Roman Roy quotes from Succession

Okay, so. Go on, tell us. Who's here?

Who isn't?

Roman Roy

Your dad.

Your mom.

Connor Roy

Your wife and kids.

Roman Roy

Any real friends.

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Hey, everyone.

Yes. Uh. Greg.

Roman Roy

Hey, Greg.

Hey.

Um. In case it comes out, we wanted you to be aware that you're on a piece of paper. Uh, a side letter left by Logan with... some wishes and disbursements.

Okay. Uh. Eh. Yeah. In-- in what, uh, capacity? In-- in what fashion?

You're in addendum of miscellaneous matters in pencil... with a question mark.

Nevertheless.

Dad may have said he wanted me to take over.

And so then, maybe the natural conclusion might perhaps be, I'd be his number two.

[laughs] Nice try, kid.

Roman Roy

He-- he probably wrote it down so he can remember your name.

Hmm. We had a good rapport.

Roman Roy

You had a good rapport? I feel like he already wanted to see less of you. That's probably, like, 50/50, fire Greg or kill Greg.

Mm. I think that it's not that kind of question mark. I think it's, uh, um, possibly-- It's a wonder.

It's a doodle. We just wanted you to be aware.

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Connor Roy

Can you believe this shit? He's trying to make Pop into a neoconservative. He wasn't a neocon, he was a paleolibertarian. He was practically an anarcho-capitalist.

Roman Roy

Yeah, sure. I mean, if you like Benny Hill and Sinatra, does that make you one of those things?

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Uh... [chuckles] Hey, guys. Uh... [sniffs] Are-- are you for real?

What?

The movie. And what about these fucking press stories? [chuckles] Are you Scooby-Dooing me here? Is that where you went? Hanna-Barbera fucking business school? You're telling me the theme parks are haunted, your big movie is shitty? Are you tanking the deal?

No, man.

Roman Roy

No.

No. We're just being open.

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Roman Roy

Hey, I was just thinking. Do you remember when you asked me when my dad was gonna die?

Yeah, that was a joke, Roman.

Roman Roy

Uh-huh. You really couldn't push this a week, could you? You just couldn't like-- There was no part of you that could just be like, "Hey, let's reschedule and move this 'cause, you know, their dad just died and, you know." I mean, my sister's kinda-- She's fucked up about it, and my brother's a mess, and I'm fucking-- I'm gone. I'm like I'm on the fucking-- I'm dead. It's over for me. It's okay, it's fine. But you just drag us out here, you inhuman fucking dogman. You... Crazy.

Easy, brother.

Roman Roy

You fucking killed him too. You're the one who did it. You just-- And you did. You drained the life out of him. You dragged this thing out for six fucking months, and then you bring us out here now. You couldn't wait like a few days. You actually couldn't do that for us. No idea, huh? God!

This is good, Rome.

Roman Roy

Yeah, shut the fuck up, man. We're not selling to you. Okay? We're not doing that. We are gonna grind you down, man. We are sand in the gears. Every e-mail is gonna take like six months. We're all gonna spend hundreds of millions of dollars, and in the end, you're gonna get fucking bored and move on. It's not happening, okay?

Really?

Roman Roy

Yeah. Yeah, I fucking hate you. And if you tell the board I said any of this, I'm just gonna say it was a negotiating tactic, and you know what? Maybe it is. But it's not. So fuck you.

Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait. You just fucked yourself.

Roman Roy

Did I?

Good.

Roman Roy

Really?

Yeah. [chuckles]

Roman Roy

Good.

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Roman Roy

Gerri, here's the fucking thing.

What?

Roman Roy

You hauling me out of things, telling me to reconsider good calls, and using the F-word freely, it-- it feels... it feels disrespectful.

Uh-huh.

Roman Roy

I need you... to believe that I am as good as my dad. Can you do that? Can you do that?

Say it or believe it?

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Big shoes. Big, big shoes.

[Audience laughs]

[laughs] Big, big shoes. Big, big shoes.

Roman Roy

Big shoes. Big hat. Big nervous breakdown.

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Oh, fuck! Fuck!

What?

Fuck! [shows Matsson tweet] "Doderick Macht Frei."

Roman Roy

That's a very nasty joke, right?

Karolina Novotney

Oh, shit.

Yeah. That's, what, a... it's a Holocaust joke.

Look who it's...

From our acquirer...

Look who it's from.

...so we might need to strategize. Pull the Q and A. Can we let him know? Can we let Kendall know?

Fuck.

Karolina Novotney

Because he's about...

We should try.

Karolina Novotney

...to base jump into a buzzsaw.

Right, right. [on phone call] Are-- are you backstage?

[to Tom] This is kinda good for you 'cause your presentation, not great, and so now no one will be watching.

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Roman Roy

Busy, busy. Hello, hello! Look at you! Losing it, like a massive fucking loser.

JMJeryd Mencken

Yeah. Well, I blame you. Couldn't deliver Connor, huh?

Roman Roy

Whoops.

JMJeryd Mencken

ATN scared to run all the fraud?

Roman Roy

Well, I keep my hands out, you know? Fuck you. What is this? 'Cause, you know, I'm quite busy.

JMJeryd Mencken

Oh, you're busy?

Roman Roy

Yes, I am busy. I don't run around town like some fucking food-bike guy, you know?

JMJeryd Mencken

Yeah. Just, uh, wanted to say a couple things. [clears throat]

Roman Roy

Yeah?

JMJeryd Mencken

Very directly. [sighs] We still think we can win.

Roman Roy

Sure.

JMJeryd Mencken

But... I am very focused on losing.

Roman Roy

[chuckles] All right.

JMJeryd Mencken

Winning is easy. Winning would take care of itself.

Roman Roy

Sure.

JMJeryd Mencken

But if I lose... I need to work on what assholes would call "the narrative."

Roman Roy

Uh-huh. Uh, like uh, "insurgent campaign, unfairly maligned as extremist by the coastal masturbation factories."

JMJeryd Mencken

Exactly. If I lose, I want it correctly characterized as a huge victory. Over-performed, huh?

Roman Roy

Mm-hmm.

JMJeryd Mencken

I want to be the president. I want you to... be a partner in that, and if it isn't tonight, it will be next time.

Roman Roy

Even if you're not going to be the president, you're going to be our president.

JMJeryd Mencken

Exactly. You, me, we'll go far.

Roman Roy

Over the road and into the bar.

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Who's responsible? That's the story, right? Who burnt this place down?

Roman Roy

Eh, to me, it always comes down to a couple of old favorites, the Blacks or the Jews.

[Tom, Darwin, and Greg snap their heads towards Roman]

Roman Roy

I'm kidding. It's a fucking joke.

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Roman Roy

How was that call? What'd you get? Whole bunch of not much?

Really?

What?

"I think you're a good guy"?

Uh, well... [scoffs] I found it hard to get Nate, so I summarized some impressions.

Oh, right, right, right. Smart. Really good, Shiv. But you lied.

Oh... [mumbles]

Right? She didn't get anything from Nate.

Roman Roy

Really?

She didn't speak to Nate. And she's in with Matsson.

Mm...

Roman Roy

Sorry, what?

No, I... [scoffs] No. No. I-- I-- I-- I did what we all agreed to, that I got close to him so that I could help--

Shiv's fucking us. Right--

Roman Roy

Wow!

Right, Shivy?

No. No! No, no, no. I-- I-- I-- I-- I-- I--

"I-- I-- I-- I-- I-- I-- I-- I-- I--"

...was...

I fucking asked you some real questions, Shiv. I wondered why you looked like a goose trying to shit a house brick, you piece of dirt.

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Roman Roy

We just made a night of good TV. That's what we've done. Nothing happens.

Things do happen, Rome.

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Let's hit-- let's hit Frank.

Roman Roy

[laughs]

Let's offer Frank. We can-- We can still do this.

Roman Roy

Bullshit, man. Come on, it's fucking nothing. Stop.

No, there-- there's something here. There's an angle.

Roman Roy

No, no. It's fuck all, man. It's bits of glue and broken shows, fucking phony news. Fucking... Come on.

We have this. We can still do this, man.

Roman Roy

Oh my God, Man, it's nothing. Okay? It's just nothing. It's fucking nothing. Stop it!

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Roman Roy

Yeah. Hey, we are bullshit.

We are not bullshit.

Roman Roy

We are bullshit. You are bullshit. You're fucking bullshit, man. I'm fucking bullshit. She's bullshit. It's all fucking nothing, man. I'm telling you this because I-- I know it, okay? We're nothing. Okay. Okay.