Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

Ben Kingsley: The Rabbi

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• Slevin : Listen, I've been hearing that a lot lately...

  The Rabbi : [interrupting]  My father used to say: "The first time someone calls you a horse you punch him on the nose, the second time someone calls you a horse you call him a jerk but the third time someone calls you a horse, well then perhaps it's time to go shopping for a saddle."

• The Rabbi : The unlucky are nothing more than a frame of reference for the lucky. You are unlucky, so I may know that I am not. Unfortunately the lucky never realizes they are lucky until it's too late. Take yourself for instance; yesterday you were better off than you are off today but it took today for you to realize it. But today has arrived and it's too late. You see? People are never happy with what they have. They want what they had, or what someone else has.

• The Rabbi : You must be Mr. Fisher.

  Slevin : Must I be? Because that hasn't been working out for me lately.

  The Rabbi : But I'm afraid you must.

  Slevin : Well if I must.

• Slevin : How do you justify being a rabbi... and a gangster?

  The Rabbi : I don't. I'm a bad man who doesn't waste time wondering what could've been when I am what could've been and what could not have been. I live on both sides of the fence. My grass is always green. Consider, Mr. Fisher... there are two men sitting here before you, and one of them you should be very afraid of. Where's my money?

• The Rabbi : [whispering to Slevin]  Whatever they're paying you...

  [smiles slyly] 

  Slevin : [chuckles slightly]  There is no "they... " I did this to you. Me.

  The Rabbi : You?

  Slevin : Me.

  The Boss : Who ARE you?

• The Rabbi : If there's one thing I know, is when someone is lying. A man in my position, that's all he has to go on. To know a lie when he hears it. It's the difference between life and death. Your own. Someone else's. That being said, he wasn't lying.

• The Rabbi : You're unlucky and nothing more than a frame of reference for the lucky Mr. Fisher. You're unlucky, so that I may know that I am not. Unfortunately, the lucky never realised they are lucky until its too late. Take yourself for instance, yesterday you were better off than you are today but it took today for you to realise it. But, today has arrived and it's too late. You see?

• The Rabbi : Killing you before you killed me would have been...

  Slevin : Kosher?

  The Rabbi : Acceptable.