Stanley Tucci movie quotes

“The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.”
Stanley Tucci

“I like to see how I can do it for less money.”
Stanley Tucci

“I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.”
Stanley Tucci

“You must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man.”
Stanley Tucci - Abraham Erskine

“All these years you've been living under the protection of people who care about you, and those same people are protecting you now, including me. So, if you go ahead with this, if you open that door, you're walking through it alone, and all that loyalty, and all that trust will no longer exist for you. And Mike, you won't make it. Not on your...” (continue)(continue reading)

Stanley Tucci - Frank Nitti

“Is everything all right? It sounds like you're having sex in here, which I know can't be true due to the fact that you have a homosexual boyfriend.”

Stanley Tucci - Dill

“For here, in the great unknowable, man can come to know the most important thing of all - himself. He can understand.”

Stanley Tucci - Zimsky

“- Will Emerson: Well, you're a better man than me.
- Eric Dale: That's always been true.”
Paul Bettany - Will Emerson
Stanley Tucci - Eric Dale

“- Harvey: I really don't like it when you tease the dogs.
- Vernon: What are you, some kind of animal lover?”
Oliver Platt - Harvey
Stanley Tucci - Vernon

“Many people forget that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own.”
Stanley Tucci - Abraham Erskine

“You are the butter to my bread, you are the breath to my life.”
Stanley Tucci - Paul Child

“- Arthur: Oh, no! We're going to die! We're going to...
- Maurice: Don't you see? This will be your great dramatic death!
- Arthur: I don't want a real one!”
Stanley Tucci - Arthur
Oliver Platt - Maurice

“- Jeff Blue: You know that looks really great on TV, but in real life you get better results if you just kind of hold it like this and...
- Muerte: Shut up! Shut up!!
- Jeff Blue: Do you always have this much problem with a little constructive criticism?”

Dennis Quaid - Jeff Blue
Stanley Tucci - Muerte

“My point is, sir, that you would not know a good creampuff if it jumped up and licked you on the ass.”
Stanley Tucci - Arthur

“- Secondo: Primo, do you know why this night is happening?
- Primo: No.
- Secondo: Because it has to happen.”
Stanley Tucci - Secondo
Sir Ian Holm - Pascal

“- Maurice: To life.
- Arthur: And its many deaths.”

Oliver Platt - Maurice
Stanley Tucci - Arthur

“- Michael Sullivan: I'd like to work for you.
- Frank Nitti: Well... that's very interesting.
- Michael Sullivan: And in return, I'd like you to turn a blind eye to... what I have to do.
- Frank Nitti: And what is that?
- Michael Sullivan: Kill the man who murdered my family.”
Tom Hanks - Michael Sullivan
Stanley Tucci - Frank Nitti

“- Rat: How many languages do you speak?
- Zimsky: Five, actually.
- Rat: I speak one... One Zero One Zero Zero. With that I could steal your money, your secrets, your sexual fantasies, your whole life. Any country, any place, any time I want. We multitask like you breathe. I couldn't think as slow as you if I tried.”
DJ Qualls - Rat
Stanley Tucci - Zimsky

“Sometimes you land a small fish. You unhook him very carefully. You place him back in the water. You set him free so that somebody else can have the pleasure of catching him.”
Stanley Tucci - Frank Dixon

“- Primo: Give people time, they will learn.
- Secondo: This is a restaurant! This is not a fucking school!”
Tony Shalhoub - Primo
Stanley Tucci - Secondo

- Mrs. Copperbottom: I told you I'd find him! It's a mother's instinct.
- Herb Copperbottom: What instinct? He left us a note, "I'm leaving, I'll be at the train station".
Dianne Wiest - Mrs. Copperbottom
Stanley Tucci - Herb Copperbottom

“- Woman in Restaurant: Monsieur, is this what I ordered?
- Secondo: Yes, that is the Risotto. It is a special recipe that my brother and I bring from Italy. It's delicious, I promise.
- Woman in Restaurant: It took so long, I thought you went back to Italy to get it.”
Caroline Aaron - Woman in Restaurant
Stanley Tucci - Secondo

“Mr. Mayor, my column gave you this office, and it can take it away.”
Stanley Tucci - Walter Winchell

“- Bob: Beautiful country, Italy.
- Secondo: You ever been there?
- Bob: No.”
Campbell Scott - Bob
Stanley Tucci - Secondo

“- Bob: I have a younger brother. I hate his guts.
- Secondo: Why?
- Bob: He's cheap.
- Secondo: But he's your brother.
- Bob: He's a person. I hate cheap people.”
Campbell Scott - Bob
Stanley Tucci - Secondo