American Hustle (2013)

Christian Bale: Irving Rosenfeld

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• Richie DiMaso : You got any other questions?

  Paco Hernandez : Yeah, I think the name of this operation is offensive. What, Abscam? "Arab-scam"? It's racist!

  Irving Rosenfeld : Are you fucking kidding? What do you care? You're Mexican.

• Irving Rosenfeld : I felt like we had a secret, just the two of us. Like that thing where you just wanna be with one person all the time. You feel like the two of you get something no one else gets.

• Rosalyn Rosenfeld : We fight and then we fuck, that's our thing.

  Irving Rosenfeld : [Narrating]  She was the Picasso of passive-aggressive karate.

• [from trailer] 

  Irving Rosenfeld : Did you ever have to find a way to survive and you knew your choices were bad, *but* you had to survive?

• Irving Rosenfeld : Always take a favor over money. I think Jesus said that as well.

• Irving Rosenfeld : [Rosalyn has accidentally destroyed their new microwave]  I told you not to put metal in the science oven, what did you do that for?

  Rosalyn Rosenfeld : Don't make such a big deal! Just get another one.

  Irving Rosenfeld : I don't want another one, want the one that Carmine gave me.

  Rosalyn Rosenfeld : [mocking]  Oh, Carmine! I want the one that Carmine gave me! Carmine! Carmine!

  [serious] 

  Rosalyn Rosenfeld : Why don't you just marry Carmine? Get a little gold microwave and put it on a chain around your neck! You wanna be more like Carmine? Why don't you build something, like he does? Instead of all your empty deals; they're just like your fuckin' science oven. You know, I read that it takes all of the nutrition out of our food! It's empty, just like your deals. Empty! Empty!

  Irving Rosenfeld : Listen to this bullshit.

  Rosalyn Rosenfeld : It's not bullshit! I read it in an article, look: By Paul Brodeur.

  [hands Irving the article] 

  Rosalyn Rosenfeld : Bring something into this house that's gonna take all the nutrition out of our food and then light our house on fire? Thank God for me.

• [last lines] 

  Irving Rosenfeld : We took down some very big guys. Some of whom, they were just doing business as usual, helping their communities or their states, but some of them knew they had larceny in their blood, and they even admitted it. But in all, it was six congressmen, one United States senator, and my friend Carmine Polito. We gave the two million back, so that Carmine got a reduced sentence, 18 months. The loss of his friendship would haunt me the rest of my life. When the story was written, Richie DiMaso's name was never mentioned. Syd and I, we moved in together. Rosalyn? She would always be interesting. Our conning days were behind us. You can fool yourself for just so long, that your next reinvention you better have your damn feet on the ground. We got a loan from a bank and were able to go gallery-legitimate. The art of survival, is a story that never ends.

• Irving Rosenfeld : I'm like the fucking Vietcong, man, all right? I'm in and I'm out. I was there the whole time. You don't know it, all right? That's the fuckin' art of becoming somebody who people can pin their beliefs and their dreams on.

• Irving Rosenfeld : You're young. You're beautiful. You gotta go out and find somebody else. Get some friends. Alright?

  Rosalyn Rosenfeld : I don't like going out. I get anxiety when I have to meet people. You know how hard that is.

• Rosalyn Rosenfeld : You told me that you wanted me to find a nice, quiet man. He's the one.

  Irving Rosenfeld : Oh, what a doozy you picked. Oh, you hit that... He's the most dangerous guy ever.

  Rosalyn Rosenfeld : Well, what do you expect, Irving? I know everybody through you!

• Irving Rosenfeld : I'm going out for dinner with Carmine and the wives out in Camden.

  Richie DiMaso : Who?

  Irving Rosenfeld : Carmine, and myself, and the wives.

  Richie DiMaso : What? Without me?

  Irving Rosenfeld : He doesn't like you, what do you want from me? I got him to take the money, you got him on tape, I mean, I can't make him like you. I did my job.

• [first lines] 

  Richie DiMaso : What are you doing, going behind my back? Telling people I'm screwing up this operation? I got you a suite at the fucking Plaza Hotel.

  Irving Rosenfeld : The shittiest suite at the Plaza Hotel.

• Sydney Prosser : [reluctantly realizing his angle]  Everybody at the bottom crosses paths eventually in a pool of desperation and you're waiting for them...

  Irving Rosenfeld : How about "we"?

• Irving Rosenfeld : Is that Duke Ellington on your bracelet?

  Sydney Prosser : Yeah as a matter of fact it is he died this year.

  Irving Rosenfeld : I know. I doubt anyone else here knows or cares about it.

  Sydney Prosser : Well I care about it he saved my life many times.

  Irving Rosenfeld : Mine too.