The Departed Quotes

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

When you decide to be something, you can be it. That’s what they don’t tell you in the Church. When I was your age, they would say we could become cops or criminals. Today, what I’m saying to you is this: When you’re facing a loaded gun, what’s the difference?[to Colin]

You’re a worker. You rise fast.[Oliver Queenan]Like a 12-year-old’s d*ck.[Sean Dignam]Thank you, Sergeant.[Colin Sullivan]My pleasure.[Sean Dignam]

[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]

You do good in school?[Frank Costello]Yeah.[Young Colin]That’s good. I did too. They call that a paradox.[Frank Costello]

You can’t trust a guy acts like he’s got nothing to lose.

[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]

Who let this IRA motherf***er in my bar?[the man looks startled]Just kidding. How’s your mother?[Frank Costello]Oh, she’s on her way out.[Man in Costello’s Bar]We all are. Act accordingly.[Frank Costello]

What Freud said about the Irish is: We’re the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis.[to Madolyn]

[observing an exchange of microprocessors for money between Costello and Chinese triad members]This is unbelievable. Who put the f***ing cameras in this place?[Sean Dignam]Oh, who the f*** are you?[Police Camera Tech]I’m the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.[Sean Dignam]

[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]

Sometimes I just want people to forget about their personal bulls*** and do their jobs.[Madolyn Madden]Including the criminals?[Colin Sullivan]Well, if they don’t do their jobs, you don’t have one.[Madolyn Madden]I’ll always have a job. I’ll just arrest innocent people.[Colin Sullivan]