Sleepers (1996)
Robert De Niro: Father Bobby
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Quotes
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Father Bobby : It was the Sistine Chapel he painted.
John Reilly : Sixteenth Chapel?
Father Bobby : Sistine Chapel.
John Reilly : Who painted the other fifteen?
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Father Bobby : I'm telling you as a witness... and as a priest. We were at the game.
Michael : Yes, as a priest, and a priest wouldn't lie? Am I right?
Father Bobby : A priest with ticket stubs wouldn't need to lie. I always keep the stubs. Do you want to see them?
Michael : Why is that, Father? Why do you keep the stubs?
Father Bobby : Because you never know when someone might want more than your word.
Michael : Has anyone ever questioned your word before today?
Father Bobby : No. No one ever has. But there's a first time for everything.
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Young John Reilly : Hey, uh, Father. How long did it take him? You know, paintin' the ceiling and all?
Father Bobby : Took him about nine years.
Young John Reilly : Nine years?
Father Bobby : That's right.
Young John Reilly : [laugh] For a ceiling? I had a Puerto Rican guy do my whole apartment in two days... and he had a bum leg.
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Father Bobby : And you won't need a doctor when I'm done, you'll need a priest - to pray over your body.
[pause]
Father Bobby : See you in church.
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Father Bobby : [about sermons, before the boys are sentenced] This is one of my favorites.
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra : What is?
Father Bobby : "Whatever you do to the least of brethren, you do to me".
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Father Bobby : I stopped off at Attica today on my way up here to see an old friend of mine.
Young Lorenzo 'Shakes' Carcaterra : You have any friends who aren't in jail?
Father Bobby : Not as many as I'd like.
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Father Bobby : Listen, I got a story I want to tell you.
Young Tommy Marcano : It ain't the one about the lepers, is it? Cause that one gave me nightmares.
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Father Bobby : What about the life that was taken, Shakes? What's that worth?
Lorenzo : To me? Nothing.
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Father Bobby : [about Shakes' prank in the church] Nuns are such easy targets.