Top 100 Quotes From GoodFellas

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

- There's no action.
- I have to wait around like everyone else.
- Can't even get decent food.
- After I got here I ordered spaghetti with marinara sauce... and I got egg noodles and ketchup.
- I'm an average nobody.
- I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

- -Watch this.
- -Don't fuck with them.
- I do it all the time. I'll bust their balls.
Henry: Don't give them the satisfaction, the fucks.
- Come on, fuckos. Let's go for a ride.
- Keep them up all night.
- I'll see you later.

Karen: The bag. The bag.
- -What? What bag?
- The bag with the envelopes in it, all the money.
- Don't worry about that.
- Nobody's going to steal that here.

Janice: [Karen buzzing over and over on her husband's girlfriend's intercom] Hello. Hello?
Karen: Hello? This is Karen Hill, I want to talk to you.
[pressing the 2R button, she hangs up]
Karen: Hello? Don't hang up on me! I want to talk to you! You keep away from my husband, you hear me? Hello? Open the door!
[keeps hitting the buttons]
Karen: ANSWER ME!
[she keeps pressing the 2R button]
Karen: I'm going to tell everybody who walks in this building that in 2R, Rossi, you're nothing but a whore!
[gets on phone]
Karen: Is this the superintendent?... Yes, I want you to know, sir! That you have a whore living in 2R!
Janice: Shit.
Karen: [hits the 2R button] Rossi! Janice Rossi, do you hear me? He's MY husband! Get your own goddamn man!

- Yes, I want you to know, sir, that you have a whore... living in 2R!
- Rossi, Janice Rossi. Do you hear me?
- He's my husband!
- Get your own goddamn man!
Karen: Wake up, Henry.

Tommy: You know Spider, you're a fuckin' mumbling stuttering little fuck. You know that?

- It was a tribute, like in the old country, except they were doing it in America.
- All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off.
- That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI could never understand.
- What Paulie and the Organization does... is offer protection for people who can't go to the cops. That's it.
- That's all it is. They're like the police department for wiseguys.

- They even shot Tommy in the face... so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.

Jimmy: [after kicking Batts to near death] Look what this fucking mutt did to my shoes.

Tommy: No more shines, Billy.
Billy: What?
Tommy: I said, no more shines. Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time. They didn't go up there and tell you. I don't shine shoes anymore.
Billy: Relax, will ya? Ya flip right out, what's got into you? I'm breaking your balls a little bit, that's all. I'm only kidding with ya...
Tommy: Sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding, you know, there's a lotta people around...
Billy: I'm only kidding with you, we're having a party, I just came home and I haven't seen you in a long time and I'm breaking your balls, and you're getting fucking fresh. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
Tommy: I'm sorry too. It's okay. No problem.
Billy: Okay, salud.
Billy: [takes a drink] Now go home and get your fuckin' shinebox.
Tommy: Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!
Billy: [taunting] Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, come on, come on!
Tommy: Motherfucking... He bought his fucking button! That fake old tough guy! You bought your fucking button! You mother fuck... Fuck! Keep that motherfucker here, keep him here!
[leaves]

Henry: [narrating] Killing's got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules.

Jimmy: I'm not mad, I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.

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

- By the time I finished meeting everybody,
- I thought I was drunk.
- Paulie, you shouldn't have.
- WOMAN 1: Welcome to the family.
- WOMAN 2: Sunday dinner?
- WOMAN 3: So beautiful. I want to cry.
Tuddy: Here's something to help you get started.

Henry: [narrating] 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 fuck around with you. It also means you could fuck 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.

- You hear me? Give me the fucking money.
- I'll give you. You've got it, kid.
- You've got it, believe me.
- Karen, slow down.
- Where? Stay there. Don't move.
- -What happened?
Henry: It's Karen, Jimmy.
Jimmy: Money today.
- MORRIE: I'll pay.

Billy: Hey Jimmy! What's right is right. You understand what I'm talking about?
Jimmy: It's all right. It's all right.
Billy: 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: No, no, no, no, no. You insulted him a little bit. You got a little bit out of order yourself.
Billy: No I didn't insult him. I didn't insult him.
Jimmy: I'm sorry. You insulted him a little bit.
Billy: No, I didn't insult nobody. Give us a drink. Give us a drink.

Man: Shh, shh, shh.
- No, go ahead. It's right in there.
Karen: No, Jimmy. I'm in a hurry!
- My mom's watching the kids!
- I got to get home!
- I'll come back later!

Man: Mrs. Hill, come here.
- Come on.
- You girls stay right here.
- -I want you to hold hands.
- -Okay, go right up to the front.
- -Let's go.
- GUARD: How you doing?
Karen: Good, how are you?
- GUARD: Very well, thank you.

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

- And it's worth it, isn't it?
- Is this the same baby you used last week?
- No, that one was my sister's.
- This is Deirdra's.
- Big yawn.
Karen: She looks just like you.
- That's what the stewardess said.

- -Now we can eat.
- -I got some white, too.
- Give me the white, too. Beautiful.
- Okay, boys, let's eat.
- Come on, it's ready, Vinnie.
- Some more bread.
- Tomorrow we eat sandwiches.
- You got to go on a diet, Vinnie.
- -You must be kidding.
- -Believe me.

- He kicked some money upstairs to Paulie, but that was it.
- It made him sick to turn the money over to the guys who stole it.
- He'd rather whack them.
- Anyway, what did I care?
- I wasn't asking for anything.
- And Jimmy was making nice money through my Pittsburgh connections.
- Still, months after the robbery they were finding bodies all over.

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

- It was there that I knew I belonged.
- To me, it meant being somebody in a neighborhood full of nobodies.
- They weren't like anybody else.
- They did whatever they wanted.
- They double-parked in front of a hydrant, nobody ever gave them a ticket.
- In the summer, when they played cards all night...
- ...nobody ever called the cops.

- He came into the joint that night and then just disappeared. That was it.
- All right. Keep your eyes open.
- They're busting my balls over it.
- -All right?
- -Yeah.
- PAULIE: Okay, everybody, let's eat.
- I want my money.
- He owes it.

Henry: You're a pistol, you're really funny. You're really funny.
Tommy: What do you mean I'm funny?
Henry: It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy.
[laughs]
Tommy: What do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What?
Henry: It's just, you know. You're just funny, it's... funny, you know the way you tell the story and everything.
Tommy: [it becomes quiet] Funny how? What's funny about it?
Anthony: Tommy no, you got it all wrong.
Tommy: Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?
Henry: Jus...
Tommy: What?
Henry: Just... ya know... you're funny.
Tommy: You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked 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 fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Henry: Just... you know, how you tell the story, what?
Tommy: No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!
Henry: [long pause] Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!
Tommy: [everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.

Henry: [narrating] 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.

[last lines]
Henry: [narrating] Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. I bet twenty, thirty grand over a weekend and then I'd either blow the winnings in a week or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies.
[Henry leaves the witness stand and speaks directly to the camera]
Henry: Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I'd go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over.
[narrating]
Henry: And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different; there's no action... have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

- I can't have that in this joint.
Henry: I remember feeling bad about the guy... but I also remember feeling that maybe Tuddy was right.
- I knew Paulie didn't want anybody dying in the building.
- You're a real jerk. You wasted eight fucking aprons on this guy.
- What the hell's wrong with you?
- I got to toughen this kid up.

- Let me shoot him in his big, fucking mouth!
- Let's shoot him.

- You know that thing we took care of upstate?
- -Paulie was talking about that.
- -Got to get it out of there.
- They just sold the property to make condominiums.
- -It's been six months.
- -We got to get it out of there right away.

Tommy: [sitting in car with Henry] The only thing, is she won't go out with me alone, you know?
Henry: No.
Tommy: No, what?
Henry: No.
Tommy: No, what, Henry? Who the fuck asked you anything? I didn't even ask you anything, at least hear what I have to say.
Henry: Alright, what?
Tommy: Okay, what? She don't want to go out with Italians alone. She's prejudiced against Italians. Do you believe that? In this day and age? What the fuck is the world coming to? I can't believe this, prejudiced against Ital - a Jew broad - prejudiced against Italians. Anyway, she won't go out with me alone unless her girlfriend comes with her, so I figured you could come along and go out with her girlfriend.
Henry: See? I knew it - I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.
Tommy: You knew what, Henry? See? What? What the fuck is wrong with that?
Henry: When is this?
Tommy: Tomorrow night.
Henry: I can't tomorrow night, I gotta meet Tuddy.
Tommy: You could meet Tuddy. You could fucking come early and then still go.
Henry: Tommy, Tommy. Why do you always do this to me?
Tommy: Don't give me that fucking "Tommy" shit. What the fuck I asked you for, Henry? I asked you for a favor. I do a lot of fucking favors for you, don't I? I'm trying to bang this fucking broad, you wanna help me out!
[view switches to outside of car with view of restaurant, smoke billows from restaurant windows]
Tommy: It's like... uh... ah...
Henry: What?
Tommy: I don't understand you! She's fucking beautiful. Her fucking family, they live in the Five Towns there. You know these Jew broads got a lot of money. Maybe the family owns the whole fucking block. and you happen to end up with a big fucking score, motherfucker.
Henry: [turning to look at the restaurant] Oh fuck!
Tommy: What?
Henry: See? With your fucking mouth!
[car speeds away]

Henry: Jimmy was cutting every link between himself and the robbery... but it had nothing to do with me.

Henry: [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.

Henry: [narrating] I felt he used too many onions, but it was still a very good sauce.
Paul: Vinnie, don't put too many onions in the sauce.
Vinnie: I didn't put too much onions, uh, Paul. Three small onions. That's all I did.
Johnny: Three onions? How many cans of tomatoes you put in there?
Vinnie: I put two cans, two big cans.
Johnny: You don't need three onions.

Tommy: How many years ago since you were made?
Vinnie: I'm an old-timer. 30 years ago.
Tommy: Thirty years?
- Brings back a lot of memories.
- Pike's Peak was a pimple then, wasn't it?
Henry: 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.

- and he'd come from around the counter.
- No matter how many were waiting...
- I was taken care of first.
- Our neighbors didn't park in our driveway anymore... even though we didn't have a car.
- At 13...
- I was making more money than most of the grown-ups around.
- I had more money than I could spend.
- I had it all.

- It's a lot quicker that way, you know what I mean? Huh?
- I like going in this way.
- It's better than waiting in line.
- How are you doing? What's up?
- Here you go.
- -How are you doing?
- -I'm doing all right.
- Good.
- Every time I come here, every time, you two. Don't you work?

Jimmy: [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.

Henry: My Pittsburgh guys always wanted guns.
- Since I would see them in the afternoon to pick up a delivery...
- I was pretty sure I'd get my money back.

- We had a serious problem with Billy Batts.
- This was really a touchy thing.
- Tommy killed a made guy.
- Batts was part of the Gambino crew and was considered untouchable.
- Before you touched a made guy, you had to have a good reason.
- You had to have a sit-down and you'd better get an okay... or you'd be the one who got whacked.

- -What?
- -Look at me.
- Never rat on your friends... and always keep your mouth shut.
Man: Here he is.
- You broke your cherry.
Man: Congratulations!

Henry: Jimmy had never asked me to whack somebody before.
- But now he's asking me to go to Florida and do a hit with Anthony.
- That's when I knew I would never have come back from Florida alive.

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

- Mickey called. Want me to call him back?
- All right, make the call.
Henry: He got all his calls second hand.
- Then you'd have to call the people back... from an outside phone.
- Got a nickel? Get him on the phone.
Henry: There were guys, that's all they did all day, was take care of Paulie's calls.

- I'll take that.
- -All right, I'll catch you guys later.
- -Yeah.
- You going for a walk in the park?
- -Okay, I'll catch you next week. Thanks.
- -Okay.
- -Is there any more?
- -No, that's it. Have a good weekend.
- -Thanks.
- -You too, Henry.

Karen: [narrating] 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.

- Don't talk like that. Come on.
- -You all right?
- -Yeah, sure.
- You believe me?
- Do you believe me?
- Do you believe me?
- -That the last one?
- -Yeah.

- What are you, fucking crazy, Karen?
- I got enough to worry about getting whacked on the street!
- I got to fucking come home for this?
- I should fucking kill you!
- How does it feel?
- How does it feel, Karen?

Henry: [after Karen points gun at him while he's sleeping] I got enough to worry about getting whacked on the street! I gotta come home for this? I should fucking kill you!

- I hate doing the dishes. Fucks up my nails.
- How could you hate it?
- You got to be smart.
- Look at all this powder around here.
- That could put us away forever.
- -Loosen up.
- -Whoa, what are you doing?
- -You know, I gotta....
- -You don't have to go anywhere.
- Make them wait.

- He started to touch me.
- He started to grab me.
- I told him to stop. He didn't stop.
- I hit him back.
- And then he got really angry.
- He pushed me out of the car.
- You sure you're all right?
- Why don't you go inside and get yourself together. Clean up.

Henry: [narrating] One day some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You know why? It was outta respect.

- And?
- Happy Hanukkah.
Karen: Very funny.
Henry: Go get yourself something nice, okay?
Henry: Lufthansa should have been our ultimate score. The heist of a lifetime.
- $6 million in cash.
- More than enough to go around.

Sonny: 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.

Henry: [narrating] All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI can never understand - that what Paulie and the organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can't go to the cops. They're like the police department for wiseguys.

Paul: I don't want any more of that shit.
Henry: What shit? What are you talking about?
Paul: Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.
Henry: Look, Paulie...
Paul: I'm not talking about what you did inside, you did what you had to do, I'm talking about now, from now, here and now.
Henry: Paulie, why would I want to get into that...
Paul: Don't make a jerk out of me, just don't do it... just don't do it. Now I want to talk to you about Jimmy, you have to watch out for him. He's a good earner but he's wild, takes too many chances.
Henry: Yeah, I know that, I know Jimmy, you think I would take chances like Jimmy?
Paul: And Tommy, he's a good kid too. But he's crazy, he's a cowboy, he's got too much to prove. You gotta watch out for kids like this.
Henry: Yeah, I know what they are, I only use them for certain things, believe me, you don't have to worry.
Paul: Listen, I ain't gonna get fucked like Gribbs, understand? Gribbs is 70 years old, and the fuckin' guy's gonna die in prison. I don't need that. So I'm warning everybody, EVERYBODY. It could be my son, it could be anybody. Gribbs got 20 years just for saying "hello" to some fuck who was sneaking behind his back selling junk. I don't need that. Ain't gonna happen to me, you understand?
Henry: Uh huh.
Paul: You know that you're only out early because I got you a job. I don't need this heat, understand that.
Henry: Uh huh.
Paul: And you see anybody fucking around with this shit, you're going to tell me, right?
Henry: Yeah.
Paul: [slaps him] That means anybody!
Henry: All right.
Paul: Yeah?
Henry: Yeah, of course.

Tommy: Just don't go busting my balls, Billy, okay?
Billy: 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: Now this kid, this kid was great. They, they used to call him Spitshine Tommy.

- -They would have never found it!
- -They would have, I swear to you!
- They would've found it!
- Why did you do that?
- -They would have found it.
- -Why did you do that, Karen?
- Oh, my God!
Karen: I had to do it.
- -Oh, my God.

Henry: [narrating] Jimmy had never asked me to do a hit before, and now he's asking me to go down to Florida with Anthony to make a hit.
[Jimmy gives him a pack of matches with a number]
Henry: [narrating] That's when I knew I would never have come back from Florida alive.

- Don't worry, with what.
- Just start looking for a new house.
- I got to go to Pittsburgh in the morning.
- Those guys there owe me $15,000.
- We'll be all right. I got things lined up.
- Pittsburgh? You have to go see your parole officer tomorrow.
- Don't worry about it.
- Everything's gonna be fine.
- -Who wants to go to Uncle Paulie's?
- BOTH: Me!

Henry: [narrating] When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them three days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

Henry: [narrating] Thirty-two hundred dollars he gave me. Thirty-two hundred dollars for a lifetime. It wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin.

Henry: Janice and I were having so much fun, she started screwing up at work.
- I had to straighten out her boss a little bit.
- Janice can do what she wants to do.
- Got it?
- Just try to run. Hang up once more, and you'll deal with me.
Woman in Bar: Come on, get off of her.
Janice: You're an animal.

- His whole crew is going to be looking for him.
- This is bad. What do we do with him?
- We can't just dump him on the street.
- I know a place upstate.
- They'll never find him. More tablecloths.
- I didn't want to get blood on your floor.
Jimmy: Go open your trunk.
Tommy: We'll get a shovel at my mother's house.

Henry: [narrating] For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty 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.

- What do you want, fucko?
- You want something?
- I swear on my fucking mother, if you touch her again, you're dead.
- Don't shoot.

Henry: Hide this. Are you all right?
Karen: Yeah.
Karen: I know there are women, like my best friends... who would have gotten out the minute their boyfriend... gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't.
- I've got to admit the truth.
- It turned me on.
Man: Mazel tov!

Henry: I was gonna be busy all day.
- I had to drop off some guns at Jimmy's... to match some silencers he had.
- I had to pick up my brother at the hospital and drive him home.
- I had to pick up some new Pittsburgh stuff for Lois... to fly down to some customers
- I had near Atlanta.

- I know where he is. He's hiding now.
- Know what I'm saying?
- Would you have a problem going with Anthony to take care of that?
- Mm-mm.
- No, not at all.
- That way they got nothing.

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

Henry: Stacks was always crazy.
- Instead of getting rid of the truck as he was supposed to, he got stoned... went to his girlfriend's, and by the time he woke up, the cops had found the truck.
- It was all over the television.
- They even said they came up with prints off the wheel.
- It was just a matter of time before they got to Stacks.

Spider: [hesitating] Why don't you go fuck yourself, Tommy?
Jimmy: [stunned silence] Whoa! Can't believe what I just heard. Hey Spider, here. This is for you.
[tosses money on the table]
Jimmy: Attaboy! I got respect for this kid. He's got a lot of fucking balls. Good for you! Don't take no shit off nobody.

- But mostly they just wanted a handout.
- A few bucks to keep things quiet no matter what they found.
- I always asked if they wanted coffee.
- Some wives, like Mickey Conway... used to curse at them and spit on the floor.
- She used to spit on her own floor.
- That never made any sense to me.
- It was better to be polite and call the lawyer.

- He's still alive. You fucking piece of shit!
- Die, you motherfucker! Look at me!
Henry: As far back as I can remember,
- I always wanted to be a gangster.

- I need it, I got to have it.
- It's my lucky hat. I never fly without it.
- Lois, do you understand what we are involved in here?
- I don't care. I need my hat.
- I won't fly without it.
Henry: What could I do if she insisted
- I drive her home for her goddamn hat?
- I hid the package in the kitchen and went to take her home.
- A hat?

- I only bought them because he wanted them, and now he didn't.
- What good are these? None of them fit.
- What's the matter with you?
- I'm not paying for it.
Henry: I didn't say a thing. Jimmy was so pissed off, he didn't even say goodbye.
- Stop the drugs. They're making your mind into mush!
- -You hear me?
- -I'll take them back.

- and a lot of other things.
Vinnie: And that's that.
Henry: There was nothing we could do about it.
- Batts was a made man and Tommy wasn't.
- We had to sit still and take it.
- It was among the Italians.
- It was real greaseball shit.

Billy: Give us a drink. And give some to those Irish hoodlums down there.
Jimmy: There's only one Irishman in here.
Billy: On the house. Salud.
Jimmy: Top of the mornin'.

- Personality?
- He's talented.
- I understand what you're saying.
- But watch what you say.
- People get the wrong impression.
- I just said he was talented, you're unbelievable.
- Just leave it alone now,
- I understand what you said.
- He's talented. Leave it at that.

Karen: [narrating] 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.

Henry: [narrating; Paul is slicing the garlic with a razor] In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had a pasta course and then we had a meat or fish. Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt, and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor, and he used to slice it so thin that he used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system.

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

Tommy: [Tommy mocks at Spider] Oklahoma Kid. That's me. I'm the Oklahoma Kid. You fuckin' varmint! Dance. Dance. YAHOO, YA MOTHERFUCKER!
[shoots Spider in the foot]

Tommy: We hit the deer and his paw... What do you call it? The paw.
Jimmy: [Speaking through a mouth full of pasta] The hoof.
Tommy: It got caught in the grill. I got to hack it off.

- How much do you need?
- -How much?
- -That much.
- This much. Give me a kiss.
- See you later.
- Uh-oh....
- All right.

- Stay out? Daddy never went out at all, Ma! Keep out of it.
- You don't know how I feel!
- How do you feel now? You don't know where he is or who he's with.
- He's with his friends! Dad!
- Leave him out of this.
- He's suffered enough.
- He hasn't digested a decent meal in six weeks.

- -I see it. Look, it's right there.
- -Damn!
- -That's it.
Karen: There it is.
- We got to get to your mother's.
- See, I told you.
- It's funny.
- -It's not the end of the world.
- -We're going to your mother's.

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

- and they'd even have the time and flight number, thanks to her.
- As soon as I got home, I started cooking.
- I had a few hours until Lois' flight.
- I told my brother to watch the stove.
- All day long the guy's been watching helicopters and tomato sauce.
- I had to drive over to Sandy's, mix the stuff, then get back to the gravy.

- It's over there, on the corner.
- Right there.

- What do you mean?
- You know what I mean. He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it.
- -That's it.
- -What do you mean?
- He's gone.
- That's it.
- I knew it! I can't fucking believe it.

Henry: [narrating] Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody.

Tommy: Hey, Spider, that fuckin' bandage on your foot is bigger than your fuckin' head.

Henry: [narrating] Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come up with Paulie's money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me.

- -How are you doing?
- -Okay. How are you?
- Henry, this is Bruce. Bruce, this is Henry.
Bruce: Good to meet you.
- I'll see you around later.
- -Do you know him?
- -Yeah.
- He lives across the street.

- I'm telling you.
- Fine. Fine. He thinks I'm paranoid!
- I should bring him the helicopter, then we'll see how paranoid I am.
- Come on, let's go inside.
- -Yeah, it's gone.
- -I don't hear anything.
- Let's go back to your mother's.

- Don't worry about him.
- He is not helping us out.
- Is he putting any food on the table?
- We've gotta help each other.
- We've just gotta be really careful while we do it.
- I don't want to hear a word about her anymore.
- Never.