Steven Van Zandt credited as playing...
Silvio Dante
- Gerry Torciano: [while in a restaurant] All due respect, he's a great guy, Doc, but boss material?
- Silvio Dante: [referring to the boss of the crime family] The important thing is we all work together: whoever winds up in the driver's seat
- Gerry Torciano: [shakes his head] Phil though, I'll never get it, the man was my mentor, it was right there for the taking
- Silvio Dante: [referring to Phil's heart attack] His heart, what's he gonna do?
- Gerry Torciano: That's my point though: what you just said, Johnny goes away, it's Phil's turn in the driver's seat and his heart gives out
- Silvio Dante: Right
- Gerry Torciano: His heart
- Silvio Dante: [irritated, confused] I know, what?
- Gerry Torciano: It's a metaphor, he lost his balls is what I'm saying
- Silvio Dante: Just say it then, Walt fuckin Whitman over here
- J.T. Dolan: [greeting them after walking up to them at bar inside the Bada Bing strip club] gentlemen
- Silvio Dante: hey, how are ya?
- Tony Soprano: [jokingly, referring to the character played by William Shatner] TJ Hooker
- J.T. Dolan: [correcting him, amused] JT, actually, I'm looking for Chris, I'm supposed to meet him
- Silvio Dante: [referring to Christopher's unlikeness being found in a bar because of his sobriety] here?
- J.T. Dolan: [while holding his cell phone] the thing is, he left me a message but this fuckin Version, mind if I wait?
- J.T. Dolan: [after Tony gestures to him to sit, to the bartender] diet Coke, please
- J.T. Dolan: [to everybody, referring to the movie he wrote and Christopher produced] so, what'd you think of Cleaver?
- Tony Soprano: oh, it was good, congratulations
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [irritated, referring to a return from the money they invested] I hope we're gonna see some money soon
- J.T. Dolan: yeah, as a writer, you can never really tell, you know, come up with an idea, you don't know how the audience is gonna respond. I mean, just because I like something I think of, doesn't mean anyone else will
- Tony Soprano: that's the "challenge", huh?
- J.T. Dolan: it is "challenging" sometimes: inventing characters, having them interact: the boss, Sally Boy, for example, his whole persona, I "stole" that from Broderick Crawford in "Born Yesterday"
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: what's that?
- J.T. Dolan: [referring to the writer of the movie, the year it was released and the plot] Garson Kanin, in the 1950's, it's terrific. William Holden falls in love with Crawford's girlfriend played by Judy Holliday
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [to JT] the black girl, the singer?
- Silvio Dante: [correcting Paulie] nah, that's Billie Holiday
- J.T. Dolan: [to Paulie] although Judy's character in the movie is also named "Billie" too so I can see why your "confused"
- Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [irritated] I've never seen it, why would I be "confused"?
- J.T. Dolan: [nervously, to Tony] anyway, the Sally Boy character is based on Crawford, sort of a big burly guy, the love triangle coupling of Michael sleeping with the fiancée, very similar to the Holden/Holliday "dynamic"
- Tony Soprano: so, the whole "thing" was your idea?
- J.T. Dolan: [raises his drink to toast] apologies to Garson Kanin