A character in Wiseguy
Father Peter Terranova
Wiseguy · 40 quotes
8th most-quoted character in Wiseguy: in 3 of its 40 quotes
Most scenes with: Vinnie Terranova (3)
[in the confessional] Bless me, father, for I have sinned.
No kidding. Well then, I guess you haven't changed much, have you, Vinne?
Listen, Pete, I'm not gonna confess to you 'cause the last time I did, you told Mom and I had to wash the kitchen floor for a month.
You were six. You stole my cowboy boots.
Says you!
Pete, you know, all the people who come in here and pray, they all got problems... seventy percent of 'em can't get a bank loan; a guy can't make the payments on his house, he's got a wife and kid, he doesn't want 'em to be evicted so he goes on the street for the money. He misses a couple of payments, the next thing he knows somebody's ringing his doorbell with a steel pipe! Now you got his widow and his kid and they're praying for help!
And the Lord will provide it!
Okay, all right, but what if what the Lord provides is people like me? People to go out and get these brazholes? What if you and I are just on different ends of the same handoff?
[stares at him for a moment] How did we turn out so different... and so much alike?
[about his undercover work] Look, if I told Mom, she'd tell Uncle Pete and Aunt Celeste; they'd let it slip to Norwood, he'd tell that dingbat wife of his, and she'd tell half the Metropolitan Life Building!
She got sacked. She's home eating bon-bons and doing crosswords and hacking poor Norwood to pieces.
[shakes his head] Still, Mom couldn't keep it to herself. I shamed her, she'd have to tell somebody, and then you count to ten I'd be the captain of a fifty-gallon oil drum at the bottom of the river.
You could tell her you're working for the government. What would it hurt?
Pete, I wasn't even supposed to tell you, but I figured a guy could tell his priest anything!
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