Nicholas "Nick" Roth Quotes in Montana (1998)

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: [on the phone to Duncan] I know the boss will be so relieved to know that everything is going just fine. He was awfully upset about that little fiasco yesterday. I know you did everything you could to make us look bad. Anyway, I just wanted to call and tell you it's a great day to be me, mostly because I'm not you.

Duncan: There's a fine line between luck and skill.

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: In fact, there's no line at all.

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Kitty: Thoreau.

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: Amazing.

Kitty: I'm surprised you talk to me.

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: Well, the boss does not see in me the same threat he sees in other men.

Kitty: Why? You don't like girls?

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: [pause] My medications have taken their toll.

Kitty: They're just tools for the boss, they have no idea how badly they're being used.

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: Everyone is a tool for someone. The thing to consider is what exactly one should be used for.

[Jimmy tries in vain to prove his manhood to his father's henchmen by describing in detail the new pistol he's just acquired]

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: Do they make them for men?

Duncan: He's dead.

[feeling for a pulse on the neck of the bagman]

Nicholas "Nick" Roth: Of course he is.

[having shot the bagman]