To become a member of a crew, you've got to be one hundred percent Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country.
10 seconds sound clip from the Goodfellas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:50:20 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Be careful. God be with you.
- Bye, Ma.
- You understand? We were goodfellas. Wiseguys.
- But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood.
- It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian.
- It's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and a crew.
- It means that nobody can fuck around with you.
- It also means you could fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member.
- It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything.
- How many years ago since you were made?
- I'm an old-timer. 30 years ago.
- Yeah.
[...]
