True Confessions (1981)

Robert De Niro: Des Spellacy

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Quotes 

• Tom Spellacy : How's ma? Is she still eating with her fingers?

  Des Spellacy : Well, she says the early Christian martyrs didn't have spoons.

  Tom Spellacy : Tell her they didn't have Instant Cream of Wheat, either.

• Mrs. Spellacy : Wouldn't it be grand if you had turned out to be a nun like the younger one?

  Des Spellacy : I'm a priest ma. I think I'm a priest.

  Mrs. Spellacy : And a swell one too!

• [Tom gives Des the rosary he took from the priest who died while in bed with a prostitute] 

  Des Spellacy : He might have been there on a pastoral call.

  Tom Spellacy : When was the last time you hung your pants over the side of the bed while making a house call?

  Des Spellacy : I admit, that's not the way they teach you at the seminary.

• Dan T. Campion : Don't forget, you were with us when we met that girl.

  Des Spellacy : Yes, we *met* her. You *fucked* her.

• Des Spellacy : [In the cofessional]  I'm your confessor.

  Jack Amsterdam : [Indignantly]  You're my confessor, but you wheel and deal out there!

  Des Spellacy : Yeah, but you're in here.