James Gandolfini credited as playing...
Tony Soprano
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You know where I was yesterday when you called?
- Dr Jennifer Melfi: I don't know.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: I was outside a whorehouse, while a guy that works for me was inside beating the shit out of a guy that owes me money. Broke his arm. Put a bullet in his kneecap.
- Dr Jennifer Melfi: How'd that make you feel?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Wished it was me in there.
- Dr Jennifer Melfi: Giving the beating or taking it?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You know, sometimes what happens in here is like taking a shit.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Yes, okay. Although I prefer to think of it more like childbirth.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Trust me. It's like taking a shit.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [to Silvio] All due respect, you got no fuckin' idea what it's like to be Number One. Every decision you make affects every facet of every other fuckin' thing. It's too much to deal with almost. And in the end you're completely alone with it all.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Let's get back to Pie-O-My, it's sad that you lost something you loved. That being said, it is a horse.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: What the fuck's the matter with you?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Sil, break it down for 'em. What two businesses have been recession-proof since time immemorial?
- Silvio Dante: Certain aspects of show business and our thing.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You're getting better, that's the important thing. You look better too.
- Corrado Erico 'Uncle Junior' Soprano: If you're gonna lie to me, tell me there's a broad waiting in the car who wants to tongue my balls.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You want that, it's a phone call away.
- [Christopher just got out of drug rehab]
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Which one of the twelve steps you on now?
- Christopher Moltisanti: The only one I haven't exactly done is go around to all the people I fucked over while I was using and apologize.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: ...maybe you shouldn't do that one. Let sleeping dogs lie.
- Christopher Moltisanti: That's what I was thinking.
- [Christopher is stoned]
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Been wanting to talk to you.
- Christopher Moltisanti: Yeah, been wanting to talk to you too.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: I'll go first. I gotta make it my number one priority to limit my exposure to potentially damaging conversations and wiretaps, shit like that.
- Christopher Moltisanti: Sure, guy in your position.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: So, over the next couple of years, more and more, I'm gonna be giving my orders through you, and then finally only through you.
- Christopher Moltisanti: And what about Sil? You got that with him and Paulie.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Those other guys, Sil, Paulie... one thing they're not: they're not my blood. You hear what I'm saying to you? It's a matter of trust.
- Christopher Moltisanti: That's very wise.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Sil's a good consigliere, he's gonna continue on as such, but he's no fucking spring chicken either. On the other hand, there's no reason to be giving him a fucking attitude either.
- Christopher Moltisanti: No, course not.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: There's gonna be a period of transition.
- Christopher Moltisanti: Jesus Christ, T.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You're gonna take this family into the twenty-first century.
- Christopher Moltisanti: We're already in the twenty-first century, though, T...
- [Tony looks at him, confused]
- Christopher Moltisanti: Whatever you say, T. I'd follow you into the gates of hell.
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Are you still taking the lithium?
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Lithium, Prozac. When's it gonna end?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: We're trying to give a jolt to your system. Give it... a little kick-start.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Why not kick me in the head?
- Dr. Jennifer Melfi: What you're going through is very painful, I know that.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You get stabbed in the ribs, that's painful. This shit, I don't feel nothing. Nothing. Dead. Empty.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: All right, obviously you told the cops you don't know who did this.
- Vito Spatafore: I'm upset, but please. I know how to keep my mouth shut.
- Ralph Cifaretto: Unless of course there's a salami sandwich around.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: It wasn't like it was friggin' Cobain! It was just a little suicidal gesture, that's all.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [about his father] He'd been in prison. He was away when I was a little kid. They told me he was in Montana, being a cowboy.
- Livia Soprano: [at the dinner table talking about AJ's behavior] Oh, his father was the same way. I practically LIVED in that vice principal's office.
- Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Could we not, please?
- Livia Soprano: Well, you only remember what you want to remember. Yeah, well, I must have had another son who stole a car when he was ten years old.
- [pause]
- Livia Soprano: Yeah, he could barely see over the steering wheel.