The Sopranos (TV Series)

Stage 5 (2007)

Sydney Pollack: Warren Feldman

Quotes 

• Warren Feldman : [Talking to John while being honest with him]  Let me spare you the awkwardness. I killed my wife. Not that it's any excuse. I had reason to believe she was cheating on me at the time with her chiropractor. Granted, I was abusing cocaine at the time. And alcohol. But I came home one day, shot her four times. Twice in the head. I killed her aunt, too. I didn't know she was there. And the mailman. At that point, I had to fully commit.

• Warren Feldman : Why are you in here?

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : I've been accused of being part of a certain Italian-American sub-culture.

• Ginny Sacrimoni : [after she visits John in a prison hospital]  How's he doing?

  Warren Feldman : [after shaking her head]  Listen, I've been meaning to talk to you about the smoking: John shared with me how upset you were. Psychologically, when a person is told their dying, it's... the ultimate loss of control

  Ginny Sacrimoni : To hear him breathe like that

  Warren Feldman : I know, it doesn't make any sense, I do know he is a leader. I suspect his smoking, on some level... is an attempt to die as he lived: in total control

  Ginny Sacrimoni : Years ago, I asked him to stop for me and the kids, I lost twenty-seven pounds, he couldn't quit smoking?

• Warren Feldman : [shows him the book]  there's my pal, how you doing? "Billy Bathgate", they had it in the library, it made me think of you. I don't know if you've heard but Gerry Torciano, he was "hit" last week in Brooklyn?

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : who?

  Warren Feldman : [speaks louder]  Gerry Torciano: it was all over the news, they "whacked" him in some restaurant, did you know him?

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : yeah, good guy... it's hard to breathe

  Warren Feldman : [referring to his prison hospital doctor and the medication his being treated with]  I'll talk to Gupte, see if I can get him to "up" the Becotrol

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : I'm dying, aren't I?

  Warren Feldman : [after looking at his medical charts and sighs, referring to his oncologist's diagnosis]  it's not good, I won't lie to you, it's aggressiveness surprises me... I gotta concur with Rosen

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : I appreciate everything you've done

• Warren Feldman : [referring to the prison hospital]  Why are you here "exactly"?

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : [referring to his involvement in organized crime]  I've been accused of being part of a "certain" Italian-American sub-culture

  Warren Feldman : [amused, referring to his health]  I know who you are, I meant what's wrong with you?

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : [referring to the location of cancer his been diagnosed with]  Oh, lungs

  Warren Feldman : [referring to Kurtis' crime television show]  I've been wanting to meet you actually, I saw you on Bill Kurtis

  Warren Feldman : [after introducing each other and shaking hands]  Good to know you. I take it you've done chemo, huh? Mind if I take a look at your chart?

  Warren Feldman : [while looking at John's medical chart, referring to his doctor]  Oh, you're seeing Rosen

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : [referring to the government allowing him to travel for medical treatment]  They let me fly to Cleveland: at my expense, you know him?

  Warren Feldman : [referring to the American Society of Clinical Oncology symposium]  I saw him speak once at a ASCO conference in Georgia: good man

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : But?

  Warren Feldman : Actually, very few people know this, but he really can't "Walk on water", what was his prognosis?

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : [referring to his life expectancy]  Three months

  Warren Feldman : [surprised]  With the treatment you've had?

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : What'd you mean?

  Warren Feldman : [listing the treatment, he read in John's chart]  You've got a window of one to three years. Two rounds of Paraplatin, Docetaxel, and Pletal concurrent with radiation, any cancer inside you slows to a crawl

  John 'Johnny Sack' Sacramoni : Why is he so fuckin negative?

  Warren Feldman : [before leaving]  We tell a patient three months, he lives a year. Who looks like a hero? I'll see you around, you take it easy