Road to Perdition quotes

38 total quotes

Harlen Maguire
John Rooney
Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan, Jr.
Others

View Quote Michael Sullivan: You gonna frisk me?
Frank the Bouncer: Should I?
Michael Sullivan: It's a good idea.

View Quote Mr. McDougal: Well this is a pleasant surprise. I wasn't expecting another deposit until the end of the month.
Michael Sullivan: Actually, I'm making a withdrawal. [Pulls his gun] And I want dirty money only, everything you're holding for Capone that's off the books. Open the safe.
Mr. McDougal: You're insane. You know they'll find out who you are.
Michael Sullivan: The name's Sullivan. You want me to spell it?

View Quote Mr. McDougal: You really trust me not to say anything?
Michael Sullivan: Always trust a bank manager.

View Quote Peter Sullivan: Why are you always smiling?
Connor Rooney: 'Cause it's all so ****in' hysterical.

View Quote [a knock at the door]
Alexander Rance: It's open. Top marks for speed, no marks for cookery.
[holding plate with egg]
Alexander Rance: What, may I ask, do you call this?
Michael Sullivan: Put it down.
Alexander Rance: Mr. Sullivan!
Michael Sullivan: Mr. Rance.
Alexander Rance: How did you find me?
Michael Sullivan: This is the best hotel in the area and you are so very... particular.
Alexander Rance: Yes, indeed, Mr. Sullivan.

View Quote [Maguire has pulled out a camera]
Michael Sullivan: Is that, uh... your profession or... your pleasure?
Harlen Maguire: Both, I guess. To be paid to do what you love... ain't that the dream?

View Quote [Sullivan has a gun to Kelly's head]
Jack Kelly: Think, Mike. Don't be stupid. I'm just the messenger.
Michael Sullivan: [lowers his gun] Then give Mr. Rooney a message for me.
Jack Kelly: What is it?
[Sullivan shoots him]

View Quote [to Michael] I'm glad it's you.

View Quote A man of honor always pays his debts... and keeps his word.

View Quote I curse... the ****ing... day... you were born. I curse it!

View Quote I saw then that my father's only fear was that his son would follow the same road. And that was the last time I ever held a gun. People always thought I grew up on a farm. And I guess, in a way, I did. But I lived a lifetime before that, in those six weeks on the road in the winter of 1931. When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them... he was my father.

View Quote I shoot the dead. Dead bodies, that is. I don't kill them.

View Quote I'm something of a rarity.

View Quote I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry... I'm sorry.

View Quote If I'm not back in half an hour, you go see Reverend Lynch at First Methodist and you tell him what's happened. Do NOT go to Father Callaway.