Top 30 Quotes From Frank Lucas

[from trailer]
Frank: This is my home. This is where my business is, my wife, my mother, my family. This is my country, I ain't goin' nowhere.

Frank: Bumpy Johnson may have been rich, but he wasn't white man rich. He wasn't wealthy.

Frank: What you want me to do? Snitch? I know you don't want no cops. What you want? Gangsters? Pick one. Jew gangsters, mick gangsters, guinees? They been bleeding Harlem dry since they got off the boat. I don't give a fuck about no crime figures. You can have them.
Detective: I'll take them too.
Frank: You'll take them too? No you didn't. You talkin about police? You want police? You want your own kind?
Detective: They're not my kind. They're in business with you, they ain't my kind. They ain't my kind like the Italians are not yours.

Frank: What's with this outfit? You know what it says? You wanna know what it says? Arrest me!

Dominic: What do you think of monopolies?
Frank: You mean like the game?
Dominic: Nah, I just think that monopolies are made illegal in the country, Frank, 'cause nobody wants to compete. Y'know? Nobody wants to compete. Not with a monopoly. I mean, you let the dairy farmers do that, right? They'd be out of business tomorrow.
Frank: Just tryin' to make a livin'.
Dominic: 'Course you are right. Everyone's right. It's America. We just can't do it at that unreasonable expense of others. Because then it becomes un-American. That's why the price we pay for that gallon of milk could never represent the true cost of production 'cause it's gotta be controlled, right? It's got to be set. It's gotta be fair.
Frank: Gotta be controlled by who? I set a price that I think is fair.
Dominic: I don't think it's fair.
Frank: You don't?
Dominic: I don't think it's fair.
Frank: I think it's fair.
Dominic: I know your customers are happy Frank. Bunch of fuckin' junkies that they are. What about your fellow dairy farmers out here, Frank? Are you thinkin' of us? You thinkin' of them?
Frank: Dairy farmers?
Dominic: Yeah.
Frank: I'm thinking of them, Dominic, about as much as they've ever thought about me.
Dominic: I'm just thinking out loud now. If you took some of your inventory, Frank, and you sold it wholesale, we could work. We could do some distribution.
Frank: I dunno. I'm pretty good, Dominic. Yannow, I've got 110th to 155th-river to river-I'm alright.
Dominic: Well that's kind of a mom and pop store next to what I'm talking about. I mean, let's go at least bigger than K-mart. I'm talking about L.A. Chicago. Detroit. Las Vegas. Let's go nation-wide. Yannow. I'm gonna guarantee you peace of mind here. You're gonna want that. You're gonna need it. I don't know how you view me. Y'know, I'm kinda a Renaissance Man, Frank. Y'know, people I deal with on a daily basis, t-t-they're not enlightened, Frank. You talk to them about Civil Rights, they don't know, y'know? They're not open to things. Not from the way things are done. And who's doin' it? I talk to them, there's just no misunderstandings. And that's what I mean. Buy you peace of mind. Yeah.
Frank: You're paying what? Seventy-five? Eighty thousand a kilo? I'm a Renaissance Man too. I'll consider fifty thousand.

Detective: Did you pay your bills, Frank?
Frank: I don't know what you're talking about.
Detective: You pay your bills, I asked you?
Frank: Look, if you're not getting your share
Detective: [interupts] What's my share? Cause you don't even fuckin' know me. Maybe I'm special.

Frank: My man. You know what normal is to me? I ain't see normal since I was 6 years old. Normal is seeing the police ride up to my house, dragging my 12 year old cousin out and tying him to a pole, shoving a shotgun in his mouth so hard they bust his teeth, then they bust two shotgun shells in his head, knocking it off. That's what normal is to me. Didn't give a fuck about no police then... Don't give a fuck about no police now.

Detective: Good work Frank. You... want a drink or something? Celebrate?
Frank: You got any holy water?

Frank: They tried to kill my Wife!
Frank: Who are they?... Huh?... Maybe it was one of your people?
Dominic: I don't know yet.
Frank: You don't know.
Dominic: No.
Frank: You don't know.
Frank: I tell you what I know maybe I should just uh, put five hundred guns out there on the street and just start shooting up some people just to make a point.

[from trailer]
Frank: 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: What is that you got on?
Huey: What? This?
Frank: Yeah, that.
Huey: This is a very, very, very nice suit.
Frank: That's a very, very, very nice suit, huh?
Huey: Yeah.
Frank: That's a clown suit. That's a costume, with a big sign on it that says "Arrest me". You understand? You're too loud, you're making too much noise. Listen to me, the loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

Frank: I sell a product that's better than the competition at a price that's less than the competition.

Frank: Simple Simon-ass motherfuckers!

[from trailer]
Frank: I got Harlem. I took care of Harlem, so Harlem's gonna take care of me.

Frank: Now, I got no problem with you showin' up in court tomorrow with your head blown in half.
Detective: Get in line. That one stretches around the block too.

[last lines - extended cut]
[Frank observes some new-school gangstaz]
Frank: Even a fool gets to be young once.

Frank: The man I worked for, he had one of the biggest companies in New York City- he ran it for more than fifty years. Fifteen years, eight months, nine days- I was with him every day. I looked after him, took care of him, protected him... I learned from him. Bumpy was rich, but he wasn't white man rich, you see he wasn't wealthy. He didn't own his own company. He thought he did, but he didn't. He just managed it. White man owned it so they owned him. Nobody owns me, though. Because I own my company. And my company sells a product that's better than the competition at a price that's lower than the competition.

Redtop: What's the matter? Ain't you niggas never seen naked coochie before?
Huey: Why they all naked?
Frank: So they can't steal nothin'.

[repeated line]
Frank: My man.

Mama: You don't shoot cops. Even I know that. Eva knows it. The only one who DOESN'T seem to know is you.
Frank: [ignores her pleas as he escorts her outside] All right, Mama. I'm not going to, I promise you. I'm not going to shoot anyone.
Mama: I never asked you where all this stuff came from, because I didn't want to hear you lie to me. Please...
Frank: [talking over her] Ma, I understand. I don't want you to worry about it. Now come on, I have to go...
Mama: Don't LIE to me!
[slaps Frank roughly]
Mama: Don't... don't do that. Do you want to make things so bad for your family that they'll leave you? Because they will.
Frank: [dismissively] No. No, Ma, I understand...
Mama: [points towards Eva] She will leave you. *I* will LEAVE you!

[from trailer]
Frank: This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.

Nephew: I don't wanna play baseball no more.
Frank: Well, what do you want?
Nephew: I want what you got Uncle Frank. I wanna be you.

[repeated line]
Frank: 20 Percent.

Detective: [after Detective Trupo finds Blue Magic in a small bag in the car] What are we gonna do about this?
Frank: We ain't gon' do shit about it. Close it up. Throw it back in the trunk. Everybody go home. Have some pumpin pie, warm apple cider...
Detective: I got a better idea, or would you rather me throw you and your brother in the fuckin' river?
Frank: Or, would you rather your house blows up next time?

Eva: You're Frank and this is your place?
Frank: That's right. I'm Frank and this is my place.
Eva: Why is it called Small's? Why don't you call it Frank's?
Frank: When you own something, you can call it what you want.

Frank: The loudest one in the room is the weakest one in the room.

Frank: Ey, ey, ey, ey! Don't rub on that. You Blot that! Ya understand? That's Alpaca. That's $25,000 Alpaca! You blot that shit! You don't rub it, put the club soda on there.

Frank: I don't care what you call it, put a choke-hold on the motherfucker and call it Blue Dog Shit.

Chinese: How would you get it into the States?
Frank: You ain't got to worry about that.
Chinese: Who do you work for in there?
Frank: You ain't got to worry about that, either.
Chinese: Who are you really?
Frank: It says right there, Frank Lucas.
Chinese: I mean, who do you represent?
Frank: Me.

Frank: The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hardwork... family... never forgetting where we came from.