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# Charles Brandt

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Charles Brandt was an American investigator, lawyer, writer and speaker who authored the memoir I Heard You Paint Houses about Frank Sheeran, which became the 2019 film The Irishman.

## About Charles Brandt

The memoir is a narrative non‑fiction account of Frank Sheeran. The Irishman was directed by Martin Scorsese and starred Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci.

##  Quotes by Charles Brandt · Page 4

> [“That’s right, yeah. I told him I’d be in Detroit tomorrow. I better start driving right now.” “Don’t be in such a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/that-s-right-yeah-i-told-him-i-d-be-in-detroit-tomorrow-i-better/)

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> [“I went to work for the union around the time all this was going on, right after Jimmy got the president’s job.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/i-went-to-work-for-the-union-around-the-time-all-this-was-going-on/)

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> [“You didn’t know who to trust, but you kept taking cabbies aside and persuading them to sign a card. For some reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/you-didn-t-know-who-to-trust-but-you-kept-taking-cabbies-aside-and/)

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> [“As Hoffa told Johnny Dio in one of those wiretapped conversations that he couldn’t remember: “… treat them right and you don’t have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/as-hoffa-told-johnny-dio-in-one-of-those-wiretapped-conversations/)

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> [“did a lot of wine drinking overseas. I used the wine over there the way the jeeps used gasoline. And I kept…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/did-a-lot-of-wine-drinking-overseas-i-used-the-wine-over-there-the/)

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[Seven days](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/seven-days/)

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> [“Bill handed me an envelope. I handed it back to him. I told him, “I’ll do a friend a favor.” Russell had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/bill-handed-me-an-envelope-i-handed-it-back-to-him-i-told-him-i-ll-do/)

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> [“Running up out of the surf on to the beach at St. Tropez I thought I was shot. I looked down and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/running-up-out-of-the-surf-on-to-the-beach-at-st-tropez-i-thought-i/)

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> [“Now I understood why Russell would ask me to drive him to different places and wait for him in the car while…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/now-i-understood-why-russell-would-ask-me-to-drive-him-to-different/)

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> [“When the waiter came I ordered a glass of Chianti, and Bill kicked me under the table and shook his head “no.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/when-the-waiter-came-i-ordered-a-glass-of-chianti-and-bill-kicked-me/)

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> [“held. This was before the U.S. Supreme Court changed all the laws on search and seizure. Fifty-eight of the most powerful mobsters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/held-this-was-before-the-u-s-supreme-court-changed-all-the-laws-on/)

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> [“In February 1957, Hoffa contacted a New York lawyer named John Cye Cheasty. Cheasty had been in the Navy and the Secret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/in-february-1957-hoffa-contacted-a-new-york-lawyer-named-john-cye/)

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> [“Future presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts were members of the committee. The committee’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/future-presidential-candidates-senator-barry-goldwater-of-arizona-and/)

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> [“The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania had blue laws that didn’t allow bars to be open on Sunday. No stores were open. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/the-commonwealth-of-pennsylvania-had-blue-laws-that-didn-t-allow-bars/)

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[Baseball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/baseball/)

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> [“they wanted the guy left right there on the sidewalk as a message to those who needed to know the guy did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/they-wanted-the-guy-left-right-there-on-the-sidewalk-as-a-message-to/)

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> [“Jimmy Hoffa once said to Frank Sheeran enthusiastically, “If you got it, Irish, a truck driver brought it to you. Don’t ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/jimmy-hoffa-once-said-to-frank-sheeran-enthusiastically-if-you-got-it/)

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> [“Sometime in the fifties I remember seeing On the Waterfront in the movies with Mary and thinking that I’m at least as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/sometime-in-the-fifties-i-remember-seeing-on-the-waterfront-in-the/)

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> [“He had that smile on his round, craggy face you get when you squint at the sun. He had muscle deterioration in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/he-had-that-smile-on-his-round-craggy-face-you-get-when-you-squint-at/)

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> [“(It was a car they said I got under the table. When they were trying to get the eight of us Hoffa…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/it-was-a-car-they-said-i-got-under-the-table-when-they-were-trying-to/)

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> [“I got a little carried away one day and sold my entire load of meat on my way to a delivery in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/i-got-a-little-carried-away-one-day-and-sold-my-entire-load-of-meat/)

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> [“Carlos Marcello and the war orphans did cross my mind during the drive, and I sat the whole way facing the driver.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/carlos-marcello-and-the-war-orphans-did-cross-my-mind-during-the/)

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> [“Red had a stepson named Allen Dorfman. Jimmy put Red and Allen in charge of union insurance policies, and then he put…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/red-had-a-stepson-named-allen-dorfman-jimmy-put-red-and-allen-in/)

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[War hero](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war-hero/)

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> [“I asked him about work, and he sent me to a guy and the guy asked me if I thought I could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/i-asked-him-about-work-and-he-sent-me-to-a-guy-and-the-guy-asked-me/)

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[Lifting weights](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lifting-weights/)

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> [“The next day this meeting at Apalachin is the biggest thing to ever happen to Italian gangsters in America. All of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/the-next-day-this-meeting-at-apalachin-is-the-biggest-thing-to-ever/)

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[Gangsters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gangsters/)

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> [“Many a morning I found myself waking up in America and being surprised to find myself in a bed. I had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/many-a-morning-i-found-myself-waking-up-in-america-and-being-2/)

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> [“To help me understand his combat days, Sheeran tracked down the 45th Infantry Division’s hardbound, 202-page official Combat Report, issued within months…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/to-help-me-understand-his-combat-days-sheeran-tracked-down-the-45th/)

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[War](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/)

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> [“A couple of years after they both got out they had a sit-down at a Teamsters Convention in Miami to try to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/a-couple-of-years-after-they-both-got-out-they-had-a-sit-down-at-a/)

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> [“In that same year, Provenzano “buried his differences” with popular reform-minded Local 560 member Anthony “Three Fingers” Castellito by having him strangled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/in-that-same-year-provenzano-buried-his-differences-with-popular/)

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> [“Whispers told me to meet him at the Melrose Diner. So I went around there. You wouldn’t expect to see any people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/whispers-told-me-to-meet-him-at-the-melrose-diner-so-i-went-around/)

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[Apple pie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/apple-pie/)

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> [“Mary liked to arrange picnics with the kids, and we’d take them to the Willow Grove Amusement Park. I wasn’t always running.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/mary-liked-to-arrange-picnics-with-the-kids-and-we-d-take-them-to-the/)

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[Picnics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/picnics/)

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> [“Yet during a twenty-year period there wasn’t an American alive who wouldn’t have recognized Jimmy Hoffa immediately, the way Tony Soprano is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/yet-during-a-twenty-year-period-there-wasn-t-an-american-alive-who/)

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> [“Eliciting information from Frank Sheeran about his combat experiences was the most difficult part of the interview process. It was two years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/eliciting-information-from-frank-sheeran-about-his-combat-experiences/)

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[Interview](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/interview/)

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> [“Whispers was one of these short Italian guys in his early thirties that you’d see all around South Philly, just trying to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/whispers-was-one-of-these-short-italian-guys-in-his-early-thirties/)

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[Whispers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/whispers/)

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> [“Jimmy did a lot of business with our friends, but he always did it on Jimmy Hoffa’s terms. That pension fund was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/jimmy-did-a-lot-of-business-with-our-friends-but-he-always-did-it-on/)

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[Business](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/business/)

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> [“And on the other side of the ledger, unions like the Teamsters often employed their own muscle, their own reigns of terror,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/and-on-the-other-side-of-the-ledger-unions-like-the-teamsters-often/)

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> [“You’d take cabbies aside and you’d explain the benefits of being organized, and you’d ask them to sign a union card. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/you-d-take-cabbies-aside-and-you-d-explain-the-benefits-of-being/)

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> [“Jimmy never met Joe Louis before that trial, only the jury didn’t know that. But Jimmy was strong for civil rights. That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/jimmy-never-met-joe-louis-before-that-trial-only-the-jury-didn-t-know/)

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[Civil rights](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/civil-rights/)

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> [“They supplied me the piece and they had one guy right there to take it from me after the thing and get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/they-supplied-me-the-piece-and-they-had-one-guy-right-there-to-take-2/)

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> [“Russell turned his head and said to me, “Say hello to Jimmy Hoffa.” Then Russ handed me the phone. I reached for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/russell-turned-his-head-and-said-to-me-say-hello-to-jimmy-hoffa-then/)

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> [“Jimmy Hoffa had two philosophies that guided his actions. One way or another he expressed them daily and often through word or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/jimmy-hoffa-had-two-philosophies-that-guided-his-actions-one-way-or/)

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> [“In The Enemy Within, Bobby Kennedy asserted that after the trial, Joe Louis, who was out of work and deeply in debt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-brandt/in-the-enemy-within-bobby-kennedy-asserted-that-after-the-trial-joe/)

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## Charles Brandt by topic

[War (13)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/war/charles-brandt/)

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