Shiv Roy quotes from Succession

Logan Roy

[receiving a gift from Connor] Oh, wonderful. What is it?

Connor Roy

Well...

Roman Roy

Oh yes, yes, it's a goo. It's a fucking goo?

Shiv Roy

It's perfect.

Connor Roy

It's sourdough starter. I thought that you might like to make something.

Logan Roy

Ohh... great.

Connor Roy

Yeah, okay. You shouldn't have opened it. Never mind. Forget it. It was an idea. I thought you might like it.

Logan Roy

I do, I do. I just don't know what the fuck it is!

Shiv Roy

I mean, we have options.

Kendall Roy

Sure... You could all ask for morphine, so you can stay in your painless fucking fantasy world where the orchids dance and the company is run by a magical fucking unicorn!

Kendall Roy

What do you... What do you have against me?

Shiv Roy

Nothing.

Kendall Roy

Nothing?

Shiv Roy

Oh, you want me to actually say?

Kendall Roy

Yes, I do.

Shiv Roy

You lack killer instinct, you're wet, you're green, you're intellectually insecure-

Kendall Roy

Bullshit.

Shiv Roy

-You're not emotionally strong enough, you have addiction issues!

Kendall Roy

That's enough!

Shiv Roy

I don't think all that, I'm just trying to be Dad's voice.

Shiv Roy

So what happened with the fake therapy? Any pretend breakthroughs? Any good performances?

Connor Roy

Nothing. Our therapist died.

Shiv Roy

What?

Connor Roy

Metaphorically speaking.

Tom Wambsgans

He smashed his teeth out in the pool.

Shiv Roy

Oh, my god...

Tom Wambsgans

Freud would have had a field day.

Shiv Roy

The lack of thought to do this to Dad... today...

Kendall Roy

Come on, Shiv, let's not pretend. Yeah? This isn't about Dad. This is because you like the power. It gets you close to the Hill. And Rome, you couldn't get a job in a fuckin' burger joint let alone a Fortune 500 without some nepotism and Con, you like the glamor it gives to a fuckin' freak show in the desert, okay.

Connor Roy

No, Kenny. I could just do with the assistance of the family firm on my ambitions to become President. That's it.

Kendall Roy

Right. Exactly. You're all living in a fuckin' dream world.

Roman Roy

Where do you buy your suits, by the way, Tom? Like, maybe that's why I'm just not moving as fast as you. I just don't have that, like, boxy, corporate look. Right? I mean, sorry, but, like, what the fuck? You look like a Transformer. Like, wh-- what's wrong with your body, man?

Shiv Roy

Rome, come on. There's nothing wrong with his body, it's just fuckin' suits.

Shiv Roy

What? Come on, we-- we've laughed about it before.

Roman Roy

You have?

Shiv Roy

Yeah. He's thrifty, and he has the worst taste in suits.

Roman Roy

Totally has terrible ta-- You look like a divorce attorney from the Twin Cities.

Shiv Roy

It's partly the walk. It's like a real...

Roman Roy

Robot?

Shiv Roy

No, agricultural walk.

Roman Roy

Agricultural walk!

Shiv Roy

You know, I tried to get, uh, one of his suits tailored by the guy that dad uses.

Roman Roy

Mm-hmm.

Shiv Roy

But he looked just so like--

Hey, Shiv? Fuck off.

Shiv Roy

Don't like the past too much, huh?

Logan Roy

I do. I do. It's, uh... it's just... there's so much of it. The future is real, but... the past, well, it's... Yeah. Um... it's all made up.

Tom Wambsgans

I just... I think, you know... I think a lot of the time, if I think about it, I think a lot of the time, I'm really pretty unhappy.

Shiv Roy

What are you saying?

Tom Wambsgans

I don't know. I love you, I do. I just, uh... I wonder if... I wonder if the sad I'd be... without you would be less than the sad I get from being with you.

Shiv Roy

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

Kendall Roy

Who isn't?

Roman Roy

Your dad.

Shiv Roy

Your mom.

Connor Roy

Your wife and kids.

Roman Roy

Any real friends.

Should we just enjoy a fag? And not do any sniping for a bit? Or have you come to get some attention?

Shiv Roy

Me? Attention from you? Oh, no. That ship sailed long ago.

Yeah, I might have been a bit of a spotty mother but you've been a shitty daughter, so...

Shiv Roy

You weren't a spotty mother, you were just... an absence. But I'm fine.

I moved back to bloody New York so I could be near you, and I never fucking saw you!

Shiv Roy

Mom! It's okay. It's... fine. You let Dad take us and it was probably best.

I gave him custody so you could keep your shares and I could protect your interests. You chose. "I'll have the carbonara and Daddy, please."

Shiv Roy

I didn't choose anything.

You tend to get what you want anyway.

Shiv Roy

And you don't?

I don't think I've ever won a single battle in my whole life.

Shiv Roy

Hmm. I was ten, Mom. I was a fucking kid.

You were thirteen. And you knew how to twist the knife. You knew then, and you know now. And I might cry.

Shiv Roy

Oh, yeah, where's the onion?

You were quite a piece of work. You were my onion. You are my onion.

Shiv Roy

Yeah, well, you're my fucking onion.

Truth is, I probably should never have had children. You made the right decision. Some people just aren't made to be mothers. I should've had dogs.

Shiv Roy

Well, you coulda had dogs.

No, not with your father. He never saw anything he loved that he didn't wanna kick it just to see if it would still come back.

Connor Roy

The good thing about having a family that doesn't love you is you learn to live without it.

Shiv Roy

What? Con-- Connor that's not--

Connor Roy

You're all chasing after Dad, saying, [whimpers] "Love me, please love me. I need love. I need attention."

Shiv Roy

I think that's the opposite of what just happened.

Connor Roy

You're needy love sponges. And I'm a plant that grows on rocks and lives off insects that die inside of me.

Shiv Roy

Jesus Christ, Con. [chuckles]

Connor Roy

If Willa doesn't come back, that's fine. Because I don't need love. It's like a superpower. And if she comes back and doesn't love me, that's okay too, 'cause I don't need it. [silence] Thanks for the party.

Connor Roy

Hey, hey! That's my brother and sister.

Shiv Roy

Hey, Con.

Connor Roy

Fucking cake nightmare! Okay.

Kendall Roy

Con, Con.

Connor Roy

[to wedding staff] Would you take care of that for me?

Kendall Roy

Con.

Connor Roy

Yeah? What is it?

Kendall Roy

Come here. Come-- Come here.

Connor Roy

What is it?

Kendall Roy

It's just-- it's private. It's serious, come here.

Connor Roy

[to wedding staff] Five, okay.

Yeah.

Kendall Roy

Come here, buddy.

Connor Roy

What is it? Is it...

Kendall Roy

Just...

Connor Roy

...important?

Kendall Roy

...come here for a sec.

Connor Roy

What?

Shiv Roy

Let's get you, um--

Connor Roy

Is it Pop? Uh-- Is he okay?

Shiv Roy

Uh--

Connor Roy

What is it? Is he sick? What is it?

Shiv Roy

Dad's on an airplane to Sweden, but they're coming back. We think he died. They've-- Th... [softly] They think he's dead. [exhales shakily]

Connor Roy

Well, is he?

Kendall Roy

Well, uh, everyone says he is. I mean, we don't know. They're doing heart compressions.

Connor Roy

Oh, man. He never even liked me.

Kendall Roy

[softly] Hey, Con--

Connor Roy

Hey-- Sorry. You know what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I don't even know what I mean. He did. He did. I-I just-- I never got the chance to make him proud of me. He's dead.

Tom Wambsgans

I think... I think I want you. I think I would like this back.

Shiv Roy

Well then, you... shouldn't have betrayed me. Phony.

Tom Wambsgans

If I try to say it. If I try to say the truth... It's that when I met you, all my life... I've been thinking a little bit about money... and how to get money, and how to... keep money. And you didn't ask me in. Shiv, you kept me out. And I always agreed to all the compartments but it seemed to me that I was gonna be caught between you... and your dad. And I really, really, really love my... career and my money. And, you know, the suits, and my watches, and...

Shiv Roy

[scoffs]

Tom Wambsgans

Yeah. Sure, I know. I like nice things, I do. And if you think that's shallow why don't you throw out all your stuff for love. Throw out all your necklaces and your jewels for a date at a three-star Italian. Yeah? Come and live with me in a trailer park. Yeah? Are you coming?

Shiv Roy

Well, I'd follow you anywhere for love, Tom Wambsgans.

Tom Wambsgans

[laughs]

Shiv Roy

[laughs]

Kendall Roy

We think... We think that security plus entertainment is a pretty unbeatable offer. Right? Well, one more thing. How about I told you it was all going to last forever?

Shiv Roy

Okay. Now we're leaving planet Earth. Glad you're not strapped in?

Hugo Baker

Oh, fuck! Fuck!

Shiv Roy

What?

Hugo Baker

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

Roman Roy

That's a very nasty joke, right?

Karolina Novotney

Oh, shit.

Shiv Roy

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

Hugo Baker

Look who it's...

Karolina Novotney

From our acquirer...

Hugo Baker

Look who it's from.

Karolina Novotney

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

Hugo Baker

Fuck.

Karolina Novotney

Because he's about...

Shiv Roy

We should try.

Karolina Novotney

...to base jump into a buzzsaw.

Hugo Baker

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

Greg Hirsch

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