Goodfellas Violence Quotes

How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Goodfellas.

Quote #7

TOMMY: Hey, Frank, let's chop him up.

FRANK: All right. [Frank starts to get out of the car.]

TOMMY: Where you going? Where you going, you dizzy motherf***er, you?

FRANK: I thought you said to chop him up.

TOMMY: Up at Charlie's, not here! Where the f*** are we gonna chop him here?

FRANK: Charlie's.

TOMMY: Come on, what are you doing? Get the f*** outta here. I got a better shot letting him [Morrie's corpse] f***ing drive. What are you waiting for?

FRANK: The car's cold.

TOMMY: Get the f*** outta here! What f***ing warm enough? Get outta here!

Just to be clear, these guys have just viciously murdered Morrie and decided to chop him up. But what are they most concerned about? Whether or not the car needs to be warmed up before they drive off and break out the hatchets. Their casual attitude toward some seriously gruesome behavior is funny, but only because it's so disturbing.

Quote #8

HENRY: When they found Carbone in the meat truck, he was frozen so stiff it took them two days to thaw him out for the autopsy.

The montage of family members that Jimmy has murdered after the Lufthansa heist shows that the gang has zero qualms about taking out their own as brutishly as possible. Savagery isn't just reserved for outsiders.

Quote #9

JIMMY: Vinnie, what happened?

VINNIE: Well, we—

JIMMY: You get it straightened out?

VINNIE: No, we had a problem. And, uh, we tried to do everything we could.

JIMMY: What do you mean?

VINNIE: Well, you know what I mean. He's gone, and we couldn't do nothing about it. That's it.

JIMMY: What do you mean? What do you mean? Uh ...

VINNIE: He's gone. He's gone. And that's it.

Jimmy had to have known this was going to happen, right? Tommy killed a made guy, and as Henry himself tells us, made men are the only people who are considered untouchable.