Joe Pesci movie quotes

“- Joseph Palmi: Let me ask you something... we Italians, we got our families, and we got the church; the Irish, they have the homeland, Jews their tradition; even the niggers, they got their music. What about your people, Mr. Wilson, what do you have?
- Edward Wilson: The United States of America. The rest of you are just visiting.”
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi
Matt Damon - Edward Wilson

“- Louie Kritski: Obviously it's unusually cold in the building today. Not necessarily due to a malfunction of our boiler.
- Ron Nessim: That piece of shit it totally gone!
- Louie Kritski: You can't prove that.
- Leotha: Prove it? My parakeet is frozen solid. I could crack walnuts with him!”
Joe Pesci - Louie Kritski
Anthony Heald - Ron Nessim
Beatrice Winde - Leotha

“- Jake La Motta: I heard some things.
- Joey LaMotta: You heard about me and Salvy.
- Jake La Motta: I heard things, Joey.
- Joey LaMotta: Yeah you heard that I cracked Salvy all around. What did you hear?
- Jake La Motta: I heard things, Joey. I heard things.
- Joey LaMotta: What things you heard?
- Jake La Motta: I heard some things.”
Robert De Niro - Jake La Motta
Joe Pesci - Joey

“Women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first see them and get to know them, ache when you leave them.”
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder

“- Jake La Motta: I knocked him down. I don't know what else I gotta do. I don't know what I gotta do...
- Joey LaMotta: You won and they robbed ya! They're miserable because their mothers take it up the fuckin' ass! That's why.
- Jake La Motta: I've done a lot of bad things, Joey. Maybe it's comin' back to me. Who knows? I'm a jinx maybe. Who...” (continue)(continue reading)

Robert De Niro - Jake La Motta
Joe Pesci - Joey

“They freak you at the drive-thru, okay? They freak you at the drive-thru! They know you're gonna be miles away before you find out you got freaked! They know you're not gonna turn around and go back, they don't care. So who gets freaked? Old Leo Getz! Okay, sure! I don't give a freak! I'm not eating this tuna, okay?”
Joe Pesci - Leo Getz

“- Louie Kritski: You're late with your rent, Marlon. I know, I know, Mommy's dying again, you had to send money. How many times is it this year Mamacita's almost croaked?
- Marlon: Six. But you know, I am glad she is still with us.”
Joe Pesci - Louie Kritski
Rubén Blades - Marlon

“I love to star in movies, but I want to have good roles.”
Joe Pesci

“Scorsese and De Niro taught me to bring out the natural side of myself.”
Joe Pesci On Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese

“- Mona Lisa Vito: Don't worry, I'll find a way to bail you out.
- Vinny Gambini: No don't. I'm gonna stay in prison tonight. Maybe I'll finally get some sleep. I'm doing good, huh?”

Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini

“- Jake La Motta: Come on, hit me. Harder. Harder.
- Joey LaMotta: What the fuck do you want? That's hard. What are you trying to prove?”
Robert De Niro - Jake La Motta
Joe Pesci - Joey

“- Detective Lee Butters: License. Registration. Urine Sample.
- Leo Getz: German Jews didn't have it any easier when we were kids, so don't think you're the only one, okay? Okay? Besides, I was just kiddin' with ya. I can smell a cop a mile away.
- Detective Lee Butters: I smell bad, what'chu trying to say?”

Chris Rock - Detective Lee Butters
Joe Pesci - Leo Getz

“- Jake La Motta: Don't give me that look, Joey. I gotta accept your answer, you know? But If I hear anything, I swear on our mother I'm gonna kill somebody. I'm gonna kill somebody, Joey.
- Joey LaMotta: Well go ahead and kill if you're a tough guy, go kill people! Kill Vicki, kill Salvy, kill Tommy Como, kill me while you're at it, what do I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Robert De Niro - Jake La Motta
Joe Pesci - Joey

“- Stacks Edwards: What time is it?
- Tommy DeVito: It's eleven thirty, we're supposed to be there by nine.
- Stacks Edwards: Be ready in a minute.
- Tommy DeVito: Yeah, you were always fuckin' late, you were late for your own fuckin' funeral.
[shoots him]”
Samuel L. Jackson - Stacks Edwards
Joe Pesci - Tommy DeVito

“Holy smokes!”

Joe Pesci - Joe Waters

“- Louie Kritski: Why do they call you Milkman?
- Milkman: Because I killed the milkman.”
Joe Pesci - Louie Kritski
Todd Monteiro - Milkman

“- Simon Wilder: Which door do I leave from?
- Prof. Pitkannan: At Harvard we don't end our sentences with prepositions.
- Simon Wilder: Okay. Which door do I leave from, asshole?”
Joe Pesci - Simon Wilder
Gore Vidal - Prof. Pitkannan

“I settle down with a nice girl every night, then I'm free the next morning.”
Joe Pesci - Tommy DeVito

“- Michael: Why are you doing this? Stop it!
- Mr. Big: You wanna know why I'm doing this, do you? I just wanna get everybody high, Man. You know, some good drugs. That's all.
- Michael: Do it and you're dead.”
Michael Jackson - Himself
Joe Pesci - Mr. Big

“- Vinny Gambini: I won my first case, you know what this means...
- Mona Lisa Vito: Yeah, you think I'm gonna marry you.
- Vinny Gambini: What, now you're not gonna marry me?
- Mona Lisa Vito: No way. You can't even win a case by yourself, you're fuckin' useless.”
Joe Pesci - Vinny Gambini
Marisa Tomei - Mona Lisa Vito

“- Annette: I can't stand it! I'm losing my mind! Everywhere I look, there are heads!
- Tommy Spinelli: Shut up lady, Jesus Christ! You're not the only person on the planet with problems, OK? Shut it! Jesus, what a head case.
- Fern: Is that supposed to be a joke? Killer humor?”
Dyan Cannon - Annette Bennett
Joe Pesci - Tommy
Ernestine Mercer - Fern

“If a guy fucking tripped over a banana peel, they'd bring me in for it.”

Joe Pesci - Nicky Santoro

“- Monty Capuletti: [about his Mother-In-Law] She says I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble. I mean she's right, but what can I do? I got no... what's the word?
- Nicky Cerone: Class.”
Rodney Dangerfield - Monty Capuletti
Joe Pesci - Nicky Cerone

“- Edward Wilson: I could take the government off your back if you could help us.
- Joseph Palmi: You're the guys that scare me. You're the people that make big wars.
- Edward Wilson: No, we make sure the wars are small ones, Mr. Palmi.”

Matt Damon - Edward Wilson
Joe Pesci - Joseph Palmi

“- Marv Merchants: He's a kid. Kids are stupid. I know I was.
- Harry Lime: You still are, Marv.”
Daniel Stern - Marv Merchants
Joe Pesci - Harry Lime