Donnie Brasco Quotes in Donnie Brasco (1997)

FBI Technician: [sitting on the floor of a motel room, reserved for the FBI] What's "Forget about it"?

Donnie Brasco: "

[lying on the couch]

Donnie Brasco: Forget about it" is, like, if you agree with someone, you know, like "Raquel Welch is one great piece of ass. Forget about it!" But then, if you disagree, like "A Lincoln is better than a Cadillac? Forget about it!" You know? But then, it's also like if something's the greatest thing in the world, like, "Minghia! Those peppers! Forget about it!" But it's also like saying "Go to hell!" too. Like, you know, like "Hey Paulie, you got a one-inch pecker?" and Paulie says "Forget about it!" Sometimes it just means "Forget about it."

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: 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.

[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: [to Maggie in their garage] If I come out alive, this guy, Lefty, ends up dead. That's the same thing as me putting the bullet in his head myself.

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: [referring to Bruno, to Lefty, while in his car] Twenty years you know a guy, you fuckin' whack him out just like that over a lounge? That's beautiful.

Donnie Brasco: [to his fellow wiseguys, after he punches a former district attorney that recognized Joe Pistone] Fuckin' asshole, he grabbed my cock!

Donnie Brasco: [Joe's kids are giving him the silent treatment, while making them eggs for breakfast] I bet you can't get through breakfast without saying three words

Daughter: [beaming up at him] You lose!

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: [repeated line]

Donnie Brasco: forget about it...