Chalky White quotes from Boardwalk Empire

Chalky White

[to Nucky] Heard a lot of "we" last year, when you was in trouble. Now it's just "you."

Chalky White

All a dream to begin with. Ain't nobody ever been free.

Nucky Thompson

The split is 80 percent-20 percent, my favor. I supply the product, your people work their magic.

Chalky White

That's a whole lot of magic for 20 percent.

Nucky Thompson

It's the same deal I gave Mickey Cusick.

Chalky White

You know that motherfucker changed his name to Doyle?

Nucky Thompson

I did.

Chalky White

40 percent.

Nucky Thompson

What happened to 30?

Chalky White

I'll charge 10 extra for thinking I'd take the same deal as Mickey.

Nucky

I didn't know you were so sensitive.

Chalky White

As a baby's ass, motherfucker. [leaves]

Nucky Thompson

[to Eddie] What's motherfucker mean?

Eddie Kessler

I suppose it's a schvartze term.

Chalky White

I was born in Elgin, Texas. My daddy taught himself the carpenter trade doing for the black folk there. I tell you, anything that man put his hand to - table, chair, wedding chest - he make that wood sing. Now one day, a man, Mr. T. O. Persall, come 'round. He a white man, own his own store, stable, hotel. He say to my daddy: "I hears you the finest carpenter in Elgin." My daddy tell him: "Well, I can't say one way or the other, but I knows a bit about somethin'." So Mr. T. O. Persall take my daddy to this house he was building. Biggest house in town. They walk in there, say: "This here gon' be the library. What you think 'bout that?" My daddy say: "Well, I think you need some bookcases." "Well then, that's what I want you to make me." 10 months my daddy worked there. And when he finished, he bring me 'round. "Mr. Persall, this here my boy. I'd like to show him what I done." "Well, come on in! Through the front door!" Just like that! And we did. When I see them bookcases, all covered with scroll and flowers, baskets of fruit, little angels floatin' in the corner... that was the most beautiful thing I ever seen. About a month later, another man come 'round. "I see what you did for T. O. Can't let that old dog top me. You come 'round my house, I'll show you what I need." My daddy go with him to the edge of town. Wasn't nothin' there but 6 white men, 12 foot of rope, and the pepper tree they hung him from. [pause, Chalky takes out some carpentry tools] These here my daddy's tools.

[afraid] What are you gonna do with them?

Chalky White

Well... I ain't buildin' no bookcase...

Gyp Rosetti

[to Chalky] I'm gonna be runnin' things now. People tell me you're the man to see on this side of the fence... Mr White. We really need all these guns?

Chalky White

Not if you put yours down first.

Gyp Rosetti

Look at us now. We're almost kissin'. I'm not lookin' to put my hands in your pockets. However things used to work, I don't operate that way. I mean, look at me, look at you. We got a lot in common, eh?

Chalky White

And what's that?

Gyp Rosetti

We both got left out in the sun too long. [smiles] Maybe you a little longer.

Chalky White

You just ain't done cookin' yet, friend.

Dr. Narcisse found me. Put his wings around me ever since.

Chalky White

You and him ever...?

No, he's a decent man.

Chalky White

So what that make me?

That make you my man.

Does your daughter know what you are?

Chalky White

She know what I was.

Nucky Thompson

There's no sense looking back. The only thing you can do is start again. I really believe that.

Chalky White

We ain't schoolboys no more.

Nucky Thompson

We're not dead, either. That leaves a lot of road in the middle.