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Steven Zaillian Quotes

Total quotes: 41
“When they say they're more than a little concerned, they're desperate.”
— Frank Sheeran, The Irishman
Tagged: Concerned, Desperate, Lesson
“See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody.”
— Frank Lucas, American Gangster
Tagged: Somebody, nobody
“I'm just trying to understand how a person can buy a fish and not know what kind it was.”
— 'Sally Bugs', The Irishman
Tagged: fish, Understand, Called Out
“Jimmy Hoffa: Who's gonna be there?

Frank Sheeran: Everybody.

Jimmy Hoffa: Tony, Tony, Tony, Tony, and Tony, huh?”
— Jimmy Hoffa, The Irishman
Tagged: attendance, Italian Names, joke
“Tony. Which Tony? They're all named Tony. I mean, what's the matter? Italians, they can only think of one name.”
— Jimmy Hoffa, The Irishman
Tagged: Names, italian
“Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?

Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: bad choice, shot in the head
“We're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children's game, we just don't... don't know when that's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we're all told.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, Moneyball
Tagged: Aging, baseball, Retirement
“The man who hires the detective should always be kept on the suspects list.”
— Henrik Vanger, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tagged: Detective, suspect, List, guilty
“You know, one of the things you miss in here is being able to say good night to someone that’s not an animal in a fucking zoo.”
— Nasir Khan, The Night Of, Season 1: Part 6
Tagged: Prison Life
“It’s like having a nuclear arsenal. You don’t want to use it, but if the other side knows you got it, they tend to come to the table sooner.”
— Jack Stone, The Night Of, Season 1: Part 4
Tagged: Examples of Similes
“Jimmy Hoffa: Would you like to be a part of this, Frank? Would you like to be a part of this history?

Frank Sheeran: Yes, I would. Whatever you need me to do, I'm available.”
— Frank Sheeran, The Irishman
Tagged: History, Included , Question
“You get on base, we win. You don't, we lose. And I hate losing, Chavy. I hate it. I hate losing more than I even wanna win.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Winning, Losing
“When I ask somebody to take care of something for me, I expect them to take care of it themselves. I don't need two roads coming back to me.”
— Russell Bufalino, The Irishman
Tagged: Take Care, favor, Deal
“If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it.”
— Russell Bufalino, The Irishman
Tagged: President, whack, Logic
“Baseball thinking is midevil. They are asking all the wrong questions. And if I say anything I get ostrisized. I'm a lepper.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“Ok, think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn't be to buy players it should be to buy wins. And in order to buy wins you have to buy runs.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“It's about getting things down to one number. Using stats the way we read them, we'll find value in players that no body else can see.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“People are overlooked for a variety of biased reasons and perceived flaws. Age, appearance, personality. Bill James and mathematics cut straight through that.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“There is an epidemic failure within the game to understand what's really happening. This leaves those who run Major League Baseball teams to misjudge their players and mismanage their teams.”
— Peter Brand, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“I'm gonna defend you either way.”
— Bill Bufalino, The Irishman
Tagged: defense, defend, Law, Legal
“You charge with a gun, with a knife you run.”
— Jimmy Hoffa, The Irishman
Tagged: Gun, Knife, Advice, Run
“Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was.”
— Frank Sheeran, The Irishman
Tagged: Young People, No Clue, country, History
“I picked us over him.”
— Russell Bufalino, The Irishman
Tagged: Choice, Life, decision
“The enemies of my friends are my enemies.”
— Henrik Vanger, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tagged: Enemy, Friends, shared
“Having a chat when both of you know one is about to die.”
— Martin Vanger, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tagged: chat, Death, Die
“How can you not get romantic about baseball?”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: baseball, Romantic
“Your problem is that you're a piece of shit.”
— Jimmy Hoffa, The Irishman
Tagged: Problem, Rude, argument
“Oh, boy, you don't know how fast time goes by until you get there.”
— Frank Sheeran, The Irishman
Tagged: time flies, Age, Time
“I heard you paint houses.”
— Jimmy Hoffa, The Irishman
Tagged: paint, Murder, Kill, Extended Metaphor Example
“Survival in here is all about your alliances.”
— Freddy Knight, The Night Of, Season 1: Part 4
Tagged: Prison Life, Prison, How To Survive In Prison
“You might be demonstrating a failure to show appreciation.”
— Russell Bufalino, The Irishman
Tagged: Failure, Appreciate
“When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Best Sports Movies, Mistakes
“If it's not good for you, it's not good for me.”
— Russell Bufalino, The Irishman
Tagged: Deal, Good, Negotiation
“You were right about him. You just couldn't prove it.”
— Henrik Vanger, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tagged: Proof, correct, Right
“I am insane.”
— Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tagged: insane, crazy
“I have good news now. I made a friend.”
— Lisbeth Salander, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Tagged: Good News, Friend, Happy
“Yale, economics, baseball. You're funny.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“It's an unfair game. Now we've been gutted, organ donors for the rich. Bostons taking our kidneys. Yankee's taking our heart. You guys are taking the same old good body nonsense like we're selling jeans. Like we're looking for Fabio.”
— Billy Beane, Moneyball
Tagged: Evolution, Business, Evolution of Business, Sports, Metaphors
“The night Naz was arrested, he lost a lot. He lost his freedom to return home to his family, to his school, to his night job that helps pay for that school. But what he didn’t lose, and what none of us can lose, were his Constitutional rights to an attorney, to a fair and impartial trial by you, his peers, and to the presumption of his innocence beyond a reasonable doubt.”
— Jack Stone, The Night Of, Season 1: Part 8
“For forty-one million, you built a playoff team. You lost Damon, Giambi, Isringhausen, Pena and you won more games without them than you did with them. You won the exact same number of games that the Yankees won, but the Yankees spent one point four million per win and you paid two hundred and sixty thousand. I know you've taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall. It always gets bloody, always. It's the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds it's threatening the game. But really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs, it's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government or a way of doing business or whatever it is, the people are holding the reins, have their hands on the switch. They go bat shit crazy. I mean, anybody who's not building a team right and rebuilding it using your model, they're dinosaurs. They'll be sitting on their ass on the sofa in October, watching the Boston Red Sox win the World Series.”
— Aaron Sorkin, Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, Moneyball
Tagged: Johnny Damon, jason Giambi, Yankees, Payroll, Boston Red Sox, world series
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