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Family Ties and Personal Struggles
Giovanni Cappa
This Johnny Boy is like your mister Groppi...a little crazy. It's nice you should help him out because of his family and our family but watch yourself...Don't spoil anything. His whole family has problems...his cousin, the girl who lives next door to you...
Charlie
Teresa.
Giovanni Cappa
...The one who's sick, right? In the head.
Charlie
No, she's got epilepsy.
Giovanni Cappa
Yeah. That's what I said, sick in the head.
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Judgments on Beauty and Intelligence in Relationships
Michael Longo
You think she's good-looking? She's smart, too. She's gonna be a teacher.
[showing a picture of his new girlfriend]
Tony DeVienazo
Let me see that. Oh, I know this girl.
Michael Longo
Yeah?
Tony DeVienazo
Yeah...I saw her kissing a nigger under a bridge.
Michael Longo
What? What do you mean?
Tony DeVienazo
A nigger. As in black. A nigger.
Michael Longo
But what do you mean?
Tony DeVienazo
I mean...kissing. Her lips on his lips. Kissing.
[rolls his eyes]
Michael Longo
I kissed her.
[worried]
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Redemption Happens Outside of Church
Martin Scorsese
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.
[voiceover]
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The Nature of Pain and Suffering
Charlie
It's all bullshit except the pain. The pain of hell. The burn from a lighted match increased a million times. Infinite. Now, ya don't fuck around with the infinite. There's no way you do that. The pain in hell has two sides. The kind you can touch with your hand; the kind you can feel in your heart... your soul, the spiritual side. And ya know... the worst of the two is the spiritual.
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Perceptions of Beauty and Race
Charlie
You know something? She is really good-lookin'. I gotta say that again. She is really good-lookin'. But she's black. You can see that real plain, right? Look, there isn't much of a difference anyway, is there. Well, is there?
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Confrontation Over Money and Respect
Johnny Boy
You too good for this ten dollars? It's a good ten dollars. You know Michael, you make me laugh. You see, I borrow money all over this neighborhood, left and right from everybody, I never pay them back. So, I can't borrow no money from nobody no more, right? So who would that leave me to borrow money from but you? I borrow money from you, because you're the only jerk-off around here who I can borrow money from without payin back, right? You know, cause that's what you are, that's what I think of you: a jerk-off. You're a fucking jerk-off! You're laughing cause you're a jerk-off. I'll tell ya something else, I fuck you right where you breathe, because I don't give two shits about you or nobody else.
[lights ten dollar bill on fire]
Johnny Boy
Come on... Come on... fuck face! Come on... ya motherfucker! Motherfucker!... come on! I got somethin for ya asshole!
Michael Longo
You don't- you don't have the guts to use that.
Johnny Boy
Oh, I don't have the guts, huh? Come over here, I'll shove this up yer ass! Come on!
Johnny Boy
Hey asshole, this is for you asshole! He's a fucking asshole!
[Laughs]
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The Company of Honorable Men
Giovanni Cappa
Honorable men go with honorable men.
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Borrowing from the Unreliable
Johnny Boy
You see, I borrow money all over this neighborhood, left and right from every BODY, I never pay them back. So, I can't borrow no money from nobody no more, right? So, who would that leave me to borrow money from but you? I borrow money from you, because you're the only jerk-off around here who I can borrow money from without payin back, right? You know, cause that's what you are, that's what I think of you: a jerk-off.
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A Provocative Reflection on Power and Identity
Charlie
You know what the Queen said? If I had balls, I'd be King.
[They all raise their glasses to The Queen]
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Lessons from War Experience
Giovanni Cappa
I learned this from Charley Lucky during the World War II.
Charlie
Oh? What did he do?
Giovanni Cappa
What did he do? He was there, that's what he did.
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Financial Struggles and Unspoken Truths
Oscar
Look Charlie, you're a good boy. Will you just tell your uncle that I have nothing. There is nothing to give him. No envelopes with cash inside, no checks, nothing.
Charlie
That bad, huh?
Oscar
I can't make this week's payment and if this keeps up not next week's either.
Charlie
Not next week's either... listen... you tell that to Giovanni, not me.
Oscar
Listen, I should wrap up this place in a ribbon and hand it to him, you know that. I don't need this aggravation. I'm getting old.
Charlie
He'd rather have the loan paid, you know that.
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Music Volume Sparks Tension Among Friends
Johnny Boy
Hey, why don't you lower the jukebox, I can't hear nothin'.
Joey Clams Scala
Hey, the girls like the music loud.
Johnny Boy
Girls. You call those skanks girls?
Joey Clams Scala
Hey, what's a matter with this kid, huh?
[to Charlie]
Johnny Boy
Hey, there ain't nothin wrong with me my friend, I'm feelin fine.
Charlie
Keep your mouth shut.
Johnny Boy
You tell me that in front of this asshole?
Joey Clams Scala
Alright, alright, we're not gonna pay. We're not paying.
Jimmy
But why? Joey, we just said we were gonna have a drink.
Joey Clams Scala
We're not payin', because this guy, this guy's a fuckin mook.
[Joey interrupts]
Jimmy
But I didn't say nothin'.
Joey Clams Scala
And we don't pay mooks.
Jimmy
Mook? I'm a mook?
Joey Clams Scala
Yeah
Jimmy
What's a mook?
Johnny Boy
A mook, what's a mook?
Tony DeVienazo
I don't know...
Johnny Boy
What's a mook?
Jimmy
You can't call me a mook!
Joey Clams Scala
I can't?
Jimmy
No...
Joey Clams Scala
I'll give you mook!
[pause; punches Jimmy in the face]
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Conflicted Emotions Towards a Woman
Johnny Boy
Hey, sorry lady! I'm sorry! I hate that lady with a passion... with a vengeance.
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