True Confessions (1981)

Robert Duvall: Det. Sgt. Tom Spellacy

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Quotes 

• Whore : Hi, Tom. You wanna play carnival?

  Tom Spellacy : I don't know that one.

  Whore : I sit on your face,and you try to guess my weight!

• Tom Spellacy : [arrives at a nursing home to visit his mother]  Mrs. Phil Spellacy, please. I know the way.

  Older Nun : You'll have to wait. She's receiving communion.

  Tom Spellacy : [pushing past the nun]  May all your sons be Jesuits, Sister.

• Tom Spellacy : How's ma? Is she still eating with her fingers?

  Des Spellacy : Well, she says the early Christian martyrs didn't have spoons.

  Tom Spellacy : Tell her they didn't have Instant Cream of Wheat, either.

• Tom Spellacy : I want you to get me a list of all people with the same M.O.

  cop on the phone : That's gonna take awhile, sergeant.

  Tom Spellacy : She was cut in two. Do you think it's an epidemic, like the flu?

• Howard Terke : How about it, Tom? Can you get your brother the monsignor to say a mass for this cunt? It'll make the front page.

  Tom Spellacy : Howard, we don't even know yet whether or not she was a Catholic cunt.

• [Tom gives Des the rosary he took from the priest who died while in bed with a prostitute] 

  Des Spellacy : He might have been there on a pastoral call.

  Tom Spellacy : When was the last time you hung your pants over the side of the bed while making a house call?

  Des Spellacy : I admit, that's not the way they teach you at the seminary.

• Tom Spellacy : Msgr. Spellacy's table, please.

  Headwaiter : I thought that Msgr. Spellacy would be dining with Mr. Amsterdam.

  Tom Spellacy : Well, you thought wrong, fuckhead.

• Tom Spellacy : [to receptionist after the intruder at Standard's office gets away]  What do you do here?

  Girl : Me? I do great French.

• Tom Spellacy : [Talking to Des about their father to Des]  One thing the old man never missed was a wake. Good booze and plenty of it!

• Tom Spellacy : [Feeling a twinge of conscience after slapping Brenda]  I'm sorry about that.

  [after a pause] 

  Tom Spellacy : Okay?

  [after another pause] 

  Tom Spellacy : You know my temper.

  Brenda Samuels : I need you like I need another fuck.

• Tom Spellacy : [Talking about the priest's heart attack death in the brothel]  How long was he here?

  Lorna Keane : It was the second one that did it.

• [last lines] 

  Tom Spellacy : This is it. This is it.