Quotes by Joseph D. Pistone - Page 1

I rarely carried a gun undercover.
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Gun
Undercover
Carried
Rarely
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When you wear a wire, you're always in danger.
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Danger
Wire
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I left a lot of personal stuff out of 'Donnie Brasco.'
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Personal Stuff
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I grew up in a city, an Italian, knowing what the Mafia was.
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Italian
Mafia
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What I learned about the mob wasn't through lectures at the academy.
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Lectures
Mob
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I had no sense of guilt. All during the course of the operation, I knew it was a job.
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Guilt
No Sense
Operation
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One thing I take great pride in is that my case was the one that started the decline of the Mafia.
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Decline
Mafia
Pride
Case
Great Pride
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If you're an L.C.N. guy, you don't have facial hair and you don't have long hair. You have to be neat all the time. It's the rule.
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Facial
Long Hair
Neat
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I was Donnie Brasco, the Mafia guy, in character. But in my head, I was a special agent. I never lost sight of who I was or why I was there.
Joseph D. Pistone /
Sight
Agent
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'Our thing' is turning into 'my thing' within the Mafia, just as the larger American society is facing the new realities of the 'me generation.'
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American Society
Facing
Realities
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You have to have faith and confidence in yourself, that you are better than the bad guys you're dealing with. You have to have a lot of patience.
Joseph D. Pistone /
Bad Guys
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Watching the dailies and then watching the... episodes, it really hits you: 'Damn, I did that?' I must have been crazy to get into those situations.
Joseph D. Pistone /
Damn
Episodes
Hits
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In the actual story I got with the Bonannos, but I had dealings with other crime families and other criminals, using the Bonannos as my credibility.
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Credibility
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I'm always leery about bumping into somebody. One time I was with my wife in a restaurant, I saw somebody from my undercover days, and I got up and we just walked out.
Joseph D. Pistone /
One Time
Undercover
Saw
Restaurant
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Unless you are absolutely positive that your wife has no connection to the Mafia, even three or four times removed, do yourself a favor and do not bet her in a poker hand.
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Mafia
Bet
Favor
No Connection
Poker
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I do a lot of lecturing, at colleges and police schools, and I always get the same questions: 'Do they really kill you? What do they do with the money? How do you become a wiseguy?'
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Lecturing
Colleges
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I didn't try to be a tough guy. I didn't try to be a big mobster. I was who I was. I didn't stop doing what I normally did. I worked out. I lifted weights. I ran. That's what I usually did.
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Ran
Tough
Tough Guy
Weights
Lifted
Normally
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A good undercover agent stays as close to the truth as possible, as close to your own personality and your own values as possible. This is the way you stay in character - you try to be yourself.
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Undercover
Agent
Be Yourself
Close
Stays
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'The Godfather' is a great movie, but it gives them too much credit. What you don't see is what really takes place: the in-fighting, the lying to each other, the scheming against each other to get power.
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Credit
Lying
Too Much
Gives
Great Movie
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'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict.
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Conflict
Jail
Percent
Seeing
Lefty
Slanted
Sonny
Swayed
The Only Thing
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I was a street guy. I mean, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood with mob guys around. Where I grew up, you gambled, you shot dice, you played cards, you went to the track. So the mob to me was not strange, it was not like I was an F.B.I. agent from Salt Lake City.
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Cards
Dice
Italian
Neighborhood
Salt
Salt Lake City
Agent
Lake
Mob
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I knew how wiseguys acted. I knew the mentality. I knew things to do and not to do. Keep your mouth shut at certain times. Don't get involved in things that don't concern you. Walk away from conversations and situations that aren't your business, before anybody asks you to take a hike.
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Concern
Mentality
Acted
Conversations
Hike
Mouth
Shut
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As a teen-ager I played cards, shot craps, played pool, went to the track, hung around social clubs. I knew that some card and crap games were run by the mob, and some social clubs were mob social clubs. Even as a kid I knew guys that were here today, gone tomorrow, never seen again, and I knew what had happened.
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Hung
Pool
Today Tomorrow Never
Card
Mob
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