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Goodfellas is a 1990 film about the rise and fall of three gangsters, spanning iii decades.

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

Three Decades of Life in the Mafia.taglines

Henry Hill [edit]

• As far back as I can recollect, I always wanted to exist a gangster. To me, being a gangster was meliorate than beingness President of the United states of america. Even before I first wandered into the cabstand for an later on-school job, I knew I wanted to be a office of them. It was at that place that I knew that I belonged. To me, information technology meant being somebody in a neighborhood that was full of nobodies. They weren't similar anybody else. I mean, they did whatsoever they wanted. They double-parked in front of a hydrant and nobody ever gave them a ticket. In the summertime when they played cards all night, nobody ever called the cops.
• Paulie might've moved tedious, simply it was only because Paulie didn't take to move for everyone.
• He knew what went on at that cab stand, and every once in a while I'd have to take a beating. But by then I didn't care. The way I saw it everybody takes a beating one-time.
• Hundreds of guys depended on Paulie and he got a piece of everything they made. And it was tribute, just similar in the former country, 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's all about. That'southward what the FBI could never sympathize. That what Paulie and the organization does is offer protection for people who can't go to the cops. That'due south information technology. That's all. They're like the police section for wiseguys.
• 1 day some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother'south groceries all the fashion home. You know why? Information technology was outta respect.
• For us to alive 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 nigh their bills were dead. I mean they were suckers. They had no assurance. If we wanted something, we merely took it. If anyone complained twice they got striking and then bad, believe me, they never complained once more.
• Now the guy's got Paulie equally a partner. Whatsoever bug, he goes to Paulie. Problem with the bill? He can go to Paulie. Trouble with the cops, deliveries, Tommy, he can call Paulie. But now the guy's gotta come with Paulie's money every calendar week, no matter what. Business bad? "Fuck you lot, pay me." Oh, you had a fire? "Fuck you, pay me." Place got hit by lightning, huh? "Fuck you, pay me." Besides, Paulie could do anything. Especially sew together bills on the articulation's credit. And why non? Nobody'south gonna pay for it anyhow. And equally soon as the deliveries are fabricated in the front door, you lot move the stuff out the dorsum and sell it at a discount. You accept a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It'south all profit. And then finally, when there'south zip left, when you can't infringe another cadet from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the articulation out. You light a lucifer.
• For nigh of the guys, killings got to be accepted. Murder was the merely way that everybody stayed in line. You got out of line, you got whacked. Everybody knew the rules. Only sometimes, even if people didn't get out of line, they got whacked. I mean, hits just became a habit for some of the guys. Guys would go into arguments over cypher and before y'all knew it, one of them was dead. And they were shooting each other all the fourth dimension. Shooting people was a normal thing. Information technology was no big bargain. Nosotros had a serious problem with Billy Batts. This was really a touchy matter. Tommy'd killed a made guy. Batts was part of the Gambino coiffure and was considered untouchable. Before you could touch a made guy, you had to have a practiced reason. You had to have a sitdown, and you meliorate get an okay, or you lot'd be the i who got whacked.
• Sabbatum dark was for wives, but Friday night at the Copa was always for the girlfriends.
• Meet, you know when yous think of prison, you lot get pictures in your mind of all those old movies with rows and rows of guys behind bars...Only it wasn't like that for wiseguys. It actually wasn't that bad. Excepting that I missed Jimmy. He was doing his fourth dimension in Atlanta...I mean, everybody else in the joint was doing existent time, all mixed together, living similar pigs. Simply we lived solitary. And we owned the articulation.
• [after the Lufthansa heist] It made him sick to have to turn money over to the guys who stole it. He'd rather whack 'em. Anyway, what did I care? I wasn't asking for anything and also, Jimmy was making nice money with me through my Pittsburgh connections. [showing a montage of dead gangsters] But still, months later on the robbery they were finding bodies all over. [police force surroundings a truck, open up it to see a dead man hanging on a claw like a meat husk] When they plant Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.
• You know, we always chosen each other goodfellas. Like yous said to, uh, somebody, "You're gonna similar this guy. He's all correct. He's a good fella. He's 1 of us." You empathize? We were goodfellas. Wiseguys. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my female parent was Sicilian. To get a member of a crew yous've got to exist one hundred per cent Italian so they tin trace all your relatives back to the old land. Meet, it's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and crew. It means that nobody can fuck around with y'all. It also means yous could fuck around with anybody just every bit long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything. Every bit far as Jimmy was concerned with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being made. We would now accept one of our own as a member.
• [about Tommy's murder] Information technology was revenge for Billy Batts, and a lot of other things. And in that location was zero that we could do near it. Batts was a made man and Tommy wasn't. And nosotros had to sit still and take information technology. It was amid the Italians. It was real greaseball shit. They even shot Tommy in the confront then his female parent couldn't give him an open up bury at the funeral.
• For a 2nd, I thought I was dead, but when I heard all the noise I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that style. If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead.
• If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you lot that they're going to kill you. It doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. So your murderers come with smiles. They come equally your friends, the people who have cared for you all of your life, and they always seem to come up at a time when you're at your weakest and about in need of their assistance.
• It was easy for all of u.s. to disappear. My house and cars were either registered in the name of my wife or my mother-in-law. My commuter'south license and social security number were phony. I never voted; never paid taxes. My birth certificate, abort canvass, and my service record from the Regular army were all that existed to prove to the government I was ever alive.
• See, the hardest matter for me was leaving the life. I however love the life. And nosotros were treated like movie 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 adjacent to the bed. Anything I wanted was a phone phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. I'd bet xx, thirty grand over a weekend and so I'd either blow the winnings in a week or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies. Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke I would go out and rob some more. Nosotros 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. And that's the hardest part. Today, everything is unlike. There's no action. I accept to wait around like everyone else. Can't fifty-fifty get decent nutrient. Correct after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.

Karen Hill [edit]

• One nighttime, Bobby Vinton sent united states champagne. There was nothing like it. I didn't think there was anything strange in any of this. You know, a twenty-i-year-old kid with such connections. He was an exciting guy. He was actually nice. He introduced me to everybody. Everybody wanted to be nice to him. And he knew how to handle it.
• I know in that location are women, similar my best friends, who would have gotten out of in that location the minute their fellow gave them a gun to hibernate. But I didn't. I gotta admit the truth. It turned me on.
• Well, we weren't married to nine-to-five guys, just the first fourth dimension I realized how dissimilar was when Mickey had a hostess party. They had bad skin and wore as well much make-upwards. I mean, they didn't look 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 near how rotten their kids were and nearly beating them with broom handles and leather belts. But that the kids notwithstanding didn't pay any attention...After a while, information technology got to be all normal. None of information technology seemed like crimes. It was more similar 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 manus-outs. Our husbands weren't brain surgeons. They were blue-collar guys. The only mode they could make extra coin, existent extra money, was to become out and cut a few corners...We were all then very close. I mean, there were never any outsiders around. Absolutely never. And beingness together all the fourth dimension made everything seem all the more normal.
• We ever did everything together and we always were in the aforementioned oversupply. Anniversaries, christenings. Nosotros merely went to each other's houses. The women played cards, and when the kids were born, Mickey and Jimmy were always the showtime at the infirmary. And when nosotros went to the Islands or Vegas to vacation, we always went together. No outsiders, e'er. It got to be normal. It got to where I was fifty-fifty proud that I had the kind of married man who was willing to go out and risk his neck but to get u.s.a. the little extras.
• Merely still I couldn't hurt him. How could I injure him? I couldn't even bring myself to leave him. The truth was that no affair 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, here's your graduation present [Puts money in Henry'southward pocket]

Henry: For what? I got pinched.

Jimmy: Hey, everybody gets pinched, simply you did information technology right. You told 'em nothing and they got zero.

Henry: I thought you'd be mad.

Jimmy: I'm not mad, I'm proud of ya. You lot 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 affectionate light slap on the cheek and leads him out of the court. Outside, Paulie and many of the other gangsters are waiting for him.]

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

---

Henry: You're a pistol! You're really funny. You're actually funny!

Tommy: What do you hateful I'm funny?

Henry: Information technology'southward funny, you know. It's a skillful story, information technology'due south funny, yous're a funny guy!

Tommy: [dangerously] What do you lot mean? You mean the way I talk? What?

[Everyone becomes quiet]

Henry: It's just, you lot know, yous're simply funny. It's funny, the way you lot tell the story and everything.

Tommy: Funny how? I hateful, what's funny about it?

Anthony: Tommy, no, y'all got it all wrong —

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

Anthony: Yous're right.

Henry: Only —

Tommy: What?

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

Tommy: You mean, let me understand this, 'crusade, ya know peradventure it'southward me, I'one thousand a footling fucked upward maybe, merely I'm funny how? I mean funny similar I'm a clown? I amuse you lot? I brand yous laugh, I'm here to fuckin' charm you? What do you mean funny? Funny how? How am I funny?

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

Tommy: No, no, I don't know. Y'all said it! How do I know? Y'all said I'chiliad funny. How the fuck am I funny? What the fuck is so funny nigh me?! Tell me, tell me what'due south funny!

[Long pause]

Henry: Get the fuck out of hither, Tommy!

[Everyone laughs]

Tommy: Ya motherfucker! I nearly had him, I about had him! You stuttering prick, you! Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about y'all sometimes, Henry. You lot may fold nether questioning!

---

Karen: [narrating] After awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more than 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 style they could brand extra money, real extra coin, was to exit and cut 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 mean, there were never any outsiders around. Absolutely never. And being together all the fourth dimension made everything seem all the more than normal.

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Karen: [narrating, at a makeup party with other wives] It was rough 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 almost how rotten their kids were; how they decked them or whipped them with electrical wiring and the kids still wouldn't pay attention. [later in her bedroom] I don't think I tin do it, Henry.

Henry: Do what?

Karen: This whole affair. Jeannie said her husband was sent to jail. God foreclose, what if that happened to you lot?

Henry: Bet she didn't tell you why her husband went there?

Karen: How come up?

Henry: To get abroad from Jeannie! Karen, when information technology comes to the Mafia no one goes to jail unless they desire to. We beat the organisation 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 caught? Considering they fall comatose in the getaway car.

---

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

Baton: Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I'd tell you to become home and get your smooth box. [To his friends] At present this kid, this kid was nifty. They, they used to call him Spitshine Tommy. I swear to God! Now he'd brand your shoes wait like fuckin' mirrors. 'Scuse my language. He was terrific, he was the all-time. He fabricated a lot of coin, too. Salud, Tommy!

Tommy: No more shines, Billy.

Baton: What?

Tommy: I said no more shines. Perhaps you didn't hear about it, you lot've been away a long time; they didn't go up in that location and tell you. I don't smoothen shoes anymore.

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

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

Baton: Tommy, I'm only kiddin' with you. We're having a party and I merely came dwelling, and I haven't seen you lot in a long time, and I'm breakin' your balls, and right abroad yous're getting fuckin' fresh. I'thou sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.

Tommy: I'm lamentable also. It's okay. No problem.

Baton: Okay, salud. [moment of silence as he takes a potable] Now go home and get ya fuckin' shinebox!

Tommy: [smashes his drinking glass in anger] Motherfuckin' mutt! Y'all, you fuckin' piece of shit...! [Henry and Jimmy restrain him]

Billy: [taunting] Yeah, yeah, yep, come on, come on! Come up on! Let him get!

Tommy: Henry, he bought his fucking button! That faux old tough guy! You bought your fucking push button! Continue that motherfucker here, continue him here! [leaves]

---

Tommy: Spider, that bandage on your foot is bigger than your fucking head. Next matter yous know he'll have one of these fucking walkers. But you lot can still trip the light fantastic toe. Give us a couple of fucking steps, Spider. Yous fucking bullshitter, you. Tell the truth. You want sympathy, is that right, sweetie?

Spider: Why don't you go fuck yourself, Tommy?

[Everyone, but Tommy, laughs]

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

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

Henry: What is incorrect with y'all?!

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

Tommy: How do I know you're kidding? Y'all 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: [afterward a brief silence] I'm a good shot, what do you lot desire from me?

Anthony: How could you miss at this distance?

Tommy: You got a problem with what I did, Anthony? Fucking rat, anyway. His family unit's all rats, he'd have grown up to exist a rat.

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

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

---

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

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

Paulie: She'southward hysterical. Very excited. She'southward wild. And you got to take it easy. You got children. I'1000 not saying go back to her this minute, merely you got to go back. Y'all got to keep up appearances.

Jimmy: I got the two of them come to my business firm every day commiserating, the ii of them. I only can't take information technology. I can't do it, Henry. I can't practise it. Nobody says yous can't do what you want. We all know that. This is what it is. We know what it is. You have to do what'southward correct. You have to go home to the family. Y'all got to go dwelling, okay? Look at me. You got to go domicile. 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 lot'll go back to her and it'll be like when you outset got married. I'll romance her. Information technology'll be cute. I know how to talk to her, especially to her. In the meantime, Jimmy and Tommy were going to Tampa this weekend. Instead you become with Jimmy.

Jimmy: Yous come with me.

Paulie: Have a skillful time. Sit down in the sun. Accept a few days off.

Jimmy: We'll have a adept time.

Paulie: Later on that, you'll become back to Karen. At that place's no other fashion. No divorce. Nosotros're not animoli.

Jimmy: No divorce. She'll never divorce him. She'll kill him, but not divorce him. [they express mirth]

---

Karen and her children are visiting Henry in jail

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

Karen signs ledger just something catches her eye

Name of Inmate: Henry Hill

Name of Visitor: Janice Rossi

Visitor's centre

Karen: I saw her, Henry.

Henry: What are you talking about?

Karen: I saw her name in the register.

Henry: Jesus Christ.

Karen: You want her to visit yous? Permit her stay up all night, crying and writing letters to the parole lath.

Henry: What am I doing here? Where am I? I'm in jail. I tin't cease people from coming to see me.

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

Henry: Look what you're doing! Cease it!

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

Henry: Will you lot finish it, Karen? Will y'all stop it?

Karen: Let her do it! Let her do it!

Henry: Cease It!!!

[Kids react to acrimony; Karen starts to sob]

Karen: Nobody is helping me. I am all lone. Belle and Morrie are bankrupt. I asked your friend Remo for the money that he owes you, and y'all know what he told me? He told me to have my kids down to the police station and become on welfare.

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

Karen: Yeah? Even Paulie, since he got out, I've never seen him. I never meet anybody anymore.

Henry: It's just you and me. That's what happens when y'all become away. I told you that nosotros're on our own. Forget everybody else. Forget Paulie. Every bit long as he'due south on parole, he doesn't desire anybody doing annihilation.

Karen: I can't do it.

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

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

Henry: Or I but say, Don't worry about him. He is not helping us out. Is he putting whatsoever food on the table? We've gotta help each other. We've just gotta-- Mind, Nosotros've gotta be really careful 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's Children: Daddy! Are you out for proficient? Are you lot coming to my recital? Here is a movie I drew!

Henry takes a look at the low-rent tenement his married woman and kids are looking in and reacts with disgust

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

Karen: What? You have a meeting with your parole officer tommorow.

Henry: Don't worry, they owe me $15,000. Who wants to go to Uncle Paulie's?

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

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

Henry: I take no idea what's going on hither.

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

Henry: Paulie, why would I want to go mixed upwardly in that?

Paulie: Just don't do it. I am not talking almost what you did in the tin can. Yous get a laissez passer for that. In there y'all had to do what y'all had to do to back up your family. I am talking about here and now. I do non want to stop upwardly similar Gribbs. Gribbs got twenty years simply for saying good morning to some scuzz who was selling junk behind his back! Gribbs is lxx years one-time; the poor homo is going to dice in prison. So I am warning everyone, it could be my son, it could be anyone.

[Cutting to Henry making cocaine]

Henry: [voiceover] Information technology took me ii weeks of sneaking the stuff effectually, but when I did, information technology was a real score. In a month I had a down payment on my house and things were rolling. I knew as long equally the cash kept rolling in; Paulie would never detect out.

---

Henry: [sniveling] Paulie, I am actually lamentable.

Paulie: Yous fucked up good. Y'all looked me in the eye and treated me like shit; like I was nobody.

Henry: I couldn't come to you lot; non later on what yous said to me. I was ashamed then; I am aback at present. I swear on my kids, I am clean. But I got nowhere else to go. I could really employ some assist now.

Paulie: Take this.

[Paulie pulls a wad of greenbacks out of his pocket and hands it to Henry]

Henry: Give thanks you.

Paulie: And now I have to plough my back on y'all. There is no other way.

Henry: [narrating] My advantage 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, practice not talk on the phone. At present you lot run into why? Do not worry, I think you stand up a good take chances of beating this case.

Jimmy: There was a kid we knew, turned out to be a rat.

Henry: Really?

Jimmy: Yeah. Found him hiding in Florida. How would yous feel about going with Anthony, take care of that guy?

[Jimmy slips a message 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 have never returned from Florida alive.

Taglines [edit]

• Iii Decades of Life in the Mafia.
• "As far back as I can call up, I've always wanted to be a gangster."—Henry Colina, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.
• Murderers come with smiles.
• Shooting people was 'No big bargain'.
• In a world that's powered by violence, on the streets where the violent take power, a new generation carries on an quondam tradition.

Cast [edit]

• Robert De Niro - Jimmy Conway
• Ray Liotta - Henry Hill
• Joe Pesci - Tommy DeVito
• Lorraine Bracco - Karen Hill
• Paul Sorvino - Paul Cicero
• Chuck Low - Morris 'Morrie' Kessler
• Christopher Serrone - Immature Henry Loma
• Frank Sivero - Frankie Carbone
• Tony Darrow - Sonny Bunz
• Frank Vincent - Billy Batts
• Frank Adonis - Anthony Stabile
• Catherine Scorsese - Mrs. DeVito, Tommy's Mother
• Gina Mastrogiacomo - Janice Rossi
• Suzanne Shepherd - Karen's Female parent
• Debi Mazar - Sandy
• Kevin Corrigan - Michael Hill
• Charles Scorsese - Vinnie
• Michael Imperioli - Spider
• Tony Sirico - Tony Stacks
• Samuel Fifty. 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 Flick Database
• Goodfellas at Rotten Tomatoes
• Goodfellas at Filmsite.org

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