Joe Coughlin Quotes in Live by Night (2016)

Joe Coughlin: You realize to be free in this life, breaking the rules meant nothing. You have to be strong enough to make your own.

[from trailer]

Joe Coughlin: This is heaven. Right here. We're in it now.

[from trailer]

Joe Coughlin: 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 gonna live it. I had a plan. Do you think that we got where we are by lettin' some inbreds muscle us?

Virgil Beauregard: If that's what you think we are, you makin' a fatal miscalculation. We're clerks, bankers, police officers, we ain't gotta judge. And if ya didn't wanna have to fight us, I'm gon rain bloody hellfire down on you and all you love.

Joe Coughlin: So you're threatening me with people that are more powerful than you?

Virgil Beauregard: [shrugs] Exactly.

Joe Coughlin: ...So who am I talkin' to you for?

Dion Bartolo: [pulls gun, shoots at Beauregard]

Joe Coughlin: I don't wanna be a gangster. Stopped kissing rings a long time ago.

[from trailer]

Loretta Figgis: My father says there once was a good man in you.

Joe Coughlin: We all find ourselves in lives we didn't expect.

Loretta Figgis: Repent. Repent. Repent.

Graciella Suarez: Even if you win today's battle, there's so much violence in what you do.

Joe Coughlin: You don't think I'm strong enough?

Graciella Suarez: I don't know if you're cruel enough.

Joe Coughlin: Powerful men don't have to be cruel.