Goodfellas Quotes

Henry Hill: [narrating] You know, we always called each other goodfellas. Like, you'd say to somebody: You're gonna like this guy; he's all right. He's a goodfella. He's one of us. You understand? We were goodfellas, wiseguys.

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Henry Hill: If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.

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Karen: I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.

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Tommy DeVito: Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.

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Henry Hill: [narrating] And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like:

Jimmy Two Times: I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

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Henry Hill: [narrating] As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

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Henry Hill: You're a pistol, you're really funny. You're really funny.

Tommy DeVito: What do you mean I'm funny?

Henry Hill: It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy.
[laughs]

Tommy DeVito: what do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What?

Henry Hill: It's just, you know. You're just funny, it's... funny, the way you tell the story and everything.

Tommy DeVito: [it becomes quiet] Funny how? What's funny about it?

Anthony Stabile: Tommy no, You got it all wrong.

Tommy DeVito: Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?

Henry Hill: Jus...

Tommy DeVito: What?

Henry Hill: Just... ya know... you're funny.

Tommy DeVito: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little ****ed up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to ****in' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?

Henry Hill: Just... you know, how you tell the story, what?

Tommy DeVito: No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the **** am I funny, what the **** is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!

Henry Hill: [long pause] Get the **** out of here, Tommy!

Tommy DeVito: [everyone laughs] Ya mother****er! I almost had him, I almost had him. Y

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Henry Hill: I swear to my ****ing mother, if you touch her again, YOU'RE DEAD.

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Tommy DeVito: Oh I like this one... One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy's sayin', Whadda ya want from me?'

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Tommy DeVito: Just don't go busting my balls, Billy, okay?

Billy Batts: Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I'd tell you to go home and get your shine box.
[to his friends]

Billy Batts: Now this kid, this kid was great. They, they used to call him Spitshine Tommy.

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[Morrie jokes at the table]

Frankie Carbone: Morrie, stop breaking my balls, all right?

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Karen: One night, Bobby Vinton sent us champagne. There was nothing like it. I didn't think there was anything strange in any of this. You know, a twenty-one-year-old kid with such connections. He was an exciting guy. He was really nice. He introduced me to everybody. Everybody wanted to be nice to him. And he knew how to handle it.

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Karen: After awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more like Henry was enterprising, and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while all the other guys were sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts. Our husbands weren't brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys. The only way they could make extra money, real extra money, was to go out and cut a few corners.

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Frankie Carbone: I could never hit that number
[unintelligible]

Tommy DeVito: Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. What the **** does 528 have to do with 460? I can't believe this guy. ****in' 528 ain't even close to 460. Now what the **** does that got to do with anything?

Frankie Carbone: Eh, I been playin' that numba for three years

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Pete the Killer: [points] By the way, I took care of that thing for ya

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Tommy DeVito: You know Spider, you're a ****in' mumbling stuttering little ****. You know that?

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Henry Hill: [narrating] And when the cops, when they assigned a whole army to stop Jimmy, what'd he do? He made 'em partners.

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Henry Hill: Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.

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Henry Hill: [narrating] Whenever we needed money, we'd rob the airport. To us, it was better than Citibank.

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Henry Hill: [narrating] And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like:

Jimmy Two Times: I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.

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Henry Hill: [narrating] As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

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Tommy DeVito: [after Killing Morrie] I thought he'd never shut the **** up!

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Henry Hill: You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, : You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He's a good fella. He's one of us.: You understand? We were good fellas. Wiseguys. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a member of a crew you've got to be one hundred per cent Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country. See, it's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and crew. It means that nobody can **** around with you. It also means you could **** around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything. As far as Jimmy was concerned with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being made. We would now have one of our own as a member.

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[Morrie jokes at the table]

Frankie Carbone: Morrie, stop breaking my balls, all right?

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Tommy DeVito: He said, No, you're gonna tell me something today, tough guy. I said, All right, I'll tell you something: go **** your mother.

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Tommy DeVito: No more shines Billy

Billy Batts: What?

Tommy DeVito: I said, no more shines Billy Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time, I didn't go up, didn't tell ya.

Billy Batts: Ah...

Tommy DeVito: I don't shine shoes anymore.

Billy Batts: Relax, would ya. What's got into you? I haven's seen you in a long ****ing time, and I'm breaking your balls a little bit, I'm only kidding with ya...

Tommy DeVito: Well, sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding, you know, there's a lotta people here...

Billy Batts: I'm only kidding with ya

Tommy DeVito: S'ok.

Billy Batts: I don't mean to offend you.

Tommy DeVito: I'm sorry

Billy Batts: I'm sorry too.

Tommy DeVito: It's okay.

Billy Batts: Salud, Tommy.

Tommy DeVito: Can we get some drinks? Everybody, drinks on the house.

Billy Batts: [Takes a drink] Now go home and get your ****ing shine box

Tommy DeVito: Mother****in' mutt! You big piece of ****! You big ****in' toughguy!

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Henry Hill: For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked ****ty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again

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Tommy DeVito: What do you want to tell me now, tough guy? I said, Hey, what are you doing here, I thought I told you to go **** your mother.
[Group laughs]

Tommy DeVito: I thought he was gonna ****.

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[Tommy mocks at Spider]

Tommy DeVito: Oklahoma kid. That's me. I'm the Oklahoma kid. You ****in' varmint. Dance. Dance. YAHOO, YOU MOTHER****ER.

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Henry Hill: What happened?

Jimmy Conway: They whacked him. They ****ing whacked him. I can't ****ing believe it.

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