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[Geary is demanding a large bribe for a gaming license]

Senator Pat Geary: I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don't you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull.

Michael Corleone: Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.

The Godfather, Part II [1974]

"The higher you get in the Mob, the bigger the bullseye gets on your chest."
- Regarding the Montreal Mafia, which is rooted in Sicily

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”
- Honore de Balzac

method

"It's true: I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of Bloody Mama. When you`re younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it -- and you can achieve the same effect. You might even be able to achieve more if you take your mind off it, because you`re relaxed. That's the key to it all. When you`re relaxed and confident, you get good stuff."

- Robert De Niro

What is the greatest thing about acting?

"The drink after the show."
- Laurence Olivier [1907-1989]

hostage

RICHARD SCRUGGS

In the Navy I flew A-6's off carriers...In combat, events have a duration of seconds, sometimes minutes... But what you're going through goes on day in and day out. Whether you're ready for it or not, week in, week out... Month after month after month. Whether you're up or whether you're down. You're assaulted psychologically. You're assaulted financially, which is its own special kind of violence.

From the screenplay The Insider.

money and power

"Money to get power; power to protect money."
- Motto of the Medici family

"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
- Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface

Alfredo

"A man without a plan is not a man. Nietzsche."

- Al Pacino [born 1940] quoting his character Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy.

An earlier reference to Nietzsche here.