Goodfellas Quotes

HENRY: Paulie may have moved slow, but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody.

HENRY: For as long as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster. To me, being a gangster was better than being president of the United States.

HENRY: See, people like my father could never understand, but I was a part of something. I belonged. I was treated like a grown-up. Every day, I was learning to score. A dollar here. A dollar...

JIMMY: Everybody gets pinched, but you did it right. You told 'em nothing, and they got nothing.HENRY: I thought you'd be mad.JIMMY: I'm not mad; I'm proud of you. You took your first pinch like a...

HENRY: Jimmy was the kind of guy who rooted for the bad guys in the movies.

HENRY: Every once in a while, I'd have to take a beating. But, by then, I didn't care. The way I saw it, everybody takes a beating sometime.