THE LINE: “When I was growing up, they would say you could become cops or criminals. But what I’m saying is this. When you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?”
THE FILM: In this Boston-set 2006 mob drama, directed by Martin Scorsese, Nicholson plays a gang leader who lets a police mole into the organization—at the same time that he has placed his own mole with the police. And those moles aren’t even the only ones playing for both sides.