The Sopranos (TV Series)
The Fleshy Part of the Thigh (2006)
Tony Sirico: Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri
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Quotes
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Nucci : You didn't go to your mothers funeral? It's a sin.
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Some mother! Even a rat don't abandon its own children.
Nucci : Now you should feel sorry for her. Now she's going to have to face St Peter with the stain on her.
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : I hope she rots in hell!
Nucci : Don't say that!
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : And you, I was your meal ticket. The goose with the golden eggs. Look at this place, who set you up here? Not that fucking brother of mine! Or Rose! They never provided you with shit! Well, your real children can start now. I went without, so you could have. The mink coat, the massage chair from Sharper's Image. The flat screen TV!
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [moves towards the TV] Two thousand bucks for a woman I don't even know!
[he picks up the TV and throws it out of the window]
Nucci : Paulie! Paulie... please...
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : You're on your own. I never want to see you again.
[leaves]
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Tony Soprano : [while watching a boxing match together in the hospital, referring to the boxer Da Lux bet on] your boy's getting tired
Da Lux : The fool's costing me fifty G's
Tony Soprano : Who'd you play the action with?
Da Lux : Pinnacle
Tony Soprano : Online? What price did they give you on Alverez?
Da Lux : Three fifty
Tony Soprano : My friend here give you three seventy-five, right Paulie?
Tony Soprano : [after Paulie remains silent, referring to the boxer during the break] I wonder what kind of health insurance his getting?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : It's a life of abuse
John Schwinn : Well, he is a boxer
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : It's the same for everybody. Look at you T, you do your uncle a kindness: get shot for your efforts. You think you got family? In the end, they fuck you too
Tony Soprano : [to everyone in the room] His grieving, his aunt just died
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [Referring to the boxer] I'll tell ya each and every one of us are alone in the ring, fighting for our lives, just like that poor prick
John Schwinn : Well, that's one way to look at it
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : You got another one?
John Schwinn : Don't get me started, it's complicated
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : You think I'm stupid?
John Schwinn : It's actually an illusion those two boxers as separate entities
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : What the fuck?
John Schwinn : The separate entities is simply the way we chose to perceive them
Tony Soprano : I didn't choose nothing
John Schwinn : It's physics. Schrodinger's Equation: the boxers, you, me are all part of the same quantum field
Blinged-Out Girlfriend : You ever substitute teach at Carter Middle School?
Tony Soprano : His a rocket scientist for Christ's sake, Bell labs
Tony Soprano : [to Schwinn] you were saying?
John Schwinn : Well, think of those two boxers as ocean waves or two currents of air, two tornadoes, they appear to be two things right? Two separate things but they're not. The tornadoes are just wind stirred up in different directions. The fact is nothing is separate, everything is connected
Da Lux : Everything is everything, I'm down with that
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Tony Soprano : [while in the elevator after meeting with Phil] you got your head up your ass today, what's going on?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : My aunt Dottie's been sick, the call I got: she just died
Tony Soprano : Oh sorry, your mom's sister or your dad's?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Mom's
Tony Soprano : She must be broken up?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [after they arrive on their hospital floor] here we are
Tony Soprano : I guess your brother and sister are coming in?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah
Tony Soprano : Your aunt, the nun?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah
Tony Soprano : [Referring to the coif that is worn by nuns] I always wondered, they got hair under there?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah, short
Tony Soprano : Maybe you don't want to talk about it
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Yeah
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Tony Soprano : [Meeting outside the hospital] not even a courtesy call and you approach my company?
Phil Leotardo : No disrespect Tony, you've been in a coma
Tony Soprano : So that gives you Carte blanche?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : It's that fuckin John, his sitting in the can, the Feds are trying to take everything his got. His in a panic state
Tony Soprano : Alright I'm sensitive to that but whatever happens to Barone Sanitation, I've got to be kept on. I need that W-2 and now you can see I'm facing a long convalescence and Barone is my secondary insurance carrier. I need it
Phil Leotardo : John's going to take care of you, you know that. What your asking: twenty-five percent of the sales price, a year's salary until retirement, plus skim? Come on
Tony Soprano : [Eventually turns to Paulie and asks him] look, I don't want to argue. I'm not well so I'll give John a break on the skim. I'm getting two G's a week now
Tony Soprano : [to Paulie] how many stops we based that on?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [after Tony asks him a second time catching him off guard] eleven
Tony Soprano : The fuck you talking about? It's at least twenty-five
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [to Phil before his cell phone rings] twenty-five
Tony Soprano : Alright I'll take the skim on twenty, fifteen hundred a week but I stay on the payroll as is
Phil Leotardo : All I can do is deliver the message Anthony
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Meadow Soprano : [reading to him from a book] "In Montana, the fossilized remains of a Tyrannosaurus Rex yielded soft tissue that indicated a definite link between dinosaurs and modern birds"
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [while entering the room with Jason] Look who I got here
Tony Soprano : [referring to Jason] Oh, the "sanitation prince"
Jason Barone : [smiles] Hi, Tony, I'm sorry you're not feeling well
Tony Soprano : Thank you, sorry about your loss. Your father and I were very close
Tony Soprano : [gestures to her] Remember my daughter Meadow?
Tony Soprano : [introducing Meadow to him] Jason Barone
Meadow Soprano : Hi
Jason Barone : Hey
Tony Soprano : Remember when you were a kid, at that field box at Shea, opening day? Me, you, your dad, Paulie here?
Jason Barone : Oh, yeah, Kingman was just back from the Cubs
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Mookie Wilson hit that foul tip and beamed that guy in the lobe?
Meadow Soprano : [kisses Tony before leaving] I gotta get to the office: Finn's picking me up, I'll be back later
Tony Soprano : Sweetheart, thank you for everything
Meadow Soprano : [to Jason and Paulie, referring to Tony] Don't wear him out
Tony Soprano : [to Jason, referring to Meadow] She wants to be doctor
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Also considering law
Tony Soprano : [as Jason sits next his bed] So you living in... Deer Valley?
Jason Barone : Yeah, ski instructor
Tony Soprano : So, Paulie tells me your thinking of selling your father's business to Chuckie Cinelli?
Jason Barone : Yeah, I think it's the best thing for mom, and of course there'd be a severance package for you
Tony Soprano : [sighs] Frankly, I don't you should sell the business right now: there's a lot of "potential" buyers out there. When I get out of the hospital, I'll run the numbers and get you the "best price"
Meadow Soprano : Cinelli's offer seemed "fair"
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : There's lots of things to take into account: you even know what your is EBITDA is?
Jason Barone : [confused] My what?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization. It gives the picture of the company's profitability
Tony Soprano : [when Jason doesn't respond] Jason, you let me handle this, I don't wanna see you get hurt: the carting business is a different "corporate culture"
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : Your tired T, we'll leave, come on
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Nucci : [after stepping off the tour bus, excitingly] I won forty dollars at Keno
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [forcefully grabs her arm to take her to the side to talk privately] Is there something you want to talk to me about?
Nucci : [confused] what?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : I just saw Aunt Dottie and guess what? Turns out she's not my aunt, turns out she's my mother
Nucci : [shakes her head] No, that's not true
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [points at her] Don't bullshit me. You've been bullshitting me my entire life
Nucci : Paulie...
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [interrupts her] It's true, isn't it?
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : [when she looks down in shame, surprised] Son of a bitch!
Nucci : Oh, how I dreaded this day
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : I gave you everything, I gave you a son's love. All in the false pretense
Nucci : No
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : You're a fraud, you're a phony, and she's even worse, she's a whore, my mother's a fuckin whore
Nucci : Don't say that: she was a young girl and she wanted to be a nun but she got in trouble
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri : And you helped her out, "cooked" up this little scheme, forget who gets victimized
Nucci : I loved you, I always loved you