Scarface follows the rise and fall of Tony Montana, a Cuban immigrant who builds a drug empire in Miami. The film explores themes of ambition, greed, violence, and the destructive cost of unchecked power.
This collection of Scarface quotes highlights the most iconic, intense, and widely remembered lines from the film. Much of the dialogue reflects Tony Montana’s ruthless mindset and obsession with success at any cost. The tone is aggressive, confident, and ultimately self-destructive.
From statements about power and loyalty to warnings about excess and paranoia, these quotes capture the film’s central arc of ambition turning into downfall. They remain widely quoted because they embody extreme versions of success and failure in a single character.
In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. – Tony Montana
What you lookin' at? You all a bunch of fuckin' assholes. You know why? You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be? You need people like me. – Tony Montana