Goodfellas (1990)

Robert De Niro: James Conway

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• Jimmy Conway : [after Tommy shoots Spider]  What's the fuckin' matter with you? What - what is the fuckin' matter with you? What are you, stupid or what? Tommy, Tommy, I'm kidding with you. What the fuck are you doin'? What are you, a fuckin' sick maniac?

  Tommy DeVito : How am I meant to know you're kidding? What you mean, you're kidding? You breaking my fuckin' balls?

  Jimmy Conway : I'm fuckin' kidding with you! You fuckin' 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 : Fuckin' rat anyway. His family's all rats. He'll grow up to be a rat.

  Jimmy Conway : You stupid bastard, I can't fuckin' believe you. Now, you're gonna dig the fuckin' thing now. You're gonna dig the hole. You're gonna do it. I got no fuckin' lime. You're gonna do it.

  Tommy DeVito : Who the fuck cares? I'll dig the fuckin' 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 fuckin' dig a hole. Where are the shovels?

• Spider : [hesitating]  Why don't you go fuck yourself, Tommy?

  Jimmy Conway : [stunned silence]  Whoa! Can't believe what I just heard. Hey Spider, here. This is for you.

  [tosses money on the table] 

  Jimmy Conway : Attaboy! I got respect for this kid. He's got a lot of fucking balls. Good for you! Don't take no shit off nobody.

• 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.

• Tommy DeVito : We hit the deer and his paw... What do you call it? The paw.

  Jimmy Conway : [Speaking through a mouth full of pasta]  The hoof.

  Tommy DeVito : It got caught in the grill. I got to hack it off.

• Jimmy Conway : [after kicking Batts to near death]  Look what this fucking mutt did to my shoes.

• Jimmy Conway : Yeah.

  Vinnie : Yeah.

  Jimmy Conway : Who's this?

  Vinnie : This is Vinnie.

  Jimmy Conway : Vinnie, what happened?

  Vinnie : Well we-...

  Jimmy Conway : You get it straightened out?

  Vinnie : No, we had a problem... and uh, we tried to do everything we could.

  Jimmy Conway : What d'you mean?

  Vinnie : Well, you know what I mean. He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it.

  [pause] 

  Vinnie : That's it.

  Jimmy Conway : What d'you mean? What d'you mean? Uh...

  Vinnie : He's gone. Uh, he's gone.

  [pause] 

  Vinnie : And that's it.

  Jimmy Conway : [smashing telephone]  Fuck. Can't fuckin' believe that, can't fuckin'...

  Jimmy Conway : [crying]  Fuck it, fuck... the fuck...

  [Henry exits diner] 

  Henry Hill : What happened?

  Jimmy Conway : They whacked him. They fuckin' whacked him.

  Henry Hill : Aw, fuck.

  [Jimmy kicks phone booth] 

  Jimmy Conway : Motherfucker!

  [pushes over phone booth] 

  Jimmy Conway : [cries] 

• Jimmy Conway : [Frenchy is describing a large shipment of cash at Idlewild Airport to Jimmy and Henry]  What about the security?

  Frenchy : Security? You're looking at it.

• Billy Batts : Hey Jimmy! What's right is right. You understand what I'm talking about?

  Jimmy Conway : It's all right. It's all right.

  Billy Batts : No. The kid's over here. We're hugging and kissing over here. And two minutes later, he's acting like a fucking jerk.

  Jimmy Conway : No, no, no, no, no. You insulted him a little bit. You got a little bit out of order yourself.

  Billy Batts : No I didn't insult him. I didn't insult him.

  Jimmy Conway : I'm sorry. You insulted him a little bit.

  Billy Batts : No, I didn't insult nobody. Give us a drink. Give us a drink.

• Billy Batts : Give us a drink. And give some to those Irish hoodlums down there.

  Jimmy Conway : There's only one Irishman in here.

  Billy Batts : On the house. Salud.

  Jimmy Conway : Top of the mornin'.

• Tommy DeVito : [Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decomposed corpse. Henry is coughing from the stench, while the others don't appear to be bothered]  Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will ya? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us.

  [Jimmy and Tommy laugh while Henry coughs] 

  Jimmy Conway : Oh, hey, Henry, Henry! Here's an arm!

  Henry Hill : Very funny, guys.

  Jimmy Conway : Here's a leg!

  Tommy DeVito : Here's a wing!

  [laughs] 

  Tommy DeVito : Hey, what do you like, the leg or the wing, Henry? Or ya still go for the old hearts and lungs?

  Henry Hill : [Vomiting]  Oh, that's so bad!

• Tommy DeVito : [Infuriated at Spider and speaking to the other card players]  Hey, what's that movie that Bogart made?

  Anthony Stabile : Which one?

  Tommy DeVito : The one where he played a cowboy. He only did one.

  Anthony Stabile : Oh... ah... The Oklahoma Kid.

  Jimmy Conway : Shane?

  Tommy DeVito : Oklahoma Kid!

  Tommy DeVito : [to Jimmy]  Shane...

  [They all laugh] 

• Jimmy Conway : [referring to Henry and Karen]  She'll never divorce him. She'll kill him but she won't divorce him.

• Henry Hill : [With the suitcase open on the desk, Henry counts out stacks of cash]  Thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, sixty thousand.

  Jimmy Conway : It's gonna be a good summer.

• Jimmy Conway : Watch this.

  Henry Hill : Ah, don't fuck with them.

  Jimmy Conway : I do it all the time. Bust their fucking balls.

  Henry Hill : Don't give 'em the satisfaction, the fucks.

  Jimmy Conway : [taps on car window of two cops following him, who had fallen asleep]  Come on, fuckos, let's go for a ride.

  [he and Henry laugh] 

  Jimmy Conway : Keep 'em up all night.

• Henry Hill : [voiceover]  I could see for the first time that Jimmy was a nervous wreck. His mind was going in eight different directions at once.

  Jimmy Conway : Think Morrie tells his wife everything?

  Henry Hill : Morrie? Him?

  Henry Hill : [voiceover]  That's when I knew that Jimmy was gonna whack Morrie. That's how it happens. That's how fast it takes for a guy to get whacked.

• Jimmy Conway : [Johnny bought an expensive pink Cadillac coupe for his wife after the Lufthansa Heist]  Johnny, are you nuts? We got a million fucking bulls out there. Everybody's watching us and you get a fuckin' car!

  Johnny Roastbeef : It's under my mother's name. It's wedding gift.

  Jimmy Conway : I don't give a fuck whose name it's on! Are you stupid or what? Did you hear what I said? Don't buy anything, don't get anything! Nothing big. Didn't you hear what I said? What's the matter with you?

  Johnny Roastbeef : What am I getting excited for, Jimmy?

  Jimmy Conway : Why am I getting all excited about it? Because you're gonna get us all fucking pinched, that's why! What are you, stupid? What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?

  Johnny Roastbeef : I'm sorry, Jimmy.

  Jimmy Conway : What the fuck is the matter with you?

  Johnny Roastbeef : It's under my mother's name.

  Jimmy Conway : [exasperated while interrupting]  What did you say? You being a wiseguy with me? What did I tell you? What did I tell you? You don't buy anything, you hear me? Don't buy ANYTHING!

  Johnny Roastbeef : I'm sorry.

  [to his wife] 

  Johnny Roastbeef : Let's go have a drink

  Jimmy Conway : [to the other bar patrons]  That fat fuck! He oughta wear a sign.

• Morrie : Henry, you're a good kid, I've been good to you, you've been good to me. But there's something really unreasonable going on here. Jimmy's being an unconsionable ball-breaker. I never agreed to 3 points on top of the vig! Am I something special? Some sort of schmuck on wheels?

  Henry Hill : Morrie, please! You borrowed Jimmy's money, pay him.

  Morrie : I never agreed to 3 points on top of the vig! What am I, fuckin nuts? Come on!

  Henry Hill : Are you gonna argue with Jimmy Conway? Just give him his money so we can get the fuck outta here!

  Morrie : Hey! Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em in the ear! What are you talking about? Fuck 'em in the other ear, that son of a bitch! Did I ever bust his balls? Did I? Did I? I could've jumped the dime a million times, and I wouldn't have to pay tip!

  Henry Hill : Come on, Morrie, you're talking crazy, stop it!

  Jimmy Conway : [Grabs telephone cord and chokes Morrie with it, then his wig falls off and Henry starts laughing]  You got money for that fuckin' commercial. Fuckin' commercial, you don't got my money, you don't got my fuckin' money, huh?

  Henry Hill : Jimmy, he'll pay, he'll pay.

  Jimmy Conway : I'll fuckin' kill you, get the money, you fuckin' cocksucker, you hear me?

  [Phone rings] 

  Jimmy Conway : Pay me my money.

  Morrie : Hello? Who's this? He's here.

  [Gives phone to Henry] 

  Morrie : Jimmy, I'm sorry.

  Jimmy Conway : Yeah? You should be sorry. Don't fuckin' do it again and give me the money. Give me the fuckin' money, You hear me? You hear me, I gotta come here and you bust my balls? Give me the fuckin' money.

  Morrie : OK, OK, OK. I'll pay you, kid.

• Morrie : [Talking about point shaving]  Oh, it was terrific, yeah. Nunzio, up in... agh!

  [Tommy severs Morrie's brain stem from behind with an ice pick] 

  Tommy DeVito : Thought he'd never shut the fuck up.

  Jimmy Conway : Ah, pain in the ass.

• Henry Hill : [narrating]  I only bought the damn guns because he wanted them, and now he didn't want them.

  Jimmy Conway : What the fuck are these? None of them fit. What's the matter with you? What, do you want me to pay for this shit? I'm not paying for it!

  Henry Hill : [narrating]  I didn't say a thing. He was so pissed off, he didn't even say goodbye.

  Jimmy Conway : Stop with those fucking drugs. They're making your mind into mush. You hear me? Take 'em back!

• Jimmy Conway : [threatening Morrie]  Today! Today!

• Jimmy Conway : [repeated line to each member of his crew after the Lufthansa heist, telling them what not to do]  you don't buy anything

  Jimmy Conway : [repeated line to each member of his crew after the Lufthansa heist, warning them what will happen if they purchase extravagant items]  don't attract attention

• Tommy DeVito : One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way and the Guy says "What do you want from me?"

  Jimmy Conway : Looks like someone we know!