Eli Thompson quotes from Boardwalk Empire

Jimmy Darmody

Where am I supposed to go?

Eli Thompson

I hear California's nice. Maybe Chaplin needs a foil.

Eli Thompson

The whole thing's a game isn't it? So easy for you. Well, I'll keep at it. Maybe one day I'll lie as good as you.

Nucky Thompson

It's "lie as well as me", you dolt. You wanna be taken seriously, then learn how to fuckin' speak.

Eli Thompson

Nobody cares about you. They just care about what you can give them. And that includes your Irish chippie, who you just handed a blank cheque!

Nucky Thompson

Y'know, it's too bad you didn't see Hardeen the other night.

Eli Thompson

What?

Nucky Thompson

It's an entertaining act, but if he wasn't Houdini's brother, nobody'd give a fuck!

Eli Thompson

You're one nasty prick!

Nucky Thompson

And you're a frightened little boy with nowhere else to go.

Nucky Thompson

[to Eli, at their father's wake] I'm here for mother, and for Susan.

Eli Thompson

They're all together now.

Nucky Thompson

Heaven? If such a thing existed, you really think that son of a bitch would be there?

Eli Thompson

[choking up] Was he that bad, Nucky? Really?

Nucky Thompson

You've obviously forgotten key events from our childhood.

Eli Thompson

I turned out OK. So did you. Whatever he did, he made us the men we are today.

Nucky Thompson

What's that?

Eli Thompson

We run this fucking town, Nucky!

Nucky Thompson

We don't run anything, brother. And he can rot in Hell.

Eli Thompson

That's you, boy, in spades. No capacity for forgiveness.

Nucky Thompson

Grow up, brother, please. And take some responsibility. At long fucking last.

Nucky Thompson

Et tu, Eli?

Eli Thompson

What?

Nucky Thompson

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar.

Eli Thompson

There's a character named Eli?

Nucky Thompson

You come to me begging, some wet behind the ears little shit...

Nucky...

Nucky Thompson

You assure me your intentions are honorable, that you and your partner have big plans for the future.

If you just let me speak...

Nucky Thompson

I let you in on the deal, things are going great. And then what do you do the second you get the chance?

Mr. Thompson...

Nucky Thompson

You stick it up my fucking ass!

We were coerced, Charlie and I! By Masseria. He found out about Tampa from his cousin.

Eli Thompson

Petrocelli.

And realized he could use it to his advantage.

Nucky Thompson

As did you and your greaseball partner.

He would've killed us if we didn't go along!

Nucky Thompson

You think I fucking won't?

I know that is a distinct possibility, sir, though I do pray to God that it won't happen. If it were up to me, sir, I'd have nothing to do with narcotics. There is plenty of money to be made in booze, which is a safer and eminently more socially acceptable...

Nucky Thompson

[slaps him across the face] You've got two fucking seconds to drop the boy scout routine, or you're going in that hole!

There's a fortune to be made in heroin. Millions and millions of dollars. Now, I don't know about you, but the way I saw it, it was the same life I was risking either way. I'm beggin' you, Mr. Thompson, please! What would you have done if you were me?

Eli Thompson

[to Willie] You go to him? Over your father?

Nucky Thompson

I'm the one who can fix it.

Eli Thompson

He was supposed to amount to somethin'!

Nucky Thompson

He's still going to.

Eli Thompson

What? A man in an empty hotel, pointing a gun at his brother?

Nucky Thompson

I did it for the family.

Eli Thompson

You don't have a family. I do. Now you're gonna take that too? Nothing will fill that hole you got inside you. Don't you know that yet?

Nucky Thompson

This is your mess, Eli. Drown in it.

Eli Thompson

Look, I don't know about you, but my life is a fuckin' shipwreck!

Nelson Van Alden

Well, land ho!

Eli Thompson

How come you always had to be the wise one?

Nucky Thompson

Because you needed me to be.