Quotes

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Boss Paul Vitti: You know me? Dr. Ben Sobel: Yes. Boss Paul Vitti: No you don't. Dr. Ben Sobel: Okay. Boss Paul Vitti: You see my picture in the paper? Dr. Ben Sobel: Yes. Boss Paul Vitti: No you didn't. Dr. Ben Sobel: I don't even get the paper.

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Dr. Ben Sobel: Oedipus was a Greek king who killed his father and married his mother. Boss Paul Vitti: [scoffing] Fuckin' Greeks.

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Dominic: Times are changing. You've got to change with the times. Boss Paul Vitti: What, am I supposed to get a fuckin' website?

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Boss Paul Vitti: If I talk to you, and you turn me into a fag... I'm gonna kill you, you understand? Dr. Ben Sobel: Could we define the word "fag," because...? Boss Paul Vitti: I go fag, you die. Got it? Dr. Ben Sobel: Got it.

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Boss Paul Vitti: Hey, people get depressed, they jump. It's a human tragedy. It ain't my fault. Dr. Ben Sobel: Oh, now you're gonna tell me it was a suicide? Boss Paul Vitti: I don't know, I think he left a note. Jelly, did they find that note? Jelly: [taking out a pen] Uh, no, but they will in a minute. Dr. Ben Sobel: Oh, and let me guess what it says? "Life is bullshit, I can't fucking take it no more! Signed, the dead guy." Jelly: Hey, that's good, Doc.

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Boss Paul Vitti: Hey, I got news for you, you little two-bit prick son-of-a-bitch rat bastard, you did nothing for me! Whatever you did the other day didn't take! I'm still fucked up! You did fucking NOTHING for me! Dr. Ben Sobel: Hey, what do you expect? I saw you for five minutes! I can't work miracles, Mr. Vitti! And let me tell you something, I do not appreciate it when someone sneaks into my hotel room and kidnaps me in the middle of the night. I have a life, Mr. Viti, I have a family, and I have a serious practice, and I don't have time for your BULLSHIT...! That got away from me at the end there.

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Dr. Ben Sobel: What happened with your wife last night? Boss Paul Vitti: I wasn't with my wife, I was with my girlfriend. Dr. Ben Sobel: Are you having marriage problems? Boss Paul Vitti: No. Dr. Ben Sobel: Then why do you have a girlfriend? Boss Paul Vitti: What, are you gonna start moralizing on me? Dr. Ben Sobel: No, I'm not, I'm just trying to understand, why do you have a girlfriend? Boss Paul Vitti: I do things with her I can't do with my wife. Dr. Ben Sobel: Why can't you do them with your wife? Boss Paul Vitti: Hey! That's the mouth she kisses my kids goodnight with! What are you, crazy?

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Michael Sobel: Was that really Paul Vitti? Dr. Ben Sobel: Well, I didn't ask to see his Mafia decoder ring, but yes.

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Boss Paul Vitti: I couldn't get it up last night Dr. Ben Sobel: You mean sexually? Boss Paul Vitti: No, I mean for the big game against Michigan State. Of course sexually! What the fuck's the matter with you?

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Primo: Yeah, who is this? Boss Paul Vitti: It's me. Primo: Me who? Boss Paul Vitti: Me. Me. Primo: Me? Me who? Boss Paul Vitti: Me. You know me. Me. Primo: Yeah, how's it goin'? Boss Paul Vitti: Not good. Not good. Whoever did that thing to you-know-who, that good friend of mine? They're trying to do that to me now, and I'm having a lot of feelings about that, and I'm trying to get some... some... Dr. Ben Sobel: Closure. Boss Paul Vitti: ...closure on that. Primo: What kind of feelings? Boss Paul Vitti: I'm feeling very angry about that, I'm really- I'm enraged. I'm feeling very very mad about that. Primo: Yeah, so why are you telling me? Boss Paul Vitti: Why'm I telling you? Like you don't know nothin' about it? Eh? Primo: I don't know what you're talkin' about. Boss Paul Vitti: You don't know nothin'? What? Primo: I don't know what you're talkin' about. Boss Paul Vitti: Okay, whatever, I'm just trying to... tell you about my feelings, and that I'm angry, and that that anger is... Dr.

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Dr. Ben Sobel: You know what I do I'm mad, Paul? I hit a pillow. Just hit the pillow, see how you feel. Boss Paul Vitti: There's your fuckin' pillow. Dr. Ben Sobel: Feel better? Boss Paul Vitti: ...Yeah, I do. Dr. Ben Sobel: Good.

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Boss Paul Vitti: I wasn't really gonna whack you. Dr. Ben Sobel: Paul... Boss Paul Vitti: Okay, I was gonna whack you. But I was real conflicted about it.

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Dr. Ben Sobel: You don't hear the word "no" very often, do you? Boss Paul Vitti: I hear it all the time, but usually it's, "No, please, no, no!"

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Dr. Ben Sobel: Who am I is a question for the ages. Who I am is too deep for- almost- like- you gotta go in deep and pull out the thing like that movie where the thing came outta his stomach and ate the people on that fuckin' spaceship, may they rest in peace. My name is Ben Sobel... -lioni. Ben Sobellioni. I'm also known as, uh, Benny the Groin, Sammy the Schnozz, Elmer the Fudd, Tubby the Tuba, and once as Miss Phyllis Levine. These things happen, but it has nothing to do with why I am here today. That being said, I am also known to those who know me the best, as "the fuckin' Doctor." I am here representing Mr. Paul Vitti as his consigigliere- [stumbles over the pronounciation; the mobsters laugh] Jelly: Consigliere. Dr. Ben Sobel: Never correct me in public again, you understand that? You broke my heart, Jelly. You broke my heart. [to the other mobsters] I apologize for the second interruption. As Mr. Vitti's- consigliere- I am intimately involved in all aspects of the Vitti the fam