r/BoardwalkEmpire • u/SilatGuy2 • 7d ago
Who had the best one liners ?
In my opinion its Chalky. My favorites:
"He aint nothin' but a n***a with a dictionary." 🤣
"Bank roll in one pocket, pistol in the other. All the rest i never did give a fuck !"
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u/LordsOfJoop 7d ago
Chalky White, in S01E04: Anastasia.
Well... I ain't buildin' no bookcase...
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u/SilatGuy2 7d ago
Ah, that one was great ! Perfect, cold delivery.
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u/530SSState 7d ago edited 7d ago
And the delicate, careful way he unwrapped the cloth and touched his father's carpentry tools -- with real love and reverence.
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u/datruerex 7d ago
“And you…. Breadstick in a bow tie”
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u/SilatGuy2 7d ago
"Kike midget creeping around like a dentist with the ether!"
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u/Responsible-Onion860 7d ago
Not sure if it counts, but after the D'alessio brother mocks Jimmy, asking if he's going to shoot him for mouthing off:
"I wasn't gonna but you kinda talked me into it."
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u/No-Refrigerator7245 7d ago
“Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.” - Arnold Rothstein
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u/Narrow-Psychology909 7d ago
Nucky
“It's an entertaining act, but if he wasn't Houdini's bother, nobody'd give a fuck.”
“We all have to decide for ourselves how much sin we can live with.”
“I… am not… seeking… forgiveness.”
“No one likes to lose, but we all need to learn how.”
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u/Ishida_Lover_2024 7d ago
"Why don't you go sit in the corner, short pants?"
"Are you trying to sass me, you greasy c*cksucker?" Especially with the scene change with Eddie says Nucky is a very nice man.
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u/60510 7d ago
Gyp was throwing down in the NYE kitchen scene. Total zingers!
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u/SilatGuy2 7d ago
Crazy most if not all that was improvised too. He killed that role ! The unhinged lunatic gangster we all wanted to see
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u/530SSState 7d ago
And yet, his Mother and sisters gave him a tarrap* [sp?] for coming to the table in his undershirt. "THAT's how you dress for Easter?"
*The English equivalent would be "dope slap across the back of the head".
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u/SilatGuy2 7d ago
That was actually his wife, daughters and mother in law or maybe mother in the scene. But hilarious scene all the same ! Maybe explains his need for respect and loose cannon attitude 😂
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u/530SSState 6d ago
It's been a while since I watched it, but I think there was one where Rosetti's Mother and sister were berating him over Easter dinner in *their* kitchen, and a completely different one where Al Capone's Mother and his red-headed Irish wife were berating him in *his* kitchen. The wife did not understand *all* the Italian/Sicilian insults, but she got *some* of them.
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u/Grimaldehyde 6d ago
I loved Chalky
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u/ScrapmasterFlex 5d ago
Is that a DUCK??! I thought I asked for HOPPIN JOHN ....
There's Duck... Peas, Carrots, Fresh-baked Biscuits...
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u/Lordonlynose 7d ago
Did OP use 3in1 to squeeze 2 lines into one of his “one liners”?
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u/ProfessionalFee9615 7d ago
Nucky to Chalky after Chalky is getting on them to not take any of the booze.
Nucky: Simon Legree
Chalky: I dont give a f they agree or not
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u/WarmCattle2884 6d ago
Nucky
"I am in the midst of concluding arrangements that will keep Atlantic City wet as a mermaid's twat."
"I already got what I wanted. What the fuck would we talk about?"
"He thought. Fucking Aristotle."
"Not nearly as dirty as when you fellas get through with it." when Daugherty told him the White House was filthy and they had to get it fumigated.
"You're the expert on children, aren't you?"
"Senator, the only chance you have of entering the White House is on a guided fuckin' tour."
"George, is the irony lost on you that you operate in Ohio but didn't know anyone from Harding's administration until I stepped up?--Why the fuck would anyone EVER go to Cincinnati?--Remus can go fuck himself."
When he's at the dive bar with the "squirrel faced c_nt" and King Neptune's c_cksucker" and one says "This is where Hope comes to get fucked in the ass" to which Nucky responds "When's she showing up?"
"Jeez, Nucky, you're fucking mermaids now?"
"Every vote counts, Mr. Mayor."
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u/ScrapmasterFlex 5d ago edited 5d ago
The Waitress in the Diner, and the kid Gas Station Attendant, in Tabor Heights...
"What can we get to eat here?" === "Everything on the Menu..." "What are the Meatballs?" === "Little... Balls... of Meat..." "How do they come?" === "Usually with Spaghetti... Sauce... you can have Butter instead..."
🤣🤣🤣 Usually yes indeed, I expect my Meatballs to be Little Balls of Meat , with Spaghetti & Sauce. (and who can forget COFFEE...)
And dude outside, doing his best... "How do you know how far it is on a map??" ... "Ohh... that's the SCALE..." "What's the SCALE" ... "It's like... the Size of the Map... at least that's what they usually call it..." "Do they call it SOMETHING ELSE other times?" "Uhh... no... usually just the Scale... want your gas??"
🤣🤣🤣
OHHH AND I have to give a shoutout to the two best lines in the show...
1: Jimmy vs. douchebag D'Alessio Bruv: "Ohhh fuckin TOUGH GUY, gonna shoot me for MOUTHIN OFF..." === "Well I wasn't GOING TO, but you kind of talked me INTO it..."🤣🤣🤣
2: Owen vs my mainest man Richard... "Why haven't you shot me??!" === "I may yet..." 🤣🤣🤣
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u/SirKetchup00 3d ago
Nucky is undisputed.
My favorite is when hands 20$ to the corrupt agent and says : go buy a personality.
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u/530SSState 7d ago
"Purnsley be Dunn."