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Goodfellas is a 1990 film virtually the rise and autumn of three gangsters, spanning three decades.

Directed by Martin Scorsese. Written by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese, based on Pileggi's volume, Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family.

Three Decades of Life in the Mafia.taglines

Henry Hill [edit]

• As far back every bit I tin retrieve, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, existence a gangster was better than being President of the Usa. Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an after-school task, I knew I wanted to be a function of them. It was there that I knew that I belonged. To me, it meant existence somebody in a neighborhood that was total of nobodies. They weren't like anybody else. I hateful, they did whatsoever they wanted. They double-parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever gave them a ticket. In the summer when they played cards all dark, nobody ever called the cops.
• Paulie might've moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't take to move for anybody.
• He knew what went on at that cab stand, and every one time in a while I'd accept to take a beating. But by then I didn't care. The fashion I saw it everybody takes a beating sometime.
• Hundreds of guys depended on Paulie and he got a piece of everything they fabricated. And it was tribute, simply like in the former state, except they were doing information technology here in America. And all they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. And that's what it'southward all well-nigh. That'south what the FBI could never understand. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who tin't go to the cops. That's it. That's all. They're like the police department for wiseguys.
• I 24-hour interval some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way domicile. You know why? Information technology was outta respect.
• For united states of america 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 simply took it. If anyone complained twice they got striking then bad, believe me, they never complained once more.
• Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Whatever problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with the bill? He tin go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can telephone call Paulie. Only now the guy'southward gotta come up with Paulie's money every week, no affair what. Business organisation bad? "Fuck you, pay me." Oh, yous had a burn? "Fuck you lot, pay me." Place got hit by lightning, huh? "Fuck y'all, pay me." Also, Paulie could do anything. Especially stitch bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for information technology anyhow. And as soon as the deliveries are fabricated in the front door, you motion the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. Yous take a two hundred dollar example of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit. And then finally, when in that location'south nix left, when you can't infringe another buck from the banking concern or purchase another case of booze, you bust the articulation out. You light a match.
• For nigh of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the only way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules. But sometimes, even if people didn't get out of line, they got whacked. I mean, hits but became a habit for some of the guys. Guys would become into arguments over null and earlier you knew it, one of them was dead. And they were shooting each other all the time. Shooting people was a normal thing. It was no large deal. We had a serious trouble with Billy Batts. This was really a touchy thing. Tommy'd killed a made guy. Batts was part of the Gambino crew and was considered untouchable. Before you could touch a made guy, you had to accept a good reason. You had to have a sitdown, and you meliorate get an okay, or you'd be the one who got whacked.
• Sabbatum night was for wives, just Friday dark at the Copa was always for the girlfriends.
• See, you know when you call back of prison, y'all get pictures in your mind of all those quondam movies with rows and rows of guys backside bars...But information technology wasn't like that for wiseguys. It actually wasn't that bad. Excepting that I missed Jimmy. He was doing his time in Atlanta...I mean, everybody else in the joint was doing real time, all mixed together, living like pigs. But we lived lone. And we owned the joint.
• [later on the Lufthansa heist] It made him sick to take to turn money over to the guys who stole information technology. He'd rather whack 'em. Anyway, what did I care? I wasn't asking for annihilation and besides, Jimmy was making nice coin with me through my Pittsburgh connections. [showing a montage of expressionless gangsters] But even so, months after the robbery they were finding bodies all over. [law environs a truck, open up information technology to run into a dead man hanging on a hook like a meat husk] When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff information technology took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.
• You know, we ever called each other goodfellas. Like you lot said to, uh, somebody, "You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He'south a good fella. He's one of us." You understand? We were goodfellas. Wiseguys. Simply Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a fellow member of a crew y'all've got to be one hundred per cent Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country. See, it'southward the highest laurels they can give you. It means you vest to a family unit and crew. It ways that nobody tin can fuck around with you. Information technology likewise means you lot could fuck around with everyone just as long every bit they aren't also a fellow member. It's like a license to steal. Information technology's a license to do anything. As far every bit Jimmy was concerned with Tommy being made, it was similar we were all existence made. We would at present have one of our ain as a fellow member.
• [about Tommy's murder] It was revenge for Baton Batts, and a lot of other things. And there was null that we could do nearly it. Batts was a made man and Tommy wasn't. And nosotros had to sit withal and take it. It was amongst the Italians. It was existent greaseball shit. They even shot Tommy in the face then his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.
• For a 2d, I thought I was dead, but when I heard all the noise I knew they were cops. Merely cops talk that way. If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't take heard a affair. I would've been dead.
• If you're part of a crew, nobody e'er tells you that they're going to impale you lot. It doesn't happen that way. At that place weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. So your murderers come up with smiles. They come up equally your friends, the people who have cared for you all of your life, and they ever seem to come at a fourth dimension when yous're at your weakest and most in need of their help.
• It was easy for all of us to disappear. My firm and cars were either registered in the proper noun of my wife or my mother-in-law. My driver'southward license and social security number were phony. I never voted; never paid taxes. My birth document, arrest canvass, and my service record from the Army were all that existed to prove to the government I was ever alive.
• Encounter, the hardest thing for me was leaving the life. I notwithstanding honey the life. And we were treated like moving picture stars with muscle. We had it all, just for the asking. Our wives, mothers, kids, everybody rode along. I had paper bags filled with jewelry stashed in the kitchen. I had a sugar bowl full of coke next to the bed. Anything I wanted was a call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the urban center. I'd bet twenty, 30 grand over a weekend and so I'd either blow the winnings in a calendar week or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies. Didn't affair. It didn't mean annihilation. When I was bankrupt I would leave and rob some more than. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their easily out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over. And that's the hardest part. Today, everything is different. There's no action. I have to look around similar everyone else. Can't even get decent food. Correct afterward I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'k an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

Karen Hill [edit]

• Ane night, Bobby Vinton sent us champagne. There was zippo similar information technology. I didn't think there was anything strange in any of this. You lot know, a twenty-one-year-sometime kid with such connections. He was an exciting guy. He was really nice. He introduced me to everybody. Everybody wanted to exist nice to him. And he knew how to handle information technology.
• I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of in that location the minute their swain gave them a gun to hide. Just I didn't. I gotta admit the truth. It turned me on.
• Well, nosotros weren't married to nine-to-v guys, but the showtime time I realized how different was when Mickey had a hostess party. They had bad skin and wore also much make-up. I mean, they didn't await 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 chirapsia them with broom handles and leather belts. But that the kids still didn't pay any attention...After a while, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crimes. It was more like Henry was enterprising and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while the other guys were sitting on their asses waiting for mitt-outs. Our husbands weren't encephalon surgeons. They were blue-collar guys. The only fashion they could make extra money, real extra money, was to get out and cut a few corners...Nosotros were all and so very close. I mean, there were never any outsiders around. Admittedly never. And being together all the time made everything seem all the more normal.
• We always did everything together and we always were in the aforementioned crowd. Anniversaries, christenings. Nosotros only went to each other's houses. The women played cards, and when the kids were born, Mickey and Jimmy were e'er the first at the hospital. And when nosotros went to the Islands or Vegas to vacation, nosotros e'er went together. No outsiders, ever. Information technology got to exist normal. It got to where I was even proud that I had the kind of husband who was willing to become out and risk his neck merely to get u.s.a. the petty extras.
• But notwithstanding I couldn't injure him. How could I hurt him? I couldn't even bring myself to leave him. The truth was that no matter how bad I felt I was still very attracted to him. Why should I give him to someone else? Why should she win?

Dialogue [edit]

Jimmy: [To young Henry, after he gets cleared in court] Congratulations, hither's your graduation present [Puts money in Henry's pocket]

Henry: For what? I got pinched.

Jimmy: Hey, everybody gets pinched, simply you lot did it right. You lot told 'em null and they got nothing.

Henry: I thought you'd be mad.

Jimmy: I'1000 not mad, I'1000 proud of ya. Yous took your first pinch like a homo, and you learned the two most important things in life. You listenin'? Never rat on your friends, and ALWAYS proceed your mouth close. [Gives Henry an appreciating lite slap on the cheek and leads him out of the courtroom. Outside, Paulie and many of the other gangsters are waiting for him.]

Paulie: Hey, you bankrupt yer red! [The other gangsters cheer and congratulate Henry]

---

Henry: Y'all're a pistol! You're really funny. You lot're really funny!

Tommy: What do you mean I'thousand funny?

Henry: It'southward funny, you know. It's a skilful story, it's funny, you're a funny guy!

Tommy: [dangerously] What do y'all mean? Y'all mean the way I talk? What?

[Everyone becomes quiet]

Henry: It'due south merely, you lot know, you're just funny. Information technology'due south funny, the style you tell the story and everything.

Tommy: Funny how? I mean, what's funny about information technology?

Anthony: Tommy, no, you got it all incorrect —

Tommy: Oh, oh, Anthony. He'southward a big boy, he knows what he said. [to Henry] What did ya say? Funny how?

Anthony: You're correct.

Henry: Simply —

Tommy: What?

Henry: Just, ya know, you're funny.

Tommy: You mean, let me understand this, 'cause, ya know peradventure it's me, I'grand a little fucked upwardly peradventure, but I'm funny how? I mean funny like I'thousand a clown? I amuse y'all? I brand you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do y'all hateful funny? Funny how? How am I funny?

Henry: Just... you know, how you tell the story — what?

Tommy: No, no, I don't know. You said information technology! How practise I know? You said I'm funny. How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny virtually me?! Tell me, tell me what's funny!

[Long interruption]

Henry: Get the fuck out of here, Tommy!

[Everyone laughs]

Tommy: Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him! Y'all stuttering prick, you! Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder almost you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning!

---

Karen: [narrating] Later on awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like offense. 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 fashion they could make extra money, real actress money, was to get out and cutting a few corners.

[Cuts to Henry and Tommy hijacking a truck]

Tommy: Where's the strongbox, you fuckin' varmint?!

Karen: [narrating] We were all so very close. I hateful, there were never any outsiders around. Absolutely never. And beingness together all the time made everything seem all the more than normal.

---

Karen: [narrating, at a makeup party with other wives] It was crude seeing the wives of other gangsters. They did not accept care of themselves; they looked beat upwards and their faces were caked with makeup. Most of the time was spent talking about how rotten their kids were; how they decked them or whipped them with electrical wiring and the kids notwithstanding wouldn't pay attention. [afterwards in her bedroom] I don't think I can exercise it, Henry.

Henry: Do what?

Karen: This whole thing. Jeannie said her husband was sent to jail. God preclude, what if that happened to y'all?

Henry: Bet she didn't tell you why her husband went at that place?

Karen: How come?

Henry: To get away from Jeannie! Karen, when it comes to the Mafia no one goes to jail unless they want to. We vanquish the system and I got it all figured out. I am organized; I got my shit together. You know who goes to jail? Nigger stickup men. Know why they get defenseless? Because they fall asleep in the getaway car.

---

Tommy: Merely don't go bustin' my balls, Billy, okay?

Baton: Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna suspension your balls, I'd tell yous to go home and go 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 fuckin' mirrors. 'Scuse my linguistic communication. He was terrific, he was the best. He made a lot of money, besides. Salud, Tommy!

Tommy: No more shines, Baton.

Billy: What?

Tommy: I said no more than shines. Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time; they didn't go upwards there and tell you. I don't polish shoes anymore.

Billy: Relax, will ya? You lot flipped right out, what's got into you lot? I'm breakin' your assurance a trivial chip, that'southward all. I'm only kiddin' with ya.

Tommy: Sometimes you don't sound like yous're kidding, you lot know? There'due south a lotta people around...

Baton: Tommy, I'm only kiddin' with you. We're having a party and I just came dwelling, and I haven't seen you in a long fourth dimension, and I'k breakin' your balls, and right away you lot're getting fuckin' fresh. I'yard sorry, I didn't mean to offend yous.

Tommy: I'1000 sorry too. It'due south okay. No problem.

Billy: Okay, salud. [moment of silence every bit he takes a drinkable] At present go home and get ya fuckin' shinebox!

Tommy: [smashes his glass in acrimony] Motherfuckin' mutt! You, y'all fuckin' piece of shit...! [Henry and Jimmy restrain him]

Baton: [taunting] Aye, yeah, yes, come up on, come on! Come on! Let him become!

Tommy: Henry, he bought his fucking button! That fake old tough guy! Yous bought your fucking push button! Go along that motherfucker hither, keep him hither! [leaves]

---

Tommy: Spider, that bandage on your foot is bigger than your fucking head. Next thing y'all know he'll have one of these fucking walkers. Merely yous can all the same dance. Give united states a couple of fucking steps, Spider. You lot fucking bullshitter, you. Tell the truth. You want sympathy, is that right, sweetie?

Spider: Why don't y'all get fuck yourself, Tommy?

[Everyone, just Tommy, laughs]

Jimmy: I didn't hear right. I can't believe what I heard. [giving Spider cash] This is for you. I got respect for this kid, he's got a lot of fucking balls. Good for y'all! Don't have no shit off nobody! A guy shoots him in the foot, he tells him to go fuck himself. Tommy, you gonna let this fucking punk go away with that? What's this globe coming to?

Tommy: [standing and shooting Spider] That'south what the fucking world'due south coming to, how do ya like that? How'southward that?

Henry: What is wrong with you?!

Jimmy: What is the fucking matter with you?! What, are you stupid or what?! I was kidding with you lot. Are you a sick maniac?

Tommy: How do I know you're kidding? You breaking my fucking balls?!

Jimmy: I'm fucking kidding with you, you fucking shoot the guy?!

Henry: [inspecting Spider on the floor] He's dead.

Tommy: [after a brief silence] I'm a good shot, what exercise you desire from me?

Anthony: How could you miss at this distance?

Tommy: Y'all got a problem with what I did, Anthony? Fucking rat, anyway. His family'south all rats, he'd have grown up to be a rat.

Jimmy: Stupid bastard, I can't fucking believe yous. Now, you're gonna dig the fucking affair now. You're gonna dig the hole. I got no fucking lime, you're gonna do information technology.

Tommy: Fine! I'll dig the fucking pigsty, I don't give a fuck. What is it, the first pigsty I ever dug? I'll fucking dig the hole. Where are the shovels?

---

Paulie: [nearly Henry'southward cheating] Karen came to the house. She's very upset. This is no proficient; you gotta straighten this out. We gotta have calm.

Jimmy: We don't know what she'll exercise.

Paulie: She'south hysterical. Very excited. She'south wild. And yous got to take it easy. You lot got children. I'chiliad non saying go back to her this minute, but you lot got to go back. You got to go on upward appearances.

Jimmy: I got the 2 of them come to my house every twenty-four hours commiserating, the 2 of them. I just can't have it. I can't do it, Henry. I can't practice it. Nobody says you tin can't do what yous want. We all know that. This is what information technology is. We know what information technology is. You have to practise what's right. You take to go abode to the family. Yous got to go abode, okay? Wait at me. You lot got to go dwelling house. Smarten up.

Paulie: I'll talk to Karen. I'll straighten this out. I know just what to say to her. I'll say you'll go dorsum to her and it'll exist like when you first got married. I'll romance her. It'll be beautiful. I know how to talk to her, especially to her. In the meantime, Jimmy and Tommy were going to Tampa this weekend. Instead yous become with Jimmy.

Jimmy: You come up with me.

Paulie: Have a good time. Sit in the lord's day. Take a few days off.

Jimmy: Nosotros'll have a good time.

Paulie: Subsequently that, you'll get back to Karen. There's no other style. No divorce. We're not animoli.

Jimmy: No divorce. She'll never divorce him. She'll impale him, merely not divorce him. [they laugh]

---

Karen and her children are visiting Henry in jail

Guard: Mrs. Hill, this style. Sign this book, please.

Karen signs ledger just something catches her eye

Proper name of Inmate: Henry Hill

Name of Visitor: Janice Rossi

Visitor'southward centre

Karen: I saw her, Henry.

Henry: What are you talking virtually?

Karen: I saw her name in the register.

Henry: Jesus Christ.

Karen: You lot want her to visit yous? Let her stay up all night, crying and writing messages to the parole board.

Henry: What am I doing hither? Where am I? I'm in jail. I can't stop people from coming to see me.

Karen: Good. Let her sneak this stuff every week. [Karen dangles a bag of illegal drugs in front him] Let her fight these bastards every week!

Henry: Expect what you're doing! Finish information technology!

Karen: I'thousand sorry. Allow her sneak this shit in for you.

Henry: Will you stop information technology, Karen? Will you stop it?

Karen: Let her do information technology! Permit her do it!

Henry: STOP IT!!!

[Kids react to anger; Karen starts to sob]

Karen: Nobody is helping me. I am all alone. Belle and Morrie are broke. I asked your friend Remo for the money that he owes you lot, and yous know what he told me? He told me to accept my kids down to the police station and get on welfare.

Henry: Karen, It'south going to be okay.

Karen: Aye? Fifty-fifty Paulie, since he got out, I've never seen him. I never encounter anybody anymore.

Henry: It's only yous and me. That's what happens when you become away. I told you that we're on our ain. Forget everybody else. Forget Paulie. As long as he'southward on parole, he doesn't want everyone doing anything.

Karen: I tin can't exercise it.

Henry: Yes, you lot tin. Karen, Listen to me. All I need is for yous to bring me this stuff. I got a guy in here from Pittsburgh who'll help me move it. Believe me, in a month we're gonna exist fine. We won't need anybody.

Karen: I'g afraid. I'm afraid if Paulie finds out...

Henry: Or I merely say, Don't worry about him. He is not helping us out. Is he putting any food on the tabular array? We've gotta help each other. Nosotros've just gotta-- Listen, We've gotta exist really conscientious while we do it.

Karen: I don't want to hear a word about her anymore, Henry.

Henry: Never.

---

Henry has just been released from prison

Henry'south Children: Daddy! Are you out for proficient? Are y'all coming to my recital? Here is a motion-picture show I drew!

Henry takes a await at the depression-rent tenement his wife and kids are looking in and reacts with cloy

Henry: Karen, get packed. We are moving out. I am going to Pittsburgh tommorow.

Karen: What? You lot have a coming together with your parole officer tommorow.

Henry: Don't worry, they owe me $fifteen,000. Who wants to get to Uncle Paulie'due south?

Children cheer. Cut to Paulie's firm where people have a big dinner. Later on Paulie speaks to Henry in private

Paulie: I do non want any more of that shit.

Henry: I have no idea what's going on here.

Paulie: I mean the drugs! I do not want whatever more of that junk.

Henry: Paulie, why would I want to get mixed up in that?

Paulie: Only don't do it. I am not talking virtually what yous did in the tin. You go a pass for that. In there you had to practise what y'all had to exercise to support your family. I am talking almost hither and at present. I practise not desire to stop up similar Gribbs. Gribbs got twenty years just for saying good morning to some scuzz who was selling junk backside his back! Gribbs is 70 years sometime; the poor man is going to die in prison. And then I am alarm everyone, it could exist my son, it could be anyone.

[Cutting to Henry making cocaine]

Henry: [voiceover] It took me 2 weeks of sneaking the stuff around, only when I did, it was a real score. In a month I had a down payment on my house and things were rolling. I knew as long as the cash kept rolling in; Paulie would never find out.

---

Henry: [sniveling] Paulie, I am really sorry.

Paulie: You fucked upwards skillful. You lot looked me in the centre and treated me like shit; like I was nobody.

Henry: I couldn't come to you; not after what you lot said to me. I was ashamed so; I am aback now. I swear on my kids, I am make clean. But I got nowhere else to go. I could really apply some help now.

Paulie: Take this.

[Paulie pulls a wad of cash out of his pocket and easily it to Henry]

Henry: Thank you.

Paulie: And now I have to turn my back on you. There is no other mode.

Henry: [narrating] My reward for a lifetime of service to Paulie: $3,200. It was not even enough to pay for my casket.

---

Henry enters a diner

Henry{as narrator}: I got there 15 minutes early, Jimmy was already there waiting for me.

Jimmy: All my life I said, do not talk on the phone. Now yous see why? Do not worry, I call up you stand up a good chance of beating this example.

Jimmy: In that location was a kid nosotros knew, turned out to exist a rat.

Henry: Really?

Jimmy: Yep. Establish him hiding in Florida. How would you experience about going with Anthony, have care of that guy?

[Jimmy slips a bulletin with information. Screen freeze-frames]

Henry: [narrating] Jimmy never asked me to whack a guy before. Now in the midst of all this he is asking me to go to Florida and do a hit with Anthony? [Screen resumes] That is when I knew I would accept never returned from Florida live.

Taglines [edit]

• Three Decades of Life in the Mafia.
• "As far back as I can think, I've ever wanted to be a gangster."—Henry Loma, Brooklyn, Due north.Y. 1955.
• Murderers come with smiles.
• Shooting people was 'No big deal'.
• In a world that's powered by violence, on the streets where the violent have power, a new generation carries on an old tradition.

Cast [edit]

• Robert De Niro - Jimmy Conway
• Ray Liotta - Henry Colina
• Joe Pesci - Tommy DeVito
• Lorraine Bracco - Karen Colina
• Paul Sorvino - Paul Cicero
• Chuck Low - Morris 'Morrie' Kessler
• Christopher Serrone - Young Henry Colina
• Frank Sivero - Frankie Carbone
• Tony Darrow - Sonny Bunz
• Frank Vincent - Billy Batts
• Frank Adonis - Anthony Stabile
• Catherine Scorsese - Mrs. DeVito, Tommy'south Mother
• Gina Mastrogiacomo - Janice Rossi
• Suzanne Shepherd - Karen'due south Female parent
• Debi Mazar - Sandy
• Kevin Corrigan - Michael Hill
• Charles Scorsese - Vinnie
• Michael Imperioli - Spider
• Tony Sirico - Tony Stacks
• Samuel L. Jackson - Stacks Edwards
• Vincent Pastore - Homo with Coat Rack
• Ray DeBenedictis - "Pete"
• Jerry Vale - Himself
• Henny Youngman - Himself

External links [edit]

• Goodfellas quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Goodfellas at Rotten Tomatoes
• Goodfellas at Filmsite.org

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