Live by Night

Joe Coughlin: "I don't want to be a gangster. I stopped kissing rings a long time ago."
Gangster: "It no longer matters what you want, you're in this life."

"We do what we want to do, we go where we want to go."
[to Joe]

"I signed up to fight in the war. I went away a soldier, I came home an outlaw."

Graciella: "Even if you win today's battle there's so much violence in what you do."
Joe: "You don't think I'm strong enough?"
Graciella: "I don't know if you're cruel enough."
Joe: "Powerful men don't have to be cruel."

"Maybe it's true, we all find ourselves in lives we didn't expect. But what I learned was powerful men don't have to be cruel. I got one guaranteed life, I was going to live it. I had a plan."