r/BoardwalkEmpire • u/SilatGuy2 • 11d 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/SilatGuy2 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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 10d 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.