Billy Costigan Quotes

[slams a fly on the table]You know what I like about restaurants?[Frank Costello]The f***ing food? I don’t know. What?[Billy Costigan]You learn a lot watching things eat.[Frank Costello][licks fly off palm]

[after a counseling session]Why is the last patient of the day always the hardest one?[Madolyn Madden]Because you’re tired and you don’t give a s***. It’s not supernatural.[Billy Costigan]

[during a counseling session]There was a cop leaving when I came in.[Billy Costigan]How did you know he was a cop?[Madolyn Madden]You know, bad haircut, no dress sense and a slight, you know, air of scumbag entitlement.[Billy Costigan]

So she tells me, “You never finish anything. You finish the police course, you get taken care of again, baby.” So after graduation, I get a blowjob.[Brown]That’s great. Your mother must be a wonderful woman.[Billy Costigan]F*** yourself.[Brown]Put it this way. You’re a black guy in Boston. You don’t need any help from me to be completely f***ed.[Billy Costigan]

Let me tell you something. They signed up to use their weapons. Most of them, all right. But they watch enough TV, so they know they have to weep after they use their weapons. There is no one more full of s*** than a cop. Except for a cop on TV.[to Madolyn]

Families are always rising or falling in America.

[to the bartender]Cranberry juice.[Billy Costigan]It’s a natural diuretic. My girlfriend drinks it when she’s got her period. What, do you got your period?[Man Glassed in Bar]