“They must really feed each other to the lions down there because the...” – Henry Hill, Goodfellas ... Movie Quotes Database

[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.

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