Billy Costigan You want him to chop me up and feed me to the poor? Is that what you want?
Most-quoted character in The Departed (2006): in 38 of its 119 quotes
Most scenes with: Frank Costello (5), Dignam (3), Mr. French (2)
You sit there with a mass murderer. A mass murderer. Your heart rate is jacked. And your hand, steady. That's one thing I figured out about myself in prison. My hand does not shake. Ever.
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22 quotes Billy Costigan Billy Costigan There's a leak from the inside! It's real! Smoke him out!
Billy Costigan [to Costello]
You accuse me once, I put up with it. You accuse me twice... I quit. You pressure me to fear for my life and I will put a **** bullet in your head as if you were anybody else. Okay?
Billy Costigan You called this number on a dead guy's phone.
Billy Costigan There is a rat in your unit, that is a fact.
Billy Costigan They knew you had cameras in the building, they knew everything, alright? There is a leak from the inside. It's real, man. Smoke them out!
Billy Costigan Let it slip through SIU that you have a sealed wiretap warrant for Costello's apartment. Don't tell ANYONE in our division, but tell SIU. Flush it down the pipe and see if it comes out on my end, alright? That's what we do first, we narrow it down.
Billy Costigan When are you gonna take Costello, huh? I mean, what's wrong with taking him on any one of the million **** felonies that you've seen him do or that I've seen him do? He murders somebody, right? The guy **** murders somebody and you don't **** take him! What are you waiting for, honestly? I mean, do you want him to chop me up and feed me to the poor? Is that what you guys want?
Billy Costigan Costello recorded everything. He put all the tapes in a little box and kept them with his lawyer, that was his insurance. His lawyer came to me. Imagine that, you rat ****. Costello trusted me more than anyone. Sound quality good enough? Cause I was a little worried.
Billy Costigan Let me tell you something. They signed up to use their weapons. Most of them, all right. But they watch enough TV, so they know they have to weep after they use their weapons. There is no one more full of shit than a cop. Except for a cop on TV.
Billy Costigan You know, Frank. I look around at your other guys. And they're all murderers, right? And I think could I do murder, and all I could answer myself is...what's the difference?
Billy Costigan I told you, I want my identity back, you two-faced ****!
Billy Costigan You're 70 years old, I'm just saying. One of these guys is going to pop you. As for running drugs, what the ****? You don't need the money, you're the pain in the ass, and they will catch you.
Billy Costigan Frank, how many of these guys have been with you long enough to be disgruntled, huh? Think about it. You don't pay much, you know. It's almost a ****in' feudal enterprise. The question is, and this is the only question, who thinks that they can do what you do better than you?
Billy Costigan Whatever may be going on in that very **** poor very limited brain of yours, I am not going to hurt you. Alright? Just tell me what you just **** said?
Billy Costigan He's got dope coming in. I don't know where. He...He's getting spooky, captain.
Billy Costigan I just saw him. He had blood on his hands. He's lost his **** mind.
Billy Costigan He's not including his regular guys. But I'll tell you something. Sooner or later he's gonna find out who I am and he's gonna **** kill me. I know it. He's gonna **** kill me!
Billy Costigan Being a cop is not an identity, I want my identity back.
Billy Costigan You'll have to excuse my behavior. My only contact in the last six months has been a police shrink.
Billy Costigan Look he's Costello's rat, alright! I got boxed of tapes, evidence other documents proving it!
Billy Costigan I am killing you.
Scenes with Billy Costigan
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Do you know me?
Billy Costigan No... No.
Well, I'm the guy who tells you there's guys you can hit and guys you can't. Now, that's not quite a guy you can't hit, but he's almost a guy you can't hit. So I'm gonna make a ****in' ruling on this right now: you don't **** hit him. You understand?
Billy Costigan Yeah, excellent. Fine, fine. Fine.
I **** know you. I know your family. You make one more drug deal with that idiot, **** cop-magnet of a cousin and I'll forget your grandmother was so nice to me. I'll cut your **** nuts off. You understand that?
Billy Costigan Yeah. Yeah, I do.
What are you drinking?
Billy Costigan Cranberry juice.
What is it, your period? Get him a cranberry juice.
Billy Costigan Well, "Families are always rising and falling in America", am I right?
Who said that?
Billy Costigan Hawthorne.
Pfft! What's the matter, smartass, don't know any ****in' Shakespeare?
Uncle Ed
What's this I hear from Stephanie about you becoming a policeman?
Costigan You mean Stephanie, who was the only one who came to my father's funeral? That Stephanie?
Uncle Ed
Yeah, that Stepanie.
Costigan Nothing much to it, Uncle Edward.
Uncle Ed
Are you trying to prove something to the family?
Costigan When you say "the family," who do mean exactly? You?
Uncle Ed
You always have to question everything, don't you?
Costigan Maybe it would have done you some good to have some questions from time to time, you know? "Am I an asshole? Are my kids a mess? Is my wife a money-grubbing whore?" I mean, those are questions, right? "Have I ever been good to my dying sister or am I just now pretending to be?"
Uncle Ed
Do you need some money for the funeral?
Costigan When my mother dies, we don't have any more connection.
So, do you have an idea of what we do here, my section?
Costigan Sir yes sir, I have an idea sir.
Whoa whoa whoa. Let's say you have no idea and leave it at that okay? No idea. Zip. None. If you had an idea about what we do, we would not be good at what we do, would we? We would be ****s. You calling us ****s?
Brown [Brown is telling Billy why he signed up for the police]
So after I finish this course, I'll get a blowjob again!
Costigan That's great. Your mom sounds like a really great person.
Brown **** you.
Costigan Listen, listen. I got like, like thirty thousand bucks, right? Insurance money. You know, after my mother passed and everything?
Cousin Sean Yeah, yeah.
Costigan In your line of work, if I gave you like what, ten thousand, what could I get back?
Cousin Sean You know, you know what you usually say at these moments?
Costigan What? What?
Cousin Sean C'mon, man.
Costigan Aw, come on, you **** moron. Come on. What, you want me to say it? Huh? I'm not a cop, alright? I'm your **** cousin.
Cousin Sean Yeah, you're bad! You corrupt ****, man! You must be my cousin.
Costigan Hey, you fellas come from Providence?
Providence Gangster #2 Isn't any of your business where we come from, is it, now?
Costigan ****in' delivering cannolis or something?
I'm going to have my associate search you.
Costigan No, no one's **** searching me. Searching me for what?
Contra-****-band. Take your shoes off.
[to Costigan] I knew your father.
Costigan Yeah? You know he's dead?
Oh, sorry. How'd he go?
Costigan He didn't complain.
Yeah, that was his problem.
Costigan Who said he had a problem?
I just said he had a **** problem. There's a man who could have been anything.
Costigan Are you trying to say he was nothing?
[French slams Costigan onto a pool table and continues his search]
I'm saying he worked at the airport. Arm.
[French directs Costigan to a pool table, making him hold out his casted arm]
Show me your arm. Flip it. mm-hmmm, mm-hmmm.
[French slams Costigan's arm on the table until the cast breaks, while Costigan screams in pain]
It makes me curious to see you in this neighborhood. And if I can slander my own environment, it makes me sad. This, uh, regression. Plus, I don't know if it's beyond some **** cop prick like Queenan to pull you out of the Staties and send you gift-wrapped to me. I just can't know. I wonder what they do in that particular department, anyway.
[Costello slams on Costigan's broken arm with Costigan's boot] [yelling]
Are you still a cop?
Costigan [in severe pain]
No!
[Costello whacks his arm again] [yelling]
Swear on your mother's grave you're still not a cop?!
Costigan I'm not a **** cop!
[Costello whacks his arm again, this time re-breaking it] [yelling]
Are you going to stop doing coke deals with your jerk-off **** cousin?!
Costigan Yes, yes, yes!!
Alright, alright. You're okay, you'll be alright. Get your hand taken care of.
[Costello throws down some money]
I'm sorry, but it was necessary. As for our problem with Providence - let's not cry over some spilled guineas.
Have a seat, Bill. Do you know John Lennon?
Costigan Yeah, sure, he was the president before Lincoln.
Lennon said, "I'm an artist. You give me a **** tuber (tuba), I'll get you something out of it."
Costigan I tell you Mr. Costello, I'd like to squeeze some **** money out of it.
Smart mouth. Too bad. If you'll indulge me--
Gwen Choir practice.
Choir practice. The point I'm making with John Lennon is: a man could look at anything, and make something out of it. For instance, I look at you and I think, "What could I use you for?"
You know, if your father were alive, and saw you here sitting with me, let's say he would have a word with me about this. In fact, he'd kill seven guys just to cut my throat, and he could do it. That's maybe something you don't know about William Costigan, Sr.
Costigan So he never? I mean, never?
No. He kept his own counsel. He never wanted money. You can't do anything with a man like that. Your Uncle Jackie - he also would kill my entire **** family if he saw me here with you. And I think about this.
Costigan [confused]
So what the **** are we talking about here?
Did you ever think about going back to school?
Costigan School? [laughs] All due respect Mr. Costello, school is out.
Maybe someday you'll wake the **** up.
Costigan The **** food? I don't know, what?
You can learn a lot, watching things eat. [licks fly off palm]
What do you expect coming in here?
Costigan I have to come here.
I know you have to come here, but now that you're here, what do you want?
Costigan You want the truth? Valium.
You know if you lied, you would have an easier time getting what you wanted.
Costigan What does that say about what you do for a living?
I just think we should have a few more meetings before we even talk about prescriptions.
Costigan Look... look, I'm having panic attacks, alright? The other night I thought I was having a **** heart attack. I puked in a trash barrel on the way over here. I haven't slept for **** weeks.
Is that true?
Costigan Yeah, that's true. Alright? I said it was **** true. I want some **** pills and you're gonna what? You're gonna close my file? Is that what you're going to do?
No, I didn't close your file. I--
Costigan I thought I was supposed to tell the truth here, if only **** here!
You are! You are!
Costigan Christ. I mean, a guy comes in here against every, every instinct of privacy and self-reliance he has and what do you do? What do you do, huh? You send him off on the street to score smack, is that what you do? You're **** ridiculous!
Costigan [Madolyn hands Costigan some Valium] [picking up the pills]
Two pills? Great. Why don't you just give me a bottle of scotch and a handgun to blow my **** head off! Are we done here with this psychiatry bullshit?
You know what? You can leave!
Costigan What the **** did I just put myself through? I'm **** out of here. And what if that was a legitimate threat? Think about it, **** hotshot!
Costigan Don't you **** threaten me!
You may play a tough guy for your gangster friends, but you don't get nothing past me, you lace-curtain Irish **** pussy!
Costigan [Punches Dignam]
You mother****er!
Costigan [Colin confronts Billy on the rooftop]
Freeze!
Costigan Put your **** hands up!
Put the **** gun down! Put the gun--put the gun down, alright? I came here to talk some sense into you!
Costigan Hands!
Alright! Just act professional. I can get you your money!
Costigan What'd you say?
I can get you your money!
Costigan [Billy pistol whips Colin, knocking him to the ground]
You didn't come here to talk, alright. You came here to get arrested!
You got **** tapes of what? Costello was 'my' informant. I was a rat? **** you! Prove it! He was working for me, he was 'my' informant.
Costigan Shut your **** mouth. Come on, get up!
Whoa, what is this? A citizens arrest? Blow me! Alright. Only one of us is a cop here, Bill! You understand that, Bill! No one knows who you **** are!
Costigan Would you shut the **** up?!
I'm a Sergeant in the Massachusetts State Police! Who the **** are you? I erased you!
Costigan [Billy slams Colin onto the building]
You erased me, huh?
[Points his gun to Colin's head]
Yeah, go ahead! Shoot a cop, Einstein! Watch what happens!
Costigan What would happen is this bullet would go right through your **** head!!
Watch what happens!
Costigan What, so you can get the parade, huh? The bagpipes and bullshit. **** you, **** you! I'm **** arresting you!!
That is the stupidest thing you could do!
Costigan [Billy punches him three times]
Shut the **** up!!!
Costigan [Sullivan falls to the ground]
I could give a **** if the charges don't stick, I'm still **** arresting you.
Costigan Yeah, I probably could be you, Frank. But I don't wanna be you!
"Heavy lies the crown", sorta thing.
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