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"[voice over] When I was young, I thought house painters painted houses. What did I know? I was a working guy, a business agent for Teamster Local 107 out of South Philly. [speaking] One of a thousand working stiffs, until I wasn't no more. And then I started painting houses myself."
"Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was."
"[about his boss to be] I thought maybe he owned the gas station. 'Cause he owned something, you could tell. Yeah, it turns out he owned the whole road."
"[after a flashback in which Hoffa's body is secretly disposed of by incineration] It was no more complicated than that."
"You always charge a guy with a gun! With a knife, you run away."
"If I said it once, I said it a thousand times, I don't care they're Irish. I don't care they're Catholic. If there's one person you can't trust in this life, it's millionaires' kids."
"You don't keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something. When you want to say fuck you."
"I am sitting in a room... full of fuckin' idiots. You dumb motherfuckers! You know what you did? You take Johnny O'Rourke's kid and you put him on as general organizer, pay thirty-six fucking grand, at the same time... you let him sell insurance to his fucking father's...[leans over the table shaking his head] To his fucking father's... to his fucking father's... LOCALS! [slams table] Damn it! How do you do that? How STUPID can you be? That fucking cocksucker Kennedy has got his nose up my ass everywhere I go! You don't know that they're hounding me? They're looking at everything I do, and you let this happen in public! You're giving it to him! [in a calmer tone] I'm going to jail. You understand? I'm going to prison... because of you. You dumb motherfuckers. This is what you wanted. You wanted to put me in jail. Tell me now so I can kill you... right here. [slams table again] Right here!"
"It's at a point where your gonna have to talk to him and tell him, "It's what it is". It's what they want. It's where it's gotten."
"If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it."
"Frank, I had to put you into this thing, or you would never let it happen, and I know you wouldn't. [pause] But it's gonna happen. Either way, he's going. [pause] I know how you feel, Frank. Trust me. I know how you feel. I told you before, we tried everything to help him, you know that. You tried. He brought this on himself. And it's landing on us. [pause] The only reason they agreed to this, is out of respect to me. But you and Reenie will be okay. Cuz you're with me. You're with me."
"Jimmy was a good man, you know? He had a nice family too, huh? I never wanted it to go that far. [pause] I picked us, over him. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em."
"Mangia, che cresci. Figlio mio, mangia. - (Eat, so you'll grow. Eat, my son.)"
"Time Changes Nothing."
"His story changed history."
"Robert De Niro - Frank Sheeran"
"Al Pacino - Jimmy Hoffa"
"Joe Pesci - Russell Bufalino"
"Ray Romano - Bill Bufalino"
"Bobby Cannavale - Felix "Skinny Razor" Ditullio"
"Anna Paquin - Peggy Sheeran"
"Stephen Graham - Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano"
"Harvey Keitel - Angelo Bruno"
"Stephanie Kurtzuba - Irene Sheeran"
"Kathrine Narducci - Carrie Bufalino"
"Welker White - Josephine "Jo" Hoffa"
"Jesse Plemons - Chuckie O'Brien"
"Jack Huston - Robert F. Kennedy"
"Domenick Lombardozzi - Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno"
"Paul Herman - Whispers DiTullio"
"Louis Cancelmi - Salvatore "Sally Bugs" Briguglio"
"Gary Basaraba - Frank "Fitz" Fitzsimmons"
"Marin Ireland - Dolores Sheeran"
"Sebastian Maniscalco - "Crazy" Joe Gallo"
"Aleksa Palladino - Mary Sheeran"
"Kevin O'Rourke - John McCullough"
"J. C. MacKenzie - James F. Neal"
"Larry Romano - Philip Testa"
"Joseph Bono - Frank Sindone"
"Craig Vincent - Edward "Ed" Partin"
"Louis Vanaria - David Ferrie"
"Jennifer Mudge - Maryanne Sheeran"
"Kate Arrington - Connie Sheeran"
"Garry Pastore - Albert Anastasia"
"John Scurti - Bertram B. Beveridge"
"Steve Witting - William Miller"
"Stephen Mailer - F. Emmett Fitzpatrick"
"Jeremy Luke - Marco Rossi"
"Steven Van Zandt - Jerry Vale"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.