One of us had to die. With me, it tends to be the other guy.
Read more Costello QuotesFrom: The Departed
I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. Years ago we had the church. That was only a way of saying - we had each other. The Knights of Columbus were real head-breakers; true guineas. They took over their piece of the city. Twenty years after an Irishman couldn't get a fucking job, we had the presidency. May he rest in peace. That's what the niggers don't realize. If I got one thing against the black chappies, it's this - no one gives it to you. You have to take it.
Dignam: Your fuckin' family's dug into the Southie projects like ticks. Three-decker men at best. You, however, grew up on the North Shore, huh? Well, la-di-fuckin'-da. You were kind of a double kid, I bet, right? Huh? One kid with your old man, one kid with your mother. You're upper-middle class during the weeks, then you're droppin' your "R"s and you're hangin' in the big, bad Southie projects with your daddy, the fuckin' donkey on the weekends. I got that right?Dignam: Yup. You have different accents? You did, didn't you? You little fuckin' snake. You were like different people.Billy Costigan: You a psychiatrist?Dignam: Well, if I was I'd ask you why you're a Statie making 30 grand a year. And I think if I was Sigmund fuckin' Freud I wouldn't get an answer. So tell me, what's a lace-curtain motherfucker like you doing in the Staties?Billy Costigan: Families are always rising or falling in America, am I right?Oliver Queenan: Who said that?Billy Costigan: Hawthorne.Dignam: What's the matter, smartass, you don't know any fuckin' Shakespeare?
Billy Costigan: Freeze!Colin Sullivan: Whoa! Put the fucking gun down!Billy Costigan: Put your fucking hands up!Colin Sullivan: Alright, alright. I can get you your money!Billy Costigan: What did you say?Colin Sullivan: I said I can get you your...Billy Costigan: [punches Sullivan across the face] You didn't come here to talk, you came here to get arrested.Colin Sullivan: You have fucking tapes of what? Costello was my informant. I was a rat? Fuck you, prove it.Billy Costigan: [standing Sullivan up] Get up!Colin Sullivan: What is this? A citzens arrest? Blow me. Only one of us is a cop here Bill. Did you hear me Bill? No one knows who you fucking are!Billy Costigan: Will you shut the fuck up!Colin Sullivan: I'm a sargeant in the Massachusetts State Police, who the fuck are you? I erased you!Billy Costigan: You erased me, huh?Colin Sullivan: Yea... shoot a cop, Einstein, watch what happens.Billy Costigan: What would happen is this bullet would go right through your fucking head!Colin Sullivan: Watch what happens!Billy Costigan: What? So you can get the parade? The bagpipes and bullshit? Fuck you! Fuck you! I'm fucking arresting you!Colin Sullivan: That's the stupidest thing you could do.Billy Costigan: Shut the fuck up!Billy Costigan: I could give a fuck if the charges don't stick... I'm still fucking arresting you.Colin Sullivan: Shit.