is saying on these government tapes, I could fuckin tell them that

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Yeah, well, those guys got sound graphs and shit

  Junior Soprano : Fifty grand the cocksuckers are charging. Plus, the minimization expert, plus the monthly expenses, fuckin Lexis fees, the Xeroxing, an entire forest in the north west must've given its life in Xerox papers for this one fuckin trial. I said to Mel Can't we have one fuckin meeting and use the same sheet of paper and pass it around?

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Our split stays the same

  Junior Soprano : You kept me in place as boss, to take the heat off you: my legal problems have you strutting around for two fuckin years now

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : There you go

  Junior Soprano : Ten points, I got medical bills too

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : I got cash flow problems of my own

  Junior Soprano : A one time hit, fifty, sixty grand to cover the audibility expert

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : I got two kids in private schools

  Junior Soprano : God damn it!

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : Get your shy running right: that's what you should be focused on

• Carmela Soprano : [while in their living room]  can I talk to you for a minute?

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to the TV]  can I turn this off?

  Tony Soprano : [referring to the volume]  turn it down

  Carmela Soprano : I'm worried

  Tony Soprano : about my weight?

  Carmela Soprano : about money

  Tony Soprano : so, you're getting a little less allowance than usual, I told you it's temporary: Superbowl last year we didn't "lay" enough off

  Carmela Soprano : no, it's not just that. I'm worried about you, about the future, about me and the kids if "something" happens to you

  Tony Soprano : I don't provide for you?

  Carmela Soprano : I saw Angie Bonpensiero today: she was handing out free polish sausage at the supermarket

  Tony Soprano : stop with that, I supported her long enough. Your so worried about the money

  Carmela Soprano : who's gonna support your children? And me? If God forbid "something" happens to you, that's the point, Sil? Paulie? That is frightening

  Tony Soprano : you'll be taken care of

  Tony Soprano : [after she turns off the TV]  your set-in perpetuity: there's money in overseas accounts

  Carmela Soprano : I don't have the serial numbers

  Tony Soprano : you'll have them when the time comes, not now, for your own benefit, so you're not an accomplice. Jesus Christ, I've been busting my "pick" all day long to bring home the money your so concerned about and I thought maybe I could have a sundae and "zone out" in front of the friggin TV because your right my job isn't stressful!

  Carmela Soprano : I am talking about some simple estate planning that's all: my cousin Brian Cammarata has helped a lot of people set up trusts for their kids, we can get asset allocations

  Tony Soprano : [referring to his income comes from illegal sources]  I gotta spell this out for you? I can't declare X amount of my income

  Carmela Soprano : your consulting fees from Barone Sanitation, you do. We file the tax return to justify the house, the cars. We could be putting aside some of that to start a portfolio

  Tony Soprano : stocks? You gotta be high up in the corporate structure to make that shit work for you. We don't have those Enron type of "connections"

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to investing real estate]  bonds then, there are these things called REITS", Brian told me about

  Tony Soprano : bonds? Where's the capital for that?

  Carmela Soprano : in the Caymans, or the under the mattress, or wherever you put it at zero growth

  Tony Soprano : the money stays where it is, with what's going on in the world today?

  Carmela Soprano : there's always some excuse

  Tony Soprano : [referring to the last time the authorities searched their home]  there's no cash in this house, not since the last bust: check the vents and I provide for my children

  Carmela Soprano : yes, you do but I don't know how you do it because you won't tell me. Well, let me tell you something, or you can watch the fuckin news: everything comes to an end!

• Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [meeting privately in Junior's doctor's clinic]  so, what is it today?

  Junior Soprano : it's becoming clear to me, Murf can't run my operations. While I'm in court, his starting to forget things... his words. Sometimes, there's food on the front of his shirt, the poor bastard. I'm gonna move Bobby up

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : I think it's a good choice

  Junior Soprano : I wasn't asking, I was telling, so, you'd know who to talk to

  Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. : [before Junior shakes his head]  Bobby know yet? Well, I think we should bring him in here: his gonna be a very happy man