[narrating]
And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like:
I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
Henry Hill
Ray Liotta · 45 quotes
Tommy DeVito
Joe Pesci · 17 quotes
Karen Hill
Lorraine Bracco · 15 quotes
Paulie Cicero
Paul Sorvino · 10 quotes
Jimmy Conway
Robert De Niro · 9 quotes
Anthony
Frank Adonis · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Henry Hill & Tommy DeVito (5), Henry Hill & Karen Hill (5), Henry Hill & Paulie Cicero (5)
Goodfellas quotes
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Sonny He knows everything about it. I mean he's in the joint 24 hours a day. I mean another **** few minutes he could be a stool that's how often he's in there.
No more shines Billy
Billy Batts What?
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..
I don't shine shoes anymore.
Billy Batts Relax, would ya. What's got into you? I haven't seen you in a long **** time, and I'm breaking your balls a little bit, I'm only kidding with ya.
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.
It's OK.
Billy Batts I don't mean to offend you.
I'm sorry.
Billy Batts I'm sorry too.
It's okay.
Billy Batts Salut, Tommy.
Billy Batts [Takes a drink]
Now go home and get your **** shine box.
[Smashes his drinking glass]
Mother****in' mutt! You big piece of shit! You big ****in' tough guy!
****in' Drop-along Cassidy.
Spider Why don't you go **** yourself, Tommy?
[everyone laughs]
Whoa! I don't believe what I'm hearing. Check out the balls on this kid. Hey Spider, this is for you. [tosses money on the table] That's the way. You don't take no shit from nobody. Tommy, you gonna let him get away with that? What's the matter with you? What's the world comin' to?
What is the matter with you, huh? What is the **** matter with you?! What are you, a **** sick maniac or something?! Tommy, I'm kidding with you.
Kidding? How am I meant to know you're kidding? You're breaking my **** balls.
I'm **** kidding with you, you **** shoot the guy?
He's dead.
I'm a good shot, what do you want from me? I'm a good shot.
How could you miss at this distance?
You dumb bastard, I can't **** believe you. You're gonna dig the hole.
Fine, I'll dig the **** hole. I don't give a ****. What, is this the first hole I ever dug? Where are the shovels?
Stacks
What time is it?
It's eleven thirty, we're supposed to be there by nine.
Stacks
Be ready in a minute.
Yeah, you were always ****in' late, you'd be late for your own ****in' funeral. (Shoots Stacks in the head)
I don't want any more of that shit.
What shit? What are you talking about?
Just stay away from the garbage, you know what I mean.
Look, Paulie?
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.
Paulie, why would I want to get into that?
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.
Yeah I know that, I know Jimmy, you think I would take chances like Jimmy?
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.
Yeah I know what they are, I only use them for certain things, believe me you don't have to worry.
Listen, I ain't gonna get **** like Gribbs, understand. Gribbs is 70 years old and the ****in 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 **** who was sneaking behind his back selling junk, I don't need that, ain't gonna happen to me, you understand?
Uh huh.
You know that you're only out early because I got you a job. I don't need this heat, understand that.
Uh huh.
And you see anybody **** around with this shit you're going to tell me, right?
Yeah.
Alright.
Yeah?
Yeah, of course.
Police Detective
[to Henry]
Hey, your pals are here. You don't want to talk to me, you're gonna have a **** problem all night 'cause I'll be on you like shit. New York State. Twenty five **** years, pal.
Police Detective
[The detectives bring in the utensils Henry used to make coke]
What, were you guys grocery shopping? What, are we going to make a cake? Gonna make a **** cake? Got anything good in there or what?
Police Detective
[A detective tastes the residue in a pan]
Is it good?
Police Detective
[Detective smiles and nods]
Ha ha ha ha. Bye bye, dickhead. Ha ha ha. See you in Attica, dick.
My father was always pissed off. He was pissed that he made such lousy money, he was pissed that my kid brother Michael was in a wheelchair, he was pissed that there were seven of us living in such a tiny house. After awhile he was mostly pissed because I hung around the cab stand. He knew what went on at that cab stand, and every once in a while I'd have to take a beating. But by then I didn't care. The way I saw it everybody takes a beating sometime.
[Henry and Jimmy are dangling a man who owes Paulie money over the lion enclosure at the Tampa Zoo]
They must really feed each other to the lions down there because the guy gave the money right up and we got to spend the rest of the weekend at the track. Then I couldn’t believe what happened, when we got home, we were all over the newspaper. At first I didn’t even know why we got picked up but then I found out that the guy we roughed up turned out to have a sister working as a typist for the FBI. I couldn’t believe it. Of all the **** people. She gave up everybody; Jimmy, me, even her brother. Took the jury six hours to bring us in guilty. The judge gave Jimmy and me ten years like he was giving away candy.
It was easy for all of us to disappear. My house and cars were either registered in the name of my wife or my mother-in-law. My driver's license and social security number were phony. I never voted; never paid taxes. My birth certificate, arrest sheet, and my service record from the Army were all that existed to prove to the government I was ever alive.
[To young Henry, after he gets cleared in court]
Congratulations, here's your graduation present [Puts money in Henry's pocket]
For what? I got pinched.
Hey, everybody gets pinched, but you did it right. You told 'em nothing and they got nothing.
I thought you'd be mad.
I'm not mad, I'm proud of ya. You took your first pinch like a man, and you learned the two most important things in life. You listenin'? Never rat on your friends, and ALWAYS keep your mouth shut. [Gives Henry an affectionate light slap on the cheek and leads him out of the courtroom. Outside, Paulie and many of the other gangsters are waiting for him.]
Hey, you broke yer cherry! [The other gangsters cheer and congratulate Henry]
[narrating, at a makeup party with other wives]
Well we weren't married to 9 to 5 guys but the first time I realized how different was when Mickey had a hostess party. They had bad skin and wore too much makeup I mean, they didn't look very good. They looked beat up. And the stuff they wore was thrown together and cheap. A lot of pant suits and double-knits. And they talked about how rotten their kids were and about beating them with broom handles and leather belts, that the kids still didn't pay any attention. When Henry picked me up I was dizzy. [later in her bedroom] I don't know, I don't know if i could live like that. God forbid, what would happen if you had to go to prison?
Karen! [laughs]
Vicki said that Jeannie's husband-
You know why Jeannie's husband went to the can? Because of Jeannie! Because he wanted to get away from her that's why! Let me tell you something; nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized. I know what I'm doing, I got things organized with these guys. You know who goes to jail? **** stick-up men, that's who. You know why they get caught? Because they fall asleep in the get-away car, Karen. Come on, don't worry so much sweetie. Come here.
[Henry and Karen start kissing] [narrating]
After a while, 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.
[narrating]
We were all so very close. I mean, there were never any outsiders around. Absolutely never. And being together all the time made everything seem all the more normal.
Just don't go bustin' 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] Now this kid, this kid was great. They, they used to call him Spitshine Tommy. I swear to God! Now he'd make your shoes look like ****in' mirrors. 'Scuse my language. He was terrific, he was the best. He made a lot of money, too. Salud, Tommy!
No more shines, Billy.
Billy What?
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? You flipped right out, what's got into you? I'm breakin' your balls a little bit, that's all. I'm only kiddin' with ya.
Sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding, you know? There's a lotta people around...
Billy Tommy, I'm only kiddin' with you. We're having a party and I just came home, and I haven't seen you in a long time, and I'm breakin' your balls, and right away you're getting ****in' fresh. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
I'm sorry too. It's okay. No problem.
Billy Okay, salud. [moment of silence as he takes a drink] Now go home and get ya ****in' shinebox!
[smashes his glass in anger]
MOTHER****IN' MUTT! YOU, YOU ****IN' PIECE OF SHIT...! [Henry and Jimmy restrain him]
Billy [taunting]
Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, come on! Come on! Let him go!
Henry, he bought his ****in' button! That fake old tough guy! You bought your ****in' button! Keep that mother****er here, keep him here! [leaves]
[Henry, Jimmy, and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decaying corpse to move it]
Hey Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fresh peppers and sausages for us.
Oh hey, Henry, Henry, here's an arm!
Very funny, guys.
Here's a leg.
Here's a wing! [laughing] Whaddya like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or do you still go for the ol' hearts and lungs?
[to Spider, whom he shot in the foot earlier]
Hey, Spider, that bandage on your foot is bigger than your **** head. Next thing you know he's gonna have one of these **** walkers. But you can still dance. Give us a couple of **** steps, Spider. You **** bullshitter, you. Tell the truth. You're looking for sympathy, is that it, sweetie?
Spider Why don't you go **** yourself, Tommy?
[Everyone, but Tommy, laughs]
I didn't hear right. I can't believe what I heard. [giving Spider cash] This is for you. Attaboy! I got respect for this kid, he's got a lot of **** balls. Good for you! Don't take no shit off nobody! A guy shoots him in the foot, he tells him to go **** himself. Tommy, you gonna let him get away with that? You gonna let this **** punk get away with that? What's the matter with you? What's the world coming to?!
[Tommy suddenly draws his gun and shoots Spider six times]
That's what the **** world's coming to, how do ya like that? How's that, all right?
What's the matter with you?! What is the **** matter with you?! What, are you stupid or what?! I was kidding with you. You a **** sick maniac?
I don't know if you're kidding! What do you mean, you're kidding? You breaking my **** balls?!
I'm **** kidding with you, you **** shoot the guy?!
How could you miss at this distance?
You got a problem with what I did, Anthony? **** rat, anyway. His whole family's all rats, he'd have grown up to be a rat.
Stupid bastard, I can't **** believe you. Now, you're gonna dig the **** thing now. You're gonna dig the hole. You gonna do it. I got no **** lime, you gonna do it.
Who the **** cares? I'll dig the **** hole, I don't give a ****. What is it, the first hole I ever dug? Not the first time I dug a hole, I'll dig the **** hole. Where are the shovels?