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Paul Attanasio Quotes

Total quotes: 14
“When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.”
— Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: mafia code, alive, dead
“Who the fuck am I? Who am I? I'm a, a spoke on a wheel. And so was he, and so are you.”
— Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Fuck, spoke on a wheel
“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.”
— Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: New York City, Five Boroughs, Pissing, Fucking
“You know something? [Donnie soon boasts, when he meets FBI agents in a place the mob would never look, a kosher restaurant] I got him. I got my hooks in the guy. [referring to Lefty Ruggiero]”
— Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Hooks
“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. Capisci?”
— Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: mafia code, Friend, Capisci
“Donnie Brasco: You think I'm a rat...?

Lefty: [to Donnie's 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.”
— Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Mafia, Rat, Snitch
“A wise guy's always right; even when he's wrong, he's right.”
— Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: mafia code, wise guy
“Why'd you pay for that drink? A wise guy never pays for his drinks.”
— Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: wise guy, Mafie Code
“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.”
— Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: army, Bullshit
“Donnie Brasco: [while carrying bags and coolers onto the boat] Hey Richie, what are you trying to do, get me killed with that fucking suit?

Richard 'Richie' Gazzo: What?

Donnie Brasco: That fucking car, purple fucking car. Don't say the word plotz, you understand?

Richard 'Richie' Gazzo: Yeah, yeah.”
— Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Fucking, killed, plotz
“[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 / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Punch, Pinch, Fucking
“Maggie Pistone: God, why do you hate me when I love you so much?

Donnie Brasco: [standing in front of each other in their garage] You think I hate you? I don't hate you. This job is eating me alive. I can't breathe anymore. And if I come out, this guy Lefty dies. They're gonna kill him because he vouched for me. Because he stood up for me. I live with that every day. That's the same thing if I put the bullet through his head myself, you understand? I spend all these years trying to be the good guy, you know? The man in the white fuckin' hat. For what? For nuthin'. I'm not becoming like them, Maggie, I am them.”
— Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Fucking, Hate, Death Threats
“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.”
— Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Jesus Christ, Made Men, wise guy, Mafie Code
“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.”
— Donnie Brasco / Joseph D. 'Joe' Pistone, Donnie Brasco
Tagged: Pigeons, falcons, New Jersey, Fucking
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