True Confessions (1981)
Robert De Niro: Des Spellacy
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Quotes
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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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Mrs. Spellacy : Wouldn't it be grand if you had turned out to be a nun like the younger one?
Des Spellacy : I'm a priest ma. I think I'm a priest.
Mrs. Spellacy : And a swell one too!
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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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Dan T. Campion : Don't forget, you were with us when we met that girl.
Des Spellacy : Yes, we *met* her. You *fucked* her.
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Des Spellacy : [In the cofessional] I'm your confessor.
Jack Amsterdam : [Indignantly] You're my confessor, but you wheel and deal out there!
Des Spellacy : Yeah, but you're in here.