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Which character in "American Gangster" said...

So you think you are a fan of "American Gangster." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. For a cop the uppermost thing is the arrest. For a prosecutor, the arrest is nothing without the evidence to convict. We don't have any real evidence on anyone on this board, so they're coming down. We're starting over from the street.

  2. Brand names mean something, Nicky. Consumers rely on them to know what they're getting. They know the company isn't going to try to fool them with an inferior product. They buy a Ford, they know they're gonna get a Ford. Not a fuckin' Datsun. Blue Magic is a brand name; as much a brand name as Pepsi. I own it. I stand behind it. I guarantee it and people know that even if they don't know me any more than they know the chairman of General Foods.

  3. This is the problem. This is what's wrong with America. It's gotten so big you can't find your way.

  4. What're you doing counting this in front of everybody? Are you out of your fuckin' mind? Take it into a room. Now.

  5. This is my home. My country. Frank Lucas don't run from nobody. This is America.

  6. The man I worked for ran one of the biggest companies in New York City for almost fifty years. I was with him every day for fifteen of them, looking after him, taking care of things, protecting him, learning from him. Bumpy was rich, but never white man rich. Why? Because he didn't own the company. He thought he did. He didn't. He only managed it. Someone else owned it. So they owned him. Nobody owns me. Because I own my company. And my company sells a product that's better than the competition's at a price that's lower.

  7. [To Trupo]'Detective. There are some things you don't do. This is one of them. Not on a man's wedding day.

  8. Success. It's got enemies. You can be successful and have enemies or you can be unsuccessful and have friends.

  9. What are you saying? That because you were “honest” and didn't take money like every other cop, I left you? You don't take money for one reason: to buy being dishonest about everything else. And that's worse than taking money nobody gives a shit about - drug money, gambling money nobody's gonna miss. I'd rather you took it and been honest with me. Or don't take it, I don't care. But don't then go cheat on me. Don't cheat on your kid by never being around. Don't go out and get laid by your snitches and secretaries and strippers. I can tell just by looking, she's one of them. You think you're going to heaven because your “honest.” You're not. You're going to the same hell as the crooked cops you can't stand.

  10. It's chaos. Every gorilla for himself.

  11. When's the last time I was in Jersey? Let me think. Never. What're you doing coming over here without letting anybody know? You don't know you can get hurt doing that? You got your money. Now, never, ever, come into the city again unannounced. You come in to see a fuckin Broadway show you call ahead first to see if it's okay with me.

  12. What're you going to do, boy? Shoot me in broad daylight? In front of everyone?