A History of Violence (2005)

William Hurt: Richie Cusack

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Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  Richie Cusack : [Joey holds a gun to Richie's head]  Jesus, Joey.

  Tom Stall : [as Joey shoots Richie in the head, then stands over his dead body]  Jesus, Richie.

• [Richie tells Joey about the first day Joey came home as a baby] 

  Richie Cusack : You always were a problem for me, Joey. When mom brought you home from the hospital, I tried to strangle you in your crib. I guess all kids try to do that. She caught me, whacked the daylights out of me.

  Tom Stall : I've heard that story.

  Richie Cusack : Well, what do you think? Better late than never?

  Tom Stall : Richie... I'm here to make peace. Tell me what I got to do to make things right.

  Richie Cusack : You could do something, I guess.

  Richie Cusack : [Richie pauses as Ruben reaches into his sleeve behind Joey]  You could die, Joey.

• [Tom gets a phone call in the middle of the night] 

  Tom Stall : Hello?

  Richie Cusack : [voice]  Hey, Bro-heem. You're still pretty good with the killing. That's exciting.

  Tom Stall : Richie?

  Richie Cusack : [chuckles; voice]  Yeah, it's Richie. What do you say, Joey? Are you going to come see me? Or do I have to come see you?

• [Richie talks to Joey about the business] 

  Richie Cusack : What am I gonna do? You bust up a made man's place. You killed some of his guys. You take his eye. Jesus, Joey... you nearly took out his left eye. Barbed wire, wasn't it? That's disgusting. You always were the crazy one.

  Tom Stall : Not anymore.

  Richie Cusack : Yeah, I heard. You're living the American Dream. You really bought into it, didn't you? You've been this other guy, almost as long as you've been yourself. Hey, when you dream, are you still Joey?

  Tom Stall : Joey's been dead a long time.

  Richie Cusack : And yet here you sit... big as life. You know you cost me a lot of time and money. Before you pulled that shit with Fogarty, I was a shoe-in to take over when the boss croaked. A shoe-in. It was made very clear to me, Joey. I had to clean up your mess, or nothing was ever gonna happen for me! You got no idea how much shit I had to pull to get back in with those guys. You cost me! A hell of a lot, Joey. A hell of a lot!

  Tom Stall : Looks like you're doing all right over here.

  Richie Cusack : Yeah, I am, I am. I'm still behind the eight-ball... because of you. There's a certain lack of respect, a certain lack of trust. The boys in Boston are just waitin' for me to go down.

• [Richie yells and kills his own man after the man fails to kill Joey] 

  Richie Cusack : How do you fuck that up?

  Richie Cusack : [Richie kicks his man who lays on the ground, yelling]  How do you fuck that up?

  [as Richie shoots the man dead] 

• [Richie asks Joey if he likes being married] 

  Richie Cusack : Do you like being married?

  [Joey/Tom shrugs] 

  Richie Cusack : Does it work for you? I can't see it working for me. I never got the urge, you know? A lot of great-looking women in the world. I never met one made me wanna give up all the others.

• [Richie asks Joey about having a farm] 

  Richie Cusack : So, you like that farm life? Milking cows and shit?

  Tom Stall : I don't have a farm.

  Richie Cusack : [chuckles]  No? Fogarty thought you lived on some kind of farm. He said you could smell pig. How that old fart would know what a pig smells like, I don't know, but that's what he said.

• [Richie tells Joey he's pissed at him] 

  Richie Cusack : I'm pretty pissed at you, bro-heem. You could've called. You could've dropped a postcard in the mail. We're brothers, what'd you think would happen.

  Tom Stall : I thought that business would come first.

  Richie Cusack : Well, yeah. Yeah, I know.

• [Richie yells at one of his men when the man examines the dead body of a dead henchman] 

  Richie Cusack : What are you going to do, give him mouth-to-mouth? Did you see my brother? Fuckin' leave this and let's just kill that little fuck!

• [Joey sees Richie for the first time again] 

  Richie Cusack : Can you believe that place is still standing, 'The Track and Turf'? Didn't you bang Jill Levy there right on the bar in front of everybody?

  Tom Stall : I never banged Jill Levy.

  Richie Cusack : Well, you should've. She was... She was something.

• [Richie and Tom give each other a hug] 

  Tom Stall : How you dong, Richie?

  Richie Cusack : [Richie holds his head out to Joey]  Mmm.

  Richie Cusack : [Richie chuckles]  Yeah.

  Richie Cusack : [Richie hugs Joey]  It's been a long, long time, bro-heem.