Goodfellas Quotes
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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Sonny Bunz : But I'm worried, I mean, I'm hearin' all kinds a fuckin' bad things. I mean he's treating me like I'm a fuckin' half-a-fag or somethin'. I'm gonna wind up a lammist, I gotta go on the fuckin' lam in order to get away from this guy? This ain't right, Paulie.
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Henry Hill : [ after Karen points gun at him while hes sleeping ] I got enough to worry about getting whacked on the street! I gotta come home for this! I should fucking kill you!
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Billy Batts : [ under his breath after Tommy leaves the bar ] I'll fuck him in his ass. I fucked kids like him in the can in the ass. Fuckin' trying to break up my party.
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Henry Hill : [ narrating ] By the time I grew up, there was thirty billion a year in cargo moving through Idlewild Airport and believe me, we tried to steal every bit of it.
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Jimmy Conway : [ Frenchy is describing a large shipment of cash at Idlewild Airport to Jimmy and Henry ] What about the security?
Frenchy : Security? You're looking at it.
Frenchy : Security? You're looking at it.
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Police Detective : [ to Henry ] Hey, your pals are here. You don't want to talk to me, you're gonna have a fucking problem all night 'cause I'll be on you like shit. New York State. Twenty five fucking years, pal. [ the detectives bring in the utensils Henry used to make coke ]
Police Detective : What, were you guys grocery shopping? What, are we going to make a cake? Gonna make a fucking cake? Got anything good in there or what? [ a detective tastes the residue in a pan ]
Police Detective : Is it good? [ detective nods; to Henry ]
Police Detective : Ha ha ha ha. Bye bye, dickhead. Ha ha ha. See you in Attica, dick.
Police Detective : What, were you guys grocery shopping? What, are we going to make a cake? Gonna make a fucking cake? Got anything good in there or what? [ a detective tastes the residue in a pan ]
Police Detective : Is it good? [ detective nods; to Henry ]
Police Detective : Ha ha ha ha. Bye bye, dickhead. Ha ha ha. See you in Attica, dick.
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Tommy DeVito : All right so he got shot in the foot, what is it a big fuckin' deal?
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[ Infuriated at Spider ]
Tommy DeVito : [ to the other card players ] Hey, what's that movie that Bogart made?
Anthony Stabile : Which one?
Tommy DeVito : The one where he played a cowboy. He only did one.
Anthony Stabile : Oh... ah... The Oklahoma Kid.
Jimmy Conway : Shane?
Tommy DeVito : Oklahoma Kid!
Tommy DeVito : [ to Jimmy ] Shane... [ They all laugh ]
Tommy DeVito : [ to the other card players ] Hey, what's that movie that Bogart made?
Anthony Stabile : Which one?
Tommy DeVito : The one where he played a cowboy. He only did one.
Anthony Stabile : Oh... ah... The Oklahoma Kid.
Jimmy Conway : Shane?
Tommy DeVito : Oklahoma Kid!
Tommy DeVito : [ to Jimmy ] Shane... [ They all laugh ]
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Karen : What do you do?
Henry Hill : I'm in construction.
Karen : [ She feels the softness of his hands ] They don't feel like you're in construction.
Henry Hill : Ah, I'm a union delegate.
Henry Hill : I'm in construction.
Karen : [ She feels the softness of his hands ] They don't feel like you're in construction.
Henry Hill : Ah, I'm a union delegate.
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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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Henry Hill : [ narrating ] It was revenge for Billy Batts, and a lot of other things. And there was nothing that we could do about it. Batts was a made man, and Tommy wasn't. And we had to sit still and take it. It was among the Italians. It was real greaseball shit. They even shot Tommy in the face so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.
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Billy Batts : Hey Jimmy! What's right is right. You understand what I'm talking about?
Jimmy Conway : It's all right. It's all right.
Billy Batts : No. The kid's over here. We're hugging and kissing over here. And two minutes later, he's acting like a fucking jerk.
Jimmy Conway : No, no, no, no, no. You insulted him a little bit. You got a little bit out of order yourself.
Billy Batts : No I didn't insult him. I didn't insult him.
Jimmy Conway : I'm sorry. You insulted him a little bit.
Billy Batts : No, I didn't insult nobody. Give us a drink. Give us a drink.
Jimmy Conway : It's all right. It's all right.
Billy Batts : No. The kid's over here. We're hugging and kissing over here. And two minutes later, he's acting like a fucking jerk.
Jimmy Conway : No, no, no, no, no. You insulted him a little bit. You got a little bit out of order yourself.
Billy Batts : No I didn't insult him. I didn't insult him.
Jimmy Conway : I'm sorry. You insulted him a little bit.
Billy Batts : No, I didn't insult nobody. Give us a drink. Give us a drink.
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Karen : Please stop feeding the dog from the table... from the plate on top of it.
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Billy Batts : Give us a drink. And give some to those Irish hoodlums down there.
Jimmy Conway : There's only one Irishman in here.
Billy Batts : On the house. Salud.
Jimmy Conway : Top of the mornin'.
Jimmy Conway : There's only one Irishman in here.
Billy Batts : On the house. Salud.
Jimmy Conway : Top of the mornin'.
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Tommy DeVito : What the fuck you looking at? Come on. Make that coffee to go. Let's go.
Frankie Carbone : [ Mumbles something and goes to the door with the coffee pot in his hand ]
Tommy DeVito : What the fuck are you doing? It's a joke! A joke! Put the fucking pot down!
Frankie Carbone : [ Mumbles something and goes to the door with the coffee pot in his hand ]
Tommy DeVito : What the fuck are you doing? It's a joke! A joke! Put the fucking pot down!
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[ Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decomposed corpse. Henry is coughing from the stench, while the others don't appear to be bothered ]
Tommy DeVito : Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us. [ Jimmy and Tommy laugh while Henry coughs ]
Jimmy Conway : Oh, hey, Henry, Henry! Here's an arm!
Henry Hill : Very funny, guys.
Jimmy Conway : Here's a leg!
Tommy DeVito : Here's a wing! [ laughs ]
Tommy DeVito : . Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs?
Henry Hill : [ Vomiting ] Oh, that's so bad!
Tommy DeVito : Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us. [ Jimmy and Tommy laugh while Henry coughs ]
Jimmy Conway : Oh, hey, Henry, Henry! Here's an arm!
Henry Hill : Very funny, guys.
Jimmy Conway : Here's a leg!
Tommy DeVito : Here's a wing! [ laughs ]
Tommy DeVito : . Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs?
Henry Hill : [ Vomiting ] Oh, that's so bad!
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Jimmy Conway : Yeah.
Vinnie : Yeah.
Jimmy Conway : Who's this?
Vinnie : This is Vinnie.
Jimmy Conway : Vinnie, what happened?
Vinnie : Well we-...
Jimmy Conway : You get it straightened out?
Vinnie : No, we had a problem... and uh, we tried to do everything we could.
Jimmy Conway : What d'you mean?
Vinnie : Well, you what I mean. He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it. [ pause ]
Vinnie : That's it.
Jimmy Conway : What d'you mean? What d'you mean? Uh...
Vinnie : He's gone. Uh, he's gone. [ pause ]
Vinnie : And that's it.
Jimmy Conway : [ smashing telephone ] Fuck. Can't fuckin' believe that, can't fuckin'...
Jimmy Conway : [ crying ] Fuck it, fuck... the fuck... [ Henry exits diner ]
Henry Hill : What happened?
Jimmy Conway : They whacked him. They fuckin' whacked him.
Henry Hill : Aw, fuck. [ Jimmy kicks phone booth ]
Jimmy Conway : Motherfucker! [ pushes over phone booth ]
Jimmy Conway : [ cries ]
Vinnie : Yeah.
Jimmy Conway : Who's this?
Vinnie : This is Vinnie.
Jimmy Conway : Vinnie, what happened?
Vinnie : Well we-...
Jimmy Conway : You get it straightened out?
Vinnie : No, we had a problem... and uh, we tried to do everything we could.
Jimmy Conway : What d'you mean?
Vinnie : Well, you what I mean. He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it. [ pause ]
Vinnie : That's it.
Jimmy Conway : What d'you mean? What d'you mean? Uh...
Vinnie : He's gone. Uh, he's gone. [ pause ]
Vinnie : And that's it.
Jimmy Conway : [ smashing telephone ] Fuck. Can't fuckin' believe that, can't fuckin'...
Jimmy Conway : [ crying ] Fuck it, fuck... the fuck... [ Henry exits diner ]
Henry Hill : What happened?
Jimmy Conway : They whacked him. They fuckin' whacked him.
Henry Hill : Aw, fuck. [ Jimmy kicks phone booth ]
Jimmy Conway : Motherfucker! [ pushes over phone booth ]
Jimmy Conway : [ cries ]
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Jimmy Conway : [ Knocks on the car window of two cops following him. They cops have fallen asleep ] Come on fuckos, let's go for a ride.
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Jimmy Conway : Look what this fucking mutt did to my shoes [ after kicking Batts to near death ]
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Tommy DeVito : We hit the deer and his paw... What do you call it? The paw.
Jimmy Conway : [ Speaking through a mouth full of pasta ] The hoof.
Tommy DeVito : It got caught in the grill. I got to hack it off.
Jimmy Conway : [ Speaking through a mouth full of pasta ] The hoof.
Tommy DeVito : It got caught in the grill. I got to hack it off.
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Paul Cicero : Tommy's a bad seed. What am I supposed to do? Shoot him?
Copa Captain : That wouldn't' be a bad idea.
Copa Captain : That wouldn't' be a bad idea.
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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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Jimmy Conway : Watch this.
Henry Hill : Ah, don't fuck with them.
Jimmy Conway : I do it all the time. Bust their fucking balls.
Henry Hill : Don't give'em the satisfaction, the fucks.
Jimmy Conway : [ taps on car window of two cops following him, who had fallen asleep ] Come on, fuckos, let's go for a ride. [ he and Henry laugh ]
Jimmy Conway : Keep'em up all night.
Henry Hill : Ah, don't fuck with them.
Jimmy Conway : I do it all the time. Bust their fucking balls.
Henry Hill : Don't give'em the satisfaction, the fucks.
Jimmy Conway : [ taps on car window of two cops following him, who had fallen asleep ] Come on, fuckos, let's go for a ride. [ he and Henry laugh ]
Jimmy Conway : Keep'em up all night.
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Tuddy Cicero : [ as Paulie is being arrested ] Why don't you boys go down to Wall Street and find some real crooks? Whoever sold you those suits had a wonderful sense of humor.
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Johnny Dio : How do you like your steak?
Paul Cicero : Medium rare.
Johnny Dio : Huh. An aristocrat.
Paul Cicero : Medium rare.
Johnny Dio : Huh. An aristocrat.
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Tommy DeVito : I gotta wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
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