Quotes from Goodfellas [1990]:
Tommy DeVito: In this day and age, what the **** is this world coming to? I can't believe this, prejudice against -- a Jew broad -- prejudice against Italians!
Tommy DeVito: But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to ****in' amuse you?
Tommy DeVito: Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.
Tommy DeVito: How am I funny, like a clown? What is so funny about me? What the **** is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what's funny.
Henry Hill: Get the **** outta here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito: Ha ha! I almost had you!
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Henry Hill: Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.
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Jimmy Two Times: I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
Morrie: What am I? A schmuck on wheels?
Henry Hill: All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI can never understand - that what Paulie and the organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can't go to the cops. They're like the police department for wiseguys.
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Tommy DeVito: What the **** are you doing? You're hanging around my ****in' neck like a vulture, like impending death!
Tommy DeVito: You know Spider, you're a ****in' mumbling stuttering little prick. You know that?
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With the suitcase open on the desk, Henry counts out stacks of cash
Henry Hill: Thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, sixty thousand.
Jimmy Conway: It's gonna be a good summer.
Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging with shovels to find Batts' corpse. Henry is sickened by the stench, but the others don't appear to be bothered
Tommy DeVito: Hey Henry, Henry, hurry up will you? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us. Oh hey, Henry, Henry. Here's an arm.
Henry Hill: Very funny, guys.
He laughs
Henry vomits
voice-over
Henry leaves the witness stand and speaks directly to the camera
Henry Hill: Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I'd go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over.
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hesitating
stunned silence
tosses money on the table
Buzzing over and over on her husband's girlfriend's intercom.
gets on phone
Billy Batts: Go home and get your ****ing shine box.
Tommy DeVito: What, do you got me on a ****in' pay-no-mind list kid?
Tommy DeVito: He said, "No, you're gonna tell me something today, tough guy." I said, "All right, I'll tell you something: go **** your mother!"
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after Spider tells Tommy to "go **** yourself"
Jimmy Conway: What is the matter with you, huh? What is the ****ing matter with you? What are you, a ****ing sick maniac or something? Tommy, i'm kidding with you.
Tommy DeVito: Kidding? How am I meant to kno you're kidding? You're breaking my ****ing balls.
Jimmy Conway: I'm ****ing kidding with you, you ****ing shoot the guy?
Henry Hill: He's dead.
Jimmy Conway: You dumb bastard, I can't ****ing believe you. You're gonna dig the hole.
Tommy DeVito: Fine, I'll dig the ****ing hole. I don't give a ****.
Tommy has shot Spider
Jimmy Conway: I'm ****ing kidding with you; you ****ing shoot the guy?
Henry Hill: He's dead!
Tommy DeVito: I'm a good shot, what do you want from me? I'm a good shot.
Anthony Stabile: How could you miss at this distance?
Tommy DeVito: Kidding? How am I meant to know you're kidding? You're breaking my ****ing balls.
Tommy holds up a gun at the truck driver he's hijacking
Talking to Henry
Sonny Bunz: He knows everything about it. I mean he's in the joint 24 hours a day. I mean another ****ing few minutes he could be a stool that's how often he's in there.
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Tommy DeVito: No more shines Billy
Billy Batts: What?
Tommy DeVito: 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..
Tommy DeVito: I don't shine your shoes anymore
Billy Batts: Relax, would ya! What's got into you!? I haven's seen you in a long ****ing time, and I'm breaking your balls a little bit, I'm only kidding with ya..
Tommy DeVito: Well, sometimes you don't sound like your kidding, you know there's a lot a people here..
Billy Batts: I'm only kidding with ya
Tommy DeVito: It's ok.
Billy Batts: I don't mean to offend you.
Tommy DeVito: I'm sorry
Billy Batts: I'm sorry too
Tommy DeVito: It's okay.
Billy Batts: Salud
Henry Hill: For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again
Group laughs
Tommy mocks at Spider
Tommy DeVito: Oklahoma kid! That's me! I'm the Oklahoma kid! You fickin' varmint! Dance! Dance! YAHOO, YOU MOTHER****ER!
Henry Hill: What happened?
Jimmy Conway: They whacked him. They ****ing whacked him. I can't ****ing believe it.
Jimmy Conway: I'm not mad, I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
Henry Hill: I swear to my ****ing mother, if you touch her again, YOU'RE DEAD!!
Tommy DeVito: Oh I like this one.. One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy's sayin', 'Whadda ya want from me?'
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 ****in' late, you'd be late for your own ****in' funeral.
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Trivia about Goodfellas [1990]:
During filming of the scene in which his character is killed by Pesci, Joe, Imperioli, Michael broke a glass in his hand and had to be rushed to the emergency room. When doctors saw what appeared to be a gunshot wound in his chest, they tried to treat it. When Imperioli told them what was really up, he was made to wait for three hours. Director Scorsese, Martin told Imperioli that someday he'd be telling that story on "The Tonight Show". The prediction came true in March, 2000.
Pesci wrote and directed the "You think I'm funny?" scene at Scorsese's request.
The ending shot of Pesci shooting at the camera is a visual reference to Great Train Robbery, The (1903), whose ending shot is of the villain, George Barnes, shooting at the camera.
Based on the novel "Wiseguy" by Pileggi, Nicholas, itself based on a true story. The movie was renamed to avoid confusion with Wiseguy (1987).
Tommy (Pesci, Joe) kills Billy Batts (Vincent, Frank (I)) by beating him. In Raging Bull (1980), Pesci's character nearly beat Vincent's character to death. But Frank Vincent finally gets revenge in Casino (1995) where he kills Joe Pesci's character in a cornfield.
Imperioli, Michael, who plays Spider in the movie, is shot in the foot for being slow with some drinks. In "Sopranos, The" (1999), his character shoots a bakery employee in the foot for making him wait.
Mike Starr, who plays "Frenchy" in the film, plays the same role in "$10,000,000. Getaway", a Jimmy Burke/Conway telling of the Lufthansa heist portion of "Goodfellas"
The F-word is used 246 times in this film (mostly by Pesci, Joe).
The real Henry Hill was relocated to Redmond, WA where he ran an Italian restaurant. After the release of the movie, he was relocated again. One of his real life daughters plays one of the "Marie"s at the wedding.
It was claimed that at the time the real life gangster Jimmy Burke was so happy to have De Niro, Robert play him that he phoned him from prison to give him a few pointers. Author/screenwriter Pileggi, Nicholas denies this, saying De Niro and Burke had never spoken, but admitting that there were men around the set all the time who had known all of the principal characters very well.
In the scene where Henry and Karen Hill are negotiating to enter the Witness Protection Program, former U.S. Attorney Edward McDonald plays himself, re-enacting what he did in real life.
Director Scorsese, Martin's mother plays Tommy's mother. She ad-libbed the dinner scene. Scorsese's father plays the prisoner who puts too many onions in the tomato sauce. phone telling De Niro about Pesci's death.
After learning that Tommy (Pesci, Joe) has been "whacked" Jimmy Conway (DeNiro, Robert) beats the pay phone with the receiver, a signature move of Pesci.
Jimmy Burke, on whom Jimmy Conway was based, died in 1996 in prison of lung cancer. The movie had said that he was eligible for parole in 2004.
For the famous "Layla" montage, Martin Scorcese actually played the phrase of the song on the set of each scene that would have that part of the song in the final cut to set the mood of the shot.
After Joe Pesci's mother had seen the film, she told her son that the movie was good, but asked him if he had to swear so much.
The long tracking shot that ends with Henny Youngman performing had to be filmed many times because Youngman kept forgetting his lines.
The painting that Tommy's mother shows to Tommy, Jimmy and Henry, is based on a picture from the November 1978 National Geographic.
According to Maxim magazine, Joe Pesci directed himself in the infamous "How am I funny" scene.
The black-and-white movie that Karen is watching on television in her house is Jazz Singer, The (1927), a movie about a Jewish person trying to reconcile with his estranged parents.
Tommy DeVito: In this day and age, what the **** is this world coming to? I can't believe this, prejudice against -- a Jew broad -- prejudice against Italians!
Tommy DeVito: But, I'm funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to ****in' amuse you?
Tommy DeVito: Sure, mom, I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.
Tommy DeVito: How am I funny, like a clown? What is so funny about me? What the **** is so funny about me? Tell me. Tell me what's funny.
Henry Hill: Get the **** outta here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito: Ha ha! I almost had you!
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Henry Hill: Jimmy was the kind of guy that rooted for bad guys in the movies.
narrating
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Jimmy Two Times: I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
Morrie: What am I? A schmuck on wheels?
Henry Hill: All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. That's what it's all about. That's what the FBI can never understand - that what Paulie and the organization offer is protection for the kinds of guys who can't go to the cops. They're like the police department for wiseguys.
narrating
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Tommy DeVito: What the **** are you doing? You're hanging around my ****in' neck like a vulture, like impending death!
Tommy DeVito: You know Spider, you're a ****in' mumbling stuttering little prick. You know that?
narrating
With the suitcase open on the desk, Henry counts out stacks of cash
Henry Hill: Thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, sixty thousand.
Jimmy Conway: It's gonna be a good summer.
Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging with shovels to find Batts' corpse. Henry is sickened by the stench, but the others don't appear to be bothered
Tommy DeVito: Hey Henry, Henry, hurry up will you? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us. Oh hey, Henry, Henry. Here's an arm.
Henry Hill: Very funny, guys.
He laughs
Henry vomits
voice-over
Henry leaves the witness stand and speaks directly to the camera
Henry Hill: Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I'd go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over.
voice-over
hesitating
stunned silence
tosses money on the table
Buzzing over and over on her husband's girlfriend's intercom.
gets on phone
Billy Batts: Go home and get your ****ing shine box.
Tommy DeVito: What, do you got me on a ****in' pay-no-mind list kid?
Tommy DeVito: He said, "No, you're gonna tell me something today, tough guy." I said, "All right, I'll tell you something: go **** your mother!"
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after Spider tells Tommy to "go **** yourself"
Jimmy Conway: What is the matter with you, huh? What is the ****ing matter with you? What are you, a ****ing sick maniac or something? Tommy, i'm kidding with you.
Tommy DeVito: Kidding? How am I meant to kno you're kidding? You're breaking my ****ing balls.
Jimmy Conway: I'm ****ing kidding with you, you ****ing shoot the guy?
Henry Hill: He's dead.
Jimmy Conway: You dumb bastard, I can't ****ing believe you. You're gonna dig the hole.
Tommy DeVito: Fine, I'll dig the ****ing hole. I don't give a ****.
Tommy has shot Spider
Jimmy Conway: I'm ****ing kidding with you; you ****ing shoot the guy?
Henry Hill: He's dead!
Tommy DeVito: I'm a good shot, what do you want from me? I'm a good shot.
Anthony Stabile: How could you miss at this distance?
Tommy DeVito: Kidding? How am I meant to know you're kidding? You're breaking my ****ing balls.
Tommy holds up a gun at the truck driver he's hijacking
Talking to Henry
Sonny Bunz: He knows everything about it. I mean he's in the joint 24 hours a day. I mean another ****ing few minutes he could be a stool that's how often he's in there.
narrating
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Tommy DeVito: No more shines Billy
Billy Batts: What?
Tommy DeVito: 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..
Tommy DeVito: I don't shine your shoes anymore
Billy Batts: Relax, would ya! What's got into you!? I haven's seen you in a long ****ing time, and I'm breaking your balls a little bit, I'm only kidding with ya..
Tommy DeVito: Well, sometimes you don't sound like your kidding, you know there's a lot a people here..
Billy Batts: I'm only kidding with ya
Tommy DeVito: It's ok.
Billy Batts: I don't mean to offend you.
Tommy DeVito: I'm sorry
Billy Batts: I'm sorry too
Tommy DeVito: It's okay.
Billy Batts: Salud
Henry Hill: For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again
Group laughs
Tommy mocks at Spider
Tommy DeVito: Oklahoma kid! That's me! I'm the Oklahoma kid! You fickin' varmint! Dance! Dance! YAHOO, YOU MOTHER****ER!
Henry Hill: What happened?
Jimmy Conway: They whacked him. They ****ing whacked him. I can't ****ing believe it.
Jimmy Conway: I'm not mad, I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a man and you learn two great things in your life. Look at me, never rat on your friends and always keep your mouth shut.
Henry Hill: I swear to my ****ing mother, if you touch her again, YOU'RE DEAD!!
Tommy DeVito: Oh I like this one.. One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way, and this guy's sayin', 'Whadda ya want from me?'
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 ****in' late, you'd be late for your own ****in' funeral.
narrating
Trivia about Goodfellas [1990]:
During filming of the scene in which his character is killed by Pesci, Joe, Imperioli, Michael broke a glass in his hand and had to be rushed to the emergency room. When doctors saw what appeared to be a gunshot wound in his chest, they tried to treat it. When Imperioli told them what was really up, he was made to wait for three hours. Director Scorsese, Martin told Imperioli that someday he'd be telling that story on "The Tonight Show". The prediction came true in March, 2000.
Pesci wrote and directed the "You think I'm funny?" scene at Scorsese's request.
The ending shot of Pesci shooting at the camera is a visual reference to Great Train Robbery, The (1903), whose ending shot is of the villain, George Barnes, shooting at the camera.
Based on the novel "Wiseguy" by Pileggi, Nicholas, itself based on a true story. The movie was renamed to avoid confusion with Wiseguy (1987).
Tommy (Pesci, Joe) kills Billy Batts (Vincent, Frank (I)) by beating him. In Raging Bull (1980), Pesci's character nearly beat Vincent's character to death. But Frank Vincent finally gets revenge in Casino (1995) where he kills Joe Pesci's character in a cornfield.
Imperioli, Michael, who plays Spider in the movie, is shot in the foot for being slow with some drinks. In "Sopranos, The" (1999), his character shoots a bakery employee in the foot for making him wait.
Mike Starr, who plays "Frenchy" in the film, plays the same role in "$10,000,000. Getaway", a Jimmy Burke/Conway telling of the Lufthansa heist portion of "Goodfellas"
The F-word is used 246 times in this film (mostly by Pesci, Joe).
The real Henry Hill was relocated to Redmond, WA where he ran an Italian restaurant. After the release of the movie, he was relocated again. One of his real life daughters plays one of the "Marie"s at the wedding.
It was claimed that at the time the real life gangster Jimmy Burke was so happy to have De Niro, Robert play him that he phoned him from prison to give him a few pointers. Author/screenwriter Pileggi, Nicholas denies this, saying De Niro and Burke had never spoken, but admitting that there were men around the set all the time who had known all of the principal characters very well.
In the scene where Henry and Karen Hill are negotiating to enter the Witness Protection Program, former U.S. Attorney Edward McDonald plays himself, re-enacting what he did in real life.
Director Scorsese, Martin's mother plays Tommy's mother. She ad-libbed the dinner scene. Scorsese's father plays the prisoner who puts too many onions in the tomato sauce. phone telling De Niro about Pesci's death.
After learning that Tommy (Pesci, Joe) has been "whacked" Jimmy Conway (DeNiro, Robert) beats the pay phone with the receiver, a signature move of Pesci.
Jimmy Burke, on whom Jimmy Conway was based, died in 1996 in prison of lung cancer. The movie had said that he was eligible for parole in 2004.
For the famous "Layla" montage, Martin Scorcese actually played the phrase of the song on the set of each scene that would have that part of the song in the final cut to set the mood of the shot.
After Joe Pesci's mother had seen the film, she told her son that the movie was good, but asked him if he had to swear so much.
The long tracking shot that ends with Henny Youngman performing had to be filmed many times because Youngman kept forgetting his lines.
The painting that Tommy's mother shows to Tommy, Jimmy and Henry, is based on a picture from the November 1978 National Geographic.
According to Maxim magazine, Joe Pesci directed himself in the infamous "How am I funny" scene.
The black-and-white movie that Karen is watching on television in her house is Jazz Singer, The (1927), a movie about a Jewish person trying to reconcile with his estranged parents.
