Goodfellas Quotes

Billy Batts : Go home and get your fucking shine box.

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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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[ on Morrie's wig commercial ]
Morrie : Don't buy wigs that come off at the wrong time.

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Tommy DeVito : What, do you got me on a fuckin' pay-no-mind list kid?

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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 fuck your mother."

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Jimmy Conway : [ after Spider tells Tommy to "go fuck yourself" ] I can't believe what I just hear. [ he throws some money on the table ]
Jimmy Conway : Here, Spider, this is for you. I got respect for this kid. He's got alot of fucking balls. Good for you, don't take no shit of nobody. He shoots him in the foot he tells him to go fuck himself. [ to Tommy, joking ]
Jimmy Conway : Tommy, you gonna let him get away with that? You gonna let this fucking punk get away with that? What's the matter? What's the world coming to? [ Tommy pulls out a gun and shoots Spider in the chest ]

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[ Tommy has shot Spider ]
Jimmy Conway : I'm fucking kidding with you; you fucking shoot the guy?
Henry Hill : He's dead.
Tommy DeVito : I'm a good shot, what do you want from me? I'm a good shot.
Anthony Stabile : How could you miss at this distance?

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Tommy DeVito : Kidding? How am I meant to know you're kidding? You're breaking my fucking balls.

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Tommy DeVito : [ Tommy holds up a gun at the truck driver he's hijacking ] Where's the strong box you fuckin' varmint, you?

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Paul Cicero : You know anything about this fucking restaurant business? [ Talking to Henry ]
Sonny Bunz : He knows everything about it. I mean he's in the joint 24 hours a day. I mean another fucking few minutes he could be a stool that's how often he's in there.

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Henry Hill : [ 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.

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Henry Hill : [ 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.

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Henry Hill : 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

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Tommy DeVito : What do you want to tell me now, tough guy? I said, "Bing, what are you doing here? I thought I told you to go fuck your mother!" [ group laughs ]
Tommy DeVito : I thought he was gonna shit!

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

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Paul Cicero : I don't want any more of that shit.
Henry Hill : What shit? What are you talking about?
Paul Cicero : Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.
Henry Hill : Look, Paulie?
Paul Cicero : 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 Hill : Paulie, why would I want to get into that...
Paul Cicero : 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 Hill : Yeah I know that, I know Jimmy, you think I would take chances like Jimmy?
Paul Cicero : 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 Hill : Yeah I know what they are, I only use them for certain things, believe me you don't have to worry.
Paul Cicero : Listen, I aint 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, aint gonna happen to me, you understand.
Henry Hill : Uh huh.
Paul Cicero : You know that you're only out early because I got you a job. I don't need this heat, understand that.
Henry Hill : Uh huh.
Paul Cicero : And you see anybody fucking around with this shit you're going to tell me right.
Henry Hill : Yeah.
Paul Cicero : [ slaps him ] That means anybo

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Jimmy Conway : 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.

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Henry Hill : I swear to my fucking 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?' Guy's got a nice head of white hair, it's beautiful.
Jimmy Conway : Looks like someone we know.
Tommy DeVito : Oh, my... no, without the beard? Oh, shhhhhh...! [ laughs ]

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Stacks Edwards : What time is it?
Tommy DeVito : It's eleven thirty, we're supposed to be there by nine.
Stacks Edwards : Be ready in a minute.
Tommy DeVito : Yeah, you were always fuckin' late, you were late for your own fuckin' funeral. [ shoots him ]

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

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

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Tommy DeVito : [ has just killed the talkative Morrie ] I thought he'd never shut the *fuck* up.
Jimmy Conway : Yeah. Pain in the ass.

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Tommy DeVito : You dizzy motherfucker, you!

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Tommy DeVito : [ about Morrie's corpse ] Hey Frank, let's chop him up.
Frankie Carbone : All right. [ starts to get out of the car ]
Tommy DeVito : Where you going? Where you going, you dizzy motherfucker, you?
Frankie Carbone : To chop him up.
Tommy DeVito : At Charlie's, not here! [ Carbone mumbles to himself in Italian ]
Tommy DeVito : Come on, what are you doing? Let's get the fuck outta here. I oughta let him [ Morrie's corpse ]
Tommy DeVito : fucking drive. What are you waiting for?
Frankie Carbone : The car's cold.
Tommy DeVito : Get the fuck outta here! What fucking warm enough? Get outta here!

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Henry Hill : I only bought the damn guns because he wanted them and now he didn't want them.
Jimmy Conway : What the fuck are these? None of them fit. What's the matter with you? What, do you want me to pay for this shit? I'm not paying for it!
Henry Hill : I didn't say a thing. He was so pissed off, he didn't even say goodbye.
Jimmy Conway : Stop with those fucking drugs. They're making your mind into mush. You hear me? Take'em back!

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[ Henry has just been busted for dealing drugs ]
Henry Hill : For a second I thought I was dead. But, when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they'd been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead.

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Police Detective : [ to Henry ] Talk to me, when was the last time you took a collar? Hey fuckhead, I'm talking to you. You don't wanna say a fucking word to me, you don't have to. I don't really give a fuck. Twenty five years, pal, that's what you're looking at.

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Truck Driver : [ Henry and Tommy just boosted a rig ] Hey, you got a phone? Two niggers just stole my truck. You believe that shit, huh? You fuckin' believe that?

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