Bone for Tuna Quotes

Here are the Quotes from Bone for Tuna from Boardwalk Empire, Season 3, Episode 3.
The recap of the episode is here.

Nucky has a bad dream:

• Phone Operator: The only thing to worry about is when you run out of company, sir. (reiterating a line spoken by Jimmy Darmody right before Nucky plugged a hole in his face)
• Margaret Schroeder Thompson: It’s not my intention to pry…
• Nucky Thompson: There’s a sentence that means it’s opposite,
• Margaret Thompson: You’re not allowed to say ‘no.
• Nucky Thompson: There you have it… A shakedown from start to finish.
• Margaret Thompson: Shall I call his private secretary to relieve you of the bother.
• Father Shocke: I’m sure something can be arranged.

Faraday fights wrinkles:

• Scotty Gulliver: Wrinkles, my friends. The world is plagued by wrinkles on summer frocks and Sunday suits. Pinafores and pocket squares…. Gloria Swanson’ home alone on a Saturday night with nothing fresh to wear. We don’t sell irons here at Faraday’s, friends. We sell confidence and opportunity. The big contracts signed. The ring on a sweetheart’s finger. Dreams that always come true. Who’s ready to spread the gospel?

Nucky meets Gyp at the Tabor Heights diner

• Nucky Thompson: I didn’t come up here for your vaudeville routine.
• Gyp Rosetti: Bible camp ain’t till summer.
• Nucky Thompson: Obviously I offended you in some way. But since you’re a man who can find an insult in a bouquet of roses, I’m not sure quite how.
• Gyp Rosetti: Maybe it’s got something to do with you jeopardizing my livelihood.
• Nucky Thompson: It’s a free market. I sell to whom I choose.
• Gyp Rosetti: To who-oo-mm? Listen to you.’
• Nucky Thompson: I like to keep things simple.
• Gyp Rosetti: Like this place. Simple. Only one road in, one road out. Atlantic City to New York.
• Nucky Thompson: I’ll use the back roads through the Pine Barrens, Gyp.
• Gyp Rosetti: I don’t know where the bleep that is but I bet it’s one helluva slog and if I was you, every inch of that road would stick in my craw.
• Nucky Thompson: But I’m not you, Gyp. I learned a long time ago not to take things personally.
• Gyp Rosetti: Everyone’s a person, though, right? So how else could they take it?

The roof is leaking at Club Artemis

• Gillian Darmody: I’ve got buckets catching rainwater in 3 separate bedrooms.
• Lucky Luciano: Bleep the ceiling. It’s when the cooze starts leaking you got real problems.
• Gillian Darmody: The larger point, Charles, is that your a partner here. The house needs to be maintained.
• Lucky Luciano: It’s a whorehouse, not the Taj Mahal. Your name ain’t even on the deed. It belongs to Jimmy.
• Gillian Darmody: And he’ll sign it over as soon as he comes home.
• Lucky Luciano: Just knock off the screwball shit, will ya?
• Gillian Darmody: Meaning what, exactly?
• Lucky Luciano: I ain’t got time, sweetie. Start showing me a return on my investment.

Joe Masseria calling

• Benny Siegelbaum (later known as Bugsy Siegel): I’m wearing a pound of heroin.
• Meyer Lansky: Him, I’m not worried about. It’s Masseria we need to settle with.
• Lucky Luciano: Ever eat with that prick? He has his dinner. Then he has yours.
• Meyer Lansky: I’m saying for now, Charlie. Just for now.

Margaret schmoozes Dr. Landau

• Dr. Landau: Glad there are no hard feelings… Our little contretemps at your party. Your idea about pre-natal instruction.
• Margaret Thompson: Quite long forgotten.
• Dr. Landau: You’ll be glad to hear we ordered the hydrangeas you recommended.
• Margaret Thompson: That’s wonderful. Flowers make everyone cheery.

Mickey Doyle capitalizes on Manny Horvitz’s tragic fate

• Mickey Doyle: You’re short, Elmo… the money you bleeping hayseed.
• Elmo: That don’t add up. 80 cases at $50 a piece is $4,000.
• Mickey Doyle; It don’t add up cause it’s $60 a case.
• Elmo: That ain’t the deal I cut with Manny Horvitz.
• Mickey Doyle: (after pretending he killed Manny Horvitz) Check my figures. Count ’em up again. Then you can count how many slugs I put in your skull.
• Mickey Doyle: (to young delivery boy) What the bleep you looking at peckerhead? Get that whiskey over to Gillian Darmody’s. Don’t try to weasel a hand job for a tip.

My Old Sperlinga Cave

• Gyp Rosetti: In Sperlinga, where I’m from, I lived in a cave. A little hut carved right into the mountain.
• Nucky Thompson: I didn’t grow up in a cave, but I know what it’s like to end up very far from where you started.
• Gyp Rosetti: Alla nostra buon fortuna… to our good luck. We both deserve it.
• Babette: Gentlemen, are we ready to order?
• Gyp Rosetti: Well, I wouldn’t mind a slice of you.
• Babette: I’m much too tough, sweetie. You’d crack a tooth.

Another Message from Joe the Boss

• Masseria Thug: Joe Masseria says hello.
• Meyer Lansky: Benny, get down. Benny, c’mon. What are you? Bleeping nuts? C’mon.
• Benny Siegelbaum: (Shouting after the escaping hoods) You’re dead. You hear me? You’re dead. I’ll bleeping kill you.

Oh, Nelson, smile a little smile for me

• Sigrid: I’m soaking your shirt in lemon juice. The ink will come out for tomorrow.
• Van Alden: I’ll be more careful.
• Sigrid: You must smile. You’re charming when you smile. Show me.

Gillian’s still got Tommy, though

• Gillian Darmody: Nucky tends to his affairs and I tend to mine.
• Gyp Rosetti: But you pay him, right? I mean, he gets his taste no matter what.
• Gillian Darmody: Every business has its cost.
• Gyp Rosetti: What do I gotta do to make ends meet? I don’t wanna start. Ya think ya have friends. It’s all dogs with a bone. What do I do? What’s my choice?
• Gillian Darmody: You take care of yourself.
• Gyp Rosetti: You’re gorgeous and you’re smart. You’re a business woman. I saw how Nucky treated you out there. It’s like a bad clam in my mouth.
• Gillian Darmody: I’m not the only one …. I heard his own brother tried to have him killed…
• Gyp Rosetti: Well, you lose your own flesh and blood — what do ya have?’
• Gillian Darmody: You don’t have anything.

I’m seeing strange choir boys

• Nucky Thompson: You have no idea how uncomfortable this is.
• Margaret Thompson: You’ve made your discontent abundantly clear.
• Nucky Thompson: I meant the suit. It shrunk or something.
• Margaret Thompson: Well, what do they say on Broadway? The show must go on.

Now about that squirting ink

• Faraday co-worker 1: Heck, my first day here, I come out, they painted my car pink.
• Faraday co-worker 2: With polka dots.
• Faraday co-worker 3: So consider yourself initiated in the Brotherhood of Bullshit and Blarney.
• Van Alden: Nothing wrong with letting your hair down, I suppose.

Misleading the Bishop

• Margaret Thompson: Dr. Landau is trying to convince my husband and I to sponsor a woman’s health clinic at the hospital.
• Bishop Norman: There are some delicate topics which would have to be avoided.

(Note: Atlantic City was part of the Diocese of Trenton in 1923 and the Bishop of Trenton was Thomas J. Walsh. who became Bishop of Newark in 1937 and later Archbishop in 1937.)

Maybe they should have wished him bad luck

• Owen Slater: Mr. Thompson’s indisposed.
• Gyp Rosetti: What that’s supposed to mean?
• Eli Thompson: That he isn’t here right now.
• Gyp Rosetti: Tell Nucky I said goodbye.
• Owen Slater: He had a message for you as well. Bone for tuna.

Richard Harrow sets the record straight on Manny Horvitz

• Mickey Doyle’s floozy: Hey, where’d you put that bottle?
• Mickey Doyle: It’s in my drawers. Why don’t you have a look. ((She starts screaming and he sees Richard Harrow pointing a gun at him)
• Mickey Doyle: Jesus, don’t shoot. What the bleep are you doing?
• Richard Harrow: Get your hat. Put it on. Go.

A face in the crowd

• Prohibition Agent: Why do I know you?
• Van Alden: People tell me I remind them of someone else. Just one of those faces.

Gyp should go to the movies more

• Rosetti’s Thug: … then Orlok comes out at night. And the whole crew? He drinks their blood. Corpses. Nothing left but the rats. And you gotta see this fella. Skinny, humpback, fingernails like this, I tell you, if he don’t give you the willies, I don’t know what …
• Gyp Rosetti: (interrupting) Bone for tuna. What the bleep‘s that’s supposed to mean?
• Rosetti’s Thug: Oh. The kid’s Irish. The pronunciation was off. I think he meant…
• Gyp Rosetti: (interrupts again) I know what he meant. Who the bleep is Nucky Thompson to wish me good luck? And in Italian, no less, like he’s mocking me? He’s real cute, I’ll bleeping tell you. Sets me up to lose. Pulls our whiskey deal at the last minute then’s it’s buon fortuna like he’s rooting for me to get back on my feet. Push me over a cliff, why don’t ya? Real attitude on him. Scrawny Irish prick. I need his blessing to make my way in the world? I need HIM to lecture me? Nothing’s personal? WHAT THE BLEEP IS LIFE IF IT’S NOT PERSONAL?

Jimmy was a soldier

• Eddie Kessler: Congratulations from Frank Hague, Attorney-General Daugherty, Senator Edge…
• Nucky: Bring the car around.
• Nucky Thompson: What the bleep is this? (As Harrow marches Doyle into his
  office)
• Mickey Doyle: I didn’t mean nothing by it. It was just a rib. A joke.
• Richard Harrow: A man’s death is no laughing matter.
• Mickey Doyle: I didn’t do it! Didn’t do it! I didn’t kill Manny Horvitz! … I was only blowing smoke, okay? Shooting my mouth off! Just to keep things lively. I never went near him, I swear.
• Richard Harrow: He’s telling the truth.
• Nucky Thompson: How do you know?
• Richard Harrow: How do you think?
• Nucky Thompson: Jesus.
• Richard Harrow: I waited outside his house and I used a shotgun very close.
• Nucky Thompson: May I ask why?
• Richard Harrow: Angela Darmody.
• Nucky Thompson: Not her husband?
• Richard Harrow: Jimmy was a soldier. He fought. He lost.
• Nucky Thompson: So I can assume that my family and I are safe?
• Harrow (nods): You and Mrs. Thompson were good to me. You have nothing to fear.
• Nucky Thompson: How many people have you killed? 
• Richard Harrow: (without hesitation) 63.
• Nucky Thompson: Do you think about any of them?
• Richard Harrow: You know the answer to that yourself.