Donnie Brasco (1997)

Al Pacino: Lefty

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Quotes 

• Lefty : [standing next to Donnie's car at night]  There's the boss. And, under him, there's the skipper. You know how this works?

  Donnie Brasco : Yeah, it's like in the army.

  Lefty : Bullshit. The army is some guy you don't know telling you to go whack some other guy you don't know.

• Lefty : [standing next to Donnie's car at night]  A wise guy's always right; even when he's wrong, he's right.

• Lefty : [while walking with Donnie to meet up with other crime family members]  When I introduce you, I'm gonna say, "This is a friend of mine." That means you're a connected guy. Now if I said instead, this is a friend of ours that would mean you a made guy. A Capiche?

• Lefty : [to Annette, after having been sent for]  And listen to me, if Donnie calls... , tell him... if it was gonna be anyone, I'm glad it was him. All right?

• Sonny Black : [sees the front page of a newspaper entitled "The Nation mourns", while sitting by the pool]  How can John Wayne die?

  Lefty : Fuckin' Indians got him.

• [Lefty is cooking dinner in his kitchen] 

  Lefty : Punch of salt.

  Donnie Brasco : [watching him from behind him]  Punch?

  Lefty : Punch. Punch of salt.

  Donnie Brasco : Punch or pinch?

  Lefty : Punch, punch. Not pinch. What'd I say? I say pinch?

  Donnie Brasco : Nah, you said... you said punch.

  Lefty : Sometimes you don't make no fuckin' sense, Donnie.

• Donnie Brasco : You think I'm a rat...?

  Lefty : [to Donnie while in his car, before putting a loaded revolver to his head]  How many times have I had you in my house? If you're a rat, then I'm the biggest mutt in the history of the Mafia.

• Lefty : [to Donnie's while in his car]  When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.

• Lefty : [to Donnie's while in his car]  Why'd you pay for that drink? A wiseguy never pays for his drinks.

• Lefty : [to Donnie, while sitting in his living room]  A guy like you don't touch a made guy, you know what I did yesterday? I went in front of the skippers, I'm going on the record with you, nobody can touch you now, I'm your man, Jesus Christ couldn't touch you because I represent you, keep your nose clean, be a good earner follow the rules, and who knows? Maybe one day they open the books you get straightened out, become a wise guy, a made guy, I'd die with you Donnie.

• Lefty : [to Donnie's while in his car]  Who the fuck am I? Who am I? I'm a, a spoke on a wheel. And so was he, and so are you.

• Lefty : [to Donnie in a bar]  You're gonna walk out on me? You don't walk out on me. I walk out on you.

• Lefty : [sees the front page of a newspaper, to Donnie's while in his car]  Whackin' the boss... another thing I get left out of.

• Sonny Black : You know what we do when we find that rat, right, Lefty?

  Lefty : 'Could be I found him already.

• Lefty : [to Donnie, sitting on the couch in his home]  I got cancer of the prick.

• Lefty : [to Donnie in a bar]  In all the five boroughs, I'm known, forget about it, I'm known all over the fucking world, anybody asks about Lefty from Mulberry Street, you're pissing up the world fucking street my friend

• Lefty : [to Donnie, after having been sent for]  If anything should happen to me... make sure Annette gets the car.

• Lefty Ruggiero : [to Donnie, in his kitchen]  Anywhere you go, all around the world, all the best cooks are men.

• [repeated line] 

  Lefty : I think I just shit my pants.

• [Lefty is banging a parking meter very loudly with a hammer, on a table in a bar] 

  Sonny Black : Hey, will you fuckin' stop that?

  Lefty : How am I gonna get this thing open?

  [looks back at the meter] 

  Lefty : Open Sesame!

• Lefty : [standing outside the club King's Court before it opens]  I'm tellin' ya, Donnie... nothin' but nothin' but right.

• Donnie Brasco : [Lefty tends to the pigeon coops on the roof of his building. Donnie's alongside him]  Did you know there used to be falcons in New York?

  Lefty : They got everything in this fucking city.

  Donnie Brasco : Peregrine falcons. They lived across the river.

  Lefty : In Queens?

  Donnie Brasco : In the Palisades

  Lefty : The Palisades is in Jersey, Donnie.

  Donnie Brasco : I'm saying that's why there's so many pigeons now. The falcons used to hunt 'em and kill 'em off.

  Lefty : I love these fuckin' pigeons. I'd die before I'd let anybody touch these pigeons.

  Donnie Brasco : These falcons could read a newspaper from a mile up.

  Lefty : A bird could read a newspaper?

  Donnie Brasco : I'm saying their eyesight.

• Lefty : [sees the front page of a newspaper documenting another crime boss was murdered, to Donnie while in his car]  I never hear from my boss until he dies, then my whole life gets turned upside down!

• Lefty Ruggiero : [to Donnie, standing outside the club King's Court before it opens]  Thirty years I'm busting my hump. What have I got?

• Lefty : Whose dat guy?

  Nicky : [while getting shaved at a barber shop]  That's Donnie, Don da'jeweler.

• Lefty : [to Donnie, sitting on the couch in his home]  She's a good woman, Annette. One broad, that's enough for anyone.

• Lefty Ruggiero : [repeated line when attempting to avoid the question that's asked to him]  ain't the question.

• [repeated line] 

  Lefty : Forget about it...

• Lefty Ruggiero : [said with a mixture of regret and indignation]  Twenty six guys I clipped.

  [Lefty complains] 

  Lefty Ruggiero : Do I get upped? No, they pass me by!

• Lefty : [In a New York coffee shop that's a hangout for the mob. A young guy named Donnie and talks disrespectfully to an older guy named Lefty. Lefty can't believe his ears]  You're calling me a dumbski? You know who you're talking to? Lefty from Mulberry Street!

  [as if that means anything]