How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Goodfellas.
Quote #1
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.
Here, young Henry is talking about taking a beating from his dad, who, ironically, doesn't approve of the mobsters that Henry is associating with at work. For Henry, getting socked in the face every once in a while is just another thing that men have to put up with.
Quote #2
PAULIE: Tommy's a bad seed. What am I supposed to do? Shoot him?
SONNY: That wouldn't be a bad idea.
Sonny, because he's not a wiseguy, wisely retracts this suggestion almost immediately.
Quote #3
TOMMY: We hit the deer, and his paw ... What do you call it?
TOMMY'S MOM: The paw.
JIMMY: The hoof.
TOMMY: The hoof got caught in the grill, and I gotta hack it off.
Remember that time, over dinner, when you told your mom you had to borrow her kitchen knife to hack off a deer's paw, and she didn't blink an eye? Yeah, us neither. Tommy's mom is completely unaware of her darling son's capacity for brutality.