How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Goodfellas.
Quote #10
KAREN: This is Karen Hill. I want to talk to you. Hello? Hello? Don't hang up on me! I want to talk to you! You keep away from my husband, you hear me? Hello? Open the door! Answer me! I'm going to tell everyone who walks in this building that in 2R, Rossi, you are nothing but a whore!
[She gets on the phone.]
KAREN: Is this the superintendent? Yes, I want you to know, sir, that you have a whore living in 2R! Rossi, Janice Rossi. Do you hear me? He's my husband! Get your own goddamn man!
Karen's personal moral code is pretty interesting. She has no problem overlooking Henry's criminal activities. But his infidelities? She's not so chill about those.
Quote #11
HENRY: When I was broke, I would 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.
This is one of the last lines we hear from Henry as he's taken off into the Witness Protection Program. He has ratted out his former employers and friends after a long life of crime; he has put his family in jeopardy and is making his wife leave everything she's ever known. But, he's got zero remorse for that. All he's thinking about is the lush life he has to leave.