Nelson Van Alden Quotes

You think I’m stupid?[Al Capone]No successful man is stupid.[Nelson Van Alden]

Temptation knows no rank.[to Agent Sebso]

Sometimes I find it easier to despise someone than to love them.

Look, I don’t know about you, but my life is a f***ing shipwreck.[Elias ‘Eli’ Thompson][sarcastically]Well, land hо.[Nelson Van Alden]

I didn’t kill Stu. Al Capone did. But I have killed other men. The one you know about, the three that attacked me, and my partner.[Nelson Van Alden]Your what?[Dean O’Banion]I was a Prohibition agent. I drowned him with my bare hands. My name isn’t Mueller. I’m not legally married to my wife. I used to believe in God, but now I don’t believe in anything at all.[Nelson Van Alden]

Every no is one step closer to a yes.

A man needs to have the courage of his convictions.