Johnny Depp credited as playing...
Donnie
- Lefty: [standing next to Donnie's car at night] There's the boss. And, under him, there's the skipper. You know how this works?
- Donnie Brasco: Yeah, it's like in the army.
- Lefty: Bullshit. The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know.
- FBI Technician: [sitting on the floor of a motel room, reserved for the FBI] What's "Forget about it"?
- Donnie Brasco: "
- [lying on the couch]
- Donnie Brasco: Forget about it" is, like, if you agree with someone, you know, like "Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass. Forget about it!" But then, if you disagree, like "A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!" You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like, "Minghia! Those peppers! Forget about it!" But it's also like saying "Go to hell!" too. Like, you know, like "Hey Paulie, you got a one-inch pecker?" and Paulie says "Forget about it!" Sometimes it just means "Forget about it."
- Joe Pistone: [to Maggie in their garage] All my life I've tried to be the good guy, the guy in the white fucking hat. And for what? For nothing. I'm not becoming like them; I am them.
- [Lefty is cooking dinner in his kitchen]
- Lefty: Punch of salt.
- Donnie Brasco: [watching him from behind him] Punch?
- Lefty: Punch. Punch of salt.
- Donnie Brasco: Punch or pinch?
- Lefty: Punch, punch. Not pinch. What'd I say? I say pinch?
- Donnie Brasco: Nah, you said... you said punch.
- Lefty: Sometimes you don't make no fuckin' sense, Donnie.
- Donnie Brasco: You think I'm a rat...?
- Lefty: [to Donnie while in his car, before putting a loaded revolver to his head] How many times have I had you in my house? If you're a rat, then I'm the biggest mutt in the history of the Mafia.
- Donnie Brasco: [to Maggie in their garage] If I come out alive, this guy, Lefty, ends up dead. That's the same thing as me putting the bullet in his head myself.
- Japanese Maitre D': Take your shoes off.
- Joe Pistone: [while concealing a wire in his shoe] Take my shoes off? You take your pants off, what the fuck.
- Maggie Pistone: God, why do you hate me when I love you so much?
- Donnie Brasco: [standing in front of each other in their garage] You think I hate you? I don't hate you. This job is eating me alive. I can't breathe anymore. And if I come out, this guy Lefty dies. They're gonna kill him because he vouched for me. Because he stood up for me. I live with that every day. That's the same thing if I put the bullet through his head myself, you understand? I spend all these years trying to be the good guy, you know? The man in the white fuckin' hat. For what? For nuthin'. I'm not becoming like them, Maggie, I am them.
- Donnie Brasco: [referring to Bruno, to Lefty, while in his car] Twenty years you know a guy, you fuckin' whack him out just like that over a lounge? That's beautiful.
- Donnie Brasco: [to his fellow wiseguys, after he punches a former district attorney that recognized Joe Pistone] Fuckin' asshole, he grabbed my cock!
- Donnie Brasco: [Joe's kids are giving him the silent treatment, while making them eggs for breakfast] I bet you can't get through breakfast without saying three words
- Daughter: [beaming up at him] You lose!
- Donnie Brasco: [while carrying bags and coolers onto the boat] Hey Richie, what are you trying to do, get me killed with that fucking suit?
- Richard 'Richie' Gazzo: What?
- Donnie Brasco: That fucking car, purple fucking car. Don't say the word plotz, you understand?
- Richard 'Richie' Gazzo: Yeah, yeah.
- Donnie Brasco: [Lefty tends to the pigeon coops on the roof of his building. Donnie's alongside him] Did you know there used to be falcons in New York?
- Lefty: They got everything in this fucking city.
- Donnie Brasco: Peregrine falcons. They lived across the river.
- Lefty: In Queens?
- Donnie Brasco: In the Palisades
- Lefty: The Palisades is in Jersey, Donnie.
- Donnie Brasco: I'm saying that's why there's so many pigeons now. The falcons used to hunt 'em and kill 'em off.
- Lefty: I love these fuckin' pigeons. I'd die before I'd let anybody touch these pigeons.
- Donnie Brasco: These falcons could read a newspaper from a mile up.
- Lefty: A bird could read a newspaper?
- Donnie Brasco: I'm saying their eyesight.
- Donnie Brasco: [Lefty Ruggiero is explaining Mafia code to Donnie Brasco] If I say you're a friend of mine, that means you're connected. If I say you're a friend of ours, that means you're a made guy. If I introduce you, I'm responsible for you. Anything wrong with you, I go down.
- Donnie Brasco: You know something?
- [Donnie soon boasts, when he meets FBI agents in a place the mob would never look, a kosher restaurant]
- Donnie Brasco: I got him. I got my hooks in the guy.
- [referring to Lefty Ruggiero]
- Sonny Black: That Santo Trafficante is something else, boy, I'll tell ya
- Donnie Brasco: Is that right? He's a good old guy?
- Sonny Black: Oh, forget about it, that mother fucker had this all to himself for fifty fuckin years and it's still a cow town. It could be like Vegas down here. Forget about Sonny Red and his trucks in Jersey, Florida this is all I want.
- Donnie Brasco: Let me tell you something: Sonny Red's freezing his nuts off right now.
- Sonny Black: [laughs] that's for sure. All I need is the start up money from Rusty then we all get rich.
- Donnie Brasco: What'd you think? Are we heading back to New York pretty soon or what?
- Sonny Black: Not you, I want you to represent me down here. I want you to be my man in Florida, get that club going, you know King's Court. You didn't think I knew about that did you? I think I'm going to send the lion down here with you and keep that big pussy in the parking lot.
- Donnie Brasco: You know Sonny I really appreciate the offer but I got a lot things going on in New York
- Sonny Black: Lefty's a dynamite guy there's no doubt about it, he looked after me when I was in the can and that's something I don't forget, something I will never ever forget.
- Donnie Brasco: Yeah, he's a stand up guy. He really cares about you too.
- Sonny Black: Yeah, I know he does, but the problem is you think he's helping you but his hurting you. He gets in those two or three whines in you know what I'm saying?
- Donnie Brasco: Yeah I don't want to be stepping on nobody's toes, if it wasn't for lefty...
- Sonny Black: [Interrupts him] no, that's it, you belong to me now. That's it.