Ray Liotta credited as playing...
Henry Hill
- 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, you got it all wrong.
- Tommy DeVito: Oh, oh, Anthony. He's a big boy, he knows what he said. What did you say? Funny how?
- Henry Hill: Jus...
- Tommy DeVito: What?
- Henry Hill: Just... you know... you're funny.
- Tommy DeVito: You mean, let me understand this cause, you know maybe it's me, it's 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 fucking 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] You motherfucker! I almost had him. I almost had him. You stuttering prick you. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. You may fold under questioning.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] You know, we always called each other good fellas. Like you said to, uh, somebody, "You're gonna like this guy. He's all right. He's a good fella. He's one of us." You understand? We were good fellas. Wiseguys. But 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 member of a crew, you've got to be 100% Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country. See, 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 you. It also means you could fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything. As far as Jimmy was concerned with Tommy being made, it was like we were all being made. We would now have one of our own as a member.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody.
- [last lines]
- Henry Hill: [Narrating] Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. I bet 20, 30 grand over a weekend and then I'd either blow the winnings in a week or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies.
- [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. And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different; there's no action... have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody... get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble 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 up with Paulie's money every week, no matter what. Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fuck you, pay me.
- Jimmy Conway: [after Tommy shoots Spider dead] What's the fucking matter with you? What - what is the fucking matter with you? What are you, stupid or what? Tommy, Tommy, I'm kidding with you. What the fuck are you doing? What are you, a fucking sick maniac?
- Tommy DeVito: How do I know you're kidding? What do you mean you're kidding? You breaking my fucking balls?
- Jimmy Conway: I'm fucking kidding with you! You fucking 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: Fucking rat anyway. His family's all rats. Would've grown up to be a rat.
- Jimmy Conway: Stupid bastard. I can't fucking believe you. Now, you're gonna dig the fucking thing up. You're gonna dig the hole. You're gonna do it. I got no fucking lime. You're gonna do it.
- Tommy DeVito: Who the fuck cares? I'll dig the fucking 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 dig the fucking hole. Where are the shovels?
- Henry Hill: [narrating, Henry has just been busted for dealing drugs] For a second I thought I was dead. But, when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they'd been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like:
- Jimmy Two Times: I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] If you're part of a crew, nobody ever tells you that they're going to kill you, doesn't happen that way. There weren't any arguments or curses like in the movies. See, your murderers come with smiles, they come as your friends, the people who've cared for you all of your life. And they always seem to come at a time that you're at your weakest and most in need of their help.
- Karen: What do you do?
- Henry Hill: I'm in construction.
- Karen: [She feels the softness of his hands] They don't feel like you're in construction.
- Henry Hill: Ah, I'm a union delegate.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] 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.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] One day some of the kids from the neighborhood carried my mother's groceries all the way home. You know why? It was out of respect.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] I felt he used too many onions, but it was still a very good sauce.
- Paul Cicero: Vinnie, don't put too many onions in the sauce.
- Vinnie: I didn't put too much onions, uh, Paul. Three small onions. That's all I did.
- Johnny Dio: Three onions? How many cans of tomatoes you put in there?
- Vinnie: I put two cans, two big cans.
- Johnny Dio: You don't need three onions.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] Killing's 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.
- 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? You and your fucking mouth!
- [car speeds away]
- Henry Hill: [narrating] 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.
- Henry Hill: [narrating] Whenever we needed money, we'd rob the airport. To us, it was better than Citibank.