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Read more Henry Hill QuotesFrom: Goodfellas
In prison, dinner was always a big thing. We had a pasta course and then we had a meat or fish. Paulie did the prep work. He was doing a year for contempt, and he had this wonderful system for doing the garlic. He used a razor, and he used to slice it so thin that he used to liquefy in the pan with just a little oil. It was a very good system.
After awhile, it got to be all normal. None of it seemed like crime. It was more like Henry was enterprising, and that he and the guys were making a few bucks hustling, while all the other guys were sitting on their asses, waiting for handouts. Our husbands weren't brain surgeons, they were blue-collar guys. The only way they could make extra money, real extra money, was to go out and cut a few corners.
Stacks Edwards: What time is it?Tommy DeVito: It's eleven thirty, we're supposed to be there by nine.Stacks Edwards: Be ready in a minute.Tommy DeVito: Yeah, you were always fuckin' late, you were late for your own fuckin' funeral.