If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would have been dead.
8 seconds sound clip from the Goodfellas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:03:24 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- A hat?
- For a second, I thought I was dead.
- But when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way.
- If they had been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would have been dead.
- Talk to me. When was the last time you took a collar? Fuckhead, I'm talking to you.
- 25 years, pal. That's what you gonna do. And see how much of a good guy you'll gonna be then.
- All day I thought the guys in the helicopter were just local cops busting my balls over Lufthansa.
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