True Confessions (1981)
Robert Duvall: Det. Sgt. Tom Spellacy
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Quotes
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Whore : Hi, Tom. You wanna play carnival?
Tom Spellacy : I don't know that one.
Whore : I sit on your face,and you try to guess my weight!
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Tom Spellacy : [arrives at a nursing home to visit his mother] Mrs. Phil Spellacy, please. I know the way.
Older Nun : You'll have to wait. She's receiving communion.
Tom Spellacy : [pushing past the nun] May all your sons be Jesuits, Sister.
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Tom Spellacy : How's ma? Is she still eating with her fingers?
Des Spellacy : Well, she says the early Christian martyrs didn't have spoons.
Tom Spellacy : Tell her they didn't have Instant Cream of Wheat, either.
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Tom Spellacy : I want you to get me a list of all people with the same M.O.
cop on the phone : That's gonna take awhile, sergeant.
Tom Spellacy : She was cut in two. Do you think it's an epidemic, like the flu?
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Howard Terke : How about it, Tom? Can you get your brother the monsignor to say a mass for this cunt? It'll make the front page.
Tom Spellacy : Howard, we don't even know yet whether or not she was a Catholic cunt.
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[Tom gives Des the rosary he took from the priest who died while in bed with a prostitute]
Des Spellacy : He might have been there on a pastoral call.
Tom Spellacy : When was the last time you hung your pants over the side of the bed while making a house call?
Des Spellacy : I admit, that's not the way they teach you at the seminary.
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Tom Spellacy : Msgr. Spellacy's table, please.
Headwaiter : I thought that Msgr. Spellacy would be dining with Mr. Amsterdam.
Tom Spellacy : Well, you thought wrong, fuckhead.
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Tom Spellacy : [to receptionist after the intruder at Standard's office gets away] What do you do here?
Girl : Me? I do great French.
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Tom Spellacy : [Talking to Des about their father to Des] One thing the old man never missed was a wake. Good booze and plenty of it!
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Tom Spellacy : [Feeling a twinge of conscience after slapping Brenda] I'm sorry about that.
[after a pause]
Tom Spellacy : Okay?
[after another pause]
Tom Spellacy : You know my temper.
Brenda Samuels : I need you like I need another fuck.
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Tom Spellacy : [Talking about the priest's heart attack death in the brothel] How long was he here?
Lorna Keane : It was the second one that did it.
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[last lines]
Tom Spellacy : This is it. This is it.