Frank McPike quotes from Wiseguy

Frank McPike

You did the right thing. In spite of the money and the women and the power, you did the right thing. A lot of guys we work for and with, they would have caved in to the seduction. I don't know that I wouldn't have myself.

Frank McPike

Vaya con dios, scumbucket.

Frank McPike

Well, there you are in a nine hundred dollar a day suite at the Georges Cinque and here I am in the naugahyde room of the Karl Marx Pavilion. This is great. When I was undercover it was pockmarked prostitutes.

Frank McPike

Lillah, Lillah, please don't take this as a personal thing. I used to go home before Mel Profitt, now I haven't been home for a weekend in more than three months. I know the strain's beginning to show. I'm hurting in places I don't wanna hurt. And Vince... Vince. You know, I stood right here buying a hamburger when he took it. And I looked out there and there he was in the blood and the pain... You know, I'd just been bitching about how lucky he's had it... And my wife left me. I hadn't talked to her in a week. We kept missing each other. This morning I got a recording telling me that the phone had been disconnected at the customer's request. She put my dog in a kennel and took my kid to her mother's. Now you tell me where the hell that's at-my dog is thirteen years old and he's gonna stay in a kennel 'til I get back or I exceed my credit card limit. In which case I don't have any idea what happens to him. Vinnie's dying and she tells me I'm doing this to her? Actually, her mother tells me 'cause she won't talk to me. She says that if she were dying I'd say, go ahead and go on without me, Hon, 'cause I have no idea why I'll be home. So here I am, standin' here in my nightie, telling this to a practically absolute stranger. A very nice stranger. Because - Because, Lillah, I want to be touched. I want to be loved. Because- 'Cause I'm an ass.

Frank McPike

I don't care what gets raised right now. Vince's cover couldn't mean less to me.

Frank McPike

They're MBA gangsters. They don't honor thy father, they honor the leveraged buyout.

Frank McPike

[appearing out of nowhere] Boo!

Vinnie Terranova

Frank!

Frank McPike

No cotton candy?

Vinnie Terranova

Why did you bust us last night?

Frank McPike

I didn't. I was up on the roof playing shutterbug. I didn't know those units were going to roll.

What's the matter, you think I'm going to tell Sonny that Vincenzo works for the government? I got to protect my boy! Vinnie's a hero!

Frank McPike

[listening in another room to a concealed microphone in Carlotta's room] You just lost it for me, Carlotta!

Vinnie Terranova

Hey, Frank. Your father really a boozer?

Frank McPike

Only on days of the week that ended in Y.

Frank McPike

You know, you pay $150 for a suit, you expect the buttons to stay on.

That's why they sell needles and thread, Frank. Frank, relax; you know, it's just a button.

Frank McPike

It's not just a button. We're talking about the collapse of national pride here. We've already lost the auto industry. Nobody in the states can make a stereo. And now they can't keep my buttons on!

Frank, what's bugging you?

Frank McPike

Nothing.

Vinnie Terranova

You speak French?

Frank McPike

Perrier.

Vinnie Terranova

What do you do, Frank? What do you do when you're 3,000 miles from your wife and the urge hits you?

Frank McPike

I watch Billy Graham and pray for salvation.