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Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, and Mark Jacobs in GoodFellas (1990)

Joe Pesci: Tommy DeVito

GoodFellas

Joe Pesci credited as playing...

Tommy DeVito

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Quotes27

  • 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.
  • Tommy DeVito: No more shines, Billy.
  • Billy Batts: What?
  • Tommy DeVito: I said, no more shines. Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time. They didn't go up there and tell you. I don't shine shoes anymore.
  • Billy Batts: Relax, will you? You flip right out, what's got into you? I'm breaking your balls a little bit, that's all. I'm only kidding with you.
  • Tommy DeVito: Sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding. You know, there's a lot of people around.
  • Billy Batts: I'm only kidding with you. We're having a party, I just came home and I haven't seen you in a long time and I'm breaking your balls, and you're getting fucking fresh. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
  • Tommy DeVito: I'm sorry too. It's okay. No problem.
  • Billy Batts: Okay, salud.
  • Billy Batts: [takes a drink] Now go home and get your fucking shinebox.
  • Tommy DeVito: [Yelling] MOTHERFUCKING MUTT! YOU, YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!
  • Billy Batts: [taunting] Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, come on, come on!
  • Tommy DeVito: MOTHERFUCKING... HE BOUGHT HIS FUCKING BUTTON! THAT FAKE OLD TOUGH GUY! YOU BOUGHT YOUR FUCKING BUTTON! You mother fuck... Fuck! Keep that motherfucker here. Keep him here. Keep him here. Come on.
  • [leaves]
  • Stacks Edwards: What time is it?
  • Tommy DeVito: It's 11:30. We were supposed to be there by 9:00.
  • Stacks Edwards: Be ready in a minute.
  • Tommy DeVito: Yeah, you're always fucking late. You're gonna be late for your own fucking funeral.
  • [shoots him]
  • 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?
  • Tommy's Mother: Why don't you get yourself a nice girl?
  • Tommy DeVito: I get a nice one almost every night, Ma.
  • Tommy's Mother: Yeah, but get yourself a girl so you could settle down.
  • Tommy DeVito: I settle down almost every night but then, in the morning, I'm free.
  • 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.
  • 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]
  • Tommy DeVito: [Tommy mocks Spider] Oklahoma Kid. That's me. I'm the Oklahoma Kid. You fucking varmint! Dance. Dance. YAHOO, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!
  • [shoots Spider in the foot]
  • Tommy DeVito: Hey, Spider, that fucking bandage on your foot is bigger than your fucking head.
  • Tommy DeVito: He said, "No, you're gonna tell me something today, tough guy." I said, "All right, I'll tell you something: go fuck your mother." Bing, pow, poom, ping!
  • Tommy DeVito: What am I, a mirage?
  • Tommy DeVito: [Henry, Jimmy and Tommy are digging up Billy Batts' decomposed corpse. Henry is vomiting from the stench, while the others don't appear to be bothered] Hey, Henry, Henry, hurry up, will you? My mother's gonna make some fried peppers and sausage for us.
  • [Jimmy and Tommy laugh while Henry vomits]
  • 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 you still go for the old hearts and lungs?
  • Henry Hill: [Vomiting] Oh, that's so bad!
  • Tommy DeVito: You know, Spider, you're a fucking mumbling stuttering little fuck. You know that?
  • Tommy DeVito: Just don't go busting my balls, Billy, okay?
  • Billy Batts: Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I'd tell you to go home and get your shine box.
  • [to his friends]
  • Billy Batts: Now this kid, this kid was great. They, they used to call him Spitshine Tommy.
  • Tommy DeVito: [about Morrie's corpse] Hey, Frank, let's chop him up.
  • Frankie Carbone: All right.
  • [starts to get out of the car]
  • Tommy DeVito: Where you going? Where you going, you dizzy motherfucker, you?
  • Frankie Carbone: To chop him up.
  • Tommy DeVito: At Charlie's, not here!
  • [Carbone mumbles to himself in Italian]
  • Tommy DeVito: Come on, what are you doing? Let's get the fuck out of here. I ought to let him
  • [motions to Morrie]
  • Tommy DeVito: fucking drive. Come on. What are you waiting for?
  • Frankie Carbone: The car's cold. I gotta warm it up.
  • Tommy DeVito: Get the fuck out of here! What fucking warm it up? Get out of here!
  • Tommy DeVito: What the fuck you looking at? Come on. Make that coffee to go. Let's go.
  • [Frankie mumbles something and goes to the door with the coffee pot in his hand]
  • Tommy DeVito: What the fuck are you doing? It's a joke! A joke! Put the fucking pot down! What, you gonna take the coffee?
  • 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]
  • Tommy DeVito: All right, so he got shot in the foot. What is it, a big fucking deal?
  • Tommy DeVito: "What do you want to tell me now, tough guy?" I said, "Bing, what are you doing here? I thought I told you to go fuck your mother!"
  • [group laughs]
  • Tommy DeVito: I thought he was gonna shit!
  • Morrie: [Talking about point shaving] Oh, it was terrific, yeah. Nunzio, up in... agh!
  • [Tommy stabs 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.

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