Edward Norton: Steve

The Italian Job

Steve

Steve: Still don't trust me?
Stella: I trust everyone. It's the devil inside them I don't trust.
Steve: That's an interesting saying. It's very charming. I knew a guy who said that. He said it all the time. In fact he said it exactly like that.

Steve: [in a restaurant] Don't talk about right or wrong with me, man, because I don't give a shit. Okay? You got your cards, I got my cards. We made our play, and I came out on top. Okay? Now, if you want to start the game up again, that's fine with me. What is your play here, really? Come on, what do you? What do you think? You'll try to take out my guards, right? I have five of them that you don't know about. You'll try to have Lyle hack the system? I'll change it again tomorrow morning. What was your final move? I mean. Have Bridger's daughter come in and try to crack my safe? That's very poetic and all, but I just don't see it. I don't think she'll get anywhere near it.
Charlie Croker: Same old Steve huh? Always thinking defensively. That's why you're always number two.

Steve: [in a restaurant] You blew the best thing you had going for you. You blew the element of surprise.
Charlie Croker: [punching him] Surprised?

[as Mashkov's men are taking him away, Steve's panicking]
Steve: Look, I'll double whatever Charlie's given you, just don't shoot me!
Mashkov: Don't worry, I'm not going to shoot you. No, I'm going to take you to my workplace. I think you'll be very interested in some of the machinery I use.

Charlie Croker: [in a restaurant] You've got no imagination. You couldn't even decide what to do with all that money, so you had to buy what everybody else wanted.
Steve: Try this on your imagination, okay. That gold is already gone.

Steve: So if I was to ask you out for dinner, would I be the first one of your customers to ever do that?
Stella: [pretending to be Becky, cable repairman] Did you ask your last cable repair guy out to dinner?
Steve: No. But the last one was like three hundred pounds and had a handlebar mustache, not exactly my type.

Charlie Croker: Steve, what the hell are you doing?
Steve: [pointing a gun at them] Made a few plans of my own.
John Bridger: There's nowhere you can go where we won't find you, Steve. You know that.
Steve: I think that's probably right, John.

Stella: [pretending to be Becky, cable repairman] I don't go out with strange men. I just met you five minutes ago.
Steve: I guess I'll just have to sabotage my cable, you know, till we get to know each other well enough.

Charlie Croker: Steve, how we looking?
Steve: [in one of the rooms in their joint] Papa took the boat to work at 8:15, so the garage is empty. Mama left with daughter at 8:30 for pre-school as usual. So for the next 45 minutes, we own this place, gentlemen.

Steve: [to Charlie] You're out of moves. The game is over. Just give up already.

John Bridger: Still no word from the garbagemen?
Steve: Hey, who got you the beekeepers in Budapest? They'll be there. You can trust these guys.
John Bridger: Steve, how many times do I have to tell you? I trust everyone, I just don't trust the devil inside them.

Yevhen: You know that the Florida vote rigging was a CIA and mob operation.
Steve: Is that so?
Yevhen: Yeah, which is not so very different from when your John F. Kennedy won a rigged election with the help of his father. You're uncomfortable that I mentioned it.