To my mother that was the answer to all her prayers.
6 seconds sound clip from the Goodfellas movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:04:45 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- My father, who was Irish, was sent to work at the age of 11. He liked that I got myself a job.
- He always used to say that American kids were spoiled lazy.
- Bye.
- Henry! Watch how you cross! Bring back milk!
- To my mother that was the answer to all her prayers.
- I was the luckiest kid in the world. I could go anywhere, I could do anything.
- I knew everybody, and everybody knew me.
- Wiseguys would pull up and Tuddy would toss me their keys and let me park their Cadillacs.
- Here I am, this little kid, I can't even see over the steering wheel and I'm parking Cadillacs.
- But it wasn't too long before my parents changed their minds about my job at the cabstand.
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