Goodfellas (1990)

Frank Vincent: Billy Batts

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• Tommy DeVito : No more shines, Billy.

  Billy Batts : What?

  Tommy DeVito : I said, no more shines. Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time. They didn't go up there and tell you. I don't shine shoes anymore.

  Billy Batts : Relax, will ya? Ya flip right out, what's got into you? I'm breaking your balls a little bit, that's all. I'm only kidding with ya...

  Tommy DeVito : Sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding, you know, there's a lotta people around...

  Billy Batts : I'm only kidding with you, we're having a party, I just came home and I haven't seen you in a long time and I'm breaking your balls, and you're getting fucking fresh. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.

  Tommy DeVito : I'm sorry too. It's okay. No problem.

  Billy Batts : Okay, salud.

  Billy Batts : [takes a drink]  Now go home and get your fuckin' shinebox.

  Tommy DeVito : Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!

  Billy Batts : [taunting]  Yeah, yeah, yeah, come on, come on, come on!

  Tommy DeVito : Motherfucking... He bought his fucking button! That fake old tough guy! You bought your fucking button! You mother fuck... Fuck! Keep that motherfucker here, keep him here!

  [leaves] 

• Billy Batts : Hey Jimmy! What's right is right. You understand what I'm talking about?

  Jimmy Conway : It's all right. It's all right.

  Billy Batts : No. The kid's over here. We're hugging and kissing over here. And two minutes later, he's acting like a fucking jerk.

  Jimmy Conway : No, no, no, no, no. You insulted him a little bit. You got a little bit out of order yourself.

  Billy Batts : No I didn't insult him. I didn't insult him.

  Jimmy Conway : I'm sorry. You insulted him a little bit.

  Billy Batts : No, I didn't insult nobody. Give us a drink. Give us a drink.

• Billy Batts : Give us a drink. And give some to those Irish hoodlums down there.

  Jimmy Conway : There's only one Irishman in here.

  Billy Batts : On the house. Salud.

  Jimmy Conway : Top of the mornin'.

• Tommy DeVito : Just don't go busting my balls, Billy, okay?

  Billy Batts : Hey, Tommy, if I was gonna break your balls, I'd tell you to go home and get your shine box.

  [to his friends] 

  Billy Batts : Now this kid, this kid was great. They, they used to call him Spitshine Tommy.

• Billy Batts : [under his breath after Tommy leaves the bar]  I'll fuck him in his ass. I fucked kids like him in the can in the ass. Fuckin' trying to break up my party.