Goodfellas (1990)
Joe Pesci: Tommy DeVito
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Quotes
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Henry Hill : You're a pistol, you're really funny. You're really funny.
Tommy DeVito : What do you mean I'm funny?
Henry Hill : It's funny, you know. It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy.
[laughs]
Tommy DeVito : What do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What?
Henry Hill : It's just, you know. You're just funny, it's... funny, you know the way you tell the story and everything.
Tommy DeVito : [it becomes quiet] Funny how? What's funny about it?
Anthony Stabile : Tommy no, you got it all wrong.
Tommy DeVito : Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did ya say? Funny how?
Henry Hill : Jus...
Tommy DeVito : What?
Henry Hill : Just... ya know... you're funny.
Tommy DeVito : You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Henry Hill : Just... you know, how you tell the story, what?
Tommy DeVito : No, no, I don't know, you said it. How do I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny!
Henry Hill : [long pause] Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito : [everyone laughs] Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. Ya stuttering prick ya. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
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Tommy DeVito : No more shines, Billy.
Billy Batts : What?
Tommy DeVito : 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 Batts : Relax, will ya? Ya flip right out, what's got into you? I'm breaking your balls a little bit, that's all. I'm only kidding with ya...
Tommy DeVito : Sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding, you know, there's a lotta people around...
Billy Batts : I'm only kidding with you, we're having a party, I just came home and I haven't seen you in a long time and I'm breaking your balls, and you're getting fucking fresh. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
Tommy DeVito : I'm sorry too. It's okay. No problem.
Billy Batts : Okay, salud.
Billy Batts : [takes a drink] Now go home and get your fuckin' shinebox.
Tommy DeVito : Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!
Billy Batts : [taunting] Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, come on, come on!
Tommy DeVito : Motherfucking... He bought his fucking button! That fake old tough guy! You bought your fucking button! You mother fuck... Fuck! Keep that motherfucker here, keep him here!
[leaves]
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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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Jimmy Conway : [after Tommy shoots Spider] What's the fuckin' matter with you? What - what is the fuckin' matter with you? What are you, stupid or what? Tommy, Tommy, I'm kidding with you. What the fuck are you doin'? What are you, a fuckin' sick maniac?
Tommy DeVito : How am I meant to know you're kidding? What you mean, you're kidding? You breaking my fuckin' balls?
Jimmy Conway : I'm fuckin' kidding with you! You fuckin' shoot the guy?
Henry Hill : He's dead.
Tommy DeVito : Good shot. What do you want from me? Good shot.
Anthony Stabile : How could you miss at this distance?
Tommy DeVito : What? You got a problem with what I did Anthony?
Anthony Stabile : No
Tommy DeVito : Fuckin' rat anyway. His family's all rats. He'll grow up to be a rat.
Jimmy Conway : You stupid bastard, I can't fuckin' believe you. Now, you're gonna dig the fuckin' thing now. You're gonna dig the hole. You're gonna do it. I got no fuckin' lime. You're gonna do it.
Tommy DeVito : Who the fuck cares? I'll dig the fuckin' hole. I don't give a fuck. What is it, the first hole I dug? Not the first time I dug a hole. I'll fuckin' dig a hole. Where are the shovels?
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Tommy's Mother : Why don't you get yourself a nice girl?
Tommy DeVito : I get a nice one almost every night., Ma
Tommy's Mother : Yeah, but get yourself a girl so you could settle down.
Tommy DeVito : I settle down almost every night but then, in the morning, I'm free.
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Tommy DeVito : We hit the deer and his paw... What do you call it? The paw.
Jimmy Conway : [Speaking through a mouth full of pasta] The hoof.
Tommy DeVito : It got caught in the grill. I got to hack it off.
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Tommy DeVito : [sitting in car with Henry] The only thing, is she won't go out with me alone, you know?
Henry Hill : No.
Tommy DeVito : No, what?
Henry Hill : No.
Tommy DeVito : No, what, Henry? Who the fuck asked you anything? I didn't even ask you anything, at least hear what I have to say.
Henry Hill : Alright, what?
Tommy DeVito : Okay, what? She don't want to go out with Italians alone. She's prejudiced against Italians. Do you believe that? In this day and age? What the fuck is the world coming to? I can't believe this, prejudiced against Ital - a Jew broad - prejudiced against Italians. Anyway, she won't go out with me alone unless her girlfriend comes with her, so I figured you could come along and go out with her girlfriend.
Henry Hill : See? I knew it - I knew it. I knew it. I knew it.
Tommy DeVito : You knew what, Henry? See? What? What the fuck is wrong with that?
Henry Hill : When is this?
Tommy DeVito : Tomorrow night.
Henry Hill : I can't tomorrow night, I gotta meet Tuddy.
Tommy DeVito : You could meet Tuddy. You could fucking come early and then still go.
Henry Hill : Tommy, Tommy. Why do you always do this to me?
Tommy DeVito : Don't give me that fucking "Tommy" shit. What the fuck I asked you for, Henry? I asked you for a favor. I do a lot of fucking favors for you, don't I? I'm trying to bang this fucking broad, you wanna help me out!
[view switches to outside of car with view of restaurant, smoke billows from restaurant windows]
Tommy DeVito : It's like... uh... ah...
Henry Hill : What?
Tommy DeVito : I don't understand you! She's fucking beautiful. Her fucking family, they live in the Five Towns there. You know these Jew broads got a lot of money. Maybe the family owns the whole fucking block. and you happen to end up with a big fucking score, motherfucker.
Henry Hill : [turning to look at the restaurant] Oh fuck!
Tommy DeVito : What?
Henry Hill : See? With your fucking mouth!
[car speeds away]
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Tommy DeVito : [Tommy mocks at Spider] 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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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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Tommy DeVito : Hey, Spider, that fuckin' bandage on your foot is bigger than your fuckin' head.
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Tommy DeVito : What the fuck you looking at? Come on. Make that coffee to go. Let's go.
[Frankie mumbles something and goes to the door with the coffee pot in his hand]
Tommy DeVito : What the fuck are you doing? It's a joke! A joke! Put the fucking pot down!
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Tommy DeVito : What am I, a mirage?
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Tommy DeVito : You know Spider, you're a fuckin' mumbling stuttering little fuck. You know that?
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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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Tommy DeVito : [Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decomposed corpse. Henry is coughing from the stench, while the others don't appear to be bothered] Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us.
[Jimmy and Tommy laugh while Henry coughs]
Jimmy Conway : Oh, hey, Henry, Henry! Here's an arm!
Henry Hill : Very funny, guys.
Jimmy Conway : Here's a leg!
Tommy DeVito : Here's a wing!
[laughs]
Tommy DeVito : Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs?
Henry Hill : [Vomiting] Oh, that's so bad!
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Tommy DeVito : [Infuriated at Spider and speaking to the other card players] Hey, what's that movie that Bogart made?
Anthony Stabile : Which one?
Tommy DeVito : The one where he played a cowboy. He only did one.
Anthony Stabile : Oh... ah... The Oklahoma Kid.
Jimmy Conway : Shane?
Tommy DeVito : Oklahoma Kid!
Tommy DeVito : [to Jimmy] Shane...
[They all laugh]
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Tommy DeVito : All right, so he got shot in the foot, what is it, a big fuckin' deal?
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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 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
[motions to Morrie]
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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Tommy DeVito : What the fuck are you doing? You're hanging around my fuckin' neck like a vulture, like impending danger.
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Morrie : [Talking about point shaving] Oh, it was terrific, yeah. Nunzio, up in... agh!
[Tommy severs Morrie's brain stem from behind with an ice pick]
Tommy DeVito : Thought he'd never shut the fuck up.
Jimmy Conway : Ah, pain in the ass.
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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 : I didn't want to get blood on your floor.
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Frankie Carbone : I could never hit that number.
[unintelligible]
Tommy DeVito : Frankie, Frankie, Frankie. What the fuck does 528 have to do with 460? I can't believe this guy. Fuckin' 528 ain't even close to 460. Now what the fuck does that got to do with anything?
Frankie Carbone : Eh, I been playin' that numba for three years.
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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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Tommy DeVito : One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way and the Guy says "What do you want from me?"
Jimmy Conway : Looks like someone we know!
