30 Best Scarface Quotes

Scarface Quotes: Power, Ambition, and Downfall

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.

Say hello to my little friend! – Tony Montana

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

Scarface Ambition Power greed American Dream

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. – Tony Montana

Scarface identity Deception Morality Paradox

You need people like me so you can point your fuckin' fingers and say, "That's the bad guy." – Tony Montana

Scarface Society Morality Power Hypocrisy

Don't get high on your own supply. – Omar Suarez

Scarface Power Business greed downfall

The eyes, chico. They never lie. – Tony Montana

Scarface Truth Perception identity Deception

I'm Tony Montana! You fuck with me, you fuckin' with the best! – Tony Montana

Scarface Ego Power arrogance identity

This is paradise, I'm tellin' you. This town is like a great big pussy just waitin' to get fucked. – Tony Montana

Scarface Ambition corruption American Dream greed

All I have in this world is my balls and my word, and I don't break them for no one. – Tony Montana

Scarface Loyalty Honor code identity

You wanna play rough? Okay. Say hello to my little friend! – Tony Montana

Scarface violence revenge Power Desperation

So, say good night to the bad guy! – Tony Montana

Scarface identity villainy Society downfall

First you get the money, then you get the power, then you get the woman. – Tony Montana

Scarface Ambition Materialism Power gender

I kill a communist for fun, but for a green card, I gonna carve him up real nice. – Tony Montana

Scarface Immigration violence pragmatism Ambition

You think you can take me? You need a fuckin' army to take me. – Tony Montana

Scarface Power paranoia arrogance Defiance

I never fucked anybody over in my life didn't have it coming to them. You got that? All I have in this world is my word. – Tony Montana

Scarface Morality justification code Honor

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

Scarface Society envy Power Hypocrisy